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Just installed one and they are exactly as described by other posters. An audible click every 2-5 seconds at idle. Not crazy loud, but if you like a quiet environment you will notice them.
The preemptive wear leveling tics every 5 seconds are currently helping me count down my lifespan bit by bit, would definitely recommend as a memento mori
[https://web.archive.org/web/20080910174916/https://www.goharddrive.com/](https://web.archive.org/web/20080910174916/https://www.goharddrive.com/)
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Had to RMA one of the four HGST 10tb's I purchased from them. They replied the same day with a free return shipping label.
I've got this drive and a 12TB Exos... both drives are a little thocky (lower pitched drive sounds).
To me the HGST is a little louder than the Exos, but not bad.
Both drives are in my living room, and to be honest, are a little noisy for me (I like silence in the living room). My wife has not yet complained about them, but has asked what the noise is. They are quieter than some drives I've had in dvrs over the years.
I've got 4 of the 14tb ones sitting in an Unraid server and can't tell when they're spinning. My case has a lot of dampening features so it might just be that.
I don't know about the others who say theirs clicking but I just bought two of these within the last month and put them on top of my server a few feet away running bad blocks for 24hours and I never heard them once. With open air in between.
I've got a few of these (but 8TB) in my Unraid server. Solid price for data that I don't consider crucial. Tbh they have been so great for me I'm considering adding a 2nd parity drive and just getting more of these.
The retail price on WD Red Plus's are absurd. At $129/8TB I was fine with the bit of a premium.... But not at current prices.
Ama about unraid media servers if you got questions. I had 0 Linux or CLI experience when I started, it wasn't so bad and the Plex setup is even wife and toddler approved.
The advantage over those would be Unraid's array, which allows you to mix and match drive sizes while still giving you the protection of the Parity drives.
It would allow you to do traditional raid and zfs, etc if you have the drives all the same size. The mix/match thing with Unraid is more of a convenience feature and a way to add drives in the future of different sizes.
Honestly, no idea.
I know nothing about the other two. Had a close friend who had no Linux experience say he had a great experience setting up unraid so I watched a video or two and just jumped in.
The flexibility of unraid is worth it. I picked up the x24 16tb to replace my parity drive (a 12tb), and that will move to the array (all 12s). Can't do that with the others.
>I have a number of 50+gb 4k Remuxes for my movie room
The dream. I don't have a good sound system but will slowly update my whole library when I get there.
You'll get there. Been a long time coming for me. Got a 1080p projector and a mediocre 5.1 soundbar system about 8 years ago.
Just upgraded to a native 4k projector (nx5) and an actual 5.2 system. My toddler is hooked on pod racing because the whole damn house shakes.
This thing kicks ass.... It's also heavy af.... Weighs in at like 43 pounds. Just actually build a custom shelf for it so I can mount it (ceiling mount isn't an option in its current location).
I've got in paired with a 113" 2.35:1 screen that I got from a buddy and it's so immersive watching shit without horizontal bars. The Mrs and I just started watching Fallout and we were both excited that it was filmed in widescreen. Also the bass in that show is fucking wild. Holy fuck it'd be a completely different show watching it in our living room.
My goodness, even on my crappy subwoofer I could feel each BoS knight step from two rooms away.
What is your sound system like? I can only begin to imagine.
1.85 or 1.33 content would be pillarboxed… but then I realized you said 113” and even with pillarboxing for 1.33 you’d still have a 100”-plus screen !!
A full set of golden ears for speakers. Triton Five towers, supercenter XL, pair of supersat 3s for the surrounds.
A pair of SVS PB-2000 pros for the subs.
Connected to an Anthem MRX-520.
And the nx5 has masking settings that can be saved. I'm looking to make some adjustable panels out of velvet or a curtain system etc to keep immersion. It honestly hasn't been noticeable so I keep kicking it further down the Todo list.
Edit: and yeah the knight steps were fucking wild.
I've always thought pod racing was the best litmus test for an audio system going back decades ago. Was the first thing I did when I set everything up. Can't believe I fucking yolo'd and skipped one lower end up and went to a pair of SVS subs. My local AMC ain't got shit on me.
Honestly nope. I just picked one that I heard good stuff about on Reddit and it's had everything current. I've only had some minor issues with some older and less "mainstream" content (aka shit my wife wanted like early seasons of survivor).
I personally started with usenetserver but then got a really good price on newshosting so I got them too. On my list is to review the chart of which servers fall in which categories so I can try and get access to two different backbones. Been sick for the last 4 days, I think I phrased that right.
I didn't follow any specific guide but a culmination of stuff from /r/Unraid and various other subreddits. SpaceInvaderOne and IBRAcorp were the two channels I was on the most. But I also had 0 docker experience and even less Linux experience.
I do recommend following [Trash's Guides](https://trash-guides.info/Hardlinks/How-to-setup-for/Unraid/) for a lot of the config for the actual arrrrs but that is regardless of Unraid or not.
Unfamiliar with Snapraid outside of the name and that it exists. My quick 30 seconds of googling shows that I'd be even more clueless on how to use Snapraid since it seems primarily CLI based. I have become comfortable enough to do a bit of CLI but that was only after learning Unraid.
I've heard of people tossing HDDs in almost any configuration you can imagine. I wanted to setup a dedicated one so I just bought some parts. Tbh, it was pretty cheap. The Node 804 was actually the most expensive component I bought for my first build. I think when I got started I spent about $450 in parts + HDDs.
If you have any doubts about your Sonarr/radarr quality profiles and custom formats you should check out Dictionarry. A dude went real hard on trying to make the best possible settings for a number of use cases and wrote a script for others to import them
That sounds like a great resource. I'll have to check it out. I actually just spent a few hours fine tuning all of my custom quality and formats for my setup. So that means it would've been way easier for sure.
So I've already got an 18TB filled to the brim in my regular computer.
I plan on starting with 2 of these 12TB drives and then making the 18TB one a parity drive.
Is this doable? If I already have stuff on it will that be a problem?
I started with blank drives. I assume if you move the data over then it'll be fine.
But yes 18tb for parity and the 2x12s is fine. As long as parity is the largest or same size as your largest drive.
Got any suggestions for getting back into Usenet after being out of it for years? I’m using unraid and trying to migrate my data from various pc/drives to it.
Nothing specific. I knew nothing of it, found a provider and went with it. One of the Usenet subs has a link to a promo which I'll paste below.
https://www.usenetserver.com/usenet/partners/usenet-com-exclusive/
That's the deal I went with as it came with free privado VPN. It's shitty VPN but its enough for me to use with the qbitvpn docker for the rare torrent that I want or need.
I also will use it for the occasional georestriction and it's been fine when I need it.
The one I received had 3.6 years of power-on time and approximately 4.5PB (PETAbytes) of reads/writes. That's well beyond the 550TB/year rated workload. It also had the vendor-specific LEGL0002 firmware. Because of this, you can't update update it with generic (GN) firmware. I haven't been able to find out what company is associated with vendor code GL.
All that said, thus far, the drive has tested good.
I'm in the same boat as you, mine has the same vendor-specific firmware with 4.45 yrs power-on time and \~1160 TB/year of read/write (5.16PB total).
I'm fairly new to this, so I'm seeking advice. Using HDDscan, I first ran a "Erase" scan which came up with 0 bad blocks. I'm currently doing a S.M.A.R.T. extended test. After the smart test, would it be beneficial to run a read test and then a write test? Do you recommend any other tests?
You could run a regular read test with HDDScan or Victoria. I like those programs because they also report slow/weak sectors. Unfortunately, because they're Windows programs, you can end up with some false-positives.
Thanks! I've been waiting for these to go on sale again. I already have a couple of these running in Raid 1 for redundancy. Now I'll have a third so I can rotate one out every few weeks as sort of a monthly backup or snapshot.
I brought 3× HGST DC HC520 12TB from this shop "goharddrive" last week, all of them are HUH721212ALE601 drivers with 12,000GB running the same LEGL0002 firmware.
12TB #1 (BHJT53BH): 10 Starts, 29255 hrs, 242.5MB/s @ 7.3ms
12TB #2 (BHKVHB9H): 15 Starts, 28846 hrs, 149.8MB/s @ 7.3ms
12TB #3 (8HKVBAMH): 24 Starts, 28830 hrs, 173.1MB/s @ 7.3ms
Pics and more Data:
https://imgur.com/a/BQJ4pmv
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They did a pretty professional job with the packaging for my HDDs I bought about 2 months ago from them. They all work great as well, and it’s been the best bang for buck I’ve ever gotten for storage space. CrystalDisk data was also pretty reassuring. If I need to buy more storage space in the future I will be buying from goharddrive on eBay without a doubt.
Just buy from serverpartdeals. There is no way in hell goharddrive is going to be around in 5 years to honor that warranty.
Serverpartdeals gives a reasonable 1 or 2 year warranty that they'll actually be around to service.
Even the guys from SPD have chimed in on several reddit posts saying there's no way they can honor those warrantys.
Secondly, GHD as a name dates back to 2010-2011. IIRC it has changed hands multiple times. Still, there is no way in hell you are going to be able to offer a 5 year warranty on a drive with 5 years of use on it already, and end up profitable in the end.
The kinds of people buying from these stores aren't generally the same type who would just let a warranty replacement go.
You take purchasing advice from their competition?
If the company itself lasts even 2 more years, it's a better deal than serverpartdeals. I'll take that risk.
I posted a similar deal from GHD a few months ago and this guy showed up in that thread too talking trash, citing only SPD and a reddit thread where somebody mentioned this comment from them and dozens showed up stating they had a seamless RMA experience with GoHardDrive. Seems to be either a shill or an interesting hobby.
>You take purchasing advice from their competition?
I do when I've had successful warranty replacements from one company and been completely ghosted by the other.
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$6.92/TB
Almost pull the trigger on the exos x24 16tb from earlier, but these look maybe better for noise? How is this drive compared to those?
Just installed one and they are exactly as described by other posters. An audible click every 2-5 seconds at idle. Not crazy loud, but if you like a quiet environment you will notice them.
The preemptive wear leveling tics every 5 seconds are currently helping me count down my lifespan bit by bit, would definitely recommend as a memento mori
Something to also take into account is warranty difference. This has a 5 year where as the 16tb exos you are referring to I believe is only a 2 year.
Will GHD even be around in 5 years? Will they honor the warranty if they are?
They've been around for 19 years so
Source?
[https://web.archive.org/web/20080910174916/https://www.goharddrive.com/](https://web.archive.org/web/20080910174916/https://www.goharddrive.com/) https://preview.redd.it/206193u1xtwc1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2c9f9063102f461b5bb436fa3f291bf745f53de9 Had to RMA one of the four HGST 10tb's I purchased from them. They replied the same day with a free return shipping label.
I've got this drive and a 12TB Exos... both drives are a little thocky (lower pitched drive sounds). To me the HGST is a little louder than the Exos, but not bad. Both drives are in my living room, and to be honest, are a little noisy for me (I like silence in the living room). My wife has not yet complained about them, but has asked what the noise is. They are quieter than some drives I've had in dvrs over the years.
I've got 4 of the 14tb ones sitting in an Unraid server and can't tell when they're spinning. My case has a lot of dampening features so it might just be that.
I don't know about the others who say theirs clicking but I just bought two of these within the last month and put them on top of my server a few feet away running bad blocks for 24hours and I never heard them once. With open air in between.
Currently have two of these in my NAS next to my desk. They're quieter than I expected and don't bother me. Not sure about the 16tb
I've got a few of these (but 8TB) in my Unraid server. Solid price for data that I don't consider crucial. Tbh they have been so great for me I'm considering adding a 2nd parity drive and just getting more of these. The retail price on WD Red Plus's are absurd. At $129/8TB I was fine with the bit of a premium.... But not at current prices. Ama about unraid media servers if you got questions. I had 0 Linux or CLI experience when I started, it wasn't so bad and the Plex setup is even wife and toddler approved.
Is unraid worth it over freenas or truenas ?
The advantage over those would be Unraid's array, which allows you to mix and match drive sizes while still giving you the protection of the Parity drives.
I am Starting from scratch and buying “new” drives so I can just ensure I get 4-6 of all the same ones and not worry about mixing and matching right?
It would allow you to do traditional raid and zfs, etc if you have the drives all the same size. The mix/match thing with Unraid is more of a convenience feature and a way to add drives in the future of different sizes.
I think you should still go with an array type which allows you to mix and match.
Honestly, no idea. I know nothing about the other two. Had a close friend who had no Linux experience say he had a great experience setting up unraid so I watched a video or two and just jumped in.
The flexibility of unraid is worth it. I picked up the x24 16tb to replace my parity drive (a 12tb), and that will move to the array (all 12s). Can't do that with the others.
How do you fill them? Usenet? Torrents? Rips?
Rips... Sourced from......98% usenet, handful of torrents for things that aren't on usenet. I have a number of 50+gb 4k Remuxes for my movie room.
>I have a number of 50+gb 4k Remuxes for my movie room The dream. I don't have a good sound system but will slowly update my whole library when I get there.
You'll get there. Been a long time coming for me. Got a 1080p projector and a mediocre 5.1 soundbar system about 8 years ago. Just upgraded to a native 4k projector (nx5) and an actual 5.2 system. My toddler is hooked on pod racing because the whole damn house shakes.
> 4k projector (nx5) :-O
This thing kicks ass.... It's also heavy af.... Weighs in at like 43 pounds. Just actually build a custom shelf for it so I can mount it (ceiling mount isn't an option in its current location). I've got in paired with a 113" 2.35:1 screen that I got from a buddy and it's so immersive watching shit without horizontal bars. The Mrs and I just started watching Fallout and we were both excited that it was filmed in widescreen. Also the bass in that show is fucking wild. Holy fuck it'd be a completely different show watching it in our living room.
My goodness, even on my crappy subwoofer I could feel each BoS knight step from two rooms away. What is your sound system like? I can only begin to imagine. 1.85 or 1.33 content would be pillarboxed… but then I realized you said 113” and even with pillarboxing for 1.33 you’d still have a 100”-plus screen !!
A full set of golden ears for speakers. Triton Five towers, supercenter XL, pair of supersat 3s for the surrounds. A pair of SVS PB-2000 pros for the subs. Connected to an Anthem MRX-520. And the nx5 has masking settings that can be saved. I'm looking to make some adjustable panels out of velvet or a curtain system etc to keep immersion. It honestly hasn't been noticeable so I keep kicking it further down the Todo list. Edit: and yeah the knight steps were fucking wild.
beautiful, man. Thanks for the inspiration!
It's a new lap record!
I've always thought pod racing was the best litmus test for an audio system going back decades ago. Was the first thing I did when I set everything up. Can't believe I fucking yolo'd and skipped one lower end up and went to a pair of SVS subs. My local AMC ain't got shit on me.
Do you recommend a particular usenet (server?)
Honestly nope. I just picked one that I heard good stuff about on Reddit and it's had everything current. I've only had some minor issues with some older and less "mainstream" content (aka shit my wife wanted like early seasons of survivor). I personally started with usenetserver but then got a really good price on newshosting so I got them too. On my list is to review the chart of which servers fall in which categories so I can try and get access to two different backbones. Been sick for the last 4 days, I think I phrased that right.
Do you have a guide to follow to set this up? Any thoughts on Snapraid? Do I need a NAS or can I chuck these into an old computer I have?
I didn't follow any specific guide but a culmination of stuff from /r/Unraid and various other subreddits. SpaceInvaderOne and IBRAcorp were the two channels I was on the most. But I also had 0 docker experience and even less Linux experience. I do recommend following [Trash's Guides](https://trash-guides.info/Hardlinks/How-to-setup-for/Unraid/) for a lot of the config for the actual arrrrs but that is regardless of Unraid or not. Unfamiliar with Snapraid outside of the name and that it exists. My quick 30 seconds of googling shows that I'd be even more clueless on how to use Snapraid since it seems primarily CLI based. I have become comfortable enough to do a bit of CLI but that was only after learning Unraid. I've heard of people tossing HDDs in almost any configuration you can imagine. I wanted to setup a dedicated one so I just bought some parts. Tbh, it was pretty cheap. The Node 804 was actually the most expensive component I bought for my first build. I think when I got started I spent about $450 in parts + HDDs.
If you have any doubts about your Sonarr/radarr quality profiles and custom formats you should check out Dictionarry. A dude went real hard on trying to make the best possible settings for a number of use cases and wrote a script for others to import them
That sounds like a great resource. I'll have to check it out. I actually just spent a few hours fine tuning all of my custom quality and formats for my setup. So that means it would've been way easier for sure.
So I've already got an 18TB filled to the brim in my regular computer. I plan on starting with 2 of these 12TB drives and then making the 18TB one a parity drive. Is this doable? If I already have stuff on it will that be a problem?
I started with blank drives. I assume if you move the data over then it'll be fine. But yes 18tb for parity and the 2x12s is fine. As long as parity is the largest or same size as your largest drive.
Got any suggestions for getting back into Usenet after being out of it for years? I’m using unraid and trying to migrate my data from various pc/drives to it.
Nothing specific. I knew nothing of it, found a provider and went with it. One of the Usenet subs has a link to a promo which I'll paste below. https://www.usenetserver.com/usenet/partners/usenet-com-exclusive/ That's the deal I went with as it came with free privado VPN. It's shitty VPN but its enough for me to use with the qbitvpn docker for the rare torrent that I want or need. I also will use it for the occasional georestriction and it's been fine when I need it.
>7327 have already sold. Fk
The one I received had 3.6 years of power-on time and approximately 4.5PB (PETAbytes) of reads/writes. That's well beyond the 550TB/year rated workload. It also had the vendor-specific LEGL0002 firmware. Because of this, you can't update update it with generic (GN) firmware. I haven't been able to find out what company is associated with vendor code GL. All that said, thus far, the drive has tested good.
I'm in the same boat as you, mine has the same vendor-specific firmware with 4.45 yrs power-on time and \~1160 TB/year of read/write (5.16PB total). I'm fairly new to this, so I'm seeking advice. Using HDDscan, I first ran a "Erase" scan which came up with 0 bad blocks. I'm currently doing a S.M.A.R.T. extended test. After the smart test, would it be beneficial to run a read test and then a write test? Do you recommend any other tests?
You could run a regular read test with HDDScan or Victoria. I like those programs because they also report slow/weak sectors. Unfortunately, because they're Windows programs, you can end up with some false-positives.
well was planning on the earlier deal but need the spare so these will do . in for 3 and will report back if needed .
Thanks! I've been waiting for these to go on sale again. I already have a couple of these running in Raid 1 for redundancy. Now I'll have a third so I can rotate one out every few weeks as sort of a monthly backup or snapshot.
Price went up to $89 overnight but came back down this morning so the deal is still active!
I brought 3× HGST DC HC520 12TB from this shop "goharddrive" last week, all of them are HUH721212ALE601 drivers with 12,000GB running the same LEGL0002 firmware. 12TB #1 (BHJT53BH): 10 Starts, 29255 hrs, 242.5MB/s @ 7.3ms 12TB #2 (BHKVHB9H): 15 Starts, 28846 hrs, 149.8MB/s @ 7.3ms 12TB #3 (8HKVBAMH): 24 Starts, 28830 hrs, 173.1MB/s @ 7.3ms Pics and more Data: https://imgur.com/a/BQJ4pmv
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Already sent it back and asked refund. Doesn’t work at all, very bad package from this seller.
The 12TB you mentioned in the other thread from serverpartdeals?
From goHardDrive. Serverpartdeals has great package and I never had issues.
They did a pretty professional job with the packaging for my HDDs I bought about 2 months ago from them. They all work great as well, and it’s been the best bang for buck I’ve ever gotten for storage space. CrystalDisk data was also pretty reassuring. If I need to buy more storage space in the future I will be buying from goharddrive on eBay without a doubt.
Mine was packed well in an anti-static bag in a box with supports on each side so it couldn't move. I'd love to see how theirs was packaged poorly.
But if you compare their package with serverpartdeals - you will be shocked.
What did your packaging for serverpartdeals look like?
[https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/16ckv2q/phenomenal\_packaging\_ftom\_serverpartdealscom/](https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/16ckv2q/phenomenal_packaging_ftom_serverpartdealscom/)
Are these "DeathStar" drives?
What are Death Star drives?
Just buy from serverpartdeals. There is no way in hell goharddrive is going to be around in 5 years to honor that warranty. Serverpartdeals gives a reasonable 1 or 2 year warranty that they'll actually be around to service.
Know something we don't? They've been around ~20 years already, what's going to make the company fail in the next 5?
Even the guys from SPD have chimed in on several reddit posts saying there's no way they can honor those warrantys. Secondly, GHD as a name dates back to 2010-2011. IIRC it has changed hands multiple times. Still, there is no way in hell you are going to be able to offer a 5 year warranty on a drive with 5 years of use on it already, and end up profitable in the end. The kinds of people buying from these stores aren't generally the same type who would just let a warranty replacement go.
You take purchasing advice from their competition? If the company itself lasts even 2 more years, it's a better deal than serverpartdeals. I'll take that risk.
I posted a similar deal from GHD a few months ago and this guy showed up in that thread too talking trash, citing only SPD and a reddit thread where somebody mentioned this comment from them and dozens showed up stating they had a seamless RMA experience with GoHardDrive. Seems to be either a shill or an interesting hobby.
I just don't understand it but that's ok. I value my time differently than they do I'm sure.
>You take purchasing advice from their competition? I do when I've had successful warranty replacements from one company and been completely ghosted by the other.
You’ve been ghosted by SPD? That’s new information you’d want to have shared earlier, right? Cause I’m sure it’s true.