I am also interested whats wrong with the seller? Sending used ones? Not sending at all?
denchington to K1LLER_HORNET
6 Feb 17#26
Elaborate please
mrew42
6 Feb 17#25
Cor. No, really. Cor! :man:
neddyuk
6 Feb 17#24
Hopefully they are not manufactured exactly the same time as if one fails they normally all will if a manufacturing defects or age. seems a good deal though
Dkr1966
6 Feb 17#23
i have 31tb of music and movies spread across 16 drives. if I could get this past the wife I'd buy these in a flash.
especially since I've now moved on to uhd movies some of which are 100gb.
mancuk87
6 Feb 17#18
I don't understand why anyone would need so much storage wat are people downloading lol
chriss5471 to mancuk87
6 Feb 17#19
Maybe for their businesses?
s1m0n1980 to mancuk87
6 Feb 17#22
I have a lot of digital downloads and I have several media devices in the house and rip some of my blurays and dvds so it's easier to just stream.
Many applications for storage, home made movies of family or archiving of your cd collection for easy access.
letterboxfortom
6 Feb 17#12
cold, not ssd
Roger_Irrelevant to letterboxfortom
6 Feb 17#20
HAHA! :smile: You don't need SSD speeds for achival/music/movie/pr0n type stuff.
Anyhow, you go and price up 20Tb of SSD storage and be sure to post your results back here. :laughing:
Sambat to letterboxfortom
6 Feb 17#21
Fool
delusion
6 Feb 17#17
Great deal, need to double check if my nas actually supports drives of this size :s
gabesdad
6 Feb 17#6
Didn't they get the unflattering name of "Deathstars" for their unreliability many years ago? Think they would have rebranded them for that reason alone?
Sid.Harper to gabesdad
6 Feb 172#13
Hah here we go... that was one particular series (75GXP in 2001). HGST (and predecessor firms) have otherwise had some of the most bulletproof drives out there. I'd happily use them (and buy these if I needed 20teebs!). I guess the reputation otherwise is good enough to hold up - I don't see VW group changing their name anytime soon!
StevenMCR to gabesdad
6 Feb 172#15
nope, you are thinking of IBM Deathstars before Hitahi bought them, lots of us still call them Deathstars but diff company and half the people buying probably weren't even.born then heh.
StevenMCR
6 Feb 17#14
hgst power about 70% of my storage now, since the F4s stopped being made HGST has been taking over. the oldest is about 6-7 yrs of 24/7 usage, never had a single failure nor has anyone I know who has them.
intercake
6 Feb 171#8
Gone for it, just read a review from one chap on Amazon stating the Warranty period wasn't the full 3 years, but the value is excellent and comes as one of my 3TB WD Reds has started failing SMART tests. Thanks, cracking first deal.
archangel00 to intercake
6 Feb 17#9
Thanks! :smile:
RufusA
6 Feb 17#7
I have some 4TB HGST NAS in my QNAP (replacing WD Reds). Seem to be reliable, but be warned they are quite loud and clicky. Wouldn't recommend them in a location where excessive sound might be an issue.
Great price though!
GoNz017
6 Feb 171#5
Good price, flubit otoh are crap now.
AJ92
6 Feb 17#3
Damn 20TBs alot of memory.
GazmoX to AJ92
6 Feb 174#4
Or even storage :wink:
robodan918
6 Feb 17#1
never used hgst for nas drives
but that's a pretty good price for 5TB drives (if the quality is there!)
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4 x 5TB drives for £458 (free delivery) - via Flubit I got offered £453, this works out to be just slightly over £110 per 5TB drive, quite cheap.
This was £700+ several months back!
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especially since I've now moved on to uhd movies some of which are 100gb.
Many applications for storage, home made movies of family or archiving of your cd collection for easy access.
Anyhow, you go and price up 20Tb of SSD storage and be sure to post your results back here. :laughing:
Great price though!
but that's a pretty good price for 5TB drives (if the quality is there!)
http://techreport.com/news/31367/hgst-stays-atop-the-charts-in-latest-backblaze-reliability-stats