aptalca Posted July 28, 2017 Share Posted July 28, 2017 I usually hook up the externals to usb3 and run 2 cycles in the enclosure. If successful, I shuck and run another for good measure. If the enclosure is usb3, the preclears are almost as fast in the enclosure as they are out Quote Link to comment
SSD Posted July 28, 2017 Share Posted July 28, 2017 Drives can easily hit 50-55C+ preclearing in a USB enclosure box. If you're going to preclear them like that, blow a fan on them! It still may not cool them sufficiently, but better than nothing. Preclearing in an oven does more harm than good! Even if they come out clean, you may have significantly affected their useful life. Quote Link to comment
kingpin Posted July 29, 2017 Share Posted July 29, 2017 I purchased 8 of these drives today at BestBuy, Madison, WI. All 8 are WD Red 256MB Cache. Build date of 06/17/2017 Quote Link to comment
SSD Posted July 29, 2017 Share Posted July 29, 2017 Shucking Instructions (from earlier in this thread) Quote Link to comment
Hoopster Posted July 29, 2017 Author Share Posted July 29, 2017 Must resist...but $160 is incredibly cheap for an 8TB NAS drive. Got a Lian-Li PC Q25 lying around begging for some hardware occupants.I can't believe these drives are so cheap. They are easy to shuck without breaking the tabs.Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment
Lev Posted July 30, 2017 Share Posted July 30, 2017 Looks like the deal is over, price is back up. Amazed how long it lasted. Quote Link to comment
TinkerToyTech Posted July 31, 2017 Share Posted July 31, 2017 Yup, it's over But I nabbed 2 online and they shucked no problem with 4 pieces from my old PayPal debit card and my fingernails without a tb broke that I I can tell. I'm not going to snap it back together to test to be sure. Took my drobo5N (6+6+8+3+3) 40 hours to rebuild but it's happy. The second drive is going into the open spot in unraid server plus @TinkerToyTech Quote Link to comment
dandirk Posted August 2, 2017 Share Posted August 2, 2017 I was able to stop by 2 Best Buys to get 2... for $160 each They passed preclear with flying colors... what an awesome deal. I wasn't even looking to upgrade ha ha ha Quote Link to comment
TinkerToyTech Posted August 9, 2017 Share Posted August 9, 2017 (edited) On 7/31/2017 at 5:47 PM, TinkerToyTech said: Yup, it's over But I nabbed 2 online and they shucked no problem with 4 pieces from my old PayPal debit card and my fingernails without a tb broke that I I can tell. I'm not going to snap it back together to test to be sure. Took my drobo5N (6+6+8+3+3) 40 hours to rebuild but it's happy. The second drive is going into the open spot in unraid server plus @TinkerToyTech Ok, I put a fan on my other 8tb drive I purchased and ran a preclear, but it appears to be 'stuck'at 99% of its out of server still in the enclosure status before I start tearing things apart and putting this drive into the unraid, what do you think? is it safe to keep/use this drive? ############################################################################################################################ # # # unRAID Server Preclear of disk 3753474A45424543 # # Cycle 1 of 1, partition start on sector 64. # # # # # # Step 1 of 5 - Pre-read verification: [14:56:02 @ 148 MB/s] SUCCESS # # Step 2 of 5 - Zeroing the disk: [14:47:20 @ 150 MB/s] SUCCESS # # Step 3 of 5 - Writing unRAID's Preclear signature: SUCCESS # # Step 4 of 5 - Verifying unRAID's Preclear signature: SUCCESS # # Step 5 of 5 - Post-Read in progress: (99% Done) # # # # # # # # # # # # ** Time elapsed: 14:53:01 | Current speed: 149 MB/s | Average speed: 149 MB/s # # # ############################################################################################################################ # Cycle elapsed time: 44:36:24 | Total elapsed time: 44:36:24 # ############################################################################################################################ Edited August 9, 2017 by TinkerToyTech added preclear status info text Quote Link to comment
SSD Posted August 9, 2017 Share Posted August 9, 2017 Are you able to access a smart report? Quote Link to comment
TinkerToyTech Posted August 13, 2017 Share Posted August 13, 2017 On 8/9/2017 at 7:31 AM, bjp999 said: Are you able to access a smart report? yes, I checked it with piriform speccy, on my win10 machine, in a usb toaster, and it reports all in the Good Quote Link to comment
jwegman Posted August 19, 2017 Share Posted August 19, 2017 FYI, this is back as of today; $159 @ BestBuy.com. My local BestBuy had a mix of the Thailand (which use the larger cache drives) and Chinese produced items: https://www.bestbuy.com/site/wd-easystore-8tb-external-usb-3-0-hard-drive-black/5792401.p?skuId=5792401 Quote Link to comment
Tybio Posted August 19, 2017 Share Posted August 19, 2017 Just picked up two, both the larger cache. Had to get them to price match at check-out as they were still labeled as $179 in the store. Preclearing now. Quote Link to comment
SSD Posted August 19, 2017 Share Posted August 19, 2017 Are they both WD Red Helium - just one larger cache? Is there a way to tell from the outside packaging? Quote Link to comment
Tybio Posted August 19, 2017 Share Posted August 19, 2017 29 minutes ago, bjp999 said: Are they both WD Red Helium - just one larger cache? Is there a way to tell from the outside packaging? I had always thought that the WD80EFZX helium and the WDC_WD80EFAX were non, but I'm not sure. Quote Link to comment
jtech007 Posted August 25, 2017 Share Posted August 25, 2017 Price back down to $169.99 Quote Link to comment
Hoopster Posted August 25, 2017 Author Share Posted August 25, 2017 7 hours ago, jtech007 said: Price back down to $169.99 LOL - follow the bouncing ball! This drive has had so many different prices at Best Buy that it makes one's head spin. Actually, I think that is how they price it. They have a bunch of prices on a wheel and they spin it each week to determine that week's price. I have seen it at $299.99, $279.99, $249.99, $199.99, $179.99, $169.99 and $159.99. I got all mine at $179.99 and now I feel ripped off! Quote Link to comment
jtech007 Posted August 26, 2017 Share Posted August 26, 2017 And it's back up to $199 now. I bought at $199, $179 and $159. Still all good deals. Quote Link to comment
spencers Posted August 26, 2017 Share Posted August 26, 2017 Picked up two at $159 yesterday. Shucked and preclearing with a fan pointed at them. Fan made a difference. Went from 42C to 30C Quote Link to comment
Cel Posted August 27, 2017 Share Posted August 27, 2017 So I can shed a little bit of light on why the price bounces around so quickly. The wholesale cost of the drives is $159.00. If they're at $159.99, they're using them as essentially a loss leader and making a grand total of $1.00 of profit off of the drive (likely actually losing money because of associated costs with transport, storage, labor, etc.). They put them on sale frequently because they have access to a rather large supply of them, and they're exclusively provided to Best Buy (the whole easystore line is a BBY exclusive they negotiated with WD) at low wholesale cost because BBY at this point stocks almost exclusively WD drives, at least in stores. Also someone asked above if there is any way to tell from the outside packaging whether the drive inside is a WD80EFZX with 128mb cache, or a WD80EFAX with 256mb cache. Short answer: there is, and I've only seen one report of it being inaccurate. If you flip the box over, on the underside with the barcodes it should say Manufactured in Thailand or Manufactured in China. The Thailand drives are the 256mb variant, Chinese variant is the 128mb variant. Also, if you purchase a drive and it's within the 15 day return period, you can still price match the new sale price so long as it's not an hourly sale (yes that's a thing) or during Thanksgiving weekend (Thurs-Mon). In-store you'd just take in your receipt and speak to customer service, online is a little bit trickier but you can do so by contacting the corporate 1-888-BEST-BUY phone number. 2 Quote Link to comment
Hoopster Posted August 28, 2017 Author Share Posted August 28, 2017 (edited) 21 hours ago, Cel said: Also someone asked above if there is any way to tell from the outside packaging whether the drive inside is a WD80EFZX with 128mb cache, or a WD80EFAX with 256mb cache. Short answer: there is, and I've only seen one report of it being inaccurate. If you flip the box over, on the underside with the barcodes it should say Manufactured in Thailand or Manufactured in China. The Thailand drives are the 256mb variant, Chinese variant is the 128mb variant. I bought three from BB four months ago. Two boxes say "product of Thailand"; the other says China. The identification string in unRAID reports all three as WD80EFZX drives. This does not change the fact that these are great drives at a great price, but, in my case, country of origin does not seem to have any bearing on the model number/cache size. Maybe this only applies to recently (as in the last two/three months) manufactured drives. Edited August 28, 2017 by Hoopster Quote Link to comment
kaiguy Posted September 3, 2017 Share Posted September 3, 2017 $169 again. I think I'm finally going to pick up one or two. Quote Link to comment
TinkerToyTech Posted September 7, 2017 Share Posted September 7, 2017 just ordered 2 more Quote Link to comment
unevent Posted September 11, 2017 Share Posted September 11, 2017 Looks to be back up to $199.99. Quote Link to comment
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