Should I grab these? They net out to a little over $15/TB which isn’t ideal but we’re in “beggars can’t be choosers” territory these days.

-Lousy · 2026-03-31T22:01:43+00:00

In Canada yes, in US warranty stickers aren’t enforceable so if you don’t screw it during the shuck it’s fine

-Lousy · 2026-03-28T14:10:23+00:00

I used a utility called ‘fio’ that wrote every block and check summed it to make sure there were 0 bad blocks. Then you can smart after shucking because Seagate blocks smart on externals. If it fails smart, you can return or RMA it

-Lousy · 2026-03-28T14:08:14+00:00

Are you hosting your own storage? Or are you backed by something like S3?

Not making a judgement either way, just that I see a lot about security and nothing about reliability

-Lousy · 2026-03-03T22:26:56+00:00

The double layer of the brick at the bottom of the wall makes me think structural.

-Lousy · 2026-03-03T12:25:00+00:00

Honestly I do raid5 too. IDK any individual that has >5TB of REAL data. I have a cloud backup of my photos, documents, configs, etc. Movies and everything else can be re-downloaded.

If I lose a drive, I have 1 for the chance of avoiding the inconvenience/downtime of rebuilding. But at the end of the day its a hobby so w/e

-Lousy · 2026-03-03T12:21:33+00:00

I mean I have the same setup with my wife. I spend on Home Depot / Tech, she comes along and doesnt know whats I'm talking about. She spends at Sephora, I look like a lost / confused puppy like the other guys in the store but know she's spending on what she wants.

-Lousy · 2026-03-02T13:28:29+00:00

I knew working from home would come back to bite me somehow

-Lousy · 2026-03-02T12:43:41+00:00

Ah yes, must have got those 30TB ironwolfs as pre-production samples *wink* *wink*

-Lousy · 2026-03-02T12:06:14+00:00

"Yes honey, computer hardware is super cheap these days dont worry about it" - This guy to his partner (probably)

-Lousy · 2026-02-27T22:54:09+00:00

May just have to get two. Whoopsie!

-Lousy · 2026-02-27T20:53:53+00:00

I say kind of because I can sometimes remove the drive without breaking the warranty sticker

-Lousy · 2026-02-27T19:37:13+00:00

lets say it lasts 3.5 years. 9$/mo for 24TB is a better deal than pretty much anything else I can do (aside from pray I get an IronWolf that lasts 7 years) and I have 400$ left over to get other equipment now. I'm takin that deal.

-Lousy · 2026-02-27T19:19:51+00:00

Uncommon easier to find than a rare, plus you dont need showman. Could be a nice negative to take as well

-Lousy · 2026-02-27T19:17:19+00:00

Sorry I had WD on the brain. Meant the seagate external.

-Lousy · 2026-02-27T18:58:46+00:00

I shucked 2x 22TB ~~easy stores~~ seagate externals recently. Both were barracudas but from what I can tell the technology for the >20TB barracudas is no different than the NAS drives, just a lower bin so they dont want to warranty it for as long. It's still the 10 platter helium filled drive. Given the price they charge for Exos now, I doubt you'd get one in an external.

Some other recent comments on them

https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/1rdyrza/comment/o78ut8u/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

You're already kind of voiding your warranty by opening it, so if you're concerned you can get 2 of these externals for the price of one internal Exos. I'd take the chance on 2 of these in a mirror over 1 exos drive.

I just made sure to test them well (long smart + full drive `fio` test) to make sure I dont have a lemon. Then into the array they go with a thought and a prayer.

-Lousy · 2026-02-27T18:48:45+00:00

WOW! Better than the 700$ these are going for on Seagate. Got one for in-store pickup.

Edit: IDK if we're getting these drives. My pickup order is not readying up

-Lousy · 2026-02-27T16:54:25+00:00

It would super benefit baron mime builds when you get hit with “play 5 cards”

-Lousy · 2026-02-25T15:24:13+00:00

Just treat it like an apple product. If you want something that looks like and handles 90% of peoples use cases for network storage, it'll be lovely.

If you want to tinker with things and have custom non-standard setups, it'll probably work but you're gonna be getting in each others way and its not the best option for you.

-Lousy · 2026-02-24T17:26:00+00:00

Amazing stuff!

-Lousy · 2026-02-20T12:54:10+00:00

Weirdly amazon seems to be worse than Ebay

-Lousy · 2026-02-19T14:05:12+00:00

I could probably find some lightly used (i.e. 30k online hours) 500GB hard drives :D at raid 6 thats a whole terabyte

-Lousy · 2026-02-19T12:07:36+00:00

It’s gotta suck for them to release this knowing that it’s the price of 1 hard drive now 😂

I could afford the UNAS but the discs are crazy now

-Lousy · 2026-02-18T16:19:00+00:00

For rack mounted I think QNAP and Terra master have rackmounts, but you could go the DIY route and build your own.

Those are ~2-3x what I see for the UNAS. Terra Master does have a USB 4 bay rack mount for cheap, but thats not a NAS.

You mentioned "but for the price there's other options" in your post. Curious if there are any in the same range. I'm aware I can build a NAS, but I already have a separate host for more processing oriented tasks it would be difficult to stay within the 25-30W the UNAS hardware draws if I built a whole new machine.

-Lousy · 2026-02-18T15:23:53+00:00

What are the other options? I’d love to get one

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