November 3, 20196 yr WD 8TB Elements Desktop Hard Drive - USB 3.0 - WDBWLG0080HBK-NESN For those of you who need storage now, Amazon has (shuckable) WD 8 TB external HDDs on sale for $125 (about $5 below the other times it goes on sale). Also, it's Amazon, so shipping is fast and free with Prime. Analysis: At $15.625/TB, this puts the 8TB at about the same value as the 10TB which occasionally goes on sale for $160 on Amazon and Best Buy. I would say you're better off getting a 10 TB if you can wait for Black Friday/Cyber Monday when we should see at least these prices, but if you need storage now, this is a good deal. -Torquewrench
November 3, 20196 yr 3 hours ago, T0rqueWr3nch said: WD 8TB Elements Desktop Hard Drive - USB 3.0 - WDBWLG0080HBK-NESN For those of you who need storage now, Amazon has (shuckable) WD 8 TB external HDDs on sale for $125 (about $5 below the other times it goes on sale). Also, it's Amazon, so shipping is fast and free with Prime. Analysis: At $15.625/TB, this puts the 8TB at about the same value as the 10TB which occasionally goes on sale for $160 on Amazon and Best Buy. I would say you're better off getting a 10 TB if you can wait for Black Friday/Cyber Monday when we should see at least these prices, but if you need storage now, this is a good deal. -Torquewrench Smr?
November 3, 20196 yr nah. they're not shingle drives. my understanding is, we won't see shingle drives for public sale for a while, due to the back end hardware/software needed to make them not totally suck. so basically, shingle drives will only ship as "black box" type storage.
November 3, 20196 yr 2 hours ago, Waloshin said: Smr? Probably WD80EMAZ white label drives. That seems to be what is showing up in Easystore and Elements enclosures lately.
November 4, 20196 yr Author 15 hours ago, Hoopster said: Probably WD80EMAZ white label drives. That seems to be what is showing up in Easystore and Elements enclosures lately. That's what I got on my last round, which are still pretty good drives, rumored to be HGST Ultrastar essentially: Note that you will almost certainly have to tape over the 3.3V pin to use it in your unRAID rig: https://amzn.to/2Ncc2WR. I find a steady hand and a pair of tweezers helps to install the Kapton tape relatively easily. Instructions here: https://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-Fix-the-33V-Pin-Issue-in-White-Label-Disks-/ Unless they change things on us, these are not SMR drives. -Torquewrench
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