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.

  • DazzlingTap2@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    For anyone that purchased and shucked this, what are the power consumption like? Both spindown, idle and active? What about the noise? I currently have a WD Red Plus 14TB and I’m very satisfied with that drive in terms of idle power and noise. Since this is a Exos 2x, the only manual I can find is for 0001 and 0081, the rated power consumption on the manual is quite high (7W idle, 13W active), especially compared to the WD Red, however the shucked model is 0121 and there is no manual for that.