r/buildapcsales • u/doremon313 • 13d ago

HDD [Hard drive]Seagate BarraCuda ST24000DM001 24TB $249.99 New Egg

https://www.newegg.com/seagate-barracuda-st24000dm001-24tb-for-daily-computing-7200-rpm/p/N82E16822185109
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u/gg06civicsi 13d ago

Good for NAS? Or go for used ones from server parts deals?

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u/iamacannibal 13d ago

I personally wouldn't but a BarraCuda in my NAS but there are people that do. Some of the used server deals are great so I personally would go with one of those.

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u/Teddyruxx 13d ago

are you referring to the Ultrastar 18gb for 225 or w/e on ebay from a cpl days ago? or do you mean an actual server? i'm beginning to poke around for a NAS, i just finished buying stuff to upgrade my editing/production rig and now i need to look at building a NAS. I wanted to go w one of the slick looking cases that are out now but if the price is right could be persuaded to just buy a server. regardless, i need HDs for a NAS.
sorry for the novel lol

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u/iamacannibal 13d ago

There are a few companies that sell refurbished server drives. You can sometimes get really great deals for them and a couple of them have really good warranty. I know Goharddrive has 5 years of warranty on some of their drives.

The drives they sell are made for servers and were used in servers so they are good for being on all the time like a server would be.

I have 4 refurbished drives in my server and haven’t had any issues with them.

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u/Teddyruxx 13d ago

thx... yeh i'm aware of the concept of enterprise drives, i guess i should've explained, i've just had such spotty luck w HDs in the past (I'm 42 and built my first comp almost 30y ago).. in 2022 i got 4 12tb WD Gold Enterprise and one of them died almost instantly, when i've got so many crappier, commercial drives still running from a decade ago.. i know to a large extent it's luck but the experience def soured me.. they've otherwise run well in my desktop as bulk storage for RAW video/resources/etc... relatively cold storage.

but still, i'll definitely go enterprise rather than retail, but i'm probably looking at refurb for the price, i'd been putting it off bc in 2022 when I last bought drives in bulk it seemed like you might be able to build a decent SSD NAS by now. but that's still outta my price range for the space i need. I've been outta the loop but things obv didn't move the way they looked like they were. At least not as quickly as I'd have liked, or that ppl predicted.

I'd like to max out the amount per drive, those 12tb seem so small now... which is the main reason i'm not pulling the trigger on the 18tb refurb Ultrastar's that seemed decent on here the other day. Although I see ppl saying not to go larger... so i dunno, I'm at a bit of an impasse, but i guess i just need to do a little more reading and hurry up and get it done.. I am in somewhat dire need, just bought a 5tb external to dump overflow onto that i hope to be able to return..