HGST 6TB SAS Hard Drive $90 or cheaper ->$50;) - Sold Out -

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Rand__

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OK, will check it out :) I think I read somewhere that SMART data aint available in the same way as regular SATA drives. True or false?
Its not 100% identical to sata drives but close:
Code:
 smartctl -a /dev/da9
smartctl 6.6 2017-11-05 r4594 [FreeBSD 11.2-STABLE amd64] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-17, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Vendor:               SEAGATE
Product:              ST320004CLAR2000
Revision:             BS17
User Capacity:        2,000,398,934,016 bytes [2.00 TB]
Logical block size:   512 bytes
Rotation Rate:        7200 rpm
Form Factor:          3.5 inches
Logical Unit id:      0x5000c500348adbfb
Serial number:        9WM6NT6J    0000C15109JX
Device type:          disk
Transport protocol:   SAS (SPL-3)
Local Time is:        Sun Jun 23 00:14:03 2019 CEST
SMART support is:     Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is:     Enabled
Temperature Warning:  Enabled

=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART Health Status: OK

Current Drive Temperature:     36 C
Drive Trip Temperature:        68 C

Manufactured in week 27 of year 2011
Specified cycle count over device lifetime:  10000
Accumulated start-stop cycles:  11170
Specified load-unload count over device lifetime:  300000
Accumulated load-unload cycles:  11170
Elements in grown defect list: 0

Vendor (Seagate) cache information
  Blocks sent to initiator = 360215282
  Blocks received from initiator = 1484638423
  Blocks read from cache and sent to initiator = 1191225454
  Number of read and write commands whose size <= segment size = 95155118
  Number of read and write commands whose size > segment size = 1505131

Vendor (Seagate/Hitachi) factory information
  number of hours powered up = 675.52
  number of minutes until next internal SMART test = 43

Error counter log:
           Errors Corrected by           Total   Correction     Gigabytes    Total
               ECC          rereads/    errors   algorithm      processed    uncorrected
           fast | delayed   rewrites  corrected  invocations   [10^9 bytes]  errors
read:   992623305        0         0  992623305   992623305      44599.250           0
write:         0        0         0         0          0      16203.470           0
verify: 1014825853        0         0  1014825853   1014825853     662255.810           0

Non-medium error count:        2

SMART Self-test log
Num  Test              Status                 segment  LifeTime  LBA_first_err [SK ASC ASQ]
     Description                              number   (hours)
# 1  Background short  Completed                   -      52                 - [-   -    -]
# 2  Background long   Completed                   -       5                 - [-   -    -]
# 3  Background short  Completed                   -   14298                 - [-   -    -]
# 4  Background short  Completed                   -   14274                 - [-   -    -]
# 5  Background short  Completed                   -   14250                 - [-   -    -]
# 6  Background short  Completed                   -   14226                 - [-   -    -]
# 7  Background short  Completed                   -   14202                 - [-   -    -]
# 8  Background short  Completed                   -   14178                 - [-   -    -]
# 9  Background long   Completed                   -   14168                 - [-   -    -]
#10  Background short  Completed                   -   14154                 - [-   -    -]
#11  Background short  Completed                   -   14130                 - [-   -    -]
#12  Background short  Completed                   -   14106                 - [-   -    -]
#13  Background short  Completed                   -   14082                 - [-   -    -]
#14  Background short  Completed                   -   14058                 - [-   -    -]
#15  Background short  Completed                   -   14034                 - [-   -    -]
#16  Background short  Completed                   -   14010                 - [-   -    -]
#17  Background short  Completed                   -   13986                 - [-   -    -]
#18  Background short  Completed                   -   13962                 - [-   -    -]
#19  Background short  Completed                   -   13938                 - [-   -    -]
#20  Background long   Completed                   -   13928                 - [-   -    -]

Long (extended) Self Test duration: 6 seconds [0.1 minutes]
 

MortenB

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Now to get used to the higher power consumption. I guess I will notice running 8 x 6TB drives idling around 7W vs SATA drives at 2W.
Good thing 9 out of 12 months in Norway requires heating your house more or less ;P
 

DavidB

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@Rand_ I think it also depends on whether the manufacturer submitted their drives for inclusion in smartmontools. To my knowledge HGST does not do this for their Enterprise drives (at least they didn't in mid-2018).

@MortenB if you have any left you can just Norgespakken them to me as my offer got rejected :p
 

Rand__

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Really? Will need to check on the ssds i have, never knew that. Or is it only HDDs?
 

DavidB

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Really? Will need to check on the ssds i have, never knew that. Or is it only HDDs?
I only checked on HDDs so can't say anything to SSDs. I was running some SAS HGST HDDs with a SAS backplane and they could only be diagnosed with the HGST utility, did not report any raw SMART attributes with smartctl.
 

redeamon

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SAS can be cheaper than SATA (this deal for example). Not to mention that once you get SAS controllers, backplanes etc. you can get access to enterprise hardware for cheap. You just have to look around and be patient. It puts those 10GB no warranty Bestbuy shucking deals to shame when you can pickup a far superior barely used 10tb 7200rpm HGST enterprise drive for less.

SAS3 in particular has the bandwidth to handle SSDs, it's a cleaner more reliable system overall... otherwise you have to go NVMe (which is still limiting) or go back to 6g SATA which caps at roughly 500mb/s for the time being.

SAS is a worthwhile investment and not going away anytime soon. If anything, even better deals are coming as datacenters move to NVMe.
 
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MortenB

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How cheap are 8/10TB HGST SAS drives per TB with the best deals that show up now and then?
 

BeTeP

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From my experience the 6Tb is the largest capacity where SAS drives can be found cheaper than their SATA counterparts. I am yet to see any SAS versions of 8Tb+ drives selling for less than SATA.

This is why bulk of my drives is still 4Tb SAS.
 

redeamon

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4Kn is ideal and works with all modern machines and operating systems.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us...t-policy-for-4k-sector-hard-drives-in-windows

Basically you have three formats:

512n (legacy- older hard drives and operating systems)
512e (crossover standard with 4k physical sectors being emulated as 512 - most low end consumer grade hard drives., i.e., the WD Gold line up to server hardware., etc.)
4kn (4k physical sector size without emulation- most "high end" consumer grade hard drives and beyond. i.e., "WD Red Pro" the new standard that all modern systems support- windows 7+ etc.)

References:
How to Verify if a WD Drive is 4K
http://products.wdc.com/library/WhitePapers/ENG/2579-771430.pdf
 
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hnamanh

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It seems the seller has another batch of about 104 but he jacked the price up to $99.99. Have anyone received these drives yet I wanted to see the smart data and drive health.
 

Samir

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HSV and SFO
Lol, that o/c applies only if you want to ship to EU;)
Checked all Ebay provided shipping prices yesterday when I was looking to order 25 and decided not to;)
Code:
#disks    p&p    per disk
1    15,61      15,61
2    20,86    10,43
3    25,1       8,366666667
4    30,72    7,68
5    36,4       7,28
6    40,64    6,773333333
7    46,23    6,604285714
8    52          6,5
9    56,06    6,228888889
10    61,7     6,17
11    67,24    6,112727273
12    71,36    5,946666667
13    76,85    5,911538462
14    82         5,857142857
15    86         5,733333333
16    90,88    5,68
17    95,83    5,637058824
18    99,8      5,544444444
19    104,92    5,522105263
20    110         5,5
21    113,78    5,418095238
22    118,72    5,396363636
23    123,85    5,384782609
24    127,52    5,313333333
25    174,8      6,992
We used to do similar calculations and graphed them to see what the limit was on per drive cost back in the day when we had a Syquest 44mb drive and 200mb drive. We ran the same calculations for the Iomega Jaz and Syjet 1.5gb drives when they came out. When I learned about differentiation in calculus, I was able to make a formula that would immediately tell me the sweet spot in the log curve for a particular set of drive cost parameters, but I can't remember any of the math anymore. :oops:

My dad's a retired mechanical engineer who's always complaining about being bored, so I'll see if I can get him to re-create it. :D