Seagate Exos drives

[howartp]

Hi

 

When googling around for enterprise disks (SATA, SAS or SSDs) and for NAS products, I came across the following:

 

https://www.broadbandbuyer.com/products/40841-qnap-ts-1232pxu-rp-4g-192tb-exos/

 

That's 192TB NAS with 12x 16TB Seagate Exos enterprise drives for £4,500 - I don't need 192TB, but they have plenty of smaller options on the same product line.

 

My query is - what am I missing? If they were some chinese knockoff drives I would walk away, but they are Seagate and branded as enterprise, so i'm confused.

 

Any thoughts or comments?

[fredesq]

What are you confused about? The Exos brandline is bit like having WD Red Pro's or WD Gold drives - more warranty, more speed, more other stuff.

The 16/18Tb disks around go for around £230 on deals up and over £300.

 

That QNAP device is listed at £1600 on scan so the drives work out to be around 315 (with vat) - not a bad deal? not the best either though..

[howartp]

I'm confused because the spreadsheet of pricing i've been slowly putting together from eg scan, ebuyer, serverdirect has 1.8TB HPE drives being around the £285 mark ex VAT so expect .

 

Similarly / looking at it in reverse, £4,500 will just about get me 30TB of raw storage (pre-RAID) with 25 1.2TB drives - compared to 192TB (pre-RAID) in this product.

 

Therefore I wasn't sure how a 16TB drive could be at/around that value and yet be on par / exceed the performance/warranty.

 

What i'm actually looking for (and floundering in the options of spin speed, capacity and cost) is to replace my 20TB 7.2k disk tray with a new tray or NAS holding 50+TB of disks faster than 7.2k

 

In a desktop I won't put anything but SSD in now, but have enterprise capacity SSDs come down to a price-point that they are a valid consideration yet?

[Norphy]

The difference is going to be that those HPE drives are either going to be (NL)SAS drives, or they're going to be 10000rpm drives, or they're going to be certified for HPE storage devices. Plus HPE puts one hell of a markup on their drives anyway. Those EXOS drives are closer to commodity SATA hard drives than they are to enterprise hardware from the likes of HP and Dell.