Seagate EXOS 16TB 3.5" SATA Enterprise Class HDD

[zantarous]

Just looking at potentially replacing some drives that might be faulty and I see that the Seagate Exos 16TB 3.5" SATA Enterprise Class drives seem to be incredibly cheap on both Amazon and scan at the moment £287.99. This seems too good to be true so wondered if anyone knew anything about them? They will be going into a Synology NAS and looking at my drives looks like I already have one and along with a Iron Wolf Pro one. The Iron Wolf one seems to be pretty noisy when in use, I can hear it seeking when I watch films on that drive during quite moment but don't think the Exos suffers the same issue.

Any thoughts especially this price?

Seagate EXOS 16TB 3.5" SATA Enterprise Class HDD/Hard Drive 7200rpm

Buy from Scan - 16TB Seagate ST16000NM001G, EXOS 3.5" Enterprise HDD, SATA III - 6GB/s, 7200rpm, 256MB Cache, 512E, 4.16ms, OEM, NCQ

www.scan.co.uk

 

[brunation]

I have the Exos 12TB and 16TB for offline backup: the drives are noisy.

 

[ajohnson30]

yea the Exos are known for noise. Any chance you can find a WD HC550 Ultrastar 16tb for around the same price?

 

[zantarous]

I see on amazon one of the reviews says these are quite drives, it would be worth paying extra for that. I just added to 14TB WD Reds as they are quite but if I can go 16 that is worth the extra.