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Both the ST4000DM000 and the ST4000DM004 are not marketed for NAS usage, because they are part of the Barracuda line. You should've gotten IronWolf drives.
by jannes 6y ago
Both the ST4000DM000 and the ST4000DM004 are not marketed for NAS usage, because they are part of the Barracuda line. You should've gotten IronWolf drives.
- marcan_42 6y agoI shouldn't "have gotten" NAS drives, because I have 15 of the DM000s in an array and only one has failed so far. That means, assuming getting NAS drives would've earned me a 0% failure rate (which they wouldn't have), I would've spent two to four times as much money on the NAS markup as I have on replacing the single failed drive. Just because Seagate says they want to upsell me for dubious market segmentation reasons doesn't mean I need to pay attention to them. I know what I'm doing, I know desktop drives work just fine for my use case. Before SMR. Now with SMR, they've found the perfect way of getting rid of everyone who was buying desktop drives for NAS use they were perfectly suitable for, and force them into the NAS upsell. 4 years later and it still costs more to buy a NAS drive today than it cost to buy an equally fit por purpose non SMR desktop drive back then.