[Amazon.ca] Western Digital 14TB Ultrastar SATA HDD $579.99

HC520 (Sold as Easystore) has been available @ $199USD ~300CAD multiple times from Bestbuy USA -> NYaddress.

Due to current situation this isn’t an option but will be in the future once boarder is re-opened.

https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/co ... b_shucked/

Thanks, never had an Ultrastar HDD, is it better than green drive for lifespan and for torrent? other than price is on the higher end, is there any downside to it?

sorry for the newbie question, don't know much about HDD

FYI Canada computers has it for $499

My benchmark for any hard drive purchase would only be $18-20 or lower per TB.

In for 4, j/k. Imagine having 56TB NAS lol.

I thought I was ballin with my 2tb . What are y'all doing with these 14tb drives? Media servers?

HN12345 wrote: ↑ In for 4, j/k. Imagine having 56TB NAS lol.

or a 6 hard drive 84tb desktop pc
you could have a 100 000 games on there and still have space for media and stuff.

Movie collection, the tv shows, the music, the family backups, photo/kids videos, study backup, work backup...... list goes on.

muppetslayer wrote: ↑(...) I'm not an expert in hard drives so don't downvote me. Seems to be reasonable for $41.43 per TB.

OP, people don't downvote YOU, they downvote the deal.
It's not a Hot deal at > $40/TB.

muppetslayer wrote: ↑ ...Seems to be reasonable for $41.43 per TB.

Well for reference, the other deal with 8TB shucked drives is $180, making it $22.50/TB

HN12345 wrote: ↑ In for 4, j/k. Imagine having 56TB NAS lol.

Imagine JBOD-ing on a 4 drive NAS.

Obligatory ‘I hear it might be shingled’

AllanT232 wrote: ↑ or a 6 hard drive 84tb desktop pc
you could have a 100 000 games on there and still have space for media and stuff.

I have a 120TB desktop PC and with the size of games these days, I doubt you can even have 1000.

For 100k, you will need to find many old DOS games to fill it up

v3dg666 wrote: ↑ I have a 120TB desktop PC and with the size of games these days, I doubt you can even have 1000.

For 100k, you will need to find many old DOS games to fill it up

sure there are games that are 100gb but there are plenty of visual novel and indie games that take up very little just look at stardew valley or lego games.
stardew valley is 496mb

AllanT232 wrote: ↑ sure there are games that are 100gb but there are plenty of visual novel and indie games that take up very little just look at stardew valley or lego games.
stardew valley is 496mb

Visual novels?

Supercooled wrote: ↑ Visual novels?

like steins gate or danganronpa or zero escape
you know like those old school choose your own adventure books where you have choices at certain points.
or even games like telltale games but those are more cinematic.

Cheap. Thanks op!

HN12345 wrote: ↑ In for 4, j/k. Imagine having 56TB NAS lol.

Just imagine having a catastrophic failure of the 56TB nas, how do you back up the back up

sirxterminator wrote: ↑ Just imagine having a catastrophic failure of the 56TB nas, how do you back up the back up

With 2x 56TB NAS of course

sirxterminator wrote: ↑ Just imagine having a catastrophic failure of the 56TB nas, how do you back up the back up

I have a 132TB NAS. Personally I have 3 parity drives which protect against up to 3 simultaneous drive failures. Then I use a cloud backup service that backs up only my more vital data, about 7TB worth. But if it were all vital, I'd have a second identical NAS at a friend's house, my office, or another offsite location with good internet and just mirror the data. Or if I was made of money I'd mirror the data to one of the many (expensive) cloud storage providers.