Hey everyone, my easystore 14tb I use as my NAS backup is no longer copying, so I’m looking to replace it. I saw costco is having a sale on the Seagate 14TB Expansion Desktop drives starting on Nov 21 for $149 down from $199. I have been very weary of Seagate for a while due to negative personal experience and other reports of drives failing. Is this still the case with these seagate drives? Does anyone know if these drives are slow? I have seen other capacities on this sub from other stores being reported as Ironwolf Pro drives, perhaps that’s what this is? At $149, this seems extremely hard to resist. Thanks
Has anyone shucked yet? What’s in the case?
Hey fun tip. For just a few pennies more per TB, Best Buy has a WD 18TB drive for $199. If you need a bit more storage and desk space is limited, this might be another option to consider.
Unfortunately they have been out of stock since Wednesday, but I do appreciate the tip. I was able to find a wd 14tb new being sold by another redditor for $140. My drive search has concluded
Link?
Not yet on sale but this is the drive
https://www.costco.com/seagate-14tb-expansion-desktop-hard-drive.product.4000203297.html
That’s the product but I’ve gone into the store and had them do some looking. Can not confirm this $149 deal for Phoenix area anyway. If you see it for that price, snag it! Grab 2.
I’m in Southern California and my mailer said online only
Worth looking at the backblaze stats, for some of the 14TB seagate drives the numbers are pretty awful.
They have one 10% and one 14% annual failure rate drive in the list.https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-drive-stats-for-q2-2023/
I guess pray it’s not one of those.
207cad, which is an atl the previous was ~300cad iirc
been like two years since my last one
Where did you see this ad? I get costco ads sent to my emails, and I don’t think I have seen it. $149 for 14TB is a good price.
Did you register it and check the warranty period? If so, RMA the failed drive back to Seagate. They’ve gotten really good at replacing failed Exos drives within the warranty period. Of the 24 Exos drives I have spinning: 4 RMAs in the last 4 years. One failure was for a previously RMA’d drive.
Thanks for the info, my failed drive is a WD easystore out of warranty.
ugh, sorry to hear that.
Had a variety of seagate Exos x16, x18, and Ironwolf drives shucked from expansion desktop drives over the last few years. They’ve worked well enough for home lab and media server use. failure rate not bad enough to complain about.
I just shucked the Costco seagate drive that is 149.99 and it has a exos 2X14 Mach 2 drive inside. Was hoping for a ironwolf
Has anyone shucked yet? What’s in the case?
There is a video on YouTube of someone shucking one. It was an Ironwolf Pro.
can you link it or point me to it, i want to make sure its the same, please and thank you.
https://youtu.be/NwSkGp1n3pw?si=jZOdnRfoN3vIiZo-
That’s the video I was referencing
However, in this other video the author got an ironwolf pro but mentioned in the comments they have also gotten Exos X18s before.
https://youtu.be/_mmnjS7l4Wg?si=nyHiQ70xzh5-6c-9
In the second video the box matches the box advertised from Costco
In this third video the author got an Exos, also same box advertised from Costco
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