Forgive me for linking you to a website that I thought might help with your purchase decision. I didn't promise it to be the bible of all HDDs listed. If you took a minute to
read the FAQ of the site it would probably answer your questions like why it doesn't have certain drives. It's 36th because I can count and/or use excel. I did edit this anyway and state that the default filtering includes used drives which is obviously a bit silly. Anyway...forget it.
Ok, I'll bite. How is it more expensive in the long run then? It could be. Could not. Depends on failures. It's not hassle to shuck a drive. I can shuck a drive and preserve the enclosure in a couple of minutes. We're just offering advice here on something you may want to consider.
We all read your initial post. Sometimes additional discussion forms as part of a thread. It's a 1st world problem which are you demanding we must urgently answer for you very specifically, whilst shouting down any discussion which doesn't spell out which of your two options to take, regardless as to whether they are possibly both wrong. Frankly your attitude stinks and I cba either now.
You didn't tell me anything else about that site but you implied it would have answers.
No one should have to count. That is too much effort in 2019. They should be numbered IF that is important info to have.
Not a hassle?:
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The elements may well be WD Red or HGST in 8+ sizes -but I'm not entirely convinced by the shucking thing.
Firstly you get 1 year less warranty right out the gate, and you have to keep all the bits and reassemble it should you claim, and risk warranty void if damage it (different in the U.S where you can just send back the drive). They also have 3.2 pin 3 issue, so if your controller doesn't support it, you have got to mess around with an adapter cable or tape.
In the smaller sizes they will be Blue/Green drives, only in the larger sizes might they be HGST/RED - the paranoid part of me also wonders if the white label drives are "binned" or remanufactured units, due to the nature of the application.
Seems like a lot of hassle for a lottery. I was tempted on black Friday when the 8TB elements were down to £110 - but in the end I just bought the bare drives, so at least I know what I'm getting.
Not more expensive?! ONLY 30TB of Google drive is £2,880 a year. That is not including any price increase. How can you think it is not more expensive!? Heck if we follow the 321 then it's an ADDITIONAL cost. I DO NOT have that much money.
Why is that so hard for you all to understand despite me saying it multiple times?!
'1st world problem' - Such privilege-checking becomes a more violent intervention when demanded by someone else. If, after listening to your pathetic account of how your
Uber cab took a whole 10 minutes to arrive, I respond “first world problem”, then I am aggressively staking out the moral high ground and portraying myself (almost certainly dishonestly) as someone who only ever worries about the plight of starving children. Naturally, our powers of sympathy are limited and we all conduct psychic triage on the sufferings of others. But when “first world problem” is just a mealy mouthed way of saying “shut up”, it sounds distinctly compassion-free.
YOUR 'attitude stinks'. Not mine. I didn't demand.
