Cheapish price on a good 10TB drive.
Cheapest ever was around $263.
Shucking the drive gets a 10TB Seagate Barracuda Pro which is not SMR.
I believe there is no Cashback at the moment but don't forget to use discounted gift cards.
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LOL the oz bargain starter kit
I'm waiting for the 12TB Wd's to break back into the $330 range. Not long to go with the dollar holding at 65c (assuming it can continue that)
Is this non SMR as well?
No
Yes, this is non SMR
$393 total
Yeah its gone up now. Delivery is still free with Prime, if you dont have prime its like $7 for a month so delivery is $7.
Free trial ;)
Shuckable?
Wasn't the 12tb seagate not much more a few days ago?
There was the 12TB WD?
Finally! Enough HDD space to put all that por… spreadsheets…
portable distros? :P
The 8TB is also a good price. Would it have a Barracuda pro inside too?
No not guaranteed. Could be a SMR drive.
Seagate only make 10TB Barracuda Pros. So Seagate 10TB desktop drives are "safe" to buy for now.
My 8tb had a regular baracuda.
If you want 8TB, grab the Western Digital for $248 which is non-SMR ('white label' Reds)
Need 4 drives, Amazon limits me to 2 drives :-(
Is it per account or per order?
Depends. WD Reds can be SMR too these days.
Not at that size, 8TB and up are not SMR
Only 6TB and under. Everything 8TB and above for WD is non-SMR.
@Satirical: +1 even though I don't have any internal WD drives the SMR reveal loses a lot of my trust. I'd rather get a barracuda pro over a white/red drive.
I bought a standalone 8tb for an awesome price last night. I'm in Japan hence the amazon link. I hope this price becomes an option for Australia amazon soon. It was a similar price in US with conversion too.
So whats the price delivered in AUD?
Google conversion says 14300 jpy is $205AUD, and I'm guessing up to $40AUD shipping, if they ship to Australia.
Isn't that SMR? (ST8000DM004)
according to this, yes.
But being 5400rpm, its slow anyway. Im using it for backup storage and movies, speed wont be a massive factor for how I use it.
@DarthAntz: My CMR 5400rpm WD REDs are not slow…
IMO 5400rpm vs 7200rpm isn't really that important any more. 5400rpm is more than fast enough, and much much quieter and cooler.
@DarthAntz: To put some specific numbers on it, I get 190MB/s reads, and I think around 170MB/s writes, which is more than enough to saturate my NAS' gigabit connection.
@Zorlin: So from the article i shared, SMR is a bad rep because its slow? I'm not sure why SMR is an issue otherwise.
Those speeds are more than enough for media and backup.
@DarthAntz: SMR has terrible random I/O performance, even worse than a "normal" mechanical hard drive. Write performance also tanks very badly after writing a modest amount of data.
The speeds I just mentioned are for CMR, not SMR.
@Zorlin: Hence why they are not recommended for NAS, because their failures are worse.
https://blocksandfiles.com/2020/04/20/western-digital-smr-dr…
8TB and above are supposed to have a better performance rating, according to this. WD though, doesnt say the same for Seagate.
And like this comment it looks like those speeds are quite terrible why filling the drive up. You get what you pay for.
the amazon prices are volatile at the mo: I grabbed a 12tb WD over the weekend for 343. A few hours later it was 353, now it's 375. I wouldn't be surprised if it drops back to 330 over the next few weeks
I think prices for items on the US store fluctuate due to the exchange rate.
The dollar hasn't fluctuated that crazy. I would say it's due to demand of the product.
Good value at the moment on the WD 12TB > $358
https://www.amazon.com.au/12TB-Elements-Desktop-Drive-WDBWLG…