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Regular price $159/299.
Ineligible for cashback sadly.
WD 512GB/1TB My Passport External SSD - USB Type C - $129/$219 Delivered @ Amazon AU (and JB Hi-Fi)
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At least they cant do that on SSD's haha :)
They all are like this though (Seagate and Toshiba):
https://blocksandfiles.com/2020/04/15/seagate-2-4-and-8tb-ba…
https://blocksandfiles.com/2020/04/16/toshiba-desktop-disk-d…It's usually other fellow end-users who spread the information as to whether or not a drive is SMR (hence why you avoid certain sizes with WD and Seagate). Even more annoying is how some of the models are named with the differentiating factor for SMR between "ST8000DM0004" and "ST8000DM004" is a single 0.
Wait, what happened and got a story for me to read?
yeh could ya fill in the uninformed (like me) please!
I was thinking the same, but take a step back for a minute…
SMR was first introduced by Seagate
WD has 'come clean' and are now front and center in the controversy. Meanwhile Seagate continues to use unethical labeling, and probably has more SMR disks in their portfolio
Spinning disk HDDs are obsolete. Ssd is now only 4x the price for equivalent capacity. These companies will disappear in a few years, they don't care about long term band value when they are going to all lose their jobs pretty soon
(Not these though, 'external' ssds are all overpriced. Buy an internal drive and a $20 enclosure)
Ssssssmmmmmrrrrrr
Wish I knew earlier. I bought 2 reds a month ago and had no idea.
It's not SMR if it's 8TB or higher.
These are 2tb. I have 4 X 2tb. 2 are the reds. The other 2 a greens that are 7 years old and going strong.
Honestly why buy 2tb reds?
No point in getting a small red imho.
Time to buy 1x8tb or bigger and sell the rest mate.
1TB SSD drive is also the same price at OW.
https://www.officeworks.com.au/shop/officeworks/p/wd-1tb-my-…
512GB SSD drive is also the same price at OW
https://www.officeworks.com.au/shop/officeworks/p/wd-512gb-m…
It wasn't this morning when i posted the 1TB deal price back then it was $139. They have obviously matched Amazon AU.
Shukable?
just buy a crucial ssd…
Also longer warranty.
It maybe contains an mSATA internal SSD in it. But that can't be certain whether it's shuckable. WD has had a habit of hard wiring a SATA port to the controller board.
Could you plug this into the USB share port of your wifi modem to act as the file storage?
I can't see why not if the modem supports a 512GB or 1TB drive. If so it will just have to be formatted to a partition which the modem supports but i think most of them support NTFS.
yep as hollykyten said it would depend on what size and type of partition your modem can recognise.
Where cash back fails I would use discount cards, 5% off e-gift cards from Suncorp rewards, AGL rewards, rewards gateway.. etc…
Not sure how it compares in terms of technical specs, but 500GB Samsung T5 is $128 at Harvey Norman for anyone interested in that instead.
Since the crap they pulled on smr disks with reds for nas use, i wont be touching any wd drives. They proved they are untrustworthy.