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WD My Book Desktop External Hard Drive 10TB $129.84 + Delivery (Free with Prime) @ Amazon US via AU

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WD My Book Desktop External Hard Drive 10TB $129.84 + Delivery (Free with Prime) @ Amazon US via AUAffiliate
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UPDATE: Many users are reporting cancelled orders due to a pricing error

Amazon have now started emailing to advise of the cancellation and are giving $30 vouchers per order. You can check your coupons here. For the record my order of 3 was cancelled and I received the $30 gift voucher too. The drives would have been great but I'm also pretty happy with this compensation. Congratulations to anyone who gets their order delivered.

Insane price for the 10TB WD My Book external hard drive. Limit to 3 per customer, and remember to use cashback. I grabbed 3 for $389.52 + Free Delivery with Prime.

Features

Auto backup with included WD Backup software and Time Machine compatibility
Password protection with hardware encryption
Trusted storage built with WD reliability
USB 3.0 port; USB 2.0 compatible
3-year manufacturer's limited warranty

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closed Comments

    • chutibuti on 20/05/2019 - 08:50

      Given the previous SD deal got canceled even after dispatch, less hope

  • Blu on 20/05/2019 - 07:51

    I was super late to the party. My arrival date is 11th-24th of June.

    • Sammy Boi on 20/05/2019 - 08:08

      That's what mine says and I ordered at about a 6:15pm

    • smoothymcmellow on 20/05/2019 - 08:44

      I received the order confirmation at 6:14pm and mine says June 5th to 18th but not shipped yet

  • Overtime2000 on 20/05/2019 - 07:51

    Mine shipped already
    Ordered 5.44pm

  • TomGum on 20/05/2019 - 08:15
    +1

    Looks like all those who have ordered by 5:45 AEST time has shipping already.

    • theguyrules on 20/05/2019 - 08:22

      Checks out, I was at 6pm AEST and nothing yet.

    • cj3 on 20/05/2019 - 08:53

      Not quite, ordered at 5:35pm and nothing still.

      • TomGum on 20/05/2019 - 09:03

        What state are you in?

        • cj3 on 20/05/2019 - 09:28

          Vic

          • TomGum on 20/05/2019 - 09:33

            @cj3: Hmmm…. then I have no clue how Amazon works!!!

            • cj3 on 20/05/2019 - 09:42

              @TomGum: I'm guessing it's because I chose expedited shipping instead of the normal one.
              No idea really.

    • mec on 20/05/2019 - 09:04

      Got the confirmation email at 5:39 AEST and not shipped :(

    • Flyingmoo on 20/05/2019 - 09:08

      I ordered at 5.36 and no shipping yet

  • Velocita on 20/05/2019 - 08:19

    I ordered ~6:15pm AEST, haven't received confirmation yet.

    • CyberMurning on 20/05/2019 - 08:26

      I ordered 9pm Sydney time hehe. not shipped yet

  • ThePriceIsNotRight on 20/05/2019 - 08:37

    I ordered at 6:38pm but still getting the "preparing shipment" but I do have an expected delivery date

  • katz on 20/05/2019 - 08:46

    del

  • 7hil on 20/05/2019 - 08:56
    +2

    If there is a "Bargain of the Year" award, the fact that they are shipping these and it wasn't a price error must mean this one would be pretty high on the list.

  • bugman on 20/05/2019 - 08:57
    +2

    my order is saying shipment eta 2 June :( anyone getting this???

    • abc12345 on 20/05/2019 - 08:58
      +2

      Mine saying will dispatch June 3rd with estimated delivery June 5-18.

      Ordered at 6:45pm.

      • theguyrules on 20/05/2019 - 09:09

        Will dispatch
        Jun 3

        Ordered 6pm

        • miguellin737 on 20/05/2019 - 10:32

          same here, waiting for the dispatch.

  • Blu on 20/05/2019 - 09:04

    Just realised this doesn’t have an ethernet port.

    Has anyone had any luck connecting one of these and using it as a network drive?

    • Merlict on 20/05/2019 - 09:16
      +3

      It'll be exactly the same as any USB drive in that regard.

      You can connect it to the back of 99% of modem / routers for basic network functionality, or pull the drive out of the casing and put it in a NAS box.

      • Blu on 20/05/2019 - 09:25

        I’ve never used USB. Always Ethernet. If I plug it into the USB port on my router will it function the same as a network drive?

        • Merlict on 20/05/2019 - 09:39

          Yes.

          • L0zBargain on 20/05/2019 - 10:04

            @Merlict: Without a lot of bells and whistles and also much slower.

            • Blu on 20/05/2019 - 11:36

              @L0zBargain: Fast enough to stream media over a wireless network?

  • Sammy Boi on 20/05/2019 - 09:04
    +1

    I'll be super excited if they fill our orders I got two of these from the last deal if I get these two I'm ready to jump on the next good Synology deal :)

  • hippyhippy on 20/05/2019 - 09:05
    +8

    man… wasnt expecting them to ship .. wtf im gonna do with 30TB lol

    • theguyrules on 20/05/2019 - 09:08

      You won't have any trouble selling them to other members here, they'd be pretty grateful I'm sure/

      • Sammyboy on 20/05/2019 - 09:13

        yes, I'll take one of someone who ordered too many :)

        • snoopydoop on 20/05/2019 - 20:03

          I don't know why you're getting down-voted. It's not like there was a small amount of stock and you bought it all up, with none left for anyone else. It was based on time, not stock, as to when the deal ended. If someone missed out, it's their bad luck. You've purchased them, they belong to you, and you're free to do what you like with them.

          Very fair enough to buy these and sell them again for a profit, if you find a willing buyer.

          Dick move in a situation where there were 20 units and you bought 18, however.

          • hippyhippy on 20/05/2019 - 21:40
            +2

            @snoopydoop: People that missed out cause they weren't looking … you snooze.. you lose.

  • 7hil on 20/05/2019 - 09:16
    +4

    For those shucking, here is a great comparison between the 10TB white drives found inside these WD Externals and a proper Red Drive. Admittedly the White drive in this review will be different from the ones found in the My Book we are discussing but it gives you an idea as both will be White Helium based drives.

    https://www.servethehome.com/wd-wd100emaz-easystore-10tb-ext…

    "A burning question is whether the WD100EMAZ (Easystore white label) is the same as the WD100EFAX (WD Red.) What we determined is they are not exact matches, but performance is reasonably close to each other."

    • BillyG687 on 20/05/2019 - 09:51

      It's worth nothing that this isn't a WD Easystore, it is a My Book. Usually different/better drives are found in the My Book models. I'm not 100% if it is the case with the 10TB model, but definitely was when I bought the 8TB My Books.

      • [Deactivated] on 20/05/2019 - 10:27
        +2

        better drives are found in the My Book models

        I think you mean the opposite?

        https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/6o0rf1/wd_mybo…

        • BillyG687 on 20/05/2019 - 10:53
          +2

          Sorry, I got mixed up. I was thinking of the WD Elements drives which are available in the lower storage tiers.

          Typically from when I did a bunch of research, all 8TB+ sized WD drives are helium filled and should be the same or similar to a WD Red drive of the same size which is their NAS appropriate drive.

          The link you posted mentions them being similar to a WD Blue drive, but WD only make Blue drives up to the 6TB capacity. WD makes Red, Red Pro, Enterprise and Purple (archiving drives) in the 8TB+ range.

          • [Deactivated] on 20/05/2019 - 11:09

            @BillyG687: Yeah they're definitely closer to the Reds (if not nearly identical)… Blue only go up to 6TB as you mention.

            The main thing I was trying to highlight on the link was that EasyStore is a Best Buy exclusive (also higher chance of a Red) VS. MyBook branding used everywhere else.

            As for Elements there are some reports of air filled drives but also lots helium so bit of pot-luck there.

            Will be interesting to hear the stories over coming months from OZB users about noise and failure rates on these.
            Excellent price for what seems to be a pretty decent drive.

  • vash12 on 20/05/2019 - 09:20

    Sad, forgot to check ozbargain yesterday. Missed out on the deal of the year.

    • Soothsayer on 20/05/2019 - 10:04

      Same. And I actually need a new HDD due to drive failure. Whyyy was this posted on a Sunday!

      • boujee on 20/05/2019 - 10:18
        +4

        Hand over your ozbargain licences

  • o53djz7qTPY4der on 20/05/2019 - 09:23

    I have two issues:

    With the 2x5TB I got on Friday I now have 18tb in my home server. With these that puts me at 48TB. I am currently only using 4.5TB.

    1) My monthly data cap is 1000GB.
    2) SATA ports! I need a PCIE card and mounts to accommodate all this storage.

    I guess I can start backing up all my ISOs.

    • ihbh on 20/05/2019 - 10:17

      The most important question you should be asking is how long will it take you to consume all the media you're storing and use that as a guide!

    • Pielo on 20/05/2019 - 10:34

      You already have 18TB, and are consuming 25% (4.5TB) of that storage capacity.

      I would recommend only expanding the home server with the 3x10TB when you reach 70% of your current 18TB capacity (cf: when you read ~12.5TB).

      It would be a waste of hardware and energy to have those 30TB spinning for nothing.

      Test the drives to make sure no DoA on the 3x10TB though.

      • BillyG687 on 20/05/2019 - 10:56

        You can now set up your NAS to have some redundancy in case a drive fails.

  • whey4000 on 20/05/2019 - 09:30

    Got one not sure I really need it as I purchased one when they were 230 back in April. Shattered I paid 230 and then this deal comes up

    • TomGum on 20/05/2019 - 09:33
      +1

      $230 is still very good. This deal is a god send and no one could have expected it.

      • impoze on 20/05/2019 - 09:33

        I also just received my $230 unit, bought two more. This way it averages out the 3 units to ~$160 each. Crazy prices

    • garetz on 20/05/2019 - 09:38

      I got one at $230 as well, but 3 more at this price averages it out at $155 each.

      • whey4000 on 20/05/2019 - 09:40

        Thats a lot of storage by the time Id fill that petabyte hard drives will be the norm

      • TomGum on 20/05/2019 - 09:41

        I’m also pretty sure you can offload your $230 one via gumtree for the same price if not more (especially if you provide unopened)

        Edit- this comment was for quickshot30

  • dcuksuop on 20/05/2019 - 09:33
    +2

    Mine shipped. I shipped to a US address since I'll be there in the two weeks. Should arrive tomorrow since I have US prime. Wow.
    Order placed 5:40 Sydney time

  • cyrax83 on 20/05/2019 - 09:34

    Will dispatch Jun 3
    Arriving Jun 5 - Jun 18

    Fingers crossed

  • hippyhippy on 20/05/2019 - 09:40
    +3

    I think there's gonna be a plane heading to australia full of hard drives .. hope its not on a 737.

    • cyrax83 on 20/05/2019 - 09:42
      +2

      Max 8

      • magic8ballgag on 20/05/2019 - 09:44
        +8

        No, the deal clearly states max 3 per customer.

        • chutibuti on 20/05/2019 - 09:48
          -6

          "Boeing 737 MAX"

  • LivingOnTheEdge on 20/05/2019 - 09:42

    Ordered 7.26pm
    Arriving Jun 5 - Jun 18

    CR Tracked
    Expected Cashback AUD 12.39

    • BillyG687 on 20/05/2019 - 09:46

      Just got my CR notification too. Ordered at 7:26pm

    • cyrax83 on 20/05/2019 - 09:53
      +2

      still waiting on shopback notification tracking

    • videoman on 20/05/2019 - 10:34

      Damn I didn't think these would be honored so I didn't bother getting cashback.

  • TomGum on 20/05/2019 - 09:46

    CR finaly tracked. $12.39
    Amazon still stuck at “We’ve got your order”
    Order email recieved @ 17:53 ACST

    • djevoultion on 20/05/2019 - 09:59

      Weird my cashrewards tracked at 4.13 expected cash back…

      • TomGum on 20/05/2019 - 10:03
        +1

        I ordered 3.

        • superm86 on 20/05/2019 - 11:04
          +1

          Omg .. forgot cash rewards

  • gstratto on 20/05/2019 - 09:47

    I see they have also removed the Amazon Prime Eligibility.
    Possibly trying to recoup costs for the mistake.

    • BillyG687 on 20/05/2019 - 09:48
      +3

      No, that's because the units that are available through the page are some other sellers and not Amazon US. Those who are listing their units probably aren't set up for offering Prime or use a different distribution method.

      • Merlict on 20/05/2019 - 10:08
        +2

        90% of Amazon comments here could be resolved by checking if it's the same seller as the OP :v

  • astrotrain on 20/05/2019 - 09:59

    ordered 5.36 EST no shipping confirmation yet :(

  • isthisreallife22 on 20/05/2019 - 10:03

    I ordered some WD Red 8tb on Friday after close of business (for a Synology NAS I bought on Thursday)… luckily I'm able to cancel that order by the looks of things to see how this goes.

  • testeagles on 20/05/2019 - 10:04

    I am just so bumming that I didn't order purely on assuming it was a pricing error, oh and also because I am currently super poor

    • cyrax83 on 20/05/2019 - 10:08
      +9

      Buy now think later the Ozb way. $400 drives for $130. No brainer. Ozb deal of the year if it comes through

      • KingSlayyer on 20/05/2019 - 11:15

        Should we have a HOF for legendary deals?

      • CC123 on 20/05/2019 - 11:29

        Buy now think later the Ozb way. $400 drives for $130. No brainer. Ozb deal of the year if it comes through

        I love your thinking

    • prxy on 20/05/2019 - 11:00

      If it was a pricing error the worst thing that could have happened is order canceled.

      BUT

      you may have gotten a voucher/coupon or the order fulfilled.

      Also Amazon doesn't charge until shipment so no loss there or having to go through a long/tedious process to retrieve funds.

      When it comes to amazon it really is buy now think later as @cyrax83 above writes.

      • snoopydoop on 20/05/2019 - 23:12

        They also have a great returns / cancellation policy.

  • G Wok on 20/05/2019 - 10:35

    Is it possible to have split up the 10TB to have redundancy on a NAS? Because of the higher than usual reported fail rates but 10TB is an awful lot to have redundant as my understanding is the largest drive becomes the redundant drive.

    • Avatar on 20/05/2019 - 10:50
      +4

      That does not make sense. The redundancy comes from that fact it is different physical hardware.

      • Merlict on 20/05/2019 - 12:07
        +1

        Yeah that logic is like writing the same note on both sides of the same piece of paper.

        Your data is not safer.

    • hippyhippy on 20/05/2019 - 10:52

      Yes.. you can open the hard drive and split up the spindles in case 1 of the platters fail. Put the extra platters in an old hard drive to get more redundancy.

      • morrisoc on 20/05/2019 - 10:53

        lol

      • UFO on 20/05/2019 - 13:08
        +2

        hahaha.

        The sad thing is, some moron will read this comment and actually think it'll be ok to put extra platters in an old hard drive 'for redundancy':).

        • L0zBargain on 20/05/2019 - 16:31

          Clearly the case given the down votes ^_^

    • cyrax83 on 20/05/2019 - 11:06

      Buy more drives. Have 1 drive as redundancy.

    • Pielo on 20/05/2019 - 11:13
      +4

      Wouldnt partitioning a drive and having one partition as a "redundant volume" defeat the purpose of having redundancy in the first place? If your drive fails, all partitions are gone anyway?

      • UFO on 20/05/2019 - 13:09

        Yep!

    • CyberMurning on 20/05/2019 - 11:44

      just press ctrl c and ctrl v, there you go you have a backup

    • Smigit on 20/05/2019 - 13:15

      There's no point splitting this single drive into two volumes if you're protecting against hardware failures. If it fails then chances are both partitions fail.

      But yes, a NAS in theory will be able to balance data between this drive and another but how that works will depend on your particular product. There's no rule generically that a system with multiple HDDs will make one HDD take on function X and another function Y, so you'll need to see what your NAS supplier does and also check your configurations. Many NAS will likely have no redundancy what so ever and instead have all hard drives simply contributing to expanding the overall storage. For many people thats fine because they don't care if the data isn't backed up or the NAS itself is already a backup of another computer elsewhere.

      For what its worth theres many options to how data is backed up. For my own home server I use a product that combines multiple drives into a single virtual drive and any time a file is copied to that 'pooled' drive the backend software makes sure that the file is duplicated on 2 separate physical drives. It means every file I add to that system takes up twice the space as I'm doing a 1:1 backup. If a drive of mine fails then any file that no longer has 2 copies has another copy made automatically to free space elsewhere. Other solutions work much different and will use algorithims (parity bits) to store a small amount of information that saves you on disc space and allows 1 or more drives to file and still have enough information to restore the file. Thats two options and theres more with completly different setup and completely different rules around whether certain HDDs have to be the largest, all drives the same etc etc.

      In summary you'll need to read the NAS manual as to how the drive will be used if you're maintaining redundancy on the NAS.

    • [Deactivated] on 20/05/2019 - 13:44
      +1

      I assume you mean something like Unraid which uses the largest drive as parity, so you get the usable capacity of all other drives. Obviously, that relies on you having other drives. So if you just had:

      1x10 TB = no redundancy
      1x10 TB, 1x3TB = 3 TB with redundancy.
      1x10 TB, 1x3TB, 1x6TB = 9 TB with redundancy.

      Standard raid or even ZFS really requires you to have all drives the same size to have redundancy.

      • G Wok on 20/05/2019 - 19:01

        Thanks for replies guys.

  • Scotch on 20/05/2019 - 10:40

    Any suggestions on 4bay nas with dual lan and usb 3?

    • elcheapodeniro on 20/05/2019 - 12:21
      +1

      Synology DS918+ is crowd favourite and I love mine.

      • Blu on 20/05/2019 - 13:10
        +2

        Ooof so expensive. Is there a cheaper 2-bay option?

  • Phoebus on 20/05/2019 - 10:47

    I ordered mine about 10:10 PM last night.
    Says Will Dispatch June 3.
    Perhaps by then I'll figure out what to put on it.
    edit
    Probably the best use is as a NAS backup.

  • linhlink on 20/05/2019 - 10:57

    I ordered at 6:53 PM VIC
    Will dispatch Jun 3
    Arriving Jun 11 - Jun 20

  • wellzi on 20/05/2019 - 11:06

    Ugh I've been looking for HDD deals for a while now! Didn't check OzB yesterday and missed out! :(

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