Re: HDD whining

[Crist Clark via NANOG <nanog () lists nanog org>]

I literally read this multiple times trying to find where I missed you
describing the noise the drives were making.


On Fri, Sep 25, 2026 at 1:55 PM Shane Ronan via NANOG <nanog () lists nanog org>
wrote:

> Do we even want to know why you are insisting on HDD's?
>
> On Fri, Sep 25, 2026 at 3:57 PM Randy Bush via NANOG <
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>
> > i am having a really hard time getting a dozen 20TB WD WD201KRYZ Golds.
> > the latest is a seller who takes my order and then a day later emails
> > that they only have three and they are refurbs.
> >
> > i imagine we could use reds instead of golds.  but i am very hesitant to
> > take refurbs.
> >
> > this is crazy making.  the two, supposedly new. amazon 6TBs i drove four
> > hours from portland to seattle to install turned out to be crap; one was
> > doa (like dmesg barfs), the other had 50k hours on it.  so i have
> > ordered replacements from newegg, and will have to do the drive up
> > again.
> >
> > randy
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