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Seagate expansion 14tb or WD Elements 18tb (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm planning on using it as an external drive for a few months. I plan on shucking it later when I get around to building my NAS in a few months. So I'm wondering which would be better for that. I'm located in Canada so the prices are all in $CAD.

The 14tb I found for $239.99 at bestbuy and the 18tb is $334.99 at Newegg/Western Digital. Price per TB is $17.14/TB and $18.61/TB respectively.

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

Did you test the performance of the drive? I'm getting 300MB/s in crystal disk with it still in the enclosure. So I'm wondering if I'm being limited by it.