Hey everyone, my easystore 14tb I use as my NAS backup is no longer copying, so I’m looking to replace it. I saw costco is having a sale on the Seagate 14TB Expansion Desktop drives starting on Nov 21 for $149 down from $199. I have been very weary of Seagate for a while due to negative personal experience and other reports of drives failing. Is this still the case with these seagate drives? Does anyone know if these drives are slow? I have seen other capacities on this sub from other stores being reported as Ironwolf Pro drives, perhaps that’s what this is? At $149, this seems extremely hard to resist. Thanks
Worth looking at the backblaze stats, for some of the 14TB seagate drives the numbers are pretty awful.
They have one 10% and one 14% annual failure rate drive in the list.
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-drive-stats-for-q2-2023/
I guess pray it’s not one of those.