Storage Solutions High capacity 3.5in SATA HDDs for NAS

avinandan012

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I am building a NAS. So looking for high capacity 3.5in SATA HDDs in the range of 12/14/16/18/20/22 TB.
Suggest from which sites or local shops( Hyderabad) I can get HDDs in reasonable pricing (approx less than ₹1900/TB).

Apart from NAS rated drives also okay with :
WD Purple Pro
WD Gold
 
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For your budget, you will need to get USB HDDs and shuck them.

Go for the highest capacity you can get, very good chances its a enterprise drive.
 
vivek.krishnan said:
For your budget, you will need to get USB HDDs and shuck them.

Go for the highest capacity you can get, very good chances its a enterprise drive.
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Even usb hdd prices are increased now in last few months in line with global hdd price trend not to mention shucking means voiding warranty.
 
guest_999 said:
Even usb hdd prices are increased now in last few months in line with global hdd price trend not to mention shucking means voiding warranty.
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Dang. Everywhere price increases.

Warranty - Not if carefully shucked. I dont do it, am using like ~100TB of USB HDDs with RPI4s, but a friend has done it carefully.
 
vivek.krishnan said:
Warranty - Not if carefully shucked. I dont do it, am using like ~100TB of USB HDDs with RPI4s, but a friend has done it carefully.
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Yes, shucking external drives are still cheaper. I had got one shucked drive replaced in warranty as well. The onus is on the service center to prove the shucking.
 
vivek.krishnan said:
Dang. Everywhere price increases.

Warranty - Not if carefully shucked. I dont do it, am using like ~100TB of USB HDDs with RPI4s, but a friend has done it carefully.
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How many are you using?
ibose said:
Yes, shucking external drives are still cheaper. I had got one shucked drive replaced in warranty as well. The onus is on the service center to prove the shucking.
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Higher capacity ones are almost similar price to enterprise drives
 
avinandan012 said:
I am building a NAS. So looking for high capacity 3.5in SATA HDDs in the range of 12/14/16/18/20/22 TB.
Suggest from which sites or local shops( Hyderabad) I can get HDDs in reasonable pricing (approx less than ₹1900/TB).
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Have you explored the options from PrimeABGB yet?
WD Ultrastar DC HC550 16 TB costs ₹25,599 which translates to ₹1600/TB

ibose said:
I had bought couple of them when on sale with card offers.
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Would be helpful if you can share more info from where you've purchased and how much it costed at that time? Thanks!
 
vivek.krishnan said:
Lots. Bought for NAS plus storage network building/learning/testing/etc - glusterfs/ceph/csv etc. All are being mainly run on RPI4s 4G and 8G and some 3s, I have some 10 of these.


As of now, around 56TB on 2x Pi4s. Remaining are coming online in a month or less.
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Your external casing is working good, I already had a compatible 12v adaptor from an older case. The 5v adaptor is doing the job just fine for my led requirements.
 
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