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Reddit mentions of Seagate (STEB8000100) Expansion Desktop 8TB External Hard Drive HDD – USB 3.0 for PC Laptop
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We found 116 Reddit mentions of Seagate (STEB8000100) Expansion Desktop 8TB External Hard Drive HDD – USB 3.0 for PC Laptop. Here are the top ones.
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- Enjoy enormous desktop storage space for years to come for photos, movies, music, and more
- Designed to work with Windows computers, this external USB drive makes backup easy with a simple drag and drop
- Setup is easy; Just connect the external hard drive to your Windows computer for automatic recognition no software required
- Includes an 18 inch USB 3.0 cable and 18 Watts power adapter
- Enjoy long term peace of mind with the included 1 year limited warranty.Please refer user guide below for better use.Built-in power management automatically ensures energy-efficient operation
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Height | 1.44 inches |
Length | 6.93 inches |
Number of items | 1 |
Release date | December 2019 |
Size | 8TB |
Weight | 2.09 pounds |
Width | 4.75 inches |
> endlessly bloating the blockchain
What are you talking about?
have you looked at the cost of an 8TB HD lately, its $180.
Even with 32MB blocks (that's about the equivalent in transaction velocity to warrant a BTC price of close to $1,000,000 you wont fill it up in 5 years.
we only have demand for about 1.3MB at the moment but knowing that its not cost prohibitive to store 32MB blocks and that 5 years into the future storage is going to be a lot cheaper
Are you sure you want to be responsible for limit bitcoin growth?
If you're using it for storage and not editing, you probably won't notice a difference between an SSD and HDD, and you'll probably be better off with just a mechanical drive to save large amounts of data. I would recommend getting a USB 3 external hard drive to maximize compatibility. The 8TB Seagate version is actually a really good deal right now, at less than $0.02/GB.
Now if you want to edit DIRECTLY from the external drive, you're better off with an external SSD like this. You'll pay a lot more for that performance, at more like $0.35/GB, so give some thought to how you'll be using it.
Everyone has their opinions about what hard drive lasts the longest and is the best quality, but honestly they're all very similar these days. The fact of the matter is any drive from any company can fail at any time, and you need to have backups to protect against that.
20 years. - 144mb per day = 1GB per or week = 50GB per year.
One of these will hold full 1mb blocks for 160 YEARS!!. for $200
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01HAPGEIE/ref=twister_B00UWL08GI?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1
Miners are spending 10's of millions on hardware and we are worried about centralisation from blocksize
tfw a post like this is on my frontpage right next to a post for a 256GB SSD for 140$.
Why are they so expensive now.... If I could buy another 1 TB SSD for 90$, I'd be so happy.
Also: a similar deal on amazon atm
I hear ya! I’ve got the Pro which has the two USB in the front, one in the back. I think it’s one more than the base PS4. And I also have the PSVR v2 box sitting on top of my Pro as well as a Seagate External 8TB Expansion HD plugged into the back.
The pad has two USB 2.0 ports on it, so you essentially aren’t losing a port after running the cable from the PS4 to the pad, though the PS4 has USB 3.0 ports. Still, it’s fine to charge my controller, headphones, or plug in my MixAmp TR Pro... and I keep my external HD in the 3.0. I also have a USB input on the front of my home theater receiver that I’ll sometimes use just to keep my controller charging while playing. I imagine if you’re using a headset that requires you to plug in a USB to use it wirelessly, then you need all the space you can get.
You might consider picking up a USB hub like this one, for example, that says it works on the PS4/Slim/Pro and has four USB3.0 ports (with a cable that plugs into one of them on the PS4). I don’t own it and haven’t tried it, but I’ve seen several redditors talk about using a USB hub on their PS4 to solve that problem.
Hope this helps!
Amazon link for the lazy
Guessing this for WD and this one for Seagate?
Is this a genuine question? Because your link looks like an affiliate link (there's a partner code in the URL) plus https://www.amazon.com/Avolusion-HDDGear-6000GB-External-Pre-Formatted/dp/B074Q994C4 Amazon has it cheaper.
I doubt there's any decent drive in there. The same price, or less, can get you 8TB WD or Segates. Like: https://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Expansion-Desktop-External-STEB8000100/dp/B01HAPGEIE for $129 & https://www.amazon.com/Elements-Desktop-Hard-Drive-WDBWLG0080HBK-NESN/dp/B07D5V2ZXD for $149 if we go by your link price.
Unless they're running HGST drives or something, which is super unlikely, it's not worth shucking.
In the HP Server vs Storinator graphic... how was the HP configured? Those writes aren't just "bad" - I think the only term that could apply is "broken". A USB hard drive would be better than that. Heck, a USB drive with an SMR disk inside would have better writes.
That performance graph looks a lot like untiered Storage Spaces performance in parity arrangements (which is well known to have abysmal write performance). Was that what the HPs were actually doing? If so, comparing that to Storage Spaces in a mirror arrangement isn't really a fair comparison. Not that I'm not sure they likely went from a bad place to a good place with a new server setup in the case study itself - just saying that that doesn't seem to be Apples to Apples in the graph, is all :)
You can get the 8TB Archive drives for $209 from Amazon if you're willing to shuck it.
https://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Expansion-Desktop-External-STEB8000100/dp/B01HAPGEIE/
I have an 8TB Seagate Expansion external hooked up to my Shield, and I've had no issues with sleep/wake issues.
If you want to save $10 more you can buy Seagates External drive which comes with these drives in them: https://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Expansion-Desktop-External-STEB8000100/dp/B01HAPGEIE/ref=sr_1_3?crid=1EF7XHEFJGVSQ&keywords=seagate+8tb+external+hard+drive&qid=1554871246&s=electronics&sprefix=Seagate+8tb+ex%2Celectronics%2C194&sr=1-3
I bought the external a year ago and took the HDDs out and had these drives in them more info about the drives and speeds can be found here that I posted in /r/DataHoarder : https://old.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/8bghgg/newegg_seagate_expansion_8tb_usb_30_35_desktop/dx6wqxk/
Datasheet for the drives can be found here: https://www.seagate.com/www-content/datasheets/pdfs/3-5-barracudaDS1900-11-1806US-en_US.pdf
A lot of people here are buying external drives in bulk and shucking them since it's substantially cheaper than buying plain drives. This is a really weird dynamic. Why on earth is it cheaper to buy a drive with additional hardware and packaging around it than to just buy the drive itself?
e.g. this external drive is $180, but a bare archive drive is $228. WTF? It is almost $50 more expensive to buy just the drive without the enclosure around it. (And that's assuming the 8TB external is an SMR archive drive inside, rather than a regular PMR drive -- which is even more expensive!) You might say "oh, it's on sale!" -- yeah, they're always on sale at those kinds of prices from one brand or another.
With WD products instead of Seagate, this has gotten absolutely ridiculous. BestBuy is regularly advertised on here offering external drives containing shuckable 8TB WD Reds in the price range of $150~$200 while the drive by itself often goes for nearly $300! It's twice as expensive to buy the plain drive?! WHY?!
I'm a huge fan of WD Reds, but you can buy two of these Seagate externals and save $100. They have an ST8000AS0002 in them.
They're $205 currently on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Expansion-Desktop-External-STEB8000100/dp/B01HAPGEIE/ref=sr_1_1?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1482265360&sr=1-1&keywords=8tb.
I've never paid more than $100 for 5TB and $200 for 8TB. You mostly just have to wait for deals on externals and then shuck them. If you are in it for the long haul, it is worth saving money shucking as long as you have a backup. Example for $750 you could get 6 x 5TB of shucked Seagate drives. You would only be able to get 3 x 5TB of WD Red.
Ether WD Easystore or Seagate Expansion 8TB is fine
No one can guarantee you these drives won't fail , all hard drive will fail sooner or later and you will lose data if you don't have a backup .
If you live in the US , Amazon warehouse has some refurbished Seagate Expansion 8TB right now , $127 a pop .
https://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B01HAPGEIE/ref=dp_olp_all_mbc?ie=UTF8&condition=all
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> https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B01HAPGEIE/ref=ya_aw_od_pi?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Seems they are SMR drives.
https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/4wo26l/seagate_8tb_external_hdd_steb8000100_on_sale_for/d68vmim/
Is it a "Late 2012" model with 4 USB 3 ports?
Here's what I'm doing with a similar Mac mini...
I have 8 * 8TB Drives. 4 are live and 4 are used as cloned backups. This supports my 32TB library. I just keep adding in pairs, and I'm about to add 2 more.
Just add USB hubs if you need more ports. This is what I'm using. There are other hubs with more ports, but this meets my needs.
I then connect these drives in pairs. I currently have 8 of them in use. I have 1 in standby in case one of the others ever fails, I can bring it into use. I travel a lot, so being able to do that remotely is nice.
I run Carbon Copy Cloner to clone the drives instead of Time Machine. This allows me to schedule exactly when I want them cloning or I can manually click a button to clone on demand if I've just updated the library. It will send email alerts and notifications if there's a problem, and it will optionally mount/unmount the cloned drive (as well as other actions/scripts).
Really this is all a super easy way to go without any network issues you may encounter with a NAS.
There are some downsides as ultimately NAS/RAID can be less expensive and certainly less cluttered. My whole set up is in a giant server cabinet which houses a bunch of other equipment in for our home theater and the rest of the house, so that's not an issue.
The one linked is back-ordered but I believe this is a very similar drive and should be shuckable as well. Also $140 https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01HAPGEIE/ref=ox_sc_saved_title_1?smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER&psc=1
I use two of these. They're 150 each on Amazon. It's over 100, but you get what you pay for.
Go for the 8TB drives, they're cheaper per TB and 10TB is about the min to see anything remotely meaningful every day. There is a mining calculator in the sidebar.
2 of these would do you well. Also, you'll want to set up a full node.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01HAPGEIE/ref=ox_sc_sfl_title_1?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER
230.97 can - 8tb shipping fees to Canada Included
Yes, the drive inside is a Seagate Barracuda ST8000DM004.
These two enclosures have the same drive.
https://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Desktop-External-Hard-Drive/dp/B07CQJBSQL/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_product_top?ie=UTF8
https://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Expansion-Desktop-External-STEB8000100/dp/B01HAPGEIE/ref=sr_1_2?keywords=Seagate+Desktop+8TB&qid=1574346937&sr=8-2
Is there a significance between the WD 8tb and this Seagate 8tb for the same price?
Seagate 8TB external drive for $130, than you shuck the drive.
Western Digital has a 8TB external HDD. that's the largest the PS4 can support as far as I know.
I’m am bit of a lurker so forgive me if this is somewhere obvious but it looks like there is a Seagate drive for the same price on amazon. Should I expect a difference in them?
Seagate Expansion 8TB Desktop External Hard Drive USB 3.0 (STEB8000100) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01HAPGEIE/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_Pa5ACbYPBK60Z
You can order the 3 below together ($153.99+$160.99+$160.99):
Seagate Expansion 8TB Desktop External Hard Drive USB 3.0
Seagate Backup Plus Hub for Mac 8TB External Desktop Hard Drive
Seagate Backup Plus Hub 8TB External Desktop Hard Drive Storage
https://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Expansion-Desktop-External-STEB8000100/dp/B01HAPGEIE/ref=sr_1_2
8 TB seagates externals are on sale at Amazon for 150 Just shuck the drive and you're good to go :P or keep it external.
Or get a mybook for 170, shuck it and keep the enclosure and you're ok for warranty. Just put the drive back into it before you ship it back and say you had to take it out for data recovery.
that would be 16TB.
if you wanted to store historical blockchain data for sentimental reasons rather than pruning at a sensible height, you could do so for $380/yr on hard drives if, for some reason, prices don't continue to go down.
https://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Expansion-Desktop-External-STEB8000100/dp/B01HAPGEIE
I will also add that it is very presumptuous to assume that bitcoin will handle all transactions, when it is already #2 to other crypto.
I don’t have an easy answer for you. I have been looking for an 8TB drive for some time now myself, and have spent far too much time comparing options. I would love to hear everyone’s opinion!
I also haven’t looked that much at encryption, hopefully someone here knows more about that part.
Seagate Expansion STEB8000100
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01HAPGEIE/ - $150
Lacie Porsche Design USB-C STFE8000401
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B075VP1PJX - $220
HDD (probably, based on forum reports): Seagate Archive HDD ST8000AS0002 (SMR)
Pros:
Cons:
Seagate Game Drive Desktop 8TB STGG8000400 – ($240)
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07173WR4B - £165 (couldn’t find on Amazon.com)
HDD (probably): Seagate Barracuda (non-pro) ST8000DM004 (SMR)
Pros:
Cons:
Seagate Backup Plus Hub STEL8000100
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01HD6ZLQ6 - $155
Seagate Backup Plus Hub STEL8000200
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B01IAD5ZC6 - £158
(see https://www.tweaktown.com/reviews/7875/seagate-backup-plus-hub-8tb-external-drive-review/index.html, https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/7fbkh3/the_seagate_backup_plus_8tb_no_longer_have_the/)
Internal 3.5” + USB Enclosure - $300
HDD (e.g.): Seagate Barracuda Pro ST8000DM0004 (PMR Helium)
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07211QYRC - $280
or HGST Ultrastar He8 HUH728080ALE600 (PMR Helium)
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00Q1IZJD8 - $240
Enclosure (e.g.): Ugreen 3.5” Hard Drive Enclosure
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B076WQHK2G - $20
Pros:
Cons:
WD Easystore
Also HDD lottery.
(see https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/7fx0i0/wd_easystore_8tb_compendium/)
WD My Book
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01LQQHLGC - $170
HDD: Lottery.
Reports vary all over the place. Very old reports say HGST Enterprise Helium (Early 2016), Older reports (Mid 2016) say WD Red WD80EZZX (Good), newer reports (2017) say it’s a lower-performance white-label drive, some call it a WD Blue (?).
(see https://www.pcper.com/reviews/Storage/HGST-Enterprise-He8-HDD-Found-Early-Retail-8TB-WD-My-Book, http://www.overclockers.com/forums/showthread.php/776633-8TB-WDBFJK0080HBK-NESN-vs-WDBBGB0080HBK-NESN, https://tinkertry.com/liberate-western-digital-8tb-from-external-drive-enclosure-to-save-big)
Neutral:
Pros:
Cons:
This was quickly put together. Comments and suggestions welcome! :-)
Ahh, is this one as well ? https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01HAPGEIE/ref=ox_sc_saved_title_5?smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER&psc=1
This 8 TB drive was on Amazon for $169 the other day. I bought one.
Ha, you do the same thing I do... I have an active external backup and another that I manually back up from time to time but leave off to [hopefully] extend its life.
I'm wary of recommending a brand for hard drives. No matter what anyone says, someone else will chip in with how horrible of a experience they had that one time.
To be safe, you could get two different brands of the same "type" of hard drive and hope that if one dies, you can "expect" the other to tide you over until you get a replacement. I usually just get two of the same make and model though... usually a nice, fat, slow "archive" drive that should last me a long time.
If it helps you at all, I got two Seagate Expansion 8TB Desktop External Hard Drives (STEB8000100 last year... hopefully it treats me well. They should be archive-type drives but I don't think I ever opened them to shuck... I just used the enclosure it came with. It's only been a year and a half, so I can't praise its longevity.
Saw this, but I was looking for the lowest $/GB ratio I could find for my modest setup. This comes out to $33.75/GB which certainly isn't the cheapest out there.
I ended up going with this, and it's on prime as well-
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B01HAPGEIE/ref=ya_aw_od_pi?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Which comes out to $21.25/GB. I know it's not good for an enterprise application, but I have an unlimited cloud backup that will provide insurance.
But I'm going to rip it out of the enclosure and see how it works for my home setup.
edit: if anyone knows of any better prices I'd be happy for some other input.
This one
They're all sold out now.
edit: formatting
2nd edit: spelling. (apparently I'm dumb)
I bought this one a couple of weeks ago and like it very much: https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B01HAPGEIE/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Looking at the 1-star reviews, it looks like there are alot of issues with this hard drive. If it were me, I'd return it to amazon and get something else:
https://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Expansion-Desktop-External-STEB8000100/product-reviews/B01HAPGEIE/ref=cm_cr_dp_d_hist_1?ie=UTF8&filterByStar=one_star&reviewerType=all_reviews#reviews-filter-bar
Ignoring that you can pick up a 8TB hard drive for $150 USD. The current size of the bitcoin blockchain is ~149 GB.
If you buy that hard drive you can store the entire chain 53 times and still have a around half a gig for the white paper PDF and a modest hentai collection, but thats none of my business...
Just sent this to a bunch of friends. So far 6 are getting it. $149 for 8TB
https://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Expansion-Desktop-External-STEB8000100/dp/B01HAPGEIE/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1521660330&sr=8-3&keywords=external+usb+3.0+hard+drive
I get that's a lot, but storage prices have been getting a lot cheaper.
here's a 10tb external drive for $230 https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B07G3QMPB5/?coliid=I2JMGHXUJNIU27&colid=1NAH2MTRWRVPG&psc=0&ref_=lv_ov_lig_dp_it
8tb for $140 https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B01HAPGEIE/ref=psdc_595048_t1_B07G3QMPB5
Amazon Prime Day sale is going on right now and they have the:
They seem like a really good deal but the drives are so alike that I do not know which is better. Additionally, several reviews say that their drive failed on them after several weeks/months or even a year. I'm worried about the same happening. Wouldn't want to download a bunch of content, back it up, and then loose it all in a year. I don't know if it's because of user error and they wrote and deleted off the drive a lot or because that's just how the drives are.
Looks like Amazon has it for 174.99
https://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Expansion-Desktop-External-STEB8000100/dp/B01HAPGEIE/
Not a problem man i can't remember the last time i purchased a drive locally PB is only good for small SSD's but anything over 4TB they are ridiculously priced. If you dont necessarily need NAS drive these are a good drive to shuck and great for media purchased 12 of these over the last 2 years for my server and have not had any issues and probably the cheapest way to get 8tbs to NZ.
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https://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Expansion-Desktop-External-STEB8000100/dp/B01HAPGEIE/ref=sr_1_2_sspa?ie=UTF8&qid=1549133006&sr=8-2-spons&keywords=8tb+ironwolf&psc=1
This is the one I have. You missed out on it being on sale during Black Friday. It was $110. It’s $157 now. Still, lots of room.
8TB Seagate external HDD
$16 per terabyte so good deal.
But I'm gonna get the Seagate Expansion Desktop 8TB External instead at $140. It's $10 off with the Amazon Assistant promo, so at $130, it's also $16 per TB.
I have this one:
Seagate Expansion 8TB Desktop External Hard Drive USB 3.0 (STEB8000100) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01HAPGEIE/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_KCD8Bb9XYRCP1
I’ve seen it go as low as $130 and EBay has promo codes that work to bring it lower. I got mine on EBay for $118.
Do you need all storage to be accessible at the same time, or are you able to swap multiple drives in and out?
If you need all storage connected and accessible at the same time, I'd say go for 4 x 8 TB hard drives
https://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Expansion-Desktop-External-STEB8000100/dp/B01HAPGEIE/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1497386514&sr=8-1&keywords=STEB8000100
and pair it with a probox:
https://www.amazon.com/Mediasonic-ProBox-HF2-SU3S2-SATA-Enclosure/dp/B003X26VV4/ref=sr_1_1?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1497386559&sr=1-1&keywords=probox
With tax, that will put you right up against $1000 for 32 TB in a fairly enclosed and accessible setup.
Great price, but I managed to get them at 200$ at least 2 times.
There is also a cheaper model right now in the prime sale
https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B01HAPGEIE/ref=gbdp_vlo_15770785_B01HAPGEIE?_encoding=UTF8&smid=A3DWYIK6Y9EEQB
I bought 2 of those last month and got barracuda inside instead or archive SMR drive... so who knows, maybe I'll get lucky again :D
I am just asking to make sure I understand correctly.
So would something like this work?
https://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Expansion-Desktop-External-STEB8000100/dp/B01HAPGEIE
Seagate Expansion 8TB Desktop External Hard Drive USB 3.0 (STEB8000100) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01HAPGEIE/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_xjt5AbT4TN2N7
New 149 used 135. Just shucked one yesterday
Amazon US, 8TB external hard drive for 142USD. Can barely get a 4TB drive for that much (maybe around 180 SGD) here locally.
I'm looking at this Segate as an alternative.
https://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Expansion-Desktop-External-STEB8000100/dp/B01HAPGEIE
Any reason why I'd consider the WD instead?
No problem. If storage is your main conscern, Take a look at this and/or this. At roughly $10 apart, but below $200 you're not gonna find a better deal on storage if you don't mind shucking them!
This is the hard drive I got:
Seagate Expansion 8TB Desktop External Hard Drive USB 3.0 (STEB8000100) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01HAPGEIE/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_-CoKAbD750BVG
I've used it for about 3 months now, and it's awesome. I've filled up a terabyte, and still have loads of space left. It is a disk (not solid state), and as such you can hear it spinning when it's really quiet. The price is unbeatable though.
I got it, plugged it in to the wall and the Xbox and away I went. It was super easy to set up.
Yeah, I've got a few of these (https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B01HAPGEIE/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER&psc=1) sitting in my cart, I'm just hoping they go on sale, otherwise I'm gonna have to wait for a little since I'm a poor teenager slaving away in retail ;-;
Since it's external, I would likely get something like this:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B01HAPGEIE/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1480702752&sr=8-1&pi=SY200_QL40&keywords=8tb&dpPl=1&dpID=41mDnJ8-plL&ref=plSrch
It's a good deal, 8TB, and USB3.
If you decide you want a backup (highly recommended), depending on your connection, you can get Amazon Cloud Drive. As long as you encrypt your backup data on there, you'll be fine :)
Recently bought one of these, could i do the same with this?
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01HAPGEIE/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
This is the amazon link for the HDD I plan on using
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01HAPGEIE/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o02_s01?ie=UTF8&psc=1
The specs say it's 4.75 x 6.93 x 1.44 in, so I'm assuming that's a 3.5" but I don't really know
Why that over the cheaper Seagate?
Major Nelson uses a 8TB external HDD.
This model to be specific:
https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B01HAPGEIE/34a6-20
His tweet:
https://twitter.com/majornelson/status/802224274081648641
Amazon has 8TB on special now too:
https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B01HAPGEIE/
Works out to nearly the same price/GB. The 6TB is slightly cheaper.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B01HAPGEIE/ref=sxts1?ie=UTF8&qid=1487224179&sr=1&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_FMwebp_QL65
You could buy a USB 3.0 external drive, plug it into a system on your network and share it.
Here is 8TB of storage for $209: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01HAPGEIE/
> I was kind of hoping that I'd see some really good deals on external hard drives, but they aren't any cheaper than I've seen them anyway, so I guess I'm just gonna hold off for now
I just bought a Seagate 8GB external for $150. That seems like a good enough deal to me.
EDIT: Link
I just found this!!! 8tb for $258!! https://www.amazon.ca/gp/aw/d/B01HAPGEIE?ref=olp_product_details
The better deal is the 8TB at Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B01HAPGEIE/ref=mp_s_a_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1517691663&sr=8-3&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_QL65&keywords=seagate+8tb+external+hard+drive
Same type of SMR drive but puts you a little under $20/TB and you won't really notice the performance dip because you'll be mostly reading from it.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01HAPGEIE/
2 things.
That is only 1300 CAD today's prices
Yeah, I mean we do want "regular users" to be able to mine. But I mean... look, you can get 8TB of storage for under $200: https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B01HAPGEIE/ref=mp_s_a_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1510364020&sr=8-4&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_FMwebp_QL65&keywords=10tb+hard+drive&dpPl=1&dpID=41mDnJ8-plL&ref=plSrch
Gigabit internet is available in many cities in the US and more is coming all the time. What exactly is preventing regular people from mining? Bandwidth and disk space don't seem to be problems. Is there something else?
And seriously... 2mb instead of 1? Like, does anyone really think that that second megabyte of data every 10mins was gonna be the one that broke the camel's back? An MP3 of my favorite song is 5mb, but since disk space is cheap nowadays I don't use mp3s any more, I use flac so the same song takes 45mb. And 1 extra MB was so dangerous to the Core team that they had to cause a rift in the community by basically disallowing the users and miners from the 2x fork?
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01HAPGEIE/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER&psc=1
These Seagate 8TB are $149.99. I've had decent luck with them. By decent I mean I haven't been lucky enough for a Barracuda Pro yet, but I haven't gotten a single archive drive yet. So go me.. I guess.
https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B01HAPGEIE/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
This one seems like a good deal to me.
It will depend on what your actual goal is with storage but this isn't that great of a price per GB.
https://diskprices.com/?locale=ca
Amazon has been selling this 8TB drive for $200 for months. Yeah you need to shuck it but dollar, power, space and setup wise it's easier.
may i suggest https://www.ebay.com/itm/FreeNAS-4U-36-Bay-Storage-Server-2x-Intel-Xeon-Hex-Core-SAS2-6Gb-s-48GB-9211-8i/142754052203?hash=item213ccdf86b:g:xuYAAOSw1cNaAKd2
not knowing your budget you can pair this with these
https://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Expansion-Desktop-External-STEB8000100/dp/B01HAPGEIE/ref=sr_1_3?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1525915442&sr=1-3&keywords=seagate
you can remove the drives from the enclosire and add drives as needed. that said i suggest installing crystal disc to make sure your drives are not dmged on arival since they were not ment to be used in this way if there all set the drives should run flawless for several years
that said if your not looking for huge storage options then
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Dell-Poweredge-R720xd-R720-Server-2x-Intel-Xeon-E5-2650-2-00Ghz-32GB-24-Bay/192522805869?_trkparms=aid%3D555018%26algo%3DPL.SIM%26ao%3D2%26asc%3D50999%26meid%3D7c484cd71eb94670abdbbf359eb783ae%26pid%3D100005%26rk%3D1%26rkt%3D12%26sd%3D142754052203%26itm%3D192522805869&_trksid=p2047675.c100005.m1851
this is efectivly 50% better for processing videos and will have u encoding atleast 7 videos at 1080p X264
I have been thinking of doing the same thing but just for PSV. I have calculated from NPS cvs a couple of days ago that all PSV games from NPS that have download links available will take up around 2TB, so a $150 8TB hard drive would be more than enough for PSV games + updates + dlcs. Get a second one and you can do RAID 1 for that extra redundancy. Attach both of them to your regular home computer or home server, setup software RAID 1 for those drives, setup a VPN if you are as paranoid as I am to download all games + updates + dlc from Sony from your clear IP, setup a cronjob to get the latest csv from NPS website and download new games and overwrite existing ones that have hashes changed, optionally backing up older revisions of games. So the operational cost is around $300 + VPN + a little of electricity. You might also need to buy extra drives if they fail, but NPS archiving doesn't require a lot of read/write operations, so the hard drives shouldn't fail that often. For read operations you would just need to calculate hashes of game files, once per downloaded game, and for write operations - the initial download of all games and occasional addition of new games + updates of the existing games. You probably won't even reach 12 TB of reads and 12TB writes in years to come, which is nothing. Having hard drives powered does increase the failure chance, but you could sync with NPS like once per month, having the drives powered on only for several hours per month.
These Seagates are also $150 brand new on Amazon if you spend the 10 minutes it takes to shuck them, plus free shipping. https://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Expansion-Desktop-External-STEB8000100/dp/B01HAPGEIE/ref=sr_1_3?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1526461402&sr=1-3&keywords=8tb+external+hard+drive
Pretty sure they're almost always this price too.
Having watched it - I am a fan of LTT but he can be a bit brutal with his reviews. Ultimately it works and though you may not want a full OS running on it it would work for cold storage. My default for cold storage however is to buy large cheap external HDD like this one https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01HAPGEIE/ref=cm_sw_r_other_apa_i_U88VCbT4HV3TH and parallel copy to them from Linux. One I use, one I store. I like the Micro SD option but will wait for 1TB to be cheaper.
Where do you see that?
8 TB Easy Store $199.00
8 Tb WD Red (which is in the easy store) $288.00
Also, the Seagate 8TB externals (which generally carry the Archive drives) are the same way. Over $200 for the bare drive and $170 External.
I bought this seagate one.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01HAPGEIE/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_Fv3NAbAVQTTZW
Seems to work well thus far.
For what it's worth, if you buy them from US Amazon, you can get 8tb Seagate Expansions that I believe contain barracudas for AU$217.46, shipped:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01HAPGEIE/ref=cm_sw_r_other_apa_FyEMAb7MNKVVP
To answer the question naively, it would cost $20 / week to store full 1GB blocks. Cheaper than one BTC fee this December and January!
https://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Expansion-Desktop-External-STEB8000100/dp/B01HAPGEIE/
Then get something like this so you make sure you don't lose them and have a backup.https://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Expansion-Desktop-External-STEB8000100/dp/B01HAPGEIE/ref=sr_1_1?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1520719146&sr=1-1&keywords=8tb+hdd&dpID=41mDnJ8-plL&preST=_SY300_QL70_&dpSrc=srch
Such is the world we live in.
Seagate 8TB (USB) = $149.99 USD (https://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Expansion-Desktop-External-STEB8000100/dp/B01HAPGEIE/)
Seagate 8TB (SATA) = $214.56 USD (https://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Archive-128MB-Internal-Technology/dp/B077XZWJNZ/)
Some of the USB drives have Barracudas, which are probably better drives.
I don't know why this is the pricing structure we have. It cant just be for warranty reasons, as the externals also come with a warranty.
Seagate Expansion 8TB Desktop External Hard Drive USB 3.0 (STEB8000100) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01HAPGEIE/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_VHaSAbD6QCB9N
What about this one? Is this as good? It is about 150
Agreed.
No, they are brand new. Seagate Expansion External for $180
https://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Expansion-Desktop-External-STEB8000100/dp/B01HAPGEIE
The sweet spot for size/price is generally 8TB drives. This is a good example, $17.50 per terabyte. https://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Expansion-Desktop-External-STEB8000100/dp/B01HAPGEIE/
What's the difference between these two Seagate externals?
Seagate Expansion Desktop 8TB External Hard Drive HDD – USB 3.0 for PC Laptop - Amazon: $139.99/Newegg: $139.99
Seagate Desktop 8TB External Hard Drive HDD – USB 3.0 for PC Laptop and Mac - Amazon: $139.99/Newegg: $219.99
I see a Seagate internal archive drive for $237 on amazon right now, that works out to $2140 for nine. If you're willing to shuck you can get nine of these and end up paying $1979.55. :)
External HDD. Large capacity, good performance, inexpensive price. 8 TB for $139 USD:
https://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Expansion-Desktop-External-STEB8000100/dp/B01HAPGEIE/ref=sr_1_4?fst=as%3Aoff&qid=1556090489&refinements=p_n_feature_two_browse-bin%3A5446816011&rnid=562234011&s=pc&sr=1-4
8TB External drives are fairly cheap nowadays.
Presumably, OP will also have other backups in case of emergency anyway.
Is it this one???
https://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Expansion-Desktop-External-STEB8000100/dp/B01HAPGEIE
I'm super tempted to add 1 or 2 of these to a NAS...
You know you can get 8TB for only $179.92 CAD on Amazon.ca right?
https://www.amazon.ca/Seagate-STEB8000100-Expansion-Desktop-External/dp/B01HAPGEIE/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1537299296&sr=8-1&keywords=8tb
I'm guessing what you meant was this.
And, again, this is assuming only 1080p/30fps footage at 3 videos a week and doesn't include other footage or data generated by/for video shoots.
You also need to buy two of whatever solution you end up going with (so your cost would be over $300 just for a pretty basic YT set up) because a single on-site backup is not a back up.
Alright thanks. Nah, the Seagate was an 8TB with 16MB of cache. At least that's what a reviewer said. I have all WD drives. The 500GB is an old WD that I used for my first Plex drive.
https://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Expansion-Desktop-External-STEB8000100/dp/B01HAPGEIE/ref=pd_lpo_vtph_147_bs_t_1?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=ESWZVQE3R25V8G77MCE2
I normally buy these. I've found they are the best bang for buck. They won't be WD Reds but I don't need reds so it suits my purpose. ~ AUD$242.22 for 8TB
Just wanted to add that many Seagate enclosures have SMR drives inside. These have poor write performance and so many people prefer the WD Easystores which have WD Red equivalents that do not use SMR. If your use case is write-once read-many SMR drives will be just fine and can often be found for pretty cheap in Seagate external enclosures. Amazon has the 8TB model right now for $146.99.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shingled_magnetic_recording
https://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Expansion-Desktop-External-STEB8000100/dp/B01HAPGEIE/
https://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Expansion-Desktop-External-STEB8000100/dp/B01HAPGEIE/ref=mp_s_a_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1542997037&sr=8-3&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_QL65&keywords=8tb&dpPl=1&dpID=41mDnJ8-plL&ref=plSrch
Amazon
If you're willing to try Seagate this one frequently hits 140. https://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Expansion-Desktop-External-STEB8000100/dp/B01HAPGEIE/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1539798239&sr=8-1&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_FMwebp_QL65&keywords=8tb+seagate&dpPl=1&dpID=41mDnJ8-plL&ref=plSrch
If I understand correctly, The most storage you will ever get is less than 60T and that is with 5x12T drives. Not worth it at the current price.
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Also, I am confused why you would want a Raid enclosure (your 5N) to function as an unprotected external hard drive. You only have 19.97T available as you are protected across your 5 drives from a single drive failure. If you could, switch to an unprotected setup and have the raw capacity of 25.46T available, you would lose everything if a single drive failure. Why would you want this?
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I prefer the Dual Disk Redundancy (allowing for 2 drive failures), which in your case would reduce you to 14.52T available. But it gives me time to order a drive with Amazon Prime and replace the bad/full drive in case a second drive goes as well, and only if a 3rd drive where to fail would I lose any data.
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In my opinion, you have a few options.
Good luck.
Does anyone know whether the hard drives inside these externals are 7200 or 5400 rpm?:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01LQQHLGC/
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01HAPGEIE/
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01HD6ZLQ6/
Thanks, that confirms that this hard drive for $154 was a good deal. It's still available the rest of today:
Seagate Expansion 8TB Desktop External Hard Drive USB 3.0 (STEB8000100) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01HAPGEIE/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_0fqzzbKFD9DTA
> Primary concern - Block latency propagation and bandwidth
X-thin/Compact blocks
> Secondary concern - CPU and Ram
bitcrust
>Least concern - Hard drive space
Metcalfe's law... 8TB for less than $200 will be good at full 8Mb blocks for 3 years.
Also... you know about all this... so you are not being objective!
It's on sale now for $150. Surley your 6TB + Enclosure is more than this
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> Generally speaking, using tabs is barbaric. Makefiles are an exception, as they originate from a less civilized era. Go source files are also a weird exception. I don't know what Rob Pike was thinking, but he's pretty smart so I guess he gets a pass.
> The only argument you can really make for tabs is they result in smaller file sizes than those delimited with spaces, but seriously? Are you that pressed for disk space? May I suggest one of these?
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Yes they are. I've boughten 3x 8TB ones now for $150 each. Here is a link to Amazon .
FYI, Each one I have opened up has been a Barracuda drive
I’m a big fan of western digital externals, but last year they had a great deal on Seagate’s 8 TB external for $190. I would strongly recommend that if you can shell out the cash. I’ve got 250 games installed and it’s not even half way filled.
Amazon, 8TB drives, 2 of them under $150.
https://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Expansion-Desktop-External-STEB8000100/dp/B01HAPGEIE/ref=sr_1_1?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1511649736&sr=1-1&keywords=8tb+external+hard+drive
And I got this one for myself
https://www.amazon.com/Seagate-External-Desktop-Storage-STEL8000100/dp/B01HD6ZLQ6/ref=sr_1_3?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1511649736&sr=1-3&keywords=8tb+external+hard+drive
Looks like the same specs as the white Xbox branded one. I wanted the extra USB ports.
How does this compare?
I have a 4TB Seagate and I just bought a 2 TB WD SSD. If you go bigger you will have to go to an external power supply but a lot of people like this 8TB Seagate: https://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Expansion-Desktop-External-STEB8000100/dp/B01HAPGEIE
Not sure if that's legal or not. I wouldn't get a flash drive. Instead something like this: https://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Expansion-Desktop-External-STEB8000100/dp/B01HAPGEIE/ref=pd_bxgy_147_img_2?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=B01HAPGEIE&pd_rd_r=BCM4VNKDVAERJZQ11BK8&pd_rd_w=5B6Lg&pd_rd_wg=quqkJ&psc=1&refRID=BCM4VNKDVAERJZQ11BK8
But if you're plan is to keep the videos online you might be better off just accessing the site again when you want them.
It's not 20% less though.
Seagate Expansion $139
https://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Expansion-Desktop-External-STEB8000100/dp/B01HAPGEIE
WD Elements $150
https://www.amazon.com/Elements-Desktop-Hard-Drive-WDBWLG0080HBK-NESN/dp/B07D5V2ZXD
WD My Book $160
https://www.amazon.com/Book-Desktop-External-Drive-WDBBGB0080HBK-NESN/dp/B01LQQHLGC
8TB for $142.49.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01HAPGEIE
Aren't photographs very cheap to store? What makes MicroSD cheaper or better than a traditional external hard drive?
Edit: I mean, you can get four 8TB units for the same price. A cradle for the hard drive would be 20-40 bucks at most.
Edit2: Better yet.