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WD Black 6TB 3.5" 7200rpm SATA 6GB/s HDD ~AU$213.50 Delivered (US$163.68) @ Amazon USA

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WD Black 6TB 3.5" 7200rpm SATA 6GB/s HDD ~AU$213.50 Delivered (US$163.68) @ Amazon USA Affiliate
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BuyNow Think Later on 20/12/2017 - 20:10 amazon.com (1351 clicks)
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This is the fastest HDD tested by Userbenchmark and is much faster than Toshiba X300 6TB HDD which is ranked 28th fastest.
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  • diamondd on 20/12/2017 - 20:17
    +2

    make sure you buy two, that's a hell of a lot of data to lose in one go…

    • Slippery Fish on 20/12/2017 - 20:26

      Surely most people just use these for movies ect? Idk what I'd use for 6tb data… Anywho I love wd blacks, never had a single one fail on me or family.

      • diamondd on 20/12/2017 - 20:29

        you say "just", but it would take forever to amass 6TB worth of movies. It'd be crazy not to have some redundancy IMO.

        • Slippery Fish on 20/12/2017 - 20:30

          I've got 1tb full and 2 2tb full. I just give out my externals and delete the doubles after lol.

        • Diji1 on 20/12/2017 - 21:10
          +1

          Only takes 6 days to download 6TB using 100Mbit …

        • diamondd on 20/12/2017 - 21:14
          +4

          @Diji1: sure, but it'd take you far longer than that to track them all down in the first place.

        • Procyon on 20/12/2017 - 21:21
          +3

          VR and 4K content is pretty data-heavy (think 5 - 20GB per movie)! So maybe 600 movies and your drive's full.

        • Diji1 on 20/12/2017 - 22:56

          @diamondd: Good point.

        • Harold Halfprice on 20/12/2017 - 23:10

          @Diji1:

          Except you're not gonna be downloading anywhere close to 100mbps - plus some older content can be hard to find and likely wont have many seeds if any

        • [Deactivated] on 21/12/2017 - 10:58
          +1

          @Procyon: Hah, 5-20! I'm seeing 50-100gb per movie. 6Tb is peanuts for high BR Atmos stuff

    • Procyon on 20/12/2017 - 21:16
      +6

      If it's not automated, it's not a real backup.
      If it's not redundant, it's not a real backup.
      If it's not regularly rotated off-site, it's not a real backup.

      • Slippery Fish on 20/12/2017 - 22:32
        +1

        If my home burns down I don't give a shit about things I wouldn't store on Google drive O.O

      • Ulysses31 on 20/12/2017 - 22:51

        Great initiative, albeit top link is by an ignorant prick.

    • airzone on 21/12/2017 - 00:08

      C'mon, I've had 4 disk raid 0 arrays before… Show some commitment lol

  • knobbs on 20/12/2017 - 20:18

    Price per TB is what I am more interested in but this seems to be pretty competitive still yeah?

    • tomochin1991 on 20/12/2017 - 20:22

      If you are interested in price per TB then the blacks isn't for you. Maybe look for the reds or blues…

      • The Magic Pudding on 20/12/2017 - 20:26
        +3

        This one could be, its beating the $40 per TB mark by quite a bit.

      • knobbs on 20/12/2017 - 20:28

        Hey tomochin,

        Thanks for the heads up, do you know of any deals happening atm for the red or blue WDs?

        • diamondd on 20/12/2017 - 20:58
          +2

          also worth considering that the blacks are far more reliable than the reds and blues. This is ridiculously cheap.

        • tomochin1991 on 20/12/2017 - 21:38

          The wd red 6tb goes down to around 190USD where as the 6tb blues goes to around 170USD on amazon… There are most likely better deals for them elsewhere and as of atm I have no idea. That being said, the black drives won't be the lowest price per TB as it is a better drive than the red and blues. It all really comes down to what you want to use the drives for. Not saying that this price for the black is not an amazing deal, its actually a super good price but to answer your question if its the best price per TB it is not lol.

        • Harold Halfprice on 20/12/2017 - 23:14

          @tomochin1991:

          wd red 6tb goes down to around 190USD where as the 6tb blues goes to around 170USD on amazon

          And this is at $163 USD. Just because it's a black and blacks are more expensive, that it can't be the best price per TB currently.

    • knobbs on 21/12/2017 - 10:50

      I should of just bought one, still cheaper per TB than all the 6TB drives in the current 20% eBay sale :(

  • sschen on 20/12/2017 - 20:41

    The main/boot HDD on my two computers at home used to be WD Black too before I upgraded them to SSD. Both drives are now the main data drives on the two computers, and still working without failures.

    My only concern is how they would fare as NAS drives in NAS enclosures. Anyone know of noise and heat figures, as compared to the WD Red??

    • jv on 20/12/2017 - 20:50
      +3

      Anyone know of noise and heat figures,

      The black ones run quite hot. I wouldn't use it for a NAS.

      • cheaponos on 20/12/2017 - 21:22
        +2

        Agree. I've got WD 4TB reds in the NAS and haven't had heat issues.

        • bender000 on 20/12/2017 - 22:03

          Yep, though not WD blacks, I had 7200rpm hitachis in a NAS and that was toasty. Idled in low 40s even in cool spring/autumn.
          WD Reds @ 5400rpm, temps dropped literally around 10 degrees.
          Unless you're running in a proper DC with cooling etc. I'd stick with 5400rpm for home use.
          Also, noise. You'd be amazed how loud 6x 7200rpms can be.

      • DARK KHAOS on 20/12/2017 - 21:57

        In one of my pc's I have a wd red and wd black.
        Both 2tb and positioned in drive cage at front of case and lots of cross flow ventilation.
        WD Red 36 degrees
        WD Black 42 Degrees
        Measured with Hard Disk Sentinel

        • jv on 20/12/2017 - 21:59

          Mine use to run in the high 50's. That was a few years back though… It only lasted about 3-4 years before it died.

        • DARK KHAOS on 20/12/2017 - 22:07

          @jv: Must admit the warranty is good.
          I had one fail back in 2013 and they sent fedex to pick it up.
          Then a new one arrived a month or so later.
          It was 4 years old.

    • Diji1 on 20/12/2017 - 23:25

      With the massive sample size of two I'm sure that's indicative of what we can expect!

  • schquid on 20/12/2017 - 20:50
    +2

    That's ridiculously cheap… almost too good to be true. That's only slightly more than the Amazon price for a 4TB WD Red. My spidey sense is saying refurb/used drives

    • ethan961 on 20/12/2017 - 22:11

      Condition is listed as new, so at least there's some possible protection from Amazon as the condition of the item is supposedly guaranteed.

  • timochy on 20/12/2017 - 21:06

    Just what i was looking for
    Cheers
    Bought 3, hopefully cashrewards works too

    • BuyNow Think Later on 20/12/2017 - 21:39
      +1

      I hope so too. Appreciate if you could upvote :)

  • Procyon on 20/12/2017 - 21:15

    What does the warranty situation look like when ordering from Amazon US?

    • jv on 20/12/2017 - 21:25
      -5

      zilch….

    • tomochin1991 on 20/12/2017 - 21:42
      +2

      30 days.
      Could always try your luck emailing amazon if anything does happen after 30 days but whether if they would do anything about it is to their discretion.
      The warranty policy there is always if anything happens after the 30 days, you deal directly with the manufacturer which in this case is WD in the states. You won't be out of a warranty, its just troublesome having to ship it back there and get it shipped back to you.

      • jv on 20/12/2017 - 22:00

        whether if they would do anything about it is to their discretion.

        you'd need to post it back to the US

        • bender000 on 20/12/2017 - 22:04

          They do a return if you post it back to the US within 30 days. After that you're on your own. I have no idea what WD's position is like on international. I've been burned before by Toshiba who refused to RMA a model that they claimed wasn't sold in Oz, and the US website won't let me submit a RMA from a non-US address. sigh

        • tomochin1991 on 20/12/2017 - 22:37
          +1

          I've had an item that came defective from amazon, emailed the support and got a replacement shipped to me with express shipping free of charge. Didnt ask me to ship it back. Also had another item which I used for about 2 months then it became faulty, support refunded the whole amount and didnt ask me to ship it back. These were around 100$ items though so maybe the price could affect the result, but im not sure hence why i said to their discretion.

        • jv on 20/12/2017 - 23:03

          @tomochin1991:

          I've had an item that came defective from amazon

          That's different to a warranty claim though.

        • tomochin1991 on 20/12/2017 - 23:11
          +1

          @jv: After 2 months of use and the item became faulty… Thats a warranty claim. When you claim a warranty, the seller could either fix it, replace it with something similar or refund you.

        • jv on 20/12/2017 - 23:24

          @tomochin1991:

          After 2 months of use and the item became faulty…

          you changed your story.

          I've had an item that came defective from amazon

        • tomochin1991 on 21/12/2017 - 07:21

          @jv: Lol I didnt change the story, i said I had 2 items with Amazon that both had issues with different reasons. The purpose to say that either defective when received or faulty after a few months. They were pretty easy to deal with in fixing the problem.

        • jv on 21/12/2017 - 08:02

          @tomochin1991:

          Maybe you were just lucky?

      • fatice on 20/12/2017 - 22:00

        I bought a WD NAS cloud with 2 WD red from Amazon US. It failed to boot after a power failure. WD send out a courier to pick it up and delivered 2 weeks later. But the drives are refurbished WD red on the return unit.

        • sschen on 20/12/2017 - 23:22

          Does WD have a repair centre now in Australia?

          A few years ago when I had a WD Green HDD died on me, I was asked to return the HDD back to their repair centre based in either Kuala Lumpur or Penang in Malaysia to get a replacement. Since Australia Post wants to charge me a ridiculous amount of money to post it overseas to one of our nearest neighbor, I delayed posting it for a few months till a holiday trip to Malaysia, and I posted it for literally a few A$ from within Malaysia to their repair centre.

          I actually put my Australian address as the return address. I can't remember how long I waited, but the replacement HDD did in fact turn up one day after the defective HDD was posted back.

        • xuqi on 21/12/2017 - 12:47

          @sschen:

          I sent my drives requiring RMA to Thailand.

    • xuqi on 21/12/2017 - 12:46

      You can always claim warranty direct from WD themselves. Recently I sent back 3 drives purchased in the past from Amazon (1 Black, 1 RE, and 1 Red 4TB's) directly to WD in Thailand, and they shipped me new replacement unused 're-certified' drives. It cost me ~$23 to ship the Three drives back, and they paid for the replacements to be sent back to me. Their labeling is very different to retail drives though so as to make sure the user knows they are re-certified.

  • fatice on 20/12/2017 - 21:33

    How does it compares to the WD purple? I want to use it to store surveillance videos as the price is better than WD purple.

    • xuqi on 20/12/2017 - 21:42

      It'll be fine providing you have some airflow across it.

    • tomochin1991 on 20/12/2017 - 21:48
      +1

      If your running these drives 24/7 then I'd probably get something else. In summer these drives in my pc hit 34-38 degrees and I have fans pushing air through it all the time. In winter they stay at around 30 degrees.

      • fatice on 20/12/2017 - 21:57

        I am going to run it in a qnap, which has fans running at the back.

        • tomochin1991 on 20/12/2017 - 22:50
          +1

          Think you should get something like the red drives for a qnap… These drives will get a lot hotter when its stuck in something like a 4 bay qnap NAS enclosure. Especially if they are really close to each other, they get even hotter. As stated above, people get 40 degrees or more on a much better / bigger more airflow pc case so itd be worse in a qnap. I run 4x 8tb reds in qnap and even those stay at the 35-40 degrees.
          I also had the Seagate enterprise edition 3x 7200rpm HDDS running in NAS for a week and they've hit 50-60 degrees which i pulled it out and now run it on my desktop. I would assume the wd black 7200rpm drives hitting those temperatures if its stacked up in a small NAS bay.

      • hetzjagd on 20/12/2017 - 22:37
        +2

        is 34-38 degrees in summer that hot really?

      • Diji1 on 21/12/2017 - 00:46
        +2

        Running constantly at those tempratures does nothing, zip to drive reliability.

  • bbourizk on 20/12/2017 - 21:52

    Thanks mate.
    Grabbed a couple.

  • DiscoJango on 20/12/2017 - 22:27

    poo, i just bought the 4tb from msy for $170 recently

    wonder if i can return it - still in its shrink wrap

    • xuqi on 20/12/2017 - 22:37

      They don't do change of mind returns.

      • Harold Halfprice on 21/12/2017 - 18:53

        I thought they did, but charge a restocking fee

        • xuqi on 22/12/2017 - 01:28

          The one's in Perth definitely don't. Going by their regular run-in's with the ACCC they hardly provide proper RMA service, let alone change of mind returns.

  • netsurfer on 20/12/2017 - 22:53

    Getting confused. The 4K random read performance is quite poor based on UserBenchmark results. Other results are good (inc. 4K random write). There are apparently two models WD6001FZWX and WD6002FZWX.

    Some of the reviews on neweggs are not so positive.

    Anyway, looks like the deal ended.

  • HugoHugo on 20/12/2017 - 22:59

    Woohoo!! Managed to purchase one before it expired :)

  • Dimma on 20/12/2017 - 23:39
    +1

    Dang, looks like I just missed out… =(

    • fonsii on 21/12/2017 - 00:03
      +1

      dammit, me too! :'(

    • ethan961 on 21/12/2017 - 06:23
      +1

      My order was cancelled due to a "technical error" so not sure how many actually got it anyways.

  • dannymangos10 on 21/12/2017 - 00:31

    Surely you would just set up RAID for the same price

  • fatice on 21/12/2017 - 00:54
    +1

    I bought one and paid as usd 163.68. But the credit card shown deduction of Au$303.

    I cancelled it.

    • Steptoe on 21/12/2017 - 06:23

      28 Degrees Card?

      • fatice on 21/12/2017 - 08:33

        Just an AU master card.

    • GrantG on 21/12/2017 - 09:12

      What price was on the email confirmation? I think people who purchased this deal need to see this post and check!

      • silviodante on 21/12/2017 - 09:22

        My email confirmation shows $163.68USD. Hasn't shown up on credit card yet

      • bbourizk on 21/12/2017 - 09:23

        $322.38US for 2 for me.

      • fatice on 21/12/2017 - 09:52

        It was USD163.68. But CC is A303.21

  • OpenHand on 21/12/2017 - 09:57
    +1

    Got a cancellation email this morning due to 'technical error', like ethan961 above.

    • xuqi on 21/12/2017 - 12:41

      I was going to order but then noticed the seller wasn't actually Amazon but Amazon selling on behalf of someone else. Had issues with such purchases in the past, so I decided not to bother.

  • bbourizk on 21/12/2017 - 10:03

    I got a charge of $420.95AU for two drives. No cancellation email.

  • bbourizk on 21/12/2017 - 16:18

    Shipping notification on the 2 I bought as well.

  • B3 on 21/12/2017 - 23:35

    I ordered 2 that were due to ship on Dec 25. Now when I look at the order it says I only ordered 1.

  • bbourizk on 04/01/2018 - 13:27

    Got both of mine today. They came in a sealed brown box with drive info on it, serial number etc. Great deal.

  • Mister Plod on 08/01/2018 - 19:43

    Mine arrived finally. In a usb 3.0 enclosure it's getting ~225MB/s in both read and write which is pretty sweet.

    Made in Thailand and mnufacture date is October 2017 :)

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