Hi Reddit Fam,
First of all I would like to thank you all. Going through posts here had helped me a lot and motivated me to build my own small Home Lab.
I am from India and small problem of doing this in India is enterprise drives are really expensive.
So I thought what if I can ask someone to buy few from USA/Hong Kong as I have friends coming and going once or twice a year at both the places.
I would give an example 12TB Iron Wolf pro is costing me around USD 420-430 in India and same thing will cost around USD 300 in United States and should cost somewhat similar in Hong Kong.
Things I want to know is does Segate gives international warranty?
If the warranty don't works in India then does it makes sense to buy Iron Wolf Pros? I mean AFAIK one of the reason Iron Wolf Pros cost so much extra is the data recovery support etc provided by Segate for 5 years. So if I am buying from USA/ Hong Kong and support is the only difference then will getting something like Segate Exos be a better choice?
Please help me with this.
Btw,
I am planning to start with DS 923+ NAS From Synology. The reason I am not going with latest model is because of Hard disk locking thing Synology is doing and one of the reasons I am going with Synology this time is because this is my first NAS and at the moment I want to keep it relatively easy but please feel free to drop recommendations for this as well.
Note: - NAS unit I'll be buying from India only to avoid any kind of headaches later on.