[ale] Cheap spinning rust was: to lvm or not lvm

[Steve Litt]

On Thu, 01 Jan 2026 21:27:19 -0500
William Bagwell via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:

> On Thursday, January 01, 2026 07:43:51 PM Steve Litt via Ale wrote:
> > Let's say someday you wanted A LOT of disk space. You could buy a
> > 7200 RPM 12TB spinning rust,  
> 
> Meant to post this a week ago, Amazon only but other sites like this
> probably exist.
> https://diskprices.com/?locale=us&condition=new&capacity=11-12&disk_types=external_hdd,external_hdd25,internal_hdd,internal_hdd25,internal_sshd,internal_sas
> 
> And 12TB starts out a bit cheaper per TB than the 2TB I ended up
> with. Not to bash or defend Seagate but recently had a 15 year old
> 1TB Seagate fail. (Backed up) Think Constellation is a higher grade
> than Barracuda? New 'old stock' so research part numbers which I
> failed to do. 

My opinion: Friends don't let friends buy Seagate. My personal Seagate
experience tells me that to have your Seagate last 15 years is a super
fortunate outlier. Actually, it's unusually fortunate for *any* disk,
but *especially* Seagate.

I've had pretty good luck with Western Digital.

SteveT

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