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Dammit why aren't the 4TB NAS drives from Seagate or WD ever on sale?

Next time please post a link to the item. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811352047

$33 per TB is above my $25/TB limit. There are always deals for BF, but they're usually only for external drives that they can sell to the masses vs. larger internal drives that don't usually drop as much in price.

Ha! Too many lobbyists in the US. Wishful thinking though.

Amazon has the Seagate NAS 4TB drive for $159 shipped right now.

Yup, just too bad there's only a handful of Fry's stores across the country.

OOS for shipping.

It's back at Amazon. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00D1GYO4S

Thanks Fireball, Auto Shutdown has been working great lately.

The only Seagate drive I'd buy today is one of the NAS drives. Anything else has a shorter warranty and seems to have a higher failure rate.

I've been seeing (and posting) deals for 4TB drives for $150 or less quite frequently lately, once per week or so.

I wouldn't trust those drives with any amount of testing. Return them and get your money back, there will be plenty of other deals.

I've never seen this deal offered before form any seller, but a month from now you should be able to find these drives for likely the same price.

These are retail drives from a reputable seller, so it should be a lot better than the ebay deal with the crappy seller. $37.50/TB, $150 per drive, $300 total. http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1058092-REG/wd_4tb_red_sata_3_5.html

Hahaha, so do I. Ace Ventura is one of my favorite movies.

Hopefully the company learns this expensive lesson. I'd give them NFB anyways, there's no excuse for that horrible packing job.

I've never had any DOA drives and I only buy OEM drives. *knock on wood*

Two years I believe. The days of 5 year hard drive warranties are gone now that there's only 2 drive makers.

I've been trying to get sleep sorted out and several times now when I wake from sleep a few bad things happen. Sometimes unMENU is unreachable, but if I start it via Telnet everything seems to be fine. Other times some pages of unMENU are half loaded, or a few lines of HTML are displayed. When this happens I reboot, and the array is stopped, config invalid, no record of any drives. Seems the flash is corrupted somehow. I then have to restore the flash drive from a backup and everything is well again. Ideas?

Ripped from SD. $35 per TB http://www.ebay.com/itm/WD-4TB-WD-Red-SATA-3-5-Internal-HDD-WD40EFRX/261493120971?

Thanks for working on this Fireball. When I run the script it seems to just loop at this point. I have all checks set to "no" except for lock file and disks parked. No IP checks either. Wed Jun 4 09:59:35 MDT 2014: All HDDs spun down. Wed Jun 4 09:59:35 MDT 2014: Server is now idling. Checking for external activity. Wed Jun 4 09:59:35 MDT 2014: Checking for network activity. Wed Jun 4 09:59:35 MDT 2014: TCP activity (30 second average): 700 Wed Jun 4 09:59:35 MDT 2014: nobody online Wed Jun 4 09:59:35 MDT 2014: Active SSH connections: 0 Wed Jun 4 09:59:35 MDT 2014: Active TELNET connections: 0 Wed Jun 4 09:59:35 MDT 2014: Active console logins: 0

For people with SMART not working, I found this in my GO script. Might this have something to do with it? # The following enables SMART monitoring on the following drives for d in /dev/sd? do smartctl -s on -d ata $d done

I've been told that upgrading to the latest version fixes the problem, but it did not for me. I had to sift through the files and remove all instances of "-d ata" for things to work again.

Shoot, I was hoping for the NAS version. Thanks though.

Is this a Seagate or WD drive now?