Best option for <$200 spinner?

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Honestly, I would just send SamirD a PM, but he has that off in his settings, so I can't.

But I'm looking to buy 2x spinning rust large capacity drives with a price ceiling of $200 a pop (redundancy). Samir is useful because he knows the best options at any given time for refurbished drives.

Based on failure rates, Seagate is out. Drop links with best price per GB pls!
 
Check out https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-drive-stats-for-2022/ and decide for yourself at a site like https://serverpartdeals.com/ ?

Easy enough to check out the part numbers to find out what model it is. The eight 12TB Exos X16 drives that I picked up for $104.99 each are the best price per GB that I could find (at the time), and their failure rate is still under 1% for the backblaze data (STI2000NM001G). So far they're running great in my RAID, and they sure as heck beat the old 8TB SMR WD drives that I got tired of (5 to 25 MB/s writes - I know SMR is crap... it was for a semi-cold storage box that had to be moved to my main rig when I had a couple of WD Black 5TB drives start to go).
 
Just curious, its been 10 years since I cared too much, but seagate used to be one of the best. They drop the ball? I know people with failed WD's, never heard of a seagate failure, and have 3 or 4 chugging along with lots of hours. did they go to shit somewhere?
 
travm said:
Just curious, its been 10 years since I cared too much, but seagate used to be one of the best. They drop the ball? I know people with failed WD's, never heard of a seagate failure, and have 3 or 4 chugging along with lots of hours. did they go to shit somewhere?
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It's been a painful season. We kind of lost all the great harddrive manufacturers due to low margins. HGST was the last, and they were absorbed by WD. WD mercifully has been using their tech/tooling to make their drives reliable.

Seagate has been... poor lately. I don't know what else to say. However just in general every 'casual' reference whether made by tech-tubers or personally has been stating that their failure rates are sky-high.
 
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arestavo said:
Check out https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-drive-stats-for-2022/ and decide for yourself at a site like https://serverpartdeals.com/ ?

Easy enough to check out the part numbers to find out what model it is. The eight 12TB Exos X16 drives that I picked up for $104.99 each are the best price per GB that I could find (at the time), and their failure rate is still under 1% for the backblaze data (STI2000NM001G). So far they're running great in my RAID, and they sure as heck beat the old 8TB SMR WD drives that I got tired of (5 to 25 MB/s writes - I know SMR is crap... it was for a semi-cold storage box that had to be moved to my main rig when I had a couple of WD Black 5TB drives start to go).
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I'm thinking 2 of these: https://serverpartdeals.com/collect...-2k-rpm-sata-6gb-s-3-5-recertified-hard-drive

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arestavo said:
Looks like it checks all your boxes, but I don't remember seeing reliability data for that exact model. Based on WDs numbers with backblaze so far, it's probably a good choice unless something drastic changed with the 18TB models.
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Yeah, I pulled the trigger. I’m in a bit of a rush so I had to buy.
 
UnknownSouljer said:
It's been a painful season. We kind of lost all the great harddrive manufacturers due to low margins. HGST was the last, and they were absorbed by WD. WD mercifully has been using their tech/tooling to make their drives reliable.
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I used to buy only HGST since like forever. They acquired that business from IBM back when. Now I buy only WD, and try to suss out the drives based on HGST designs,
 
Any late HGST helium at least 8TB or WD helium for reliability.

The first HGST helium 8TB (ie HUH728080ALE600) can be loud and hotter, the last few HGST releases (8, 10, 12TB) and the larger WD helium replacements are all cool running and much quieter.

These are good drives to own. There are more variations that are also good, Backblaze is a good source for info:
HUH721008ALE600 8TB
HUH721010ALE600 10TB
 
Nenu said:
Any late HGST helium at least 8TB or WD helium for reliability.

The first HGST helium 8TB (ie HUH728080ALE600) can be loud and hotter, the last few HGST releases (8, 10, 12TB) and the larger WD helium replacements are all cool running and much quieter.

These are good drives to own. There are more variations that are also good, Backblaze is a good source for info:
HUH721008ALE600 8TB
HUH721010ALE600 10TB
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+1 for Backblaze. No, actually +2.
 
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