April 28, 20251 yr found a good price on these "ST24000DM001", and want to have a backup of the server on a couple of these but im a bit worried about the yearly power on hours rating? will they be good as a sort of cold storage only being connected for backup once a month or so or does the power on rating not really matter if they are connected but not spun up?
April 28, 20251 yr you should be more worried if this maybe a fake drive. There is currently a massive cheat going on selling old and worn out seagate drives as "new" for a low price. Seems that many dealers are affected. So if the price looks too cheap, be suspicious...
April 28, 20251 yr Author 9 hours ago, MAM59 said: you should be more worried if this maybe a fake drive. There is currently a massive cheat going on selling old and worn out seagate drives as "new" for a low price. Seems that many dealers are affected. So if the price looks too cheap, be suspicious... brand new. it is a reputable local store so i doubt there is anything wrong with it. even if, i have full warranty etc on it
April 28, 20251 yr 3 hours ago, gloory91 said: even if, i have full warranty etc on it The store maybe perfectly ok, the problem is that the stores worldwide have been flooded with used drives from chinese crypto miners. And the warrenty does not exist, seagate denies swapping of these drives. The stores have to check every serial number they have in the shelfs. But ok if you think you are safe, then buy that stuff. (I cannot comment on your question about power consumption, haven't used Seagate drives for decades. Currently I prefer Toshiba, much faster, rock solid and not getting too hot.)
April 29, 20251 yr Author 23 hours ago, MAM59 said: The store maybe perfectly ok, the problem is that the stores worldwide have been flooded with used drives from chinese crypto miners. And the warrenty does not exist, seagate denies swapping of these drives. The stores have to check every serial number they have in the shelfs. But ok if you think you are safe, then buy that stuff. (I cannot comment on your question about power consumption, haven't used Seagate drives for decades. Currently I prefer Toshiba, much faster, rock solid and not getting too hot.) understand, here the laws are i can just return it no matter what within 60 days anyways. for the array i only use server disks, these are simply just for a backup of the array in the rare event multiple disks in the array die at the same time or something.. lets just say the case is they are new and all that, would they be trustworthy of this task given their low power on rating and the low actual usage they will have?
April 29, 20251 yr As I said, I don't use these drives and I also do not care about the power consumption of the backup drives (6*18Tb here). Simply because they are OFF 23hrs a day 🙂 (not "power down", really, totally "OFF!", including the backup server they are attached too).
April 29, 20251 yr Author 44 minutes ago, MAM59 said: As I said, I don't use these drives and I also do not care about the power consumption of the backup drives (6*18Tb here). Simply because they are OFF 23hrs a day 🙂 (not "power down", really, totally "OFF!", including the backup server they are attached too). the consuption i dont care about either, its the amount of hours they are powered on per year rating im talking about
April 29, 20251 yr 4 minutes ago, gloory91 said: its the amount of hours they are powered on per year rating im talking about This is unpredictable, it depends on the time that you need to power on the box, do your backup and shut the box down again. For me (copying only the changed/new files) it is about 20mins per night (and add 30mins to look for server updates and maybe install them). So, per year, its a ridiculous low value.
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