Just purchased.
Seems to be the cheapest ever according to the camels.
Says "1 left" but more on the way
Just purchased.
Seems to be the cheapest ever according to the camels.
Says "1 left" but more on the way
Yeah, run away!
Blue's aren't designed for RAID, so as long as you're not doing huge read/writes as stand alone drives. This shouldn't be much of an issue.
Writing 4K remuxes (50GB+) would be huge writes for these SMRs right?
It's 6 terabytes. Reading and writing large files to it would be an expected use case.
It’s fine if this is home NAS/computer use.
As long as this isn’t used in a context where you frequently need to write large amount of data all the time.
Imagine possessing 6TB of porn
I have internet connection you know.
Well I guess the library isn't open at 10:48pm so I'm giving you benefit of the doubt.
WiFi is reachable from outside the windows
@michaelTito: Ah right answer! Ozbargain badge is being shipped out express.
I would like to borrow the drive for research purpose…
And that is asking for a friend…
I tell ya 6TB is not enough!
Comes up as $247 for me
Click on buying choices . They are now OOS , so there might be a wait .
Even if you do get 1 there will be a wait using them… SMR drives.
Please don’t buy these SMR drives.
SMR isn't that bad
Agree. I have WD green 3tb $179 bought in 2012 for my Nas, still going strong till now. Nas run 15 hours a day 365 days.
People seem to think it's terrible for every use case. It sure is terrible for a hardware RAID, thats for sure.
However, for archive, or a media drive, their low cost per TB makes them better than CMR. Those formats usually only have you writing a few times and then mostly reading, there is no read penalty on an SMR.
You are just fortunate, most my greens died within 2-3 years.
I still have a 1.5tb green going strong after 11 years though.
Back up for sale. Just bought one. Click on other sellers
Never buy shingled drives, go smaller and multiple drives if needed.
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