WD Elements External Desktop Hard Drive 6TB $158.23 + Delivery ($0 with Prime/ $39 Spend) @ Amazon AU

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metalslaw on 02/12/2019 - 22:17 amazon.com.au (569 clicks)
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Flash deal, going pretty quick.

Shuckable drives. Needs a pin mod with kapton tape to run in a pc (if a white drive). Can also run a sata to molex connector to bypass the pin that blocks the white drives on a normal sata connection in a pc.

3camels hasn't updated the price yet btw. Anyway, it's $5 off all time low.

10 TB deal from a few days ago. Lots of details in there about the shucking/mods required/etc,
https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/500453

Price History at CamelCamelCamel.

This is part of Black Friday / Cyber Monday deals for 2019

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  DaTa on 02/12/2019 - 22:24

  Was keen for the 8 or 10tb, but this is interesting

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    brent3000 on 02/12/2019 - 22:29

    Isnt the cost per TB the same? just the smaller one?

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      DaTa on 02/12/2019 - 22:50

      It was 203 dollars a few times last month for 8tb and 10tb for around 240.

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      Switchblade88 on 02/12/2019 - 23:02

      +1

      Price per Tb might be the same but total cost is lower; if you're looking at upfront investment versus total capacity then it's a good tradeoff.

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  Whisper Quiet on 03/12/2019 - 09:24

  Should really learn about hard drives and what you need to do when shucking them if your going to state info about modding the drive. All depends on your Power Supply.
  Most newer Power Supplies are ok with the 3.3v on the WD drives. As they usually have four pin SATA connections (some PSUs come with 4 and 5 pin SATA connections for you to choose). If it does have 5pins then it recognises the 3.3v and won't allow the computer to read it. Basically 4pins good 5pins bad.

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    metalslaw on 03/12/2019 - 13:40

    As linked to in OP, all the information a person needs is already in the 10TB thread,
    https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/500453

    You even supplied some of the information in the thread.

    <shrug>

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      Whisper Quiet on 03/12/2019 - 14:04

      Yeah which should have been listed instead of having people browse through the entire comment section to find it and giving info that can be untrue

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        metalslaw on 03/12/2019 - 14:08

        Fair enough.

        But, I actually never knew that some newer PSU's came with 4 pin sata instead or 5 pin connections prior to reading your comment 20 mins ago.

        I only knew kapton tape was needed for white drives, or to use a molex to sata.

        No one is perfect in knowledge of everything, ok. :/