Potentially BURNING HOT INFERNO deal 10TB HGST He10's

[MiniKnight]

While looking up those 8TB drives I found this one
HGST 10TB 6Gbps 256MB Cache 7.2K 3.5" SATA III HD HUH721010ALE600 0F27479

$400 OBO with 10 available! That's 100TB SATA for $4k or less! And it'll fit into almost any chassis

These are the newer He10 drives so they came out in 2016 meaning these can't have like 4 years of uptime.. Newegg is $730 ea and Amazon is $760 ea.

10TB HGST Helium drives for almost half off is sweet. 10 is also a perfect number for onboard SATA ports on a Xeon E5 V3/ V4 OR a Xeon D system with a 4 port SAS controller added. Or 8 port for extra cache/ OS drives.

If someone buys these PLEASE benchmark and post back. Doubly so if you're setting up a 100TB+ system.

 

[Patrick]

That's awesome.

 

[keybored]

Waiting for 10TB drives, not necessarily HGSTs, to hit sub-$300

 

[MiniKnight]

OBO @keybored you never know right?

 

[zhoulander]

30 day warranty from seller.
"Please return drive to the point of purchase or system manufacturer." from HGST...

 

[dragonme]

I have seen some of these advertised as firmware locked to hgst hardware... Any way to work around that

 

[pc-tecky]

HGST HDDs are locked to HGST hardware? What HGST hardware? massive SAN devices, maybe? SAS controllers, never seen or heard of them?? I'm only aware of theme making HDDs. HGST was the result of the merging of Hitachi (HDDs) and IBM's HDDs (and related IP/rights), and subsequently merged or bought out by Western Digital. So the HDD is locked to the HDD?

 

[pc-tecky]

How insane would it be to go back to refrigerator-sized 5-ton HDDs consisting of 20x 4 foot diameter platters driven by a 10-hp motor using today's technologies spinning at 7.2k, 10K, or even 15K RPMs? Have it so you could repair them with ease and still keep them dust free. What capacity would that be? using 1.2Tbpsi? However you look at it, that would be ... Crazy!!!

Wow! Flash storage with 2.77Tbpsi and a 15TB SSD in the near future?!? And that's old news from 2/2016.

 

[raileon]

They auto-accepted x4 @ $350. Wondering if I could have gotten those for less now...

But he declined so many other offers. Is EVERYONE low balling like crazy?

 

[Boddy]

4 purchased already OBO

 

[wildpig1234]

I don't like these huge drives. potential huge amount of data loss each drive. you better do raid..

 

[keybored]

I have seen some of these advertised as firmware locked to hgst hardware... Any way to work around that

Could've been 8TB or 10TB host-managed HA10 SMR drives. They may not be locked to HGST hardware necessarily but they wouldn't run without the appropriate host software.

 

[dragonme]

I don't like these huge drives. potential huge amount of data loss each drive. you better do raid..

Better do backups or mirrors... I think rebuilding drives of this size is problematic even in ZFS

Way less stress on the drives if you just replace the borked drive and rebuild the set by copying data sequentially from backup

 

[wildpig1234]

Better do backups or mirrors... I think rebuilding drives of this size is problematic even in ZFS

Way less stress on the drives if you just replace the borked drive and rebuild the set by copying data sequentially from backup

Raid 1 , that is

 

[Patrick]

Says 4 sold and "more than 10 available"

 

[Patrick]

PMR Helium 10TB 512e SATA drives 7200 RPM from the spec sheet: https://www.hgst.com/sites/default/files/resources/Ultrastar-He10-DS.pdf

Page 2 top right has the decoder for model numbers.

 

[Black Ninja]

HGST HDDs are locked to HGST hardware? What HGST hardware? massive SAN devices, maybe? SAS controllers, never seen or heard of them?? I'm only aware of theme making HDDs. HGST was the result of the merging of Hitachi (HDDs) and IBM's HDDs (and related IP/rights), and subsequently merged or bought out by Western Digital. So the HDD is locked to the HDD?

He was joking

P.S. Here is a good tip : You can always say "I was joking" to get you out of embarrassment when you say something you shouldn't have.

 

[Hank C]

i wonder how this stack up to Toshiba 3TB ones even though it's 1/3 the size....
Toshiba 3tb retail for $85 at microcenter though and $80 for the bare drive

 

[dm3]

Just purchased a bunch. Crossing my fingers. Will post back some details.

 

[Patrick]

i wonder how this stack up to Toshiba 3TB ones even though it's 1/3 the size....
Toshiba 3tb retail for $85 at microcenter though and $80 for the bare drive

That is not exactly a direct comparison. To hit 60TB you have 6x drives or 20x drives. The 20x drive version means you need a larger chassis with more drive bays, more controller/ expander ports, more cables, higher power consumption and etc.

Those extra costs are why I have not been purchasing hard drives under 4TB for probably 1-2 years now..