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[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I think the IronWolf drives are generally OK. But what's inside this is probably going to be a cheapo Barracuda drive.

You generally get what you pay for. If a drive is an amazing bargain, I wouldn't trust it with anything I needed. If you're just using it as another replaceable drive in a RAID array then whatever, I guess.

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

When I bought Seagate externals, the Barracuda line only went up to 8TB so anything above that was an Ironwolf or Exynos. Do you know if that's still the case?

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 2 points 3 days ago

Labelled as Barracudas, but who knows what they were before they were relegated to this...

https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/1jfcgt6/26tb_seagate_from_bb_is_a_barracuda/