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One note - looks like you can get 8TB WD Helium drives for way cheaper ($250 vs $340) right now by shucking externals: http://www.amazon.com/Book-Desktop-Extern
by lunixbochs 11y ago
One note - looks like you can get 8TB WD Helium drives for way cheaper ($250 vs $340) right now by shucking externals: http://www.amazon.com/Book-Desktop-External-Drive-WDBFJK0080HBK-NESN/dp/B01B6BN0Q2 http://www.amazon.com/Book-Desktop-External-Drive-WDBFJK0080...
- Scramblejams 11y agoThanks for the tip. Though Backblaze has spoiled us with so much good reliability data, I now feel completely paralyzed in the face of buying a new drive if Backblaze hasn't told me how much I can trust it!
- atYevP 11y agoYev from Backblaze here -> You can trust it. As long as you're OK with it dying and have other backups in place ;-)
- Scramblejams 11y agoHa! Well, even if I have backups, I don't like buying replacements, so there's that...
- Keyframe 11y agoI think that's a WD Green inside, not Red.
- lunixbochs 11y agoIt's still a non-SMR 8TB drive, and pretty close to the Seagate archival SMR price.