I purchased a 14TB Seagate Expansion drive from Bestbuy Canada. I had basic expectations based on my last Seagate shucking experience that has had me using WD drives for the last while. I was pleasantly surprised to find a SATA Exos 2x14 drive inside, white label, but does include the MACH-2 logo on it. It was a nice surprise to be sure and I may have to grab another while they're on sale ($239 CAD)
Is this the new standard of what we'll find in external drives?
I haven't connected it to my server yet. I'm expecting it to show as a single drive with excellent performance.
Can you tell more about shucking these? Did you you run into any issues shucking these drives? I am planning to pick some up tomorrow. I have a decent i5 which i want to make to a file server.