Lowest ever Amazon price for the local "AU power supply" model and lower than the current price for the US import model.
Not the cheapest you'll ever find these but a good deal if you can't wait for the price to drop on the US model again and/or prefer the local power supply, warranty etc
CamelCamelCamel.
Whatva deal
One of the infamous legends of OzBargain.
Indeed, couldn't believe it when it arrived!
@RangaWal: I bought two and received two also from this deal. Unlucky to the people who had their orders cancelled.
I was there when it happened. Ordered one myself, but it was cancelled. Much sadness.
Most people never got the deal?
Please stop linking to this as if it happened. It was a price error, myself and others got a $30 credit IIRC.
Some did get it delivered. But yeah, most (Myself included) got $30 vouchers
Cancelled. Never delivered.
Mine was. Lots of people’s were.
Are these shuckable?
Yeah, this is one of the shucking favourites (have that pin to tape tho), though usually the US plug version is much cheaper (this is pretty close to "usual" US price), this is the cheapest the AU plug version has been AFAIK & much faster delivery.
Have you shucked a 10tb WD drive and used it?
My 8 and 6 tbs were fine but had issues with the 10.
Not yet, waiting on a sub $250 sale on the US variant
It wasn't that pin on the power connector thing? Commonly reported issue with shucking newer/bigger drives
Can confirm, have 6 in my server currently but you will need to use kapton tape on the third power pin to stop the 3.3v pin creating a circuit and stopping the drive from spinning up
awesome price when you consider the external 3.5" 10tb drives are over $450…. can easily dismantle this and throw it into my rig
I did that with my WD hard disk. Now everytime PC shuts down, it makes really loud quick chirping sound. Can't seem to figure out the issue. :(
Just bought 2 with 3% off Amazon gift card via Suncorp app and 3.5% Cashrewards cashback. $485 for $500 gift card =$15 saving and 3.5% Cashrewards brings it down to $272.50 each.
Can someone pls confirm my calculation is correct?
3.5% cashback from $580 should be $20.30
So your total saving is $35.30
Leaving $272.35 each
Re: the AU power adapter, keep in mind that WD support will gladly send out an AU power adapter for free if you buy the model with the US power adapter.
Yeah but a hassle. They initially tried to RMA my drives despite very clear request to swap just the power adapter.
a lot 12tb around $290 in China
What?
Links or it didn't happen
this is part of black Friday sale on Amazon
which is around $290 shipped to China.so a lot people place multi orders and resale only $20 more than their paid.
why I know ?because I got one only ￥1400
Links man! Links
Not too bad if they are still the same price on Boxing Day.
Are these drives white label helium filled?
out of the 4 I've shucked… they're usually the white WD100EMAZ
Same with the 4 I bought on Black Friday - all WD100EMAZ
Of course, there's a chance you'll get something else.
OW pricebeat?
Yes, paid $275.50 at OW Castle Hill
They match amazon?
Receipt?
Thanks for the reminder just got two today from OW at the same $275.50 price.
At $29 per TB I don't think this is an OzBargain deal. I think $25 to $26 per tb is the sweet spot for 10tb.
Where can I buy a 10tb for $25 to $26 per tb?
Here https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/423321 at $19.6 per TB. It's happened before during last year's Black Friday/Cyber Monday sales, just gotta be patient. But on average, harryozz is correct that avg sweet spot should be around $25 to $26 per tb for 10tb.
So sad that this year's price is higher than last year. Could be due to weaker Aussie dollar.
https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/470597
https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/441015
Also recently bought some Seagate 10tb and they came with interchangeable sockets for different countries, i just installed the Au socket, good job Seagate.
https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/501546
So I can't buy a 10tb for $25 to $26 per tb?
@spaceflight: Not now unfortunately, I do see a patern, cheapest around eofy sale and Black Friday sale.
@akumi: So this is a good deal unless I want to wait 6 to 12 months for a sale that might not even happen?
Downvoting due to year-old prices, non-identical models (without local warranty), and historical deals that were either very low availability or outright pricing errors (that were subsequently cancelled) is lame and against OzB downvoting guidelines. Not everyone buying wants to shuck drives either.
Might as well downvote every local stock product for a cheaper crappy Kogan import, or every fuel deal ever because it was 69c/L in 1996.
LOL!
Agreed.
Aren’t you meant to be voting on the current deal? I mean, it’s still a good deal. Negging it because it’s not as cheap as last time is a bit ridiculous.
I tried shucking one of these on the weekend and didn't get anywhere.
Google showed a myriad of different solutions but none worked.
It could have something to do with me dropping it, but it appears to spin up normally.
Plug it back into the external board that adapts it to USB and test then. If it is still borked, might be either DOA or from dropping it.
Do you have other PCs or NASes to test it with as well?
Yeah I snapped off the third pin, can't use it externally now. (I'm assuming)
Just the 1 PC to test.
I updated my Mobo to try fix it to no avail.
You could try resoldering the snapped pin though possibly a moot point at this stage. Not gonna help if the drive's screwed.
how to get it cheaper on amazon US? seems postage makes it more expensive than just getting this one?
Amazon US will sell to Aussies through Amazon AU, it is like you choose Amazon AU for faster/dearer, or Amazon US though AU for cheaper but wrong power plug etc.
Now also $290 at Officeworks
The problem is they keep throwing higher capacities at the top end, without cutting the prices at the bottom. Before long we are going to get to the point where SSDs are cheaper than HDDs per TB.
It's really opened up in the last 2-3 years hasn't it. They are now shipping 20TB drives to Enterprise customers and 10TB is only just becoming affordable for the small end of town. Plans for 36TB in 2022 and 48TB in 2024 (I think those targets are a bit ambitious but whatever) and 100TB sometime in the next 10 years, so that gap will only increase.
I think they've started to focus on corporate customers to carry HDD development and not worrying about everyday consumers anymore. I was holding out for 12TB but 10TB will probably have to do.
Received 2 10TB from Amazon yesterday with an AU power adapter. Tested with HD Tuner no issues. Shucked it's a white label and added to my 918+ NAS.
Is HD tuner the recommended way to test them? Or the WD program?
HD tuner was recommended by a couple of users on youtube.It has a free trial and was quick to run the health check test. I haven't used WD software so cant comment on it.
What I ended up doing prior to shucking was each drive through the extended test in wd lifeguard, then the surface read test in HDD sentinel (a previous deal on here that says it's expired still works for a full version)
Each test took about 14hrs per 10tb drive.
Do we know when this sale will end? Need to buy two in about a week but would rather not blow the budget out just yet!
If you shuck these, can you use another HDD in the enclosure?
I just tried a couple of drives I had sitting around out of interest and found it to be a mixed bag:
Worked:
Ramsta 480GB generic SSD
Seagate Momentus 5400.6 500GB 2.5" HDD
Didn't work:
Crucial M500 120GB SSD
Samsung 1TB 3.5" HDD
May be to do with the 3.3v power? The non-working drives were fine when connected another way.
It appears the price is now dropped to $288.
Good price for AU.
I still have regret for not getting the Seagate Barracuda drive from the last deal for $263 :(