Just bought one. Hopefully, the drive will be new and in great packaging condition. Thank you for the tip about the sale.
dang, and I just bought the BB 18TB for $200. I’d be happy to pay a little more for this.
I literally just got done shucking the 18TB too lol, sigh… guess that’s the nature of Black Friday week/month.
Someone has already asked this so please forgive me for asking again but would this be better or would shucking the WD 18tb elements be better? Just for home use inside of a normal PC, would this guy be too loud? I know it comes with a 5 year warranty instead of a 2 year for the WD. It seems like a no brainer right? What would you get if you had to decide between the two for hoarding movies and games and such in a PC that sits in the living room?
Personally I’d go for the 18TB WD. I trust WD as a brand more than Seagate these days, and I bought the 18TB last weekend and it’s not that loud in my opinion. Plus I was able to drive down to bestbuy and pick up the WD without having to worry about how it would be shipped (safely or not) to me.
They have some 10TB helium for roughly the same price/TB.
https://www.newegg.com/seagate-exos-x10-st10000nm0126-10tb/p/1Z4-002P-022A9?Item=9SIA5ADK030931
I’m not sure what the difference is. They look like the same drive with a different model number. 3 x 10TB in RAID 5 -OR- 2 x 20TB in RAID 1? Decisions, decisions…