Exos X18

Drives function excellently and have had no issues since owning them for almost a year now. The noise is noticable but if you have any case fans or rack fans, they are likely louder. I had no issues with any storage capacity issues nor any fitment issues.

This 14 tb Seagate Exos was reasonably priced and available overnight. I ordered one to add space to one of my Unraid servers. It arrived the next day but was dead. Tried on 3 different computers and none of them recognized it. So I filed for a return with Amazon and dropped it off at my local Staples that handles Amazon returns. Over the years I have bought a lot of hard drives from Amazon and other places and this was the first DOA. Figuring the odds of another DOA were very small I placed another order for the same Seagate Exos 14 tb model. It arrived the next day and is up and running with no problems. Exos drives are designed as Enterprise level drives with great performance and a long MTBF. So far none of the Exos drives I've purchased over the years have given any problems other than this one DOA. Hard Disk Sentinel tests rate it as excellent for both performance and health. Amazon issued a credit to my card shortly after I dropped off the first drive. The entire return process was quite quick and convenient.

Swapped this in to replace my WD 4TB Red, and man. This is faster (of course 7200rpm vs 5200rpm), and quieter surprisingly. Copying the same data to both drives in a noise test, I could barely hear this drive where at the WD was pretty noisy and clicking louder. Runs cooler than my Seagate 8TB firecuda HDD (games only) but not sure why. But in other words, as a NAS drive, this is an amazing buy. Got mine for 199$, so for that price 14TB is a steal!

This drive is a work horse, holds tons of my videos and pics.

When I worked in a web host and data center nearly 15 years ago, the number one "problem company" we had for drive reliability and RMAs was Seagate. It was 10's of percents worse failure rates than the nearest competitor. It's been a decade since I worked there, and thought "Maybe they've changed, they're still around after all." The first drive I received made a hideous screeching noise and was dead on arrival. The replacement seems to be working fine for now. Oh Seagate, never change.

Very good purchase I only needed 4TB and I have 12TB usable. Manufacturing date a few months ago, I didn't expect it to be so new. It is fast and the start may be the only noisy thing, the rest is silent. I recommend the seller QuickDealStore. Double box (original) + amazon. International delivery. I updated the firmware following the manufacturer's instructions, everything went well.

These Exos drives are super fast! I am so happy with them. I dropped them in my Terramaster D5 300C and they are purring. Soo happy with them so far. Also, QuickDealStore are the best sellers I've had the pleasure of doing business with. Thanks!

I am retired and not 'mission critical' and can use Refurbished. At and above 12 TB usually is helium sealed, with less friction and heat compared to open to air. With my Synology NASes, 16 TB is listed as a go by Synology, and while lots of Internet bloggers have used higher capacities, in general know the ceilings published by the manufacturer. I now will replace with 14 TB Exos or 16 TB IronWolf. There is an '80 TB or 108 TB volume ceiling', and come on, Man, that's got to be enough! Use all the same HDD, and I use RAID 5, with full backups on other NASes, ext4, no encryption, one Volume of one Storage Pool. KISS!

Silenzioso ed efficiente

Cumpre com perfeição a função que lhe é destinada. Storage de dados de forma não recorrente. Se precisa de um disco rápido deve olhar para os SSD e não para estes.

a faire attention par rapport à la garantie.....à mettre à jour sur seagate , et il y a des produits qui non pas la garantie affiché.... malgré les faux information sur la page amazon ou vendeur, dans mon cas 4 ans et 6 mois , pas 5 ans ( produits acheté le 20/11/2023)

Purchased 5 Exos X18/14TB for personal NAS Synology DS418, as upgrade from older 4TB Seagate drives. 4 for NAS, one as spare. Disks are ST14000NM000J, received with SN01 firmware. Checked serial numbers on Seagate: warranty valid until 27 March 2028. Upgraded firmware to SN04 (quite difficult to find, only by command line), with HDD connected to Win11 PC with USB3/SATA adapter and external power supply. Replaced disks one-by-one on Synology DS418 and wait for "RAID repair" - which take about 1 day for each replacement. DS418 prompted that new HDD are not in compatibility list, but repair process was smooth, the NAS is working OK. The data transfer is limited by 1Gbps LAN, copying one large file at 113MBps, both directions. HDD noise is as expected, heads movement can be heard (NAS is in my bedroom), but not very annoying. I use the NAS as Btrfs RAID storage for my family precious photos/videos, not needed for super-speed data transfer or enterprise sharing. Disks were delivered sealed in electrostatic bags, with thick foam padding, all in one carton box. Satisfied with my purchase.

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