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huser670@alien.topB to Data Hoarder@selfhosted.forumEnglish · 2 years ago

Just started data hoarding movies, thinking about hopping on this Costco deal, opinions?

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Just started data hoarding movies, thinking about hopping on this Costco deal, opinions?

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huser670@alien.topB to Data Hoarder@selfhosted.forumEnglish · 2 years ago
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  • chuckaholic@alien.topB
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    Speaking from experience, don’t get Seagate. Western Digital is better. I’ve been collecting movies for 15~ish years. My array is 65TB with 4000 movies. All WD EasyStore and MyBook. Seagates just aren’t reliable enough over long timespans.

    • CrypticTechnologist@alien.topB
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      Ive found seagates to be more unreliable than their competitors as well.

    • drumttocs8@alien.topB
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      I hope you’re seeding

  • giftedunlimited@alien.topB
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    Do they make 14tb smr’s?

  • BossHogGA@alien.topB
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    Hmm it’s $199 where I am. How do you get the $50 off?

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      by being a Costco member in their region

    • Stfudeal@alien.topB
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      Yeah, same here 199$. They recently put the 8TB on sale in my store, 99$, bought quite a few of these to shuck.

  • Novel_Patience9735@alien.topB
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    What is the actual hard drive model inside?

    • Jay_JWLH@alien.topB
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      They can just keep changing their minds about what they put inside as long as it meets the level of performance advertised.

    • the_fit_hit_the_shan@alien.topB
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      IME these are always either Exos or Ironwolf Pros

    • Far_Marsupial6303@alien.topB
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      Most likely whatever drive that didn’t pass testing to be sold as full retail.

      https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/146hb9k/information\_about\_cmr\_to\_smr\_manufacturer/

  • Unixhackerdotnet@alien.topB
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    This is player price.

    • Captain_Pumpkinhead@alien.topB
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      Player price? What does that mean?

  • reallynotnick@alien.topB
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    Solid price per TB

  • verav1@alien.topB
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    Why no such deals in EU :(

    • turbo_nudist@alien.topB
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      thank your government for that

    • User-NetOfInter@alien.topB
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      Taxes

  • Le-Dr-acula@alien.topB
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    Hopefully that hard drive won’t crash, otherwise your favorite movie will be „Lost“

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    almost jump to costco website and realize it is costco.com and not costco.ca and planning to return the one i purchased at bestbuy for $240 cdn

  • JoshuaAJones@alien.topB
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    There have been a lot of sales on the Seagate drives lately. Maybe people are getting tired of the noise. When my sons tower is running, I can hear it from outside his door. I’ll stick with WD.

  • sibe01@alien.topB
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    Get a NAS.

  • aaillustration@alien.topB
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    love these have 3 already and they are magnificent same price as op. actually 129 each before taxes

    • FruitGuy998@alien.topB
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      What drive came in yours?

  • ArmchairNeckbeard@alien.topB
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    When is this deal supposed to start?

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    I have the Costco flier advertising the 14 tb seagate drive and it says the deals are for members 11/21/2023-12/17/2023 on the front of the flier.

    How reliable are the seagate 14 tb externals?

    I usually get western digital externals never bought a Seagate external.

    Are these 14 externals shuckable? Probably won’t shuck them since I can’t buy 6 but I hear they making it harder to shuck. My last buys for recertified enterprise drives.

    • Snoo-46438@alien.topB
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      I’ve had two Seagates fail within a couple years, they’re notorious

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    This is the drive I previously posted about earlier

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