Hello all,

I have at least 12 and maybe as many as 14 of the WD EasyStores (all some variation of WD180EDGZ, WDC_WD140EDFZ etc) from Best Buy, shucked. I have never had one fail and I really like and trust them. Unfortunately the pricing isn't as competitive as it has been - the biggest they have now is a 20tb and it's $17.50 per TB.

They have a Seagate external on sale and it's a 28TB for $11.78 per TB. I don't know... I just don't trust Seagate as much. Am I right to be distrusting of them, or are they just as reliable and the performance just as good? It's a STKP28000400.

Thanks for any opinions on this.

I shop on price, so I have a mix of Seagate, Western Digital, HGST, Toshiba - but mostly Seagate.

These typically have Barracudas inside that have pretty low usage/endurance ratings

5 hours ago, Kilrah said:

These typically have Barracudas inside that have pretty low usage/endurance ratings

Can I ask you to expand on the latter part of that? I am not sure what you mean exactly. Sorry to be dense.

They're rated for 8h/day use and 120TB/year with a 2 year warranty, unlike Ironwolfs/Exos that are 24/365 rated with 5 year warranty.

What that means in practical durability if you use them in a NAS is... too early to tell basically since they've only been out there for a few months.

https://www.seagate.com/content/dam/seagate/en/content-fragments/products/datasheets/barracuda-3-5-hdd/barracuda-3-5-hdd-DS17-1-2501US-en_US.pdf

Edited October 23, 2025Oct 23 by Kilrah

15 minutes ago, Kilrah said:

These typically have Barracudas inside that have pretty low usage/endurance ratings

I don't exactly understand what you mean by this.

I see what you mean. Thank you, I don't think I'm going to chance that.