hitman2158 Posted July 27, 2018 Share Posted July 27, 2018 Hey guys, if anyone in EU is interested. Just bought the mentioned external HDD here in Germany for 149€ incl. VAT. Price usually 179-199€. So that´s a good deal. You can get this on ebay and amazon. https://www.ebay.de/itm/262637284152 https://www.amazon.de/dp/B01IAD5ZC6?linkCode=df0&creative=22398&smid=A3JWKAKR8XB7XF&tag=geizhalspre03-21 Have a great time. Peter Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted July 27, 2018 Share Posted July 27, 2018 Did you open it already? Is the disk an ST8000DM004 ? Quote Link to comment
hitman2158 Posted July 27, 2018 Author Share Posted July 27, 2018 Hi Johnnie, nope, I didn´t. I just ordered it on a local shop to pick it up after work. The tests and reviews to this disk have shown that Seagate uses this Seagate Archive HDD v2 8TB, SATA 6Gb/s (ST8000AS0002) internal. I won´t use it internal on the server, it´s for external backup purpose. Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted July 27, 2018 Share Posted July 27, 2018 (edited) 1 hour ago, hitman2158 said: ST8000AS0002 AFAIK that used to be the drive used but has been since changed to the ST8000DM004, which appears to perform worse and also also has a very low workload rating, not enough for a monthly parity check. I'd be tempted to buy one with the Archive drive, but it won't interest me if it's the newer model. Edited July 27, 2018 by johnnie.black Quote Link to comment
hitman2158 Posted July 27, 2018 Author Share Posted July 27, 2018 (edited) Okay, will check this. It is only an additional backup of the data. As you can see I have a mediaserver and a backupserver, so the new external drive is just for emergency purpose. First copy of data will take some time, 99% of the data will never change. So in future there will be only minor changes like new rips of media. But I will inform our nice forum here with the results of preclear process and copy process of data. Also will check which internal drive is used. Edited July 27, 2018 by hitman2158 grammar Quote Link to comment
hitman2158 Posted July 27, 2018 Author Share Posted July 27, 2018 Where are you located, Johnnie? Quote Link to comment
hitman2158 Posted July 27, 2018 Author Share Posted July 27, 2018 Great. Same tropical heat like we have in Germany right now? Up to 35-38°C? Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted July 27, 2018 Share Posted July 27, 2018 Not yet thankfully, but a heat wave is expected for next week. Quote Link to comment
hitman2158 Posted July 27, 2018 Author Share Posted July 27, 2018 Same here. Thunderstorms possible in the middle of next week, but only locally. Quote Link to comment
hitman2158 Posted July 27, 2018 Author Share Posted July 27, 2018 If anyone is interested, inside it´s a ST8000DM004. Will start preclear and post results when finished. Quote Link to comment
hitman2158 Posted July 27, 2018 Author Share Posted July 27, 2018 (edited) 1,5 h with preclear, average speed 193 MB/s, 13%, pre-read Edited July 27, 2018 by hitman2158 Missing info Quote Link to comment
hitman2158 Posted July 29, 2018 Author Share Posted July 29, 2018 Short info to the community regarding this external disk: write speed started with around 190MB/s, disk is now filled with around 2,2TB, speed is between 170-180 MB/s copying around 5TB in one go of movies on mediatower to the external disk via USB3.0 think the bottleneck are the old internal disks in the array will check tomorrow on my gaming rig with some big files, disk then should be filled aroung 5,3 or 5,4TB Quote Link to comment
hitman2158 Posted July 30, 2018 Author Share Posted July 30, 2018 (edited) So okay, drive is filled with 5,3TB Speedtest on gaming rig: copy of "Alien (1979).mkv", file size 26,3GB Win10pro (up to date) i7-6700k, 16GB RAM copy from external seagate to internal Samsung SSD 840 EVO roughly 145MB/s copy from internal Samsung SSD 840 EVO to external seagate roughly 180MB/s Edited July 30, 2018 by hitman2158 much more info Quote Link to comment
FreeMan Posted September 10, 2018 Share Posted September 10, 2018 I just picked up one of these in the US and I've got the ST8000DM004 in mine. Did you have any issues with powering it on once you pulled it from the external case? I've got a WD80EZAZ and my PSU doesn't properly supply the 3.3v on whichever pins it is on the power connector, so I had to cover them over. I'd prefer to do that on this one before installing it in the case, since that's a bit of a pain on my system. Quote Link to comment
hitman2158 Posted September 11, 2018 Author Share Posted September 11, 2018 Hey FreeMan, or should I say Gordon?😀 Nope, I don´t have any issues. As I described my usecase is just external emergency backup. Drive is still working fine. Quote Link to comment
tucansam Posted February 3, 2020 Share Posted February 3, 2020 On 7/27/2018 at 2:04 AM, johnnie.black said: AFAIK that used to be the drive used but has been since changed to the ST8000DM004, which appears to perform worse and also also has a very low workload rating, not enough for a monthly parity check. So this drive is not recommended for use in unraid as a member disk? Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted February 3, 2020 Share Posted February 3, 2020 Many are using them and I believe it's working well for most, don't like the very low workload rating, but that can also be mostly meaningless. Quote Link to comment
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