the WD Elements Desktop Hard Drive 10TB are on sale again not as good deal as last time but still a decent price for anyone looking for 10tb to store their Linux ISO's, from what i have read they are WD100EMAZ white label drives inside, also shopback gets you 4.5% back from amazon if i read it right
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You are obviously new to the Internet :)
Well Archie is really slow. And DCC'ing from UnderNet can also take awhile.
Bruh.
I feel like you're probably baiting us - but just in case
Linux Iso's is a joke - referring to piracy and /or porn.
Come on everybody loves linux isos
The 4K distros are even bigger, imagine the 8K ones.
Or to be more specific, 4k, 10 bit, 7.1 channel Remuxed x265 encoded Linux ISOs. Typically 50 to 60 GB in size.
What about the vr distros? I heard you can side load them onto the ps4!
I got one of these and can confirm the internal hard drive is indeed a WD100EMAZ YMMV. You will need a molex to sata power adapter or a 3.3v mod if you're planning to use it internally.
Friend, you can just cover one of the pins, no need to use an adapter.
Do you know if a NAS like a Synology DS216j would require the 3.3v mod? I use a EZAZ drive in my PC and needed the Molex to SATA adaptor, but not sure if my NAS will need one too.
should work no problems in synology according to this https://www.reddit.com/r/synology/comments/a3jnk8/can_i_use_… if it doesn't show up tape the first 3 pins on the power connector of the drive
Thanks, and wow there's a lot of discussions on this exact topic: https://www.reddit.com/r/synology/search?q=shucked&restrict_…
I guess the question is should I shuck these 10TB drives, or for similar money buy two IronWolf 8TBs instead.
@Hybroid: Computer Alliance eBay has the 8TB Iron Wolf for $359 and there's a 20% off sale starting in a few days time.
These work without the 3.3v mode: https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/4-Bay-4-core-CPU-4G-mem-Giga-net… - I just bought another 2 as spares (5% discount plus code popper they come in at $155 or so each!)
OMV 4 is easy to load - I upgraded to 8gb ram and a 128gb msata with cheap ebay parts then followed youtube vids from techno dad life for setting up a number of useful docker containers such as nextcloud, plex, openvpn, etc. happy with it so far and I would guess slightly more powerful than the low end synology units. The only minor problems so far are a hang on shutdown, possibly because of the older kernel I have loaded for best use of ZFS, and I've not managed to get the external UPS monitoring working so safely shut down in case of power outage..
Yeah it's usually older PSUs that you need the mod. Most mid range models and up that were released within the last few years should be fine.
too expensive… :( will wait for black friday in Nov
This style is much better, IMHO.
I have several 8TB of both styles and really dislike the lack of an activity indicator light on the new style.
You cannot even tell they are on.
Recently shucked two of these, very very easy
Taped the the 3 pins and boom, quick cheap storage
I miss the days when I could just buy a HDD that does not require shucking
You still can. Drives without external enclosures still exist for sale.
Yeah. If you want to pay more money for a drive.
I never did understand why or how these external drives are cheaper than their internal cousins. We get taxed for doing the right now, my next NAS upgrade will be shucked HDDs all the way.
@Click_It: Not all drives are created equal, don't just look at the size. There's differences in technology types, MTBF, warranty periods etc. Also consider economies of scale, different factories/countries and corporate strategies.
@Hybroid: I know, and true, but come on there is still some funny business going on at times. FWIW I've never put a shucked HDD in my NAS's for the reasons you pointed out but with $/TB not coming down at the speed it once did I'll be looking for creative alternatives next time. I backup my backups on backups anyway not counting redundancies.
wow. I have been watching those drives climb in capacity, but man, 10TB. Wouldn't this hold like whole internet 20 years ago?
Early 90's, I reckon you'd be right. Not 1999 though ;)
I wonder what the footprint of "The Wayback machine" is now? It doesn't of course cache the entire internet (particualy password protected sites or filelockers) or really large files, but it always worth a visit when a domain or link expires.
haha I was wondering about that 15 years ago
ever watched the IT crowd? haha. may I present to you.. the internet
What is Jen doing with the internet?!
Take away all the porn and there probably isn't 5TB of actual internet left.
Linux ISO's account for 95% of the interweb I think
Looking at all the previous deals on this HDD, am I wrong in saying this one doesn't seem that great?
It's a good price, just not a historically best price.
Me personally see it being cheaper on Black Friday sales next month so if you're in no rush it would pay to hold out a little longer. I actually feel 12TB will be the sweet spot but that's because I have a stack of 4TB drives so triple capacity just feels nicer than 2.5X but whichever is the next big bargain will win me.
The recent 8TB deal is only $204, I'll go with 8TB
The 8TB External Western Digital on sale on Amazon several weeks ago were EMAZ as well ( slowed down Hitachi Helium filled ones, quality non-shingled drives). The casing seems to have changed in the past 6 months though; the credit card sliding method didn't work and I ended up pulling the top and bottom off with a screw driver blade them popping the back off.
Linux ISOs? Need 10TB to store all my recordings ;d
out of curiosity, what do you use all this storage for? I bought a 3TB drive 5 years ago, and it still has 75% of capacity free.
Linux distro’s
legit
Me personally, for movies and TV series. Especially as the file size increase over time due to quality.
E.g., The entire series of The Big Bang Theory (1080p) is close to 400 GB…
thank you
Do you really have the time to go back and watch again? I mean there is so much new content, I can’t even keep up with what’s being released!
Am I good to use a 12V power adapter (from an old HP hard drive) in the interim while I wait for WD to send me an AU plug?
Am I good to use a 12V power adapter (from an old HP hard drive) in the interim while I wait for WD to send me an AU plug?
Why don't you just use a travel adapter for under $10?
If the connector is the same as well as the voltage and amperage it should be ok but if you're asking the safest method is the travel adapter.
Over the years I've accumulated so many Seagate and WD 12V HDD power supplies, they are interchangeable
so tempted to get a couple but I think my 8x8TB array is more than I really need right now. lol
I thought that to, now I'm up to 10x8tb 4x4tb and 2x14tb on an unraid server and now waiting for the 2x10tb mostly for plex mostly 720p+1080p web-dl shows
Whoaa!! I just upgraded from 7x3TB in RAID6 to 8x8TB in SHR2. I only have about 13TB of, uh, Linux ISOs. It might take me a while to fill up! lol
How's the performance if you just hook it up to the USB port a Synology NAS?
I've got a bunch of DVD backups, no need for RAID of backup, just wanna play them from Synology.
Even USB 2.0 port would easily handle DVDs
i get about 190MB/s write speeds on the mybook version
I dont even want to imagine the drive dying and taking 10tb with it.
Well i bought one of these mainly to act as a snapraid parity drive… 10TB is bigger than all of my others (largest 8TB) so it can easily parity everything in my system and help safeguard me from a single drive failure. Also have a backup drive for the most critical stuff and am considering some form of online backup too just as an extra safeguard.
Wonder what happened to the newer styling models? Seems a shortage when I looked last week.