Project Zabanya

[phill]

Very solid drives Have one or two of these myself Although, how come not 2 18TB or 2 20TB??

 

[shilka]

Very solid drives Have one or two of these myself Although, how come not 2 18TB or 2 20TB??

I bought the 18 TB in april and the price on the 20 TB back then was much higher than it is now
The 20 TB just came in today

I was going to skip the 20 TB alltogether and buy the new 22 TB Exos drives when they came out but i was running out of space so i comprised and bought a 20 TB
The 22 TB Exos will be out some time in Q4 2022 so i hope i can last that long before i run out of space and need to buy a bigger drive

I dont think i will buy any more Ironwolf Pro´s they cost too much compared to the Exos drives
From what i understand these days its the same drive the only difference is the firmware

 

[phill]

I've a few of the EXOS 16TB drives, they work well.. Need to try and get a few more to setup my new server with them but I find the problem of having to have enough to backup everything to

From my little research when looking to buy the 16TB drives, the Ironwolf and Ironwolf Pro's where massively more expensive per drive in comparison. I don't understand it really but still I'll be sticking with the EXOS drives regardless

 

[shilka]

I've a few of the EXOS 16TB drives, they work well.. Need to try and get a few more to setup my new server with them but I find the problem of having to have enough to backup everything to

From my little research when looking to buy the 16TB drives, the Ironwolf and Ironwolf Pro's where massively more expensive per drive in comparison. I don't understand it really but still I'll be sticking with the EXOS drives regardless

The 20 TB Exos is FUBAR i have tried 5 SATA power and 5 SATA data cables in two PC´s and none of them can boot with the 20 TB so its 100% not working
Not sure if i want to ask for a replacement or a refund

Edit: think i know why its not working it might be using SATA 3,3 and PWDIS

The Pesky PWDIS Feature In Newer SATA Specs

www.overclock.net

Not sure if the drive is DOA or if it uses SATA 3,3 and PWDIS

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[phill]

Well that's frustrating as hell.. What PSU do you use?

 

[shilka]

Well that's frustrating as hell.. What PSU do you use?

An almost brand new Seasonic TX750 watt since i had to RMA the last one as it had a problem with random shut downs if i used the bottom row of SATA ports

It does have a molex to SATA 3,3 adaptor but i am not digging up the box finding that molex cable taking half the PC apart to hook the worst cable ever made up to a port that might have the same random shut down problem as my last PSU just to find that the HDD is FUBAR and wont work with any cable

I sent an email to Seagate asking them if the 20 TB is using SATA 3,3
If it does i will asking for refund from the shop and buying an 18 TB Exos i know for sure those work since i already have one

If the 20 TB does NOT use SATA 3,3 then its just broken and i get a replacement from the shop i bought it from
Already sent an email to the shop telling them that any PC with the drive cant boot up no matter which cable i use and that i would like to RMA it

I tired the drive in my second PC same story it cant boot and it makes strange noises which i did not hear in my main PC over the 6 other drives so i think its DOA
No more info available right now

 

[phill]

I hope it gets sorted out for you soon! I get the feeling of how frustrating that would be...

 

[shilka]

I hope it gets sorted out for you soon! I get the feeling of how frustrating that would be...

I have had almost every computer problem under the sun in last 3 years more problems than the last 20 years combined
A DOA drive is not a big deal its better its dead from the start then days or weeks later with data loss

I had no data loss no damage to the PC so i cant even be bothered to be annoyed or frustrated
This is only the second time i had ever had a DOA drive unless its working and using SATA 3,3 and PWDIS

The last time i had a DOA HDD was a Toshiba around 2008-2010

I still have the box the drive came in and since its not my fault i dont have to pay a cent to retur it the shop will send me a retur label
Have not decided if i want a refund or replacement i still need to hear back from Seagate

Edit: can see i not updated this thread in a long while since i actually managed to buy an Asus Radeon 6800 TUF back in march

Only thing wrong with it is the RGB cant be controlled no software can see the card not Asus own trash software nor OpenRGB so i gave up its not like its a huge amount of light and the PCI-E cables cover most of it

 

[shilka]

Took awhile but i got a replacement drive and this one works i have tested it in my second machine and confirmed that it works 100%
Its way too hot right now to install the drive in my main PC so that will have to wait for when its colder

 

[shilka]

Time for some upgrades and the first is a new GPU since my Asus TUF RX 6800 bit the dust back in September so bought a Sapphire RX 6800 Pulse which turned out had been opened and used so i got a small discount from the shop and left it in my second PC

Going to take some of my hard drives out and move them to the second PC so one of new drives below will replace my old 14 TB Ironwolf Pro and the second one will be left empty for now

 

[ThrashZone]

Hi,
Guess I've been lucky no gpu has never just died
Hell I haven't killed one either yet
Haven't bought a amd gpu yet but did sell a nvidia asus gpu because it was a pos.