Seagate - Personal Cloud 3TB External Hard Drive (NAS)

afterburnt
afterburnt Posts: 7,892
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Does anyone know if this is any good? It is a lot cheaper that the other NAS that I was looking at
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  • mdaudioguy
    mdaudioguy Posts: 5,165
    edited May 2016
    Google "Seagate" and "click," "clicking," or "click of death"... and then buy something else. Seriously, most are probably ok, but this happened to me. I think Western Digital has a better rep right now.
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  • msg
    msg Posts: 10,452
    +1 on Seagate avoidance.
    Agreed, WD or HGST

    Also, consider something with RAID capability, or a second disk you can sync to periodically, depending on your threshold for loss.
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  • D'prived
    D'prived Posts: 191
    I have three QNAP NAS boxes with a total of 11 hard drives. All HD's are WD red drives. All have been running over a year 24/7 with no problems.
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  • txcoastal1
    txcoastal1 Posts: 13,503
    I would stay away from WD 3TB reds, my IT guy has a 20% failure on these non OEM drives, 2's and 4's are good

    Also I would stay away from all OEM drives
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  • Jaybeez
    Jaybeez Posts: 748
    mdaudioguy wrote: »
    Google "Seagate" and "click," "clicking," or "click of death"... and then buy something else. Seriously, most are probably ok, but this happened to me. I think Western Digital has a better rep right now.

    Hmm ... I wondered where that click was coming from. Thought it was my DAC (Schiit Bifrost).
    Love the sound from the DAC, so good to know "click relief" is only a new hard drive away from reality.
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    Music Hall mmf 7.3 TT with Ortofon Bronze
    WiiM Mini
    Schiit Bifrost with Multibit Upgrade
    Polk 7B with RDO198s
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