<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">The price is indeed in Cdn $$$ at Memory Express, so, yeah damn good price @ 205Cdn for an 8TB drive, though the shipping fee is around $17.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">I checked with my IT guy and he said we deployed 154 pcs of the RED PRO series(more than I thought) and he has had zero failure or funky behaviour, so knock on wood that record stays in place!</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Let us know when you decide to get.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Thanks,<br><br>Ron S.<br><br></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Nov 30, 2022 at 12:55 PM Khalid Baheyeldin <<a href="mailto:kb@2bits.com">kb@2bits.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">On Mon, Nov 28, 2022 at 9:40 PM Ron Singh <<a href="mailto:ronsingh149@gmail.com" target="_blank">ronsingh149@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">That's a US source with US pricing...</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div>The MemoryExpress site is kind of ambiguous on the currency it is using, but <br></div><div>when I looked at the locations, they were all in Canada. Looks like they are <br></div><div>based out of Alberta, with a few stores in Ontario and elsewhere. <br></div><div><br></div><div>I guess I will keep looking ... <br></div><div> </div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">For the last 2 years plus, we've been using the RED PRO series for NAS and regular server use --</div><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">with our largest install being 16 pcs of the 12TB units, no issues thus far. </div><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Double the cache of the RED PLUS (256M vs 128M)<br></div><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">They are a bit noisier(especially when the head is moving around)though as they are 7200rpm to the RED PLUS's 5600-ish RPM.</div><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"></div><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Not sure if this is of much help?</span><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div>Indeed that helps a lot. Nothing like first hand experience, specially when the <br><div>sample size is higher than just a few. <br></div><div><br></div><div>Thanks ... <br></div><div><br><br></div></div></div></div>
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