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Just bought a new Synology NAS this week and started putting together disks and they're scarce and the prices are through the roof. Couldn't find what I was pl
by rovr138 6y ago
Just bought a new Synology NAS this week and started putting together disks and they're scarce and the prices are through the roof.
Couldn't find what I was planning on buying. What I found was through the roof. I bit the bullet and bought 4 new ones. Not enough to fully populate the NAS, but at least it'll give me some space for now to do what I need.
We've seen scarcity and what it does for prices after the flooding in.. 2010?(ish).
- Tepix 6y agoDid you look at large external USB hard drives' prices?
- rovr138 6y agoI did. I basically ended up getting external seagates that I’m planning to schuck after doing a ‘burn-in’ test. Still high for what they were.
- MrFoof 6y agoI just did some NAS upgrades a month ago and feel as if I dodged a bullet. I'm curious what you ended up paying. I bought drives on sale, and got nine 16TB external drives to shuck (one is a spare) for ~$2250 USD taxed and shipped. I will warn you though that burn-in testing is going to take a while. I did a very exhaustive test[1]... and two drives at a time over USB3 it took about twelve calendar days to test them all before I put them into service. -- ----- ----- ----- ----- [1] Write out block pattern, read back. 2 hour break. Head thrash random writes/reads for 2 hours. 2 hour break. Head thrash random writes/reads for 2 hours.
- rovr138 5y ago$399.99 for 14TB seagate expansion ones. Still waiting for them to arrive. Everything else cheaper I found was out of stock. NAS has 6 bays, I only bought 4 to get a RAID 6 setup and I'll expand when I find better prices. If anyone has links, I'll take them!