28TB hard disk

[Hardcore Games]

Searching for bigger disks I discovered a vendor offering 28TB ex server hard disks.

https://serverpartdeals.com/collections/28tb

I figure one of these can get a handle on a bunch of games. SSD capacity is better but hard disks can gobble up games galore.
Steam can move games from disk to disk or even a NAS

 

[theFOoL]

I'd buy it for sure man *If I had the money but if I didn't have too many HDDs

 

[LabRat 891]

Probably fine deal. Paid the same 2 months ago. Came looking brand new, factory-marked as refurbished, both passed 5days of testing w/ 0 errors whatsoever.
Been running 24x7 in a RAID1 for the last month or so.

From what I've heard, 'Big Data' companies will have literal PALLETS of these drives (new) sitting around as spares. Then, when they retire/upgrade their hardware, the unused spares get sent back to the manufacturer for some kind of credit, and get 'refurbished'.

So, there's supposedly a pretty good chance that these drives are actually "New oldstock, recertified".

 

[A Computer Guy]

Searching for bigger disks I discovered a vendor offering 28TB ex server hard disks.

https://serverpartdeals.com/collections/28tb

I figure one of these can get a handle on a bunch of games. SSD capacity is better but hard disks can gobble up games galore.
Steam can move games from disk to disk or even a NAS

NewEgg has recertified one for a bit less I was eyeballing for a few days now.

https://www.newegg.com/seagate-exos-st28000nm000c-28tb-enterprise-nas-hard-drives-7200-rpm/p/1Z4-002P-02M61

 

[Ahhzz]

NewEgg has recertified one for a bit less I was eyeballing for a few days now.

https://www.newegg.com/seagate-exos-st28000nm000c-28tb-enterprise-nas-hard-drives-7200-rpm/p/1Z4-002P-02M61

six month warranty vs a two year warranty... .I'm willing to pay an extra $20 for another year and half replacement.....

 

[Hardcore Games]

I ordered up the 28TB disk so I can consolidate data and reduce disks cluttering my desk as much

 

[Steevo]

Searching for bigger disks I discovered a vendor offering 28TB ex server hard disks.

https://serverpartdeals.com/collections/28tb

I figure one of these can get a handle on a bunch of games. SSD capacity is better but hard disks can gobble up games galore.
Steam can move games from disk to disk or even a NAS

I use 2 12TB HGST drives for my oldest games that access times don't matter, and really the read speed is well over 500MBps off two RAID 1 drives with windows handling them. I have had drives with well over 10 Years of run time with no issues.

 

[Ahhzz]

I ordered up the 28TB disk so I can consolidate data and reduce disks cluttering my desk as much

I've tried that.... I just end up adding it to the mix, and still have the others LOL

 

[Hardcore Games]

My Orico 5-disk box will be tested to see if it works but 28TB is definitely makes a data horder drool

 

[DirtyDingusMcgee]

I don't mess with refurb/recert storage.

 

[de.das.dude]

damn that will fit 2 whole games in 2030!

 

[Chomiq]

I don't mess with refurb/recert storage.

Nowadays buying Seagate brand new you can still end up with a refurb, just look what happened in Germany, Poland etc.

Used Seagate drives sold as new traced back to crypto mining farms

The first reports of affected drives surfaced in January, when consumers noticed inconsistencies in supposedly new Seagate Exos disk drives used in data centers. The issue has...

www.techspot.com

 

[Rover4444]

I'm crying that smaller refurb drives aren't as cheap as they were a while ago. If I knew prices would double I would have put a bunch on credit.

 

[Hardcore Games]

I'm crying that smaller refurb drives aren't as cheap as they were a while ago. If I knew prices would double I would have put a bunch on credit.

Hard disk prices have leveled off as a lot of small NAS users are buying, 4 to 16 disks. The 28TB disks offer a massive gain in storage density.

I know WDC is developing a 40TB disk that should be available Q4. AFAIK it is s HAMR class disk which is equivalent to CMR in terms of read/write performance.

Shingled disks have slow write performance which is not small NAS friendly. HAMR on the other hand will get more capacity with level read/write.

 

[chrcoluk]

Warranty is short, do they consider it low confidence or something?

 

[cal5582]

stay away from the shingled drives. ive heard horror stories.

 

[Hardcore Games]

stay away from the shingled drives. ive heard horror stories.

I recall l WD Red that were shingled leading to questions galore. I checked out the technology to avoid shingled disks as my needs are more demanding.

 

[sram]

WOW, one disk now is larger than my whole NAS !

 

[Hardcore Games]

USB boxes will be interesting as the ones I have claim 18TB capacity but LBA48 has been standard since Windows XP SP2 when ATA6 was published and Intel introduced SATA with the 915 and 925 chipsets. The early boards had 2 SATA ports and 2 EIDE ports. USB was also in short supply.

I have a few USB boxes for hard disks etc. from EIDE to flash cards. UASP is an interesting approach to storage that seems to be popular with some USB hard disk boxes.

 

[R-T-B]

I don't mess with refurb/recert storage.

I've had surprisingly good luck with them but yeah if my data matters much I buy new. We all know the true price of losing essential data is always higher than whatever you "saved."

 

[Rover4444]

I've had surprisingly good luck with them but yeah if my data matters much I buy new. We all know the true price of losing essential data is always higher than whatever you "saved."

Enterprise SATA drives have a much higher MTBF than regular drives and arguably less wear thanks to fewer power on cycles. You should be using RAID on hard disks anyways if you're not using them for backup.

Refurb drives used to be a good deal, but prices have shot up way too much recently. Might as well buy new.

 

[R-T-B]

Enterprise SATA drives have a much higher MTBF than regular drives and arguably less wear thanks to fewer power on cycles. You should be using RAID on hard disks anyways if you're not using them for backup.

Refurb drives used to be a good deal, but prices have shot up way too much recently. Might as well buy new.

Aware. I tend to only buy enterprise when buying HDDs. Used to do only Ultrastars, now I buy a mix of things while I cope with them being absorbed...

 

[Rover4444]

Aware. I tend to only buy enterprise when buying HDDs. Used to do only Ultrastars, now I buy a mix of things while I cope with them being absorbed...

I'm still mad at myself for not getting a stack of 12TB drives when they were under $100. Kicking myself, here's hoping higher capacity refurbs have a firesale once they're replaced with HAMRs.

 

[Jetster]

Wonder how loud it is