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WD 8TB Elements Desktop Hard Drive - USB 3.0 $220.99 + Delivery (Free with Prime) @ Amazon US via AU

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WD 8TB Elements Desktop Hard Drive - USB 3.0 $220.99 + Delivery (Free with Prime) @ Amazon US via AUAffiliate
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bpop99 on 14/02/2019 - 01:45 amazon.com.au (673 clicks)
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This is the 8TB WD Elements External HDD. Not the lowest price but pretty close and way lower cost per GB than any internal or external hard drives in the local market(with this price being under 3c per GB). For those who missed out a few days ago, here's your chance. Free shipping with Prime

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  • Skinnerr on 14/02/2019 - 02:04
    -1

    OzNotTheLowestPrice

    • bpop99 on 14/02/2019 - 02:08
      +4

      I've been tracking hard drive prices - other than the Seagate 10TBs, these are the cheapest per GB, and way cheaper than anything in the local market. Also, under 3 cents aussie per GB is already pretty good. I'd say its a pretty good bargain unless you need the 10 TB ones

      • Skinnerr on 14/02/2019 - 02:56
        +2

        Fair, and you're right - it's pretty close. I just said it as it's a rather easily searched item

        I'll eat crow, my bad.

      • AlienC on 14/02/2019 - 03:00

        Can link me the 10TB I swear I compared the two the 8TB vs the 10TB and they were either the same or the 8TB was cheaper per gb.. I need to see this.

        • Trantor on 14/02/2019 - 07:25

          I think he maybe referring to the recent 10tb drives that Amazon AU had for $244 recently that sold very quickly

    • MorriJ on 14/02/2019 - 02:26

      @Skinnerr Can you share a lower price? Thanks.

  • seniordoc on 14/02/2019 - 03:26

    Do you know what speed is the disk inside?
    Thanks.

    • bpop99 on 14/02/2019 - 07:20

      Its likely 5400 from what i gather on the net on this model

  • ca6leguy on 14/02/2019 - 06:23

    What’s the failure rate of these drives? All my external drive failed after a few year. I don’t even get to fill it up which is a good thing otherwise I would have lost everything.

    • PainToad on 14/02/2019 - 06:42
      -5

      I assume you’ve used Seagate?

      • ca6leguy on 14/02/2019 - 06:52

        It was Western Digital.

        • bpop99 on 14/02/2019 - 07:30

          I have a 1TB external WD green drive from 2009/2010 that is still running. That said, it hasn't actually seen that much usage in the past years, and i took it out at that time to use as a secondary internal drive.

          I've now put it together as part of a home NAS - and from what i gather on the reddit and other forums, drives usually either fail at the beginning or the end of their lives. To catch the former, you run stress / usage testing applications like Badblocks for a set period and if it fails, you know you've got a defective drive that you can return for a replacement.

          Generally, if it passes that - it is expected to survive its average life span with failure rates then going up near the end of its life.

          See: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/how-long-do-disk-drives-last/

    • longy317 on 14/02/2019 - 07:25
      +1

      Hey! If you are storing some important files on drives I'd suggest looking into a multi-bay NAS with RAID capability for some redundancy :). You can build to adding in another external drive for a backup or a cloud backup service depending on your internet connection

  • arjay88 on 14/02/2019 - 08:48

    shipping can take up to 3 weeks, still waiting on one from the last sale price.

    • ihbh on 14/02/2019 - 10:47
      +1

      Bought the last one on 6 Feb, received it this morning 14 Feb - 8 days for me.

      • vash12 on 14/02/2019 - 12:09

        And is it Air or helium white drive inside?
        WD Element comes in helium white 90% of the time and all WD Mybook comes in helium white I heard

        • ihbh on 14/02/2019 - 18:10

          Not shucking my drives.

      • donnsuil on 14/02/2019 - 15:50

        I ordered the same date as you and it arrived this afternoon. Tracking info on the order says the eta is 22nd Feb, so maybe they under promise and over deliver.

    • coxymla on 14/02/2019 - 11:14

      Last hard drive I bought off amazon was ordered on the 4th, shipped on the 9th and received on the 17th.

    • arjay88 on 15/02/2019 - 02:10

      Ordered Feb 8 and ETA is Feb 26th, but I used Prime Free shipping, so not sure if thats why.

      • arjay88 on 20/02/2019 - 14:29

        I just received mine today 20th, so i guess the ETA on the website both amazon n australia post where incorrect.

  • Cheaplikethebird on 14/02/2019 - 09:58

    If you're planning on shucking for NAS storage I would just spring the extra $10 and get an 8tb Ironwolf drive which is $232 on Amazon US

    • Bargain4Days on 14/02/2019 - 11:19
      +1

      Could you send link please, are the iron wolf better than this drive?

      Thanks

    • coxymla on 14/02/2019 - 11:20
      +2

      WD Elements 8TB is AU$220.
      Seagate Ironwolf 8TB US$232, AU$334.

      • Cheaplikethebird on 14/02/2019 - 13:43

        Ah my bad. From past experiences I was under the impression Amazon always defaulted to AUD if you’re logged in.

    • bobvegas on 14/02/2019 - 13:37

      ironwolf are noisy and hot. The wd red's in these drives are cool & not loud, but having said that the 10tb wd reds are even quieter. The extra heat of ironwolf may not be a problem but if you are in same room as drive the noise will be.

      • Cheaplikethebird on 14/02/2019 - 13:40

        Is it confirmed they are WD Reds in these?

        • bobvegas on 14/02/2019 - 13:53
          +1

          White label reds & most likely air drives rather than heliums. the 10tb are all heliums. I don't believe there's any reason to think the air version is worse although it must be cheaper to produce.

          • joeflacco on 14/02/2019 - 14:38
            +3

            @bobvegas: I bought these exact 8tb drives from Amazon US a few weeks ago and got 5400rpm helium whites with 256mb cache.

            • pinkybrain on 21/02/2019 - 07:58

              @joeflacco: how do you know it is helium or normal air drive?

              • joeflacco on 21/02/2019 - 12:16

                @pinkybrain: By looking at the model number of the drive.

                Also, air drives have a hole in them to equalise pressure whereas helium drives are fully sealed.

          • JetBombat on 02/03/2019 - 13:49

            @bobvegas: Air versions have higher power take and run hotter.

  • MrGareth on 15/02/2019 - 11:26
    +4

    I got mine from the sale a few weeks ago ($215) - it arrived yesterday.

    Mine turned out to be a white label air version, not helium. It runs hot, I started formatting it (in the enclosure) and it was hitting 59 degrees. I googled it and found this was typical for this model (being the air kind, not helium).

    I stopped the format, let it cool, shucked it, put in my computer behind a case fan - and it's currently formatting and sitting on about 38 degrees (and idle about 33).

    • MrGareth on 15/02/2019 - 14:13
      +1

      A bit more information… Apparently the new ones are a slowed-down Ultrastar DC HC300, which is very similar to WD Red.

      This is what mine looked like.

      • pinkybrain on 21/02/2019 - 08:00

        how do you know it is helium or normal air drive?

        so you shucked it from the elements case?
        do you need to cover/remove the 3V pin to get it to read in the BIOS?

        what do you mean
        new ones are a slowed-down Ultrastar DC HC300?

      • Miami Mall Alien on 25/02/2019 - 14:52
        +1

        Apparently the new ones are a slowed-down Ultrastar DC HC300, which is very similar to WD Red.

        Yeah, citation needed.

        I sincerely doubt HGST Ultrastar's have ever showed up in External HDDs.

        Almost everyone who has shucked these has reported either WD Reds or WD Blues (depending on the model's capacity).

        Edit: I found the reference you're referring to. They might be called Ultrastar's but they're not HGST, since WD is using the Ultrastar name for WD Red White Labels now. So essentially they are just WD Reds with unusual firmware.

  • danbyrne on 05/03/2019 - 06:38

    No longer eligible for free prime shipping :(

  • Mr BoMBAStiG on 08/03/2019 - 10:01

    Bought 2 from this deal, shucked and got a WD80EMAZ white drives. Going to put into a DS218+ NAS as RAID1 mirrored drives and will update when it is up and running on performance.

    Box
    P/N: WDBWLG0080HBK-0B
    Model: WDBWLG0080HBK-NESN
    Made in Thailand

    Drive
    P/N: 2W10227
    Model: WD80EMAZ-00WJTA0
    Made in Thailand

  • Matt86 on 29/03/2019 - 09:09

    Got a mate with his prime account to get me one of these to backup my 4X4TB RAID 6 Array :)

    Cheers OP

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