They had slim variants going back to the Playstation/PS1. More recently was the "pro" models coming out trying to jump on the Apple marketing bandwagon.
CmdrShepard
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I bought my last 14TB drive with them after buying new ones over the last 6 years. I definitely wish I would have heard about them sooner as I could have a lot more storage at a lot lower price if I had.
Something something "it's just as illegal for the rich man to sleep under a bridge as it is for the poor man to sleep under a bridge."
The first was embarrassing too like claiming your McDonald's food is the best because it outsells my tri-tip.
Jesus christ I was wondering why the name sounded so familiar.
Considering this guy is looking to slap some drives into his personal computer in order to store some movies, who gives a shit if they're enterprise drives or not? I have numerous 6 year old 'junk' drives in my server that haven't given me a single issue the entire time powered on 24/7. It's not like he's looking for drives to put in a Facebook datacenter.
Don't use Amazon or Ebay, use something like serverpartdeals.com so you know you're not buying from some fly-by-night company that'll disappear when you try to do a warranty claim.
$18/TB is a crazy high price. I've bought most of all my WD drives new for <$15/TB by waiting for sales on Easystore/Element drives
You can still use one of these with the NAS as storage. A Synology doesn't have a lot of horsepower to run programs directly on their hardware so if you plan on doing something like a media server you might encounter some issues. An optiplex (or any other PC) running Proxmox will let you run a bunch of different containers or VMs separately
You might look for a used Optiplex SFF or micro form factor PC. These can be purchased for around $100 in the US and have full fledged PC hardware which is capable of running most things. The downside here is less peripheral support for things like PCIE or internal storage.
This type of shit drives me up the wall. I recall that Verizon has 3 different tiers of "unlimited data" which is all horseshit because "unlimited" means unlimited. I wish the FTC would grow some balls and go after companies falsely advertising like this.
Not to mention with all the supply chain issues, most people weren't even able to get a PS5 until the last year or so and I'm sure none of those people want to repurchase a slightly upgraded version so soon.