Nyago123

The Supermicro cage needs a 4U height so if the 2950 is a 2U then I'm pretty sure it won't fit. I've put these cages in a Rosewill RSV-4500 (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0091IZ1ZG) as well as an Antec 1200... across all my systems I have 12 of these. Only problem I have with the Rosewill is the drives are horizontal and upside down if you want to get 3 of these cages in there because of the way it deals with installation. For the Antec, the drives are vertical. Also, I recently picked up 3 of these on Newegg (from Newegg itself, not a third party) on sale for $82 each (before tax+shipping), so outside of eBay that's what I'd consider a "going rate" unless I was in a hurry to get one.

Data point: I picked up a used bare Supermicro X9DRI-LN4F+ plus two E5-2680v2's for $541 total shipped (including CA 9.25% tax on the CPUs) with the last eBay 15% coupon on May 4. So without knowing if the Natex package includes drive cages and power supply, I think it's reasonable but not TGBT.

I bought MyBook single drives which contain the WD80EZZX drives, not Red drives. The MyBook Duo's have Red drives (and are easier to open). If you want 4TB Red drives, the 8TB Duo is currently in stock... $349.99 for two drives, minus 15% = $297.49 = $148.75 per 4TB Red drive before tax (which is more than the OP's price listed above, so in this case shucking probably doesn't make sense). For the record, my price was $232.68 after 9.5% sales tax ($212.50 before). My price on 8TB Reds going the Duo route would have been around $256/drive after tax ($233.75 before). I might have bought 16TB Duos if I could have but they were and still are out of stock.

The 8TB Mybooks are back in stock... used the coupon to grab a bunch for shucking... average price $232.68

That is disappointing news. First time I've heard about bad shipping from B&H on the forums and I've had better luck but I'm only ordering drives in pairs not in your quantities so maybe that made a difference for me. Just to close the loop, B&H sent me 4 replacements which arrived Friday March 20. These were in their original OEM boxes with bubble wrap to generally cushion the contents. These survived the trip. I don't know why they sent the original 10 in just anti-static bags - I almost wonder if they were taken out of OEM boxes just to be squeezed into a smaller outer box to save on shipping expense. I am going to be very wary of ordering in quantity from them again in the future. Generally I also don't like how they handled the replacement process overall - even though this was their fault, they refused to give me any considerations - for example, with the RMA they charged my credit card for the new drives and then credited it back once the defective drives were received, and they wouldn't give me complimentary 2-day shipping to ensure the new drives went by air instead of ground. Thanks for making me feel really un-special, B&H.

These are starting to pop up here and there. Rakuten (buy.com) had some @ $239 but sold out quickly. I think CompSource has some at $249 as I type this: http://www.compsource.com/pn/ST8000AS0002/Seagate-394/Archive-Hdd-Sata-6gbS-8tb/ I had ordered 10 at B&H at the $249 pre-order price in January. I received them March 10 but they were packaged poorly (just thrown in loose) and 4 were DoA so I'm working out replacements. In hindsight, I should've just pre-ordered 20 from BLT and sold the excess to the good people on this forum for cost.

I'm in California so my go to is usually Amazon, but given NewEgg carries a 8.75+% premium for me I've used Comp-U-Plus and TheNerds.Net as well. These places are not as competitive on commodity items like hard drives and memory, but they are often well priced on component items like SuperMicro motherboards and controllers. Comp-U-Plus has additional discounts for repeat customers.