this post was submitted on 21 Nov 2023
1 points (100.0% liked)

Data Hoarder

24 readers
1 users here now

We are digital librarians. Among us are represented the various reasons to keep data -- legal requirements, competitive requirements, uncertainty of permanence of cloud services, distaste for transmitting your data externally (e.g. government or corporate espionage), cultural and familial archivists, internet collapse preppers, and people who do it themselves so they're sure it's done right. Everyone has their reasons for curating the data they have decided to keep (either forever or For A Damn Long Time (tm) ). Along the way we have sought out like-minded individuals to exchange strategies, war stories, and cautionary tales of failures.

founded 10 months ago
MODERATORS
[email protected]
1
Shucked Seagate Expansion has an Exos 2X14 (alien.top)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
12 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

I purchased a 14TB Seagate Expansion drive from Bestbuy Canada. I had basic expectations based on my last Seagate shucking experience that has had me using WD drives for the last while. I was pleasantly surprised to find a SATA Exos 2x14 drive inside, white label, but does include the MACH-2 logo on it. It was a nice surprise to be sure and I may have to grab another while they're on sale ($239 CAD)

Is this the new standard of what we'll find in external drives?

I haven't connected it to my server yet. I'm expecting it to show as a single drive with excellent performance.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

It's fairly likely that the Exos drive you received failed to pass some Seagate test to qualify it as an Exos.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

is that true? I thought they were putting enterprise drives in these enclosures during the parts shortage. I think they are running a custom firmware though because they come up as 14TB single drives and work fine on sata. write speed is almost as fast as a quality sata SSD though, so no complaints here

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Doesn't matter which drive (enterprise or other) they will all show up as normal 14TB that work on SATA.

It is a common practice for drive manufacturers to put "seconds" into USB enclosures. Can't say for sure in your case. You might be able to tell by opening the case and looking at the disk label.