seagate exos E series as desktop drive?

[andrepartthree]

I feel like I should start out by apologizing I feel like I've been bugging you guys with a lot of questions lately

as an FYI if anyone's interested newegg has heavily discounted it's "Seagate Exos 7E10 ST8000NM017B 8 TB Hard Drive - Internal - SATA (SATA/600) - Storage System, Video Surveillance System Device Supported - 7200rpm - 5 Year Warranty" drive

Seagate Exos 7E10 ST8000NM017B 8 TB Hard Drive - Internal - SATA (SATA/600) - Storage System, Video Surveillance System Device Supported - 7200rpm - 5 Year Warranty - Newegg.com

Buy Seagate Exos 7E10 ST8000NM017B 8 TB Hard Drive - Internal - SATA (SATA/600) - Storage System, Video Surveillance System Device Supported - 7200rpm - 5 Year Warranty with fast shipping and top-rated customer service. Once you know, you Newegg!

www.newegg.com

Funny story, after ditching direct TV I had a different model seagate Surveillance drive (which oddly enough was recommended as the direct tv storage expansion unit at the time I was using it for direct tv) ... plugged it into my desktop and it's been serving me faithfully for years as a 4 TB drive for file storage ... I have a 2 TB drive , Western Digital Red Plus which got shipped to me by amazon by mistake that they generously let me keep for free and that's been working great as my other data/file storage drive.



I am so tempted to buy the 8 TB Seagate Exos drive above .. $115 for 8 TB is a great price in my opinion .. and just use it as a desktop drive for file storage (I know better than to try running Windows, games and/or any programs off it , strictly files) ... but then I see threads like this one on reddit saying the drives make unearthly noises and they run very hot



https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/gwt2kd
View: https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/gwt2kd




https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/hrmabt
View: https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/hrmabt




but then there's this tom's hardware thread where someone wanted to use the "X" version of an seagate exos drive as a desktop drive and Titan gave it the thumbs up (he's like a senior "super poster" kind of guy over at tom's hardware but that was for the "X" version not the "E" version I'm eyeballing)

https://forums.tomshardware.com/threads/seagate-exos-x18-enterprise-18tb.3697813/

Any thoughts about the "E" version of this drive as opposed to the "X" version for desktop use? I don't mind hearing whirring and clicking noises or what not (in other words I don't demand a "whisper silent" drive ) as long as they're not loud enough to say keep my daughter awake at night whose bedroom is next to the PC room .. and do they really run as hot as what the one reddit guy said? I have two 140 mm fans mounted in the front of my PC case, a 140 mm fan on the top of my PC case and a 140 mm fan on the bac of my case which is this one (phanteks pro m tempered glass model number PH-ES515PTG_BK ) and my computer room is kept at at 79 degrees temp (yay for air conditioning )

Oh also, the 8 TB seagate drive I'd seriously love to buy is a CMR model .. I've been told to stay away from SMR drives.

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Thanks so much to anyone who reads this and replies

 

[Marzipan]

E series was the budget Exos...a good drive, very popular in NAS, with the biggest limitation being it doesn't get bigger than 10TB, that's the max capacity offered. The X16 peaked at 16TB, the X18 peaked at 18TB and the X20...well, 20TB. they're all good drives for storage, no matter how they get used.

I saw $114.99 and got excited until I realized I was on newegg.com. HDD is double the price on their .ca site.

 

[andrepartthree]

E series was the budget Exos...a good drive, very popular in NAS, with the biggest limitation being it doesn't get bigger than 10TB, that's the max capacity offered. The X16 peaked at 16TB, the X18 peaked at 18TB and the X20...well, 20TB. they're all good drives for storage, no matter how they get used.

I saw $114.99 and got excited until I realized I was on newegg.com. HDD is double the price on their .ca site.

Thanks so much for that mazipan that's super helpful ... and I am SO sorry , typical American self centered arrogance here (as my Canadian friends are fond of teasing me about - if you've met an American you know what I mean I like to think I try to buck the trend at least though ) ... I absolutely should have specified I'm over here in the states so referring to the newegg deal over here..

 

[moocow]

No the price is the double dipping of tax and cost. As far as I been told by other people, Canadian wholesale price is not the same as US wholesale price and it get double import taxed because everything goes thru US port and distro first.

My personal experience is that basically any drive could be regular desktop drive but not other way around. I personally killed a few green drives by sticking them into a NAS unit because of constant head parking. I would also not recommend using green drives for RAID cards just in case.

 

[andrepartthree]

Thanks moocow.. to clarify a bit further when I say American arrogance I mean just automatically assuming that everyone who looks at my posts lives in the USA ... it's been pointed out to me that we Americans have this unconscious tendency (or in the worst of cases a conscious tendency " America love it or leave it ! " , " America first! " that sort of thing, something I do my best to try and avoid) to view the world through our American-imperial-istic type lens without stopping to consider the viewpoint of other countries. Thus my stupidity in not stopping and thinking to myself " geez you know I'm posting this in the HARDWARE CANUCKS forum the newegg deal might not apply there! " ...