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** Best Price For 7200RPM 8TB HDD **

ttechf

ttechf

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Hi,

I am looking for the best price on a 8TB 7200RPM hard drive. Any suggestions would be helpful. I feel like it's possible to pick one up for less than $200.


Thank you!
 
First of all, how many different 8TB HDDs, are actually 7200RPM? The only ones I know of, are WD Red Pro drives, and those are far north of $200 for 8TB.

So, good luck to you, I guess.

If you were willing to drop the 7200RPM requirement, then consider buying some WD EasyStore 8TB external drives from BestBuy on ebay for $150 or so, and shuck the drives inside. At least, a year ago, they used to be WD Red (5400RPM) drives. I did that to four of them, to populate one of my QNAP 4-bay NAS units. Saved a bundle, but no warranty, that's the downside.
 
Well I just feel 5400RPM is a bit slow these days? They are just going to be for storage but if I want to play files from the drive to my tv for example, or my phone or to my sound system, doesn't the speed of the drive matter a little bit?

Thanks.
 
ttechf said:
Well I just feel 5400RPM is a bit slow these days? They are just going to be for storage but if I want to play files from the drive to my tv for example, or my phone or to my sound system, doesn't the speed of the drive matter a little bit?

Thanks.
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To play back video or audio files takes very little in the way of hard drive speed.
 
ttechf said:
Well I just feel 5400RPM is a bit slow these days? They are just going to be for storage but if I want to play files from the drive to my tv for example, or my phone or to my sound system, doesn't the speed of the drive matter a little bit?

Thanks.
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For streaming files over a network, the network is a bottleneck before the drive speed becomes a problem.

Even a 5400rpm drive (modern one anyways) can do sustained sequential I/O in the 100+ MB/sec range. Cake.
 
dave_the_nerd said:
Oh, and just use the filters on pcpartpicker.
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I love PCPartPicker, don't get me wrong but looking for storage drives there? Eh, no. Overpriced. By A LOT. I end up seeing $300 drives on PCPartPicker that are like $200 brand new on eBay.
 
ttechf said:
I love PCPartPicker, don't get me wrong but looking for storage drives there? Eh, no. Overpriced. By A LOT. I end up seeing $300 drives on PCPartPicker that are like $200 brand new on eBay.
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If it's too good to be true, it's because it is. I guarantee you that any in production, new hard drive going for $200 on eBay, but is $300 from every other retail site is not actually a new drive. It's an OEM drive at very minimum with no warranty, or it's more likely a used drive that had it's S.M.A.R.T data wiped.
 
thecoolnessrune said:
If it's too good to be true, it's because it is. I guarantee you that any in production, new hard drive going for $200 on eBay, but is $300 from every other retail site is not actually a new drive. It's an OEM drive at very minimum with no warranty, or it's more likely a used drive that had it's S.M.A.R.T data wiped.
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So something like these isn't truly new or real?

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Seagate-8T...S!-1:rk:6:pf:0&LH_ItemCondition=1000&LH_BIN=1


https://www.ebay.com/itm/Seagate-Sk...2NW:rk:13:pf:0&LH_ItemCondition=1000&LH_BIN=1


Thanks
 
ttechf said:
So something like these isn't truly new or real?
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Of course they're real, but it doesn't mean they have a manufacturer warranty, or their SMART data hasn't been reset. It wouldn't be the first time someone bought one on Ebay from a large seller still sealed in the bag (sealed by seller), and it being an OEM pull with no warranty.
 
Yeah you gotta be super careful with ebay and hard drives. I learned my lesson a while back lol.
Make sure it's a legit company selling them. If the price is too cheap there is usually a reason.
 
XMan said:
Wowsers. I've got an 8TB and need 3 more to put in my server. Wonder if the smaller drives will be on sale, also.
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Sounds like they will... but at the same price. They sell out of both, so they're clearly not overcharging for the 8tb. Probably worth it if you're trying to scale a raid config.
 
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