A user building a TrueNAS pool recommends Seagate Exos enterprise drives, stating their price per terabyte is now comparable to consumer NAS drives while offering a better 5-year warranty and...

{
  "signal_id": "e7c5b87b-5e98-51af-a656-390a70b77e33",
  "signal_type": "reddit-company",
  "signal_subtype": "customerFeedback",
  "detected_at": "2026-10-01T17:25:09+00:00",
  "company": {
    "name": "Seagate",
    "domain": "seagate.com"
  },
  "data": {
    "nsfw": false,
    "stage": "none",
    "awards": 0,
    "timing": "ongoing_state",
    "topics": [
      "nas",
      "storage",
      "pricing",
      "hardware",
      "data storage"
    ],
    "post_id": "1wv5jn1",
    "summary": "A user building a TrueNAS pool recommends Seagate Exos enterprise drives, stating their price per terabyte is now comparable to consumer NAS drives while offering a better 5-year warranty and higher workload rating.",
    "category": "pricing",
    "comments": [
      {
        "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/zfs/comments/1wv5jn1/comment/pd92sa5/",
        "depth": 0,
        "score": 4,
        "author": "Intelligent-Box4697",
        "excerpt": "My method is cursed. Mind you just a file server.\n\n Dell server -> Dell HDD.\n\n Used on eBay. (Seller must have returns in case S.M.A.R.T is beyond atrocious).\n\n SATA or SAS depending on which is the cheapest.\n\n Make sure they are all the same size for each dataset.\n\n Enable 30 minute standby.\n\n I have redundancy so it doesn't even matter.\n\n A 4tb drive costs like $50.",
        "posted_at": "2026-10-01T17:55:58.000Z",
        "author_url": "https://www.reddit.com/user/Intelligent-Box4697/"
      },
      {
        "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/zfs/comments/1wv5jn1/comment/pd9sjx1/",
        "depth": 0,
        "score": 4,
        "author": "darkpixel2k",
        "excerpt": "> I've been tracking prices, and the gap between consumer (Red Plus, IronWolf) and enterprise (Exos, MG, Ultrastar) has basically closed on a price/TB basis.\n\n Yes, unfortunately the gap converged by enterprise drives skyrocketing, followed by desktop gear skyrocketing even more. ;)\n\n A server I built last September was ~$5k. Now it's $35k. Because of the horrific cost of enterprise drives and mem",
        "posted_at": "2026-10-01T19:44:37.000Z",
        "author_url": "https://www.reddit.com/user/darkpixel2k/"
      },
      {
        "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/zfs/comments/1wv5jn1/comment/pdas027/",
        "depth": 0,
        "score": 1,
        "author": "TheG0AT0fAllTime",
        "excerpt": "Is this some kind of AI training prompt? Did you ask AI to write this?\n\n At work I buy WD reds, red pros or ironwolfs. At home I buy whatever's affordable which for a long time was also those two types among a few others.\n\n Today I would probably still get reds or red pros for work if they can afford it anymore.",
        "posted_at": "2026-10-01T22:28:09.000Z",
        "author_url": "https://www.reddit.com/user/TheG0AT0fAllTime/"
      },
      {
        "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/zfs/comments/1wv5jn1/comment/pdc4zol/",
        "depth": 0,
        "score": 1,
        "author": "RetroGrid_io",
        "excerpt": "For me, it's used gear all the way. 30k+ hour SAS pulls with clean SMART in RAIDZ2 pools. Quite reliable, cheap, at least 2026 cheap.",
        "posted_at": "2026-10-02T02:46:02.000Z",
        "author_url": "https://www.reddit.com/user/RetroGrid_io/"
      },
      {
        "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/zfs/comments/1wv5jn1/comment/pdg0ffe/",
        "depth": 0,
        "score": 1,
        "author": "retiredcheapskate",
        "excerpt": "When someone figures out what to do with all of these SMR drives no one seems to want. watch out!",
        "posted_at": "2026-10-02T16:48:58.000Z",
        "author_url": "https://www.reddit.com/user/retiredcheapskate/"
      }
    ],
    "evidence": [
      "[post] I've been tracking prices, and the gap between consumer (Red Plus, IronWolf) and enterprise (Exos, MG, Ultrastar) has basically closed on a price/TB basis.",
      "[post] Exos costs about the same as a Red Plus, and I'd still just buy the Exos. Not because it's more reliable, but because for the same money you also get the 5-year warranty and the higher workload rating.",
      "[post] Long story short - confirm a drive is CMR, then buy on price/TB. And at today's prices that usually points right back at Exos."
    ],
    "virality": "medium",
    "post_date": "2026-10-01T17:25:09.000Z",
    "post_kind": "multi_media",
    "post_text": "Putting together a TrueNAS pool or adding drives to one? This is what I actually do now, because the usual reasoning is a bit off here.\n\nCMR vs SMR:\n\nCMR vs SMR still matters most, and I'd check the exact model before buying anything. SMR can look totally fine until you have to resilver, and then it gets painfully slow, sometimes enough that the drive drops out during the rebuild. The WD Red mess back in 2020 is the obvious example, and SMR still sneaks into some consumer NAS models, so it's worth the two minutes to check the model number.\n\nEnterprise instead of Consumer:\n\nIt mostly comes down to price, and here's where the usual advice is outdated. People still say \"just buy Exos, it's barely more per TB.\" The \"barely more\" part isn't even true anymore. I've been tracking prices, and the gap between consumer (Red Plus, IronWolf) and enterprise (Exos, MG, Ultrastar) has basically closed on a price/TB basis. The premium people used to complain about is gone.\n\nHow to compare them:\n\nOnce you look at Backblaze's numbers model by model, the current CMR drives all fail at about the same rate. So I wouldn't pay extra for an enterprise drive expecting it to last longer. The data doesn't back that up.\n\nMy approach:\n\nExos costs about the same as a Red Plus, and I'd still just buy the Exos. Not because it's more reliable, but because for the same money you also get the 5-year warranty...",
    "sentiment": "positive",
    "subreddit": "zfs",
    "post_title": "Building a new TrueNAS pool? Why I still buy Enterprise at the same price",
    "prominence": "core",
    "source_url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/zfs/comments/1wv5jn1/building_a_new_truenas_pool_why_i_still_buy/",
    "entity_role": "vendor",
    "post_author": "deeddy",
    "upvote_ratio": 0.6842105263157895,
    "mention_count": 1,
    "mention_surge": false,
    "subreddit_url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/zfs/",
    "total_upvotes": 7,
    "comments_total": 11,
    "total_comments": 11,
    "other_companies": [
      {
        "name": "Western Digital",
        "role": "competitor",
        "domain": "westerndigital.com"
      },
      {
        "name": "Toshiba",
        "role": "alternative",
        "domain": "semicon-storage.com"
      }
    ],
    "post_author_url": "https://www.reddit.com/user/deeddy/",
    "signal_category": "feedback",
    "comments_included": 5,
    "products_mentioned": [
      "Exos",
      "IronWolf"
    ]
  }
}

curl https://signals.autobound.ai/v1/signals/e7c5b87b-5e98-51af-a656-390a70b77e33 \
  -H "X-API-KEY: $AUTOBOUND_API_KEY"

curl -X POST https://signals.autobound.ai/v1/companies/enrich \
  -H "X-API-KEY: $AUTOBOUND_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"domain":"seagate.com","limit":20}'