14TB Hard drive for only £417, is this a good buy?

>being a pedo
consider suicide

Then how do you get a replacement drive without doing that?

No. You could get a pair of 8 TB drives in JBOD for less, and have more space.

buy a new one. Don't buy a drive you cannot afford to replace.

>not getting your money back when a drive kicks the bucket due to manufacturing defects during the warranty period
Do you enjoy being screwed over by companies so much that you screw yourself over when a company won't?

If you need the density, sure it's decent.

But if you don't two 8 terabyte drives of the same make are probably the same price. 2 extra TB storage if you're willing to move to 2x3.5" instead of 1.

wtf is that logic. And yes I have enough to buy 20 of these drives if I wanted.

By your reasoning, if your drive fails 1 week in you buy another one, and if that fails 1 week in again you buy another.

I mean, realistically you should ALWAYS keep a backup, so if a drive DOES fail, you don't have to worry about expensive, and often times unreliable data recovery services.

And use Quidco to get cash back in UK also

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what are you on about? I'm talking about warrenty to get a new drive instead of paying for another

any good inexpensive 2tb hdds?

There are so many uninformed opinions in this thread.

>that's an expensive drive failure
It has a three year warranty. Even if it fails just after the warranty period ends, you can probably buy a replacement for much less than the original price because it will be 2022.
>and a lot of data along with it too
You can prevent data loss by creating backups. You can't prevent it solely by buying smaller drives.

320-360€ for 12 TB (equivalent to 370-420€ for 14 TB) isn't that much of a bargain. Yes, that's 4 drives, because you probably don't want to run 3x4 in RAID 0.

I'm pretty sure 8 TB drives also have multiple platters but ignoring that you probably have a point.

Data recovery is a meme. Losing data in the event of a single drive failure should be impossible in the first place.

If you're worried about your privacy then set up full disk encryption. Then kill yourself for being a pedophile.

How will I access the drive if I do full disk encryption? It won't be my primary OS drive but contain media data on it. I also change and move data a lot so will a full disk encryption make it harder to use?

No, 4TB is the new 2TB.

FDE works seamlessly, you just have to enter the password when the computer boots. Both Windows and Linux support it OOTB.

>Seagate

If you want an effective data deletion device, sure

What size are the platters in a 14TB HDD? I can only think it's either uneven or 7x2TB.

Looks like the Toshiba helium 14TB from 2017 used 9x~1.56TB platters.

Seagate Exos X14 uses 8x~1.75TB platters.

Not sure about others.

I'd imagine with higher capacity drives you start paying a premium for storage density

Not really except for 14TB.

Take a look at the Seagate ironwolf HDDs on amazon in the US for example.

4TB is $105 $26.25 per TB
6TB is $180 $30 per TB
8TB is $220 $27.5 per TB
10TB is $280 $28 per TB
12TB is $360 $30 per TB

14TB is $499, a whopping $41.58 per TB

You could argue 6 and 12TB are slightly overpriced, but they're nothing compared to the 14TB.

I can get 4 4TB drives for 400 dollars and slap them into a NAS

What if I just want to encrypt the secondary drive and not the primary OS drive? Is it the same? Also if I encrypt multiple drives will I have to enter the password multiple times too?

You can get 3 8TB external drives for like $420.

amazon.com/dp/B07CQJBSQL
or
amazon.com/dp/B07D5V2ZXD/

but they always use their lowest end / slowest drives in those

Yeah, but if you just need a NAS for movie storage or similar, an extra 33% storage (8TB in this case) for only $20.

It aint hard math.

Even if you went to the cheapest new 4TB drives at ~$80 a pop for the 5400rpm barracudas. You'd need 6 of them to match 3x8TB at $140 each, and 6*$80 is $480, not to mention needing twice the SATA power from your PSU and SATA ports on the motherboard.

I agree with getting better drives if you actually plan on using your NAS for more data intensive workloads though.

but I don't need that much

Well too bad?

2TB iron wolf is $85
4TB is $105.

You'd be retarded not to spend the $20 for double the capacity, even if you don't think you'll need it.

>2y
bby it'll still by £400 5 years down the line

10 tb WD external drives were at 80$ 2 days ago.
pay more attention
they're shuckable, meaning they can be turned into REDs
don't buy seagate, it's garbage
pay attention to amazon and (r/datahoarder) XD PLEBBIT

>3.5''
AYYYY LMAO

you have a stick up your ass that you need to work out. other anons ITT need to get good with proper data replication.

DESU I haven't had any Ironwolf failures, any other Seagate drives (including Enterprise) seem to fail at an alarming rate.

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>not buying 10TiB for only $2
user will never know...

>3 tib
this is why you should never go for drives with wonky file sizes.

What? How is that wonky?

>for backup
Get magnetic strips. A third the price.

>He STILL hasn't emigrated to America

>is this a good buy?
divide price by amount of storage for every size option, and compare numbers