T0rqueWr3nch Posted November 3, 2019 Share Posted November 3, 2019 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 Quote Link to comment
Waloshin Posted November 3, 2019 Share Posted November 3, 2019 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? Quote Link to comment
sota Posted November 3, 2019 Share Posted November 3, 2019 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. Quote Link to comment
Hoopster Posted November 3, 2019 Share Posted November 3, 2019 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. Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted November 4, 2019 Share Posted November 4, 2019 AFAIK currently WD only has 2 and 6TB SMR 3.5" drives, all others are CMR Quote Link to comment
T0rqueWr3nch Posted November 4, 2019 Author Share Posted November 4, 2019 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 Quote Link to comment
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