WD Elements 8TB USB 3.0 Desktop Hard Drive, price includes taxes and shipping.
I was close to ordering from Amazon this morning but very happily found the New Egg Free Shipping deal. Thanks @Darkscythe
WD Elements 8TB USB 3.0 Desktop Hard Drive WDBWLG0080HBK-NESN Black - $227 Delivered @ Newegg
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Mechanical : P
I've seen two comments saying they're WD Blues. One from Newegg comments and one from /r/datahoarder.
Make of that what you will.
I still own one of these. can confirm that they use wd caviar green drives. well, in mine which i have..
A steal if these are Reds!
Probably not though.
Yeah i'm looking for a new WD red 8TB, my last 4TB has a bad sector.
@SuperC: a single bad sector is nothing. It would be remapped to a spare sector and carry on like normal. edit: https://www.mjm.co.uk/articles/bad-sector-remapping.html .. or I guess your drive could be out of spares.
@redpen: Yeah I know, its more its running in a NAS with 1 drive fault tolerance and it is a 3 year old drive, so best to get a WD red when they go on sale instead of waiting and rushing to get one.
WD don't make any blue or greens (line is gone anyway) in 8TB, so it can't be them. A post on r/datahoarder showed one with a WD white label version of this drive but spinning at 5400rpm, so it's probably similar to what is happening with the My Books and the 5400rpm helium drives.
Not a lot of info on those drives, as they are not available for desktops, only for data centres and now the slightly different ones in the Elements. They are air filled instead of helium, so they have less platters than the helium ones (highest density currently produced iirc) and so might perform slightly better than the helium ones.PS: looks like the current batch has changed to the non helium WD80EMAZ, which runs off a the same platform as the HGST HC320 data center drive.
I can confirm that they are white label WD80EZAZ (have 2 chucked and running in the NAS) running at 5400rpm with 256gb cache. They have TLER disabled and the firmware does not retain TLER settings. Other than that, watch out on the 3.3v pin reset feature, nothing can't be fixed with a bit of tape though.
Reviews are pretty hit and miss on this one.
what are they criticising about the hdd?
showing AU$205 delivered for me
That excludes GST
ah, I should have thought about that! lol
This vs Porsche designed Lacie 8tb as I'm needing another drive
They are both lower end 8TB drives as far as I know, most people don't need higher performance.
I would rather pay $255 locally for the 8TB Lacie as you get warranty, and its a Seagate Compute 8TB, which is fine.
where can i find $255 lacie locally
that's a lot of porn!
No! Linux ISO for sure!
Say it as it is… Illegally downloaded movies tv shows and music.
Could be a lot of ozbargains, or preperation for digital ozbargains
…of pornographic nature
@Turd: Highly unlikely in the age of spotify and netflix.
Who wants to hoard readily available content like that.@idonotknowwhy:
People who are not interested in the N/S business model….not wanting to stream…..interested in older and/or foriegn movies…..wanting competently subtitled copies of same.Yep all "highly unlikely", not.
Not sure why you're being negged. This is precicesly what I will be using it for. I do think we should try and pay our fair share, which is why I go to the cinemas when I can, subscribe to Prime Video, Netflix, and Google Music.
If I could afford the physical space and financials of buying absolutely every show and song I watch, I would.
Readily available? This isn't accurate at all. Exclusives neuter streaming services. You either have to pay $20 for one show or hope it's on the streaming service you already subscribe to. Then, if you can stream it, you have to hope it stays on there.
Nothing compares to your own media collection, legal or illegal.
@idonotknowwhy: People who think that when you delete it from your hard drive, you delete it from the internet.
Yes, sometimes there are things which are difficult to source again. Most things are not. Most people who hoard digital content are hoarding the same stuff as everyone else. I used to be one of them.
@macrocephalic: As did I. I still do to some extent, but I know I have a problem and am seeking help.
OP dont forget 1% cashrewards cashback
Does this come with the AU power cable?
No, but most likely the power supply is 110-240v 50/60hz compatible so a simple US to AU converter will do the trick
Am currently doing this with a WD Elements 8TB drive
The 8tb mybook has a better quality drive
Whats the difference between Mybook and Elements?
The actual drive inside the black plastic box. The Mybook has a drive inside thats designed to run 24/7—365 and is actually more expensive to buy on it's own outside of the drive enclosure. I'm not sure what type of drive is inside the Elements but it's not up to the same standard as the MyBook. It's not designed to run 24/7.
All hard drives are designed to run 24/7.
What sets them apart are workloads and other things.
Not really
Unless its an enteprise hard drive, which is very expensive, there isn't any evidence that there is a limit to 24/7.
With my own personal experience I've run my drives 24/7 for 5 years, I even stopped by greens from powering down when idle.
I realise it's all personal experience but enterprise drives are all I'll buy (agree, expensive and all too rarely on special). They seem to last….I even wore out a pair of old WD Blacks though I wasn't unhappy with the length of time they ran.
For me I factor in the "cost" of the likelihood of losing the contents plus time spent in sudden mass moves…if I have a spare!
I certainly loath these "boxes" where you get no idea what drive may be inside…..and WD's constant attempts to prevent you discarding the case which can itself fail. That policy of forced and hidden encryption which only an individual case could read was the last straw.
Same goes with the concealed casing of "archive" style drives, no respect for the customer. For the this both WD & Seagate are guilty.
@havebeerbelywillsumo: Meh, I have and still run my computer and HDs 24/7 for years. In RAID of course.
Enterprise mechanical hard drives are kinda pointless.
Most of the cost you pay is for a heavy workload, some of it potentially goes towards trying decrease the chance of failure, but due to the fact that its a mechanical hard drive, you will always have that risk.
An enterprise SSD would make more sense, much more potential
Its far more cost effective and safer to invest in RAID, backups, or both.
@samfisher5986: Being helium-filled goes a long way towards preventing failures. The Reds and white-label-Reds are helium filled and the Elements are apparently not.
@samfisher5986: I haven't tested it myself but I'm going off this thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/99gsde/wd_elem…
@samfisher5986: Why did you stop power-down? I have a 5TB WD for Kodi, and it's slow as hell to start a new video. Would this be a good solution?
Yes because I use plex and the delay to start a video would be 5-10 seconds which is terrible.
I also did it because I think that constant spinning up and down is bad for the drive, it increases the chance of a huge failure (as these often happen while the drive is spinning up and down). These are green drives i'm talking about where the start/stop count would be 60,000, as opposed to my other drives which would be 15. No I didn't mistype the numbers.
Neither, if you are talking about green drives and other drives where its built into the hard drive.
There are a few ways to do it, I use Hard Disk Sentinel myself.
If you are talking about hard drives in general turning off, its in power settings.
That link is comparing Mybooks to Easystores, not Elements like the one in this deal.
This is a better discussion about Elements and they do not have the same drives: https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/99gsde/wd_elem…
Got a LaCie 8TB a short time ago for AUD235.— delivered from an australian seller. Very happy with it.
Yeah been looking at them, nice looking drives
Wait…
People buy them but don't shuck them?
Matx or itx build or hook them up to tvs Xboxes etc shucking would only be good for hp microservers
$221+GST for the NESN model in the my book (apparently 8TB RED drives) is great value
https://www.newegg.com/global/au/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N…$243.49 inc GST and free delivery with Prime
https://www.amazon.com.au/WD-Desktop-External-Drive-WDBBGB00…From the first few post here https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/395253
you will need to do a bit of work if you want to shuck the drive.According to comments the drives are WD Whites similar to Reds but have the 3v pin issue if you shuck it.
Comment by Charcoal 6/8/18
"You'll need to block the 3v pin from the HDD to allow it to 'spin up'"Alternatively you use a molex to Sata adapter which bypasses the 3v.
Discussions on the WD white drives here
https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/6yimv9/are_the…Further reading stated that the later models were the same, and not actually reds, which is a big bummer. How ever I need a 4th drive for my raid array as a hotspare, so this will do in the short term. I'll swap it out for a proper red when the prices drop again.
You can buy a 8tb porche lacie for $267 on ebay, I rather buy the porche than a western digital
$255 at umart
https://www.umart.com.au/LaCie-Porsche-Design-USB-3-0-Extern…
Its a Seagate Compute inside.
Sold out currently, seems I just missed out.
What type of drive is in this?