Throw me a bone, anyone seen any deals on 3.5" 8-10TB NAS drives lately

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I'd put them into service unless of course they could send more recently dated drives.

I'd do a full scan but don't need to tell you that ;) prior to going full usage on them.
 
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Fair enough, I must confess it's driving me nuts every time I look over at those sweet sweet drives, wanted to get to work on burn-in and zfs send/recv's but now I gotta wait until Monday to see if they have more recent manufacturer dated drives and if they do hopefully they can cross-ship (crosses fingers/knocks on wood).

Am I being unreasonable or have unrealistic expectations or would you all have seen this coming/expected such a scenario playing out? Just threw me for a loop and sucks to have half of a 5 yr warranty toast right off the bat even though I know HGST drives are damn near legendary for reliability/ruggedness and am not too worried about a failure if they make it past burn-in mortality phase. They should be good for the long-haul right?

Thx for feedback buddy

EDIT: Is this a 'patience grasshopper' thing or am I overthinking this and just throw the damn things in? Geek out time has been in sort supply lately and I sure don't wanna lose out on a free weekend of burn-in time while the wife is out of town. Standard badblocks/smatrctl tests shoud suffice for burn-in, concur?
 
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Yeah it’s a tough one, I don’t think I would worry as a few years down the track the replacement will be cheap (he8 ones I mean) or you will want to consider upgrade to who knows what capacity... right now 14tb drives available.
Maybe you can buy 8tb ssd for $100 in a few years (wishful thinking probably but never know)
 
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And there's the voice of reason I needed, HELL if my current 1.5Tb six disk pool has lasted 7-8 yrs I am sure this will last just as long so imma go w/ it and pull the trigger. Never had a 3.5 HGST fail on me...EVER, small sample of only a couple dozen drives over the last 10-15 yrs so I'm comfortable w/ it. I was gonna sleep on it but I am 'all in' now I think.
 
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Have a few hundred he8 8tb drives running for between 8 and about 24 months, not one failure yet.
Have 1300 or so 8tb Seagate, failures reasonably often, not a huge failure rate but certainly statistically more than the hgst drives.
 
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They are spinning and transferring 7TB of data to them now via zfs send/recv. Cookin' w/ gas now! Had one drive that was a lil' bit of a PITA for FreeNAS to recognize/detect but after a few re-slots it finally picked up. I'll keep an eye on that one. Older LSI 2008 HBA in IT mode v20 seems happy w/ them.

Code: 
                                           capacity     operations    bandwidth
pool                                    alloc   free   read  write   read  write
--------------------------------------  -----  -----  -----  -----  -----  -----
hgst8tb-r6                              3.11T  40.4T      0  4.18K      0   505M
  raidz2                                3.11T  40.4T      0  4.18K      0   505M
    gptid/caf0a4b1-4aab-11e8-b4ae-0050569aceea      -      -      0  3.07K      0   126M
    gptid/cb6f4642-4aab-11e8-b4ae-0050569aceea      -      -      0  2.86K      0   126M
    gptid/cbdbfcc0-4aab-11e8-b4ae-0050569aceea      -      -      0  2.78K      0   127M
    gptid/cc4b4a39-4aab-11e8-b4ae-0050569aceea      -      -      0  3.12K      0   126M
    gptid/ccceaf35-4aab-11e8-b4ae-0050569aceea      -      -      0  2.87K      0   126M
    gptid/cd40663e-4aab-11e8-b4ae-0050569aceea      -      -      0  2.68K      0   125M
--------------------------------------  -----  -----  -----  -----  -----  -----
 
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Ok new pool has passed burn-in phase, had a bit of a hiccup w/ disks but ServerPartDeals stepped up to bat and resolved the issue, life is good!

Code: 
[root@freenas-esxi6b] ~# zpool list
NAME           SIZE  ALLOC   FREE  EXPANDSZ   FRAG    CAP  DEDUP  HEALTH  ALTROOT
freenas-boot  19.9G  2.45G  17.4G         -      -    12%  1.00x  ONLINE  -
hgst8tb-r6    43.5T  7.54T  36.0T         -    11%    17%  1.00x  ONLINE  /mnt

  pool: hgst8tb-r6
 state: ONLINE
  scan: none requested
config:

        NAME                                            STATE     READ WRITE CKSUM
        hgst8tb-r6                                      ONLINE       0     0     0
          raidz2-0                                      ONLINE       0     0     0
            gptid/bbb3834a-4e66-11e8-90e9-0050569aceea  ONLINE       0     0     0
            gptid/bc2e96c1-4e66-11e8-90e9-0050569aceea  ONLINE       0     0     0
            gptid/bca01d34-4e66-11e8-90e9-0050569aceea  ONLINE       0     0     0
            gptid/bd182bf8-4e66-11e8-90e9-0050569aceea  ONLINE       0     0     0
            gptid/bd90b9c7-4e66-11e8-90e9-0050569aceea  ONLINE       0     0     0
            gptid/be04415a-4e66-11e8-90e9-0050569aceea  ONLINE       0     0     0
        logs
          gptid/be390481-4e66-11e8-90e9-0050569aceea    ONLINE       0     0     0
        cache
          gptid/be69e30d-4e66-11e8-90e9-0050569aceea    ONLINE       0     0     0

errors: No known data errors
 
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