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The price gap of high-capacity Enterprise drives is in the hundreds (as in multiple) of dollars between the two brands.
by busterarm 6y ago
The price gap of high-capacity Enterprise drives is in the hundreds (as in multiple) of dollars between the two brands.
- nucleardog 6y agoJust some recent numbers because I just replaced some drives in my home server... I grabbed 2x14TB Seagate EXOS drives for $250USD each. A 14TB WD Ultrastar looks to be a bit over $400USD each. For 25% more you can get 200% the capacity with the Seagate drives. So for 25% more I can run RAID1 and have redundancy versus a single WD Ultrastar.
- busterarm 6y agoThe HGST branded models (HC530, HC550) were around 530 two weeks ago.