I added this item to my eBay watch list, and got an offer of $55.24 for quantity 1, or about $6.90/TB. Only 5 available, but good for somebody who doesn't need a whole rack of disks.
HGST Ultrastar He8 HUH728080AL5200 8TB 7200rpm SAS3 $55 or less
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Nope, Helium filled is the best of the best! Other manufacturers are now doing it (HGST was the tirst I think, like 8 years ago).
If you can add an sas controller, it's an easy way to step up to these drives. Plus, sas controllers can handle both sata and sas so your existing drives would be usable too (but might not be in the same raid group/volume depending on the controller).too bad they are SAS, I need SATA
It's The STH Effect™ (not actually trademarked, but looks cooler this way, lol)
or maybe in this case it's Spartacus Took HGSTs effect, lol.I took 'em
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I didn't buy is because they didn't even have enough for one array for me. I didn't notice that when I first bookmarked, but when they came back with the offer, I was going to grab 8-12. Since they only had 5 available, I let people here know.I took 'em
Good deal!I took 'em
They look like Sun/Oracle OEMs; same as a bunch of us got ~2yrs ago. More than likely, they are 7.68TB (vs 8.0), and you'll need/want to reformat to 4KB to get the full capacity. [Link]
I just bought 8x of these for $62.99 each. Comes out to $7.87/TB.
Was there a sale? I offered $63 each for 8 and got no response from the seller. I just bit the bullet and paid the $66.49 each.
Had to message them after 3 offers since they weren't even countering. Didn't get a reply so I sent a 4th offer and about 16 hours after that one expired they sent a counter at 62.99. I probably ticked them off enough starting at $48 lol. $6/TB is what I usually pay on lesser capacity drives.
That's annoying, since my offer was higher than that. Sure, it's only $30 or so, but still....