I noticed that Server Part Deals has the 28TB Seagate drives in stock, manufacturer recertified
Seagate Exos ST28000NM000C 28TB 7.2K RPM SATA 6Gb/s 512e CMR 3.5in Recertified Hard Drive
they were $345 USD just the other day, actually, the price just bumped up to $399 as they seemingly got more in stock
You can tell that these are the HAMR drives because it says there’s a laser in it, at the bottom of the label
I did a quick Google search on these drives before getting too excited and found surprisingly little information about them from consumers (e.g. home users) ; Google Search
there was some sentiments in the comments here suggesting that since these are HAMR drives, they would have much lower tolerance for vibrations, such as you would get from having a stack of 10 of them in a single PC tower ATX sized case, which could cause data IO errors and eventually data corruption (??)
but those comments all came from Reddit, so i was wondering if any L1T members here had any other insights?
The data sheet for these drives is here https://www.seagate.com/content/dam/seagate/assets/support/internal-hard-drives/enterprise-hard-drives/exos/_shared/files/exos-recertified-drive-DS2045-2-2010US-October-2020-en_US.pdf
( backed it up here for posterity Wayback Machine since it seems L1T forum does not allow file uploads)
What do you all think? Anyone tried these things out? Wendell???
I have a stack of 10x of the Seagate Exos 20TB drives from Server Part Deals here, in a ATX case (Fractal Define 7), I have been waiting for a significant capacity increase before upgrading, and 28TB is starting to get within range of the storage size needed before an upgrade is appealing, with the ~$350/drive price getting close to feasible as well. But I could not find a lot of reassurance that these drives wouldnt crash and burn in a home server (non-rack server) setup. Would be great to have more input from any experienced persons who have used these types of drives before.