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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.

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best black Friday deals on hard drives? I only see modest sales on new drivers, should I go with recertified? (alien.top)

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I want to by around 6 drives to add to my nas. I was waiting for black Friday sales but they only have modest discounts, recertified drives on ebay seems more enticing

what do you think?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (9 children)

BestBuy has the WD element on sale at $209. Serverpartdeals are lackluster but the Dell Exos is tempting at $179.

I am tempted to get two of the Dell Exos

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (6 children)

Dell EXOs 18TB are $165 USD right now.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

what is difference between the dell exos and the seagate ones? bought seagate ones last year.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Dell EXOs are Seagate drives with a firmware that is certified to work on Dell servers. But they will work on other systems just fine.

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