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WD 8TB My Book Desktop External Hard Drive US$203.52/AU$280.55 Delivered from Amazon.com

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Buying these from Amazon is ordinarily the cheapest way to acquire a non-SMR 8TB drive, and today it's dropped to around US$20 below the usual price (last happened briefly in February).

By all accounts I've read previously, the drive inside is a WD80EZZX, which is basically the same as the 8TB Red, but with TLER off (i.e. less suitable for NAS use).

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  • paul04 on 22/04/2017 - 20:40

    Does anyone know if it's possible to turn TLER back on (wanting Nas drives)

  • Icecold5000 on 22/04/2017 - 21:03

    Just reading about nas drives, is this a big benefit? Don't really know much about this.

  • KennyPowers on 22/04/2017 - 21:07
    +3

    Used Amazon US currency. Worked out AUD $534.68 shipped for 2. Thanks Jabba
    Edit: I cracked one open last night and they're still using the WD80EZZX.

    • Saiya on 22/04/2017 - 21:37

      Was it easy to open the case without damaging it (if needed to send back for warranty)?

    • fatice on 23/04/2017 - 11:09
      +1

      You could have used Crystal disk info http://crystalmark.info/software/CrystalDiskInfo/index-e.htm… to see what drive it is instead of opening it.

      • KennyPowers on 23/04/2017 - 14:14
        +1

        I wanted to use it as an internal drive :)

        • myusername on 24/04/2017 - 14:06

          can it be used internally?

    • MJM on 24/04/2017 - 16:50

      @KennyPowers how did you get 2? Amazon is forcing only 1 for me right now!

      • KennyPowers on 24/04/2017 - 17:13

        Just added 2 and checked out without any problems. Maybe they're now limiting them due to low stock? They were out of stock for a few days before this deal went live.
        Got confirmation they shipped. 2 8tb drives for $534.68 is pretty good in my eyes.

        What happends postage price wise if you buy 2 in seperate orders? Maybe works out to be the same? Worth a shot.

        • MJM on 26/04/2017 - 12:40

          I ended up just buying 1

          Buying 2 separately didn't do anything with shipping (which makes sense to me anyway)

  • V1p3r on 22/04/2017 - 21:25

    Perfect timing. Htpc was running out of space. Cheers OP!

  • Cloudream on 22/04/2017 - 22:30
    +3

    Compares to a local Seagate 8TB ironwolf NAS HDD (cheaper than local WD Red 8TB)

    pro:
    Cheap

    con:
    Warranty
    WD Red 5900 rpm vs. Seagate 7200rpm

    • AlexF on 22/04/2017 - 23:41
      +1

      Compares to a local Seagate 8TB ironwolf NAS HDD..
      con:
      WD Red 5900 rpm vs. Seagate 7200rpm

      Not a con - (in non-LAG configurations) even a single 5900RPM drive is way faster than 1Gb/s ethernet connection to a NAS device. Practically, drive speed only matters during RAID rebuild.

      • Click_It on 23/04/2017 - 20:39

        Well said. I have 11 HDDs in my 2 NAS boxes, all are 5400/5900RPM drives. Much preferred over 7200RPM for that purpose.

        Incidentally, none have ever failed (not that I'm claiming RPM speed for the reason but still, I've been very happy with them)

        1 x Seagate (4TB)
        5 x Hitachi (4TB)
        3 x WD (2TB)
        2 x Samsung (2TB)

        EDIT: Oh and none of my drives are specifically NAS purpose drives (because at the time NAS drives were all 7200rpm). Years of uptime now, especially the older 2TB ones.

    • incipient on 23/04/2017 - 01:12
      +1

      The 5900rpm drives are also cooler, quieter, and use less power. I WANT a 5900rpm drive.

  • KenDiaMoi on 23/04/2017 - 01:38

    Can i open this up and put it in my pc

    • KennyPowers on 23/04/2017 - 13:18

      Yes. I've got one in my pc now. You do void the warranty removing it from the enclosure though.

  • ruddiger7 on 24/04/2017 - 06:47

    I literally just bought 2 of the 16tb (2x8tb) WD myduo enclosures for 720 each. Why you do this to me.

    • Jabba the Hutt on 24/04/2017 - 09:14

      If it's any comfort, the Reds will probably have a higher resale value. Someone on eBay recently listed several shucked WD 8TBs; the Red went for $350 while the non-Red (WD80EZZX) fetched under $300.

      • ruddiger7 on 24/04/2017 - 09:31

        That does make me feel a little better, but my wallet not so good - and I need to buy a synology nas too.

  • chartparker on 24/04/2017 - 07:29

    I actually want to use this as an external drive (as a backup drive to my Nas). Does this come with Australian plugs and does WD have global warranty?

    • giventofly on 24/04/2017 - 08:16

      Same, here.

      Tempted!

    • ruddiger7 on 24/04/2017 - 09:33

      Not entirely sure on the global warranty but I heard that if you register the item with WD for warranty purposes, it will list that it is an external drive - provided you don't want to use it as an internal drive I would keep the external closure and if possible put it back in if you have any problems with the drive before sending back to manufacturer/amazon.

  • gummibear on 24/04/2017 - 07:57

    Is there any benefit these days with using 28degress cards these days?

    • giventofly on 24/04/2017 - 08:20

      These days, I am not so sure.

      • jtb on 24/04/2017 - 09:37

        Pretty sure 28degrees doesn't charge conversion fees so that's a reason to use them. That being said I think Citibank offers a similar card as well now.

        • [Deactivated] on 24/04/2017 - 09:43

          After some very poor experiences with 28 Degrees I am switching to Citibank Plus for international transactions. Sucks that it's a debit card though, I will have to keep topping it up.

        • jtb on 24/04/2017 - 09:45

          @LoopyLou: What issues/experiences did you have?

        • [Deactivated] on 24/04/2017 - 10:09

          @jtb:

          I won't go into details but they are basically very pig headed. A couple of times they have made mistakes or applied fees incorrectly and when questioned they try a number of tricks including outright lies to bamboozle you into letting it go. Even if/when they finally admit it's incorrect they STILL refuse to refund it. I have one right now with the Ombudsman.

          It's pretty obvious that their bamboozlement methods are aimed at the less fortunate and less savvy. I mean it's a great card and everything is fine when things go to plan, but when it doesn't they become a cross between Harvey Norman and a pay day loan company.

        • jtb on 24/04/2017 - 10:24

          @LoopyLou: Thanks for the info. I've never had to deal with customer service, but I'll admit I don't check my bills nearly as thoroughly as I should.

        • sav11 on 24/04/2017 - 21:20

          @LoopyLou: Same but I switched to BankWest Platinum Zero Mastercard. It's the only credit card (apart from 28Degrees) I know of that doesn't charge conversion/currency fees and no annual fee. I use it for all international/other currency transactions. I only use my Citibank Plus card for international ATM withdrawals, as you said it's a debit card.

  • newfangled on 24/04/2017 - 16:35

    Does it come with with an Australian power plug or would I need to buy an adaptor? I assume it handles 120/240V 50/60Hz?

    • KennyPowers on 24/04/2017 - 17:14
      +2

      International power adaptor is required. Yes it's 120/240V 50/60Hz

      • newfangled on 24/04/2017 - 17:30

        Thanks KennyPowers

        I have ordered 1. Should be perfect for backing up my NAS, currently backups are split across 3 external drives :)

      • mikezillakind on 25/04/2017 - 12:59
        +1

        dont they come with swaabple heads ?

        • KennyPowers on 26/04/2017 - 02:11
          +1

          I think both Seagate and Western Digital used to provide those. Might still apply to aussie stock, but in this case no swappable heads.

  • Sage on 25/04/2017 - 11:42

    Cost $298.84 for me.

  • Gav on 25/04/2017 - 16:07

    Price up now. Deal over.

    • snuke on 26/04/2017 - 09:18

      It's up USD $0.10 to $203.62, not exactly over, what price did you see it at?

      Edit: I see, $217.58 delivered, so not just 10 cents.

  • mrhugo on 28/04/2017 - 22:13

    Hi All,

    I have two of these, one removed from the enclosure and the other still in enclosure.

    When I tested them empty was getting great speeds, now that their ~95% full, the speeds seemed c(r)apped 100MB/s read/write.

    Note: Did more testing, ~170MB/s read when reading the files that were written first. 20GB files copied over to a NVMe @ 170MB/s. Copy the last file, and ~100MB/s

    No, I don't have fragmentation.

    Formatted NTFS, very large files, all measured in GB's

    I have many more coming, so I assume they will all do the same.

    Strange, when cloning the drives, it started at 170MB/s with 15hr to go, but after 12hrs, there was still another 8hrs remaining and speed dropped to 130MB/s and at the end I was barely getting 100MB/s….make sense, performance plummets as they fill up.

    Let me know what others are getting, but keep this in mind.

    • KennyPowers on 29/04/2017 - 16:19

      Hey MrH
      I'm copying from an internal WD80EZZX to an external WD80EZZX. Have 143GB (2%) free space on the source drive. Seems to average around 120MBps towards the end, burst for some sections were as high as 190MBps reported by Teracopy. Looking at ProcessHacker I/O R/W graph it seems to be a pretty steady 120MBps.
      Seems pretty normal performance for an 5400rpm > 5400rpm drive. Yeah?

    • Jabba the Hutt on 30/04/2017 - 10:13

      I have many more coming, so I assume they will all do the same.

      Normal for a hard disk's sequential read/write performance to look something like this across its full capacity. The drive starts at the outer edge of the platters where the data rate is faster (for a given RPM and data density), and the data rate slows as it gets closer to the centre.

      • mrhugo on 01/05/2017 - 10:29
        +1

        Yep, I think you are both right guys!

        Was thinking about this over the weekend about the physical distance the heads need to travel when they get to the outer end of the platter.

        Even though its pretty clear in the end, I didn't realise there would be such a big drop-off in performance. Coming from 7200RPM drives only over the last 10 years, I didn't really RPM made this much of a difference to throughput, I thought it was latency and IOPS.

        Guess I will have to live with it. Performance/Capacity/Low Price, choose two, and you wont have the third. I chose Capacity and low price, so I can't really expect performance.

  • bluesky on 03/05/2017 - 18:04

    Edit: Question deleted.
    Was asking if it would have come with AUS plugs. Noticed answer by someone above. Apparently not.

  • bluesky on 03/05/2017 - 18:30
    +1

    The packaging of my drive was horrible. It was inside a huge box and it slided left and right with just the tiniest of movements. I am wondering if it was an isolated case, that they ran out of airwrap, when packing mine (there was 1 tiny piece that did nothing). Or this is across the board. Would appreciate others' feedback. Thanks.

    • snuke on 04/05/2017 - 09:53
      +1

      Standard Amazon packaging. It amazes me that with the millions of crap they send out every day, their packaging is so insanely piss poor and inefficient.

      • bluesky on 04/05/2017 - 13:26

        Thanks. They sent email asking for feedback on packaging even before the drive arrived. Provided this feedback - not sure if it makes a difference.

    • ruddiger7 on 08/05/2017 - 12:23
      +1

      Received two packages in the same condition you described. Hoping they work well when I unpack them tonight.

      • bluesky on 08/05/2017 - 13:35

        OK, so now we know, it is across the board, not isolated incident.
        Each time they ask for packaging feedback, one would have thought such problems would have been ironed out already.

  • DryScissors on 06/06/2017 - 07:32

    Deal is active again, and slightly cheaper

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