Newegg Newegg.ca: 4TB HGST Deskstar NAS 3.5" Internal Hard Drive with Vibration Sensor $160 (Was $250) After Promo Code 4TB HGST Deskstar NAS 3.5" Internal HD $160
get this dealHere's a deal for anyone building a desktop Network Attached Storage system and is shopping for NAS supported hard drives. For a limited time, Newegg.ca is selling the 4TB HGST Deskstar NAS 3.5" Internal Hard Drive for $179.99 (Reg. $249.99). To sweeten the deal use promo code 1205CADEK21 to knock off an extra $20!
Features and specs include:
- Up to 4TB capacity
- 7200RPM performance with a 64MB cache buffer
- Incorporates a rotational vibration sensor to achieve reliability of one million hours MTBF
- 6Gbps SATA interface
- 3-year limited warranty
For comparison shopping, both Best Buy and Future Shop sell the Deskstar NAS 0S03664 for $219.99.
This deal is live and expires on December 11. Shipping will be an extra $9.99 unless you live near one of their warehouses to arrange for pick-up. Don't forget to click through the green links to get 1% cash back from RedFlagDeals.com.
Thanks to MrRockstar for posting this deal to the forums.
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View allYes, these drives are very reliable.
Personally, I'd say NCIX.
Read this and you will understand: http://www.servethehome.com/newegg-hard ... 11-update/
Though it seems they have updated their packaging again last year:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_E2GCqslsgo
If you order a drive as "OEM" from most retailers, you usually won't get them in a manufacturer-approved shipping container. The suppliers and retailers usually get them in big boxes of 20 or so and are left to their own devices to ship it to you. Usually, it'll be usually taped up in bubble wrap and/or in a bubble bag with other padding (paper, styrafoam, etc). If you're really lucky, it might be a brown box with the shipping ends (ex: manufacturer-approved/provided). If you're unlucky, the retailer might haved tossed the drive into a box without any padding or protection and it'll be DOA. [/QUOTE]
The ones I got were in a box like this:
[IMG]http://images17.newegg.com/is/image/new ... -Z01?$S640$[/IMG]
- Standard desktop drives will try harder to recover bad data.
- RAID drives are designed for availability and will give up sooner with the assumption that the remainder of the RAID will be able to recover from the error by piecing it together from the other drives.
http://wdc.custhelp.com/app/answers/det ... )-and-raid
http://forums.storagereview.com/index.p ... ererccctl/
Because TLER is hardcoded to 7s on Red drives (yes, I've tried to change it), you should never be using them in a single configuration. A regular Green drive has this setting set to 60s. If you have older Green drives, you can change the TLER.
If you do use Red drives for desktop purposes, you will want to make sure you have regular backups. The minute the drive starts developing errors, you'll start losing data really fast. If you want reliability, you probably should be running RAID 1.
Read this and you will understand: http://www.servethehome.com/newegg-hard ... 11-update/
Though it seems they have updated their packaging again last year:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_E2GCqslsgo
If you order a drive as "OEM" from most retailers, you usually won't get them in a manufacturer-approved shipping container. The suppliers and retailers usually get them in big boxes of 20 or so and are left to their own devices to ship it to you. Usually, it'll be usually taped up in bubble wrap and/or in a bubble bag with other padding (paper, styrafoam, etc). If you're really lucky, it might be a brown box with the shipping ends (ex: manufacturer-approved/provided). If you're unlucky, the retailer might haved tossed the drive into a box without any padding or protection and it'll be DOA.
That's all good in theory, but in practice, it *should* match unless you're doing using an array that doesn't use stripes like RAID 1 or unRAID (in which case, by all means, the symmetry doesn't matter as much, but should still be if possible).
You can sufficiently mitigate risk by buying at different times from different suppliers (this is what I've done with my 3TB Reds) with different mfgr dates. If there's a design defect with that model, well, you shouldn't have bought bleeding edge and waited a bit until everyone else tripped on that defect first. ;-)
Using completely different models will cause you all sorts of other headaches when doing preventative maintenance:
1. Since it's already a performance mismatch and running slowly, you won't get that noticeable sudden performance drop when one of the drives is dying. If you configured your RAID correctly, you should have set up alternate notifications, but usually you'll feel the driving failing first.
2. Because the drives lack symmetry, the drive heads on the faster drives can be subject to frequent cycling which can create excessive wear because of the consistent start, stop, start, stop, start instructions while it waits for the other drive to catch up.
Oh well. At least I got my hands on 5 this morning!
Also what happens if you have, lets say, three identical drives in raid5. If one drive fails 3 years from now and the original drive is no longer available do you replace all three of your drives to keep them the same? I think not.
Models can have inherent problems. If all your HGST or WD or Seagate drives fail because of a flaw, your Raid5 fails with it.
If a specific production run has a flaw and all your drives fail your RAID fails too
If you use different brands and different date codes you minimize this risk because a flaw would need to be spread across models and datecodes
So different brands is a GOOD things.
If your looking for performance Raid 5/6 is NOT what you should be using
There's nothing extra in the retail box but a warranty sheet.
"HGST Deskstar NAS H3IKNAS40003272SN (0S03664) 4TB 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" High-Performance Hard Drive for Desktop NAS Systems Bare Drive".
Meanwhile, the 5TB and 6TB ones say "Retail Kit".
Seems like a decent deal but still wondering if it could get cheaper...
Still a good price for a solid drive.
My bad. I assumed 30-day trial is still on. I still haven't cancelled mine.
Hate newegg and their shipping rip offs though, and had a bad experience with premier and their customer service so I'm out.