Seagate Exos

jellybeard999

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Anyone any experience with the Seagate Exos Enterprise drive? Would be for NAS use.

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Exos 5E8 ST8000AS0003 is only 800k hours mtbf and 3 year warranty
https://www.seagate.com/files/www-content/datasheets/pdfs/exos-5e8DS1954-2-1712US-en_US.pdf

Exos 7E8 ST8000NM0055 is 2m hours mtbf and 5 year warranty
https://www.seagate.com/www-content/datasheets/pdfs/exos-7-e8-data-sheet-DS1957-1-1709-GB-en_GB.pdf

Toshiba N300 NAS HDWN180UZSVA is 1m hours mtbf and 3 year warranty and around the same price as the 5E8
https://www.toshiba-storage.com/products/toshiba-internal-hard-drives-n300/?pdf

WD Red WD80EFAX is 1m hours mtbf and 3 year warranty and around the same price as the 7E8
https://www.wd.com/content/dam/wdc/website/downloadable_assets/eng/spec_data_sheet/2879-800002.pdf

It would seem then that the 5E8 isn't a good buy.
The N300 is equivalent to the Red at a cheaper price?
The 7E8 is a better option than the WD Red for the same money.
 
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I haven't tried Exos, but do have a WD red and a N300.

WD red (not the pro) is really slow, but also has a long positive track record.

The N300 has decent warranty but have heard the process for claiming it is clunky. The N300's claim to fame is that it's fast for a NAS drive, however it's also really loud and runs hot.

As for the 5E8, yer it's not great, having experienced the N300 though, I think that I'd actually take a 5E8 over it. I'm genuinely considering swapping out the N300 I have when I next add disks.

I found this which does a comparison of some of these drives:
https://www.anandtech.com/show/12075/best-consumer-hdds.

At least based on the article, the 7E8 comes out as a clear winner.
However it hasn't been out for as long as some of the other NAS drives, so there is a lack of data to back up its reliability claims.
 
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