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WD 12TB Red Drive (WD120EFAX) $495.27 + Delivery ($0 with Prime) @ Amazon US via AU

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WD 12TB Red Drive (WD120EFAX) $495.27 + Delivery ($0 with Prime) @ Amazon US via AUAffiliate
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Roger Ramjet on 30/06/2020 - 21:25 amazon.com.au (369 clicks)
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WD Red 12TB WD120EFAX price has dropped a fair bit. Most others are going for $600 plus. CCC showing cheapest since November last year. Unsure of stock levels but going off of CCC the price is creeping down so this might be the new normal.

Yes I know you can shuck a $360 Elements drive so please don’t bother commenting. For those wanting it out of the box this is a good price.

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  • Penalty boxer on 30/06/2020 - 21:41

    What on earth does someone put in a 12TB hard drive these days…especially with streaming services and cloud storage?

    • Hellolol on 30/06/2020 - 21:41
      +11

      porn

      NEXT!

    • avivsworld on 30/06/2020 - 21:49
      +15

      A server with Plex, Sonarr and Radarr will smash through this surprisingly quickly if you add some RSS feeds!

      • Void on 01/07/2020 - 00:36

        Ayy ripacy gang! I only add shows and movies I need though so I've only used 1TB.

    • Roger Ramjet on 30/06/2020 - 21:55
      +3

      Family/personal photos/videos, niche or older music/movies/TV shows which some streaming services don’t have, game cache, graphics editing storage, people who don’t want to pay for streaming services, etc etc etc

      • monchee on 01/07/2020 - 07:11

        You had me at game cache. What's that about????

    • Alistair79 on 30/06/2020 - 23:20
      +7

      Call of Duty: Modern Warfare would almost fit on it!

    • Its4me on 01/07/2020 - 00:06
      +1

      Streaming services which pull content at any time on a change of provider choice by the copyright owner.

    • Void on 01/07/2020 - 00:38
      -1

      What on earth does someone put in a 12TB hard drive these days…even without streaming services and cloud storage? My entire home media server takes up less than 1TB, so what gives?

      • DryScissors on 01/07/2020 - 04:21
        +4

        r/DataHoarder

      • Ryanek on 01/07/2020 - 08:37
        +1

        One of my 4K movie files is 50gigs.

        • Void on 01/07/2020 - 09:58

          What is with 4K though? I upgraded my TV to 4K because at 55" I had no choice. All my shows and movies are in 1080p with decent bitrates, and I can't tell a difference from a normal sitting distance.

          • cerealJay on 01/07/2020 - 17:24

            @Void: You need a bigger screen to notice 4k, or closer viewing distance. Some people go down that path. I guess that's what's with it.

            • Void on 01/07/2020 - 17:35
              -1

              @cerealJay: 55" is already big imo, I think 65" is the upper limit a normal TV should ever be. After that it's just ridiculous.

              • cerealJay on 01/07/2020 - 17:58

                @Void: Depends how big your room is, and some people play video games on their TV, so a big screen is needed to see all those little icons and stuff like that. Don't forget projectors are a thing now, and 65 inches would be considered a small image.

    • Flattop on 01/07/2020 - 10:24
      +1

      15-20 years of digital SLR and mobile phone photos, they are not all on the cloud.

      • syousef on 01/07/2020 - 13:48

        Same.
        Or games. Or gaming videos.
        Or hell astronomy catalogs for sky chart and planetarium software.
        Linux distros and VMs.

        There is a lot to fill a drive with.

    • syousef on 01/07/2020 - 13:47

      You don't do any photography or video do you?

      Hell I could record my gaming and fill this up in 12 months no sweat. And I have a full time job and kids.

  • Twix on 30/06/2020 - 21:43
    +10

    If anyone is wondering the 12TB = CMR.

  • NotAnAudiophile on 30/06/2020 - 21:46
    +1

    I currently have 16tb and I don’t know what to do with it.

    • BigLeviathan on 01/07/2020 - 00:29
      +2

      Sell it to me? My 8tb is currently broken and now looking for a replacement

  • Hellolol on 30/06/2020 - 21:46
    +1

    Anyone know how to purchase more than 3? I want 10 for my NAS.

    • Master Bates on 30/06/2020 - 21:52
      +2

      Create 4 separate Amazon accounts.

    • avivsworld on 30/06/2020 - 21:54
      +4

      Just a heads up, WD Reds are rated for up to 8 drives per system (https://www.westerndigital.com/products/internal-drives/wd-r…)
      Being a spinning rust drive they're sensitive to vibrations, and with that many drives the vibration can add up! If you care about reliability then it's recommended to go with enterprise level drives if you have that many in the one box.
      But if you're up for yoloing $5k on HDDs then please post results, that'd be an impressive build to see!

      • Goldfire on 01/07/2020 - 01:27

        Don't worry too much about the "8 drives per system" - They're more like guidelines

        No issues here on the 19 drives in my server, 13 are Reds, 5 are "white helium" drives shucked from external Elements and 1 is purple for my cams. The oldest drives are a little over 7 years old at this point without any failures.

        • avivsworld on 01/07/2020 - 08:48

          Supposedly the vibrations can degrade performance pretty noticeably - check this video out, a guy yells at his server which significantly increases the latency in the drives (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDacjrSCeq4)
          It'd be a cool experiment to do a speed test with one or hdd on vs all 19 of them.

          • Flattop on 01/07/2020 - 10:25

            @avivsworld: go old skool and mount them on rubber blocks…

          • Goldfire on 01/07/2020 - 11:34

            @avivsworld: Haha, I remember seeing that years ago. They would most certainly be SCSI drives running at a much higher RPM (10k-15k RPM) compared to these drives (5,400RPM) - the effect of any vibrations will be much higher on those drives he yelled at. I'm not saying that these WD drives are immune to vibrations though, but the 8 drives per system for non-pro Reds isn't really a requirement or rating.

            I don't have the Purple drive in the parity sync'd array, but it's still in the same chassis.

            Here's an older screenshot of a parity sync to a new drive that I added into the array - if I recall correctly from benchmarks on other sites, this is basically on par with their sequential speed tests results. I'm running on an old X5670 and PERC H310's, although the hardware is a bit dated, they still run quite well.

            I can do some speed tests for single vs all drives as a comparison later on when I'm at the server next if you're interested. But, looking at the screenshot of ~141MBps of all drives spinning away when the drives top out at a maximum of 150MBps, it's probably not overly needed.

            With only a <10MBps difference between what I get and the maximum, I'm not overly worried. If it was something drastic like, a 50MBps+ difference, I would consider that a noticeable degradation.

            • avivsworld on 01/07/2020 - 20:35

              @Goldfire: Yeah that's some awesome results, fair point about the higher RPM drives being more sensitive!
              I'm filling my r730xd with decommissioned sas hdds because they're so cheap per TB so I'm not exactly one to be championing reliability in the first place, just a point I've seen pop up now and again

  • slick7 on 30/06/2020 - 21:53

    wish they had good deals on the smaller capacity ones too…

  • jace88 on 30/06/2020 - 22:49

    Just ordered two of the 12TB Elements drives to shuck but if this was available a week ago, I probably would've spent a bit more to get this. That being said, what I really want are Ironwolfs (don't even know why I seem drawn to them). Plan is to build up a 5 or 6 bay NAS :)

    • dualcore on 30/06/2020 - 22:50

      Why would you spend so much more just for a red label?

      • jace88 on 30/06/2020 - 22:51

        Peace of mind

      • BigLeviathan on 01/07/2020 - 00:27
        +1

        Longer warranty period

  • Bob81 on 01/07/2020 - 12:39
    +1

    If you don't need the drive urgently, it may be better to hold out for Amazon Prime day later in the month, as the price will likely drop.

  • beatsntoons on 01/07/2020 - 15:18

    Man I bought a 16TB Exos (enterprise) drive for 640 last week. Crazy how good these prices are.
    Will replace an 8TB drive in my Plex server, taking it to 48TB in size

  • jace88 on 04/07/2020 - 00:48

    For those who prefer Seagate Ironwolf, Amazon has the 10TB ST10000VN0004 drives at $492.99 delivered.

  • Roger Ramjet on 04/07/2020 - 23:15

    Dropped to $491.05

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