Does The WD My Cloud 6TB NAS (White) from JB Hi-Fi Come with A Hard Drive or Not?

stirlo on 28/04/2021 - 09:21
Last edited 28/04/2021 - 11:40 by 2 other users

A deal was posted this morning for this external hard drive/NAS. OP originally thought it came with a 6TB HDD but commenters pointed out that the description said "Install your own compatible hard drives up to 6TB (drives excluded)" and decided it was just the shell. I'm not so sure.

The model number is WDBCTL0060HWT-AESN which is shown on the Umart website as including 6TB of storage. There's also the WD Product Data Sheet linked under the "Documents" section of the JB HiFi page that clearly shows the model WDBCTL0060HWT is 6TB along with the other models in the series, all of which have drives included. The 60 in the model number seems to correspond to the 6TB drive size. Lets not forget that the title is also "WD My Cloud 6TB Capacity NAS (White)"

All in all I'd take the bet that if you order this product you'll get one with a 6TB drive included.

Poll Options

  • 9
    Yes, You'll receive a 6TB drive.
  • 3
    No, You'll just get a NAS with no drives.
  • 6
    Regardless of if drives are included $99 is too much for a 5yo slow NAS.
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Comments

  • Mechz on 28/04/2021 - 09:22

    Go into a JB and ask them to open one up?

  • Clear on 28/04/2021 - 09:25

    WD My Cloud is basically an external HDD with a network interface added to it. They come with the HDDs preinstalled and if you want to remove them, you have to shuck the enclosure like you normally would with any other. This one would have come with 6TB.

    Diskless drives do exist and they make it blatantly obvious that they are.

  • MS Paint on 28/04/2021 - 09:26
    +1

    Key Features

    Install your own compatible hard drives up to 6TB (drives excluded)

    Seems pretty clear to me

    • stirlo on 28/04/2021 - 09:27
      +1

      In addition to what I said above: SPECIFICATIONS: Capacity 6 TB
      Description: NAS storage device with 6TB capacity,

      • MS Paint on 28/04/2021 - 09:31
        +1

        And the user manual states

        My Cloud Home device is not a user serviceable device. No drives can be added or removed from the device.

        Very conflicting. I'm guessing it has a 6tb drive installed.

  • boomramada on 28/04/2021 - 09:30
    +1

    Good luck finding one.

    • stirlo on 28/04/2021 - 09:33

      Damn, didn't realise JB HiFi had joined the club of sites allowing you to add to cart before telling you they're out of stock everywhere… No delivery or pickup available for me in Melbourne.

      • scrimshaw on 28/04/2021 - 12:04

        JB HIFI's online inventory has a lot of 'stragglers' in the database, they have outdated android phones from half a decade ago still listed online for example but they don't actually have much stock of it, if at all. The 6T drive is probably one of them.

    • MS Paint on 28/04/2021 - 09:33

      Exactly. No stock anywhere that I can see.

  • Gronk on 28/04/2021 - 10:14
    +2

    I'm wary of these ever since my 4TB MyCloud died just out of warranty, pulled the HDD out and tried to mount it in a couple of other systems but it wasn't happening.

    If you're going to get one of these, I'd strongly recommend a secondary backup based on my experience.

    • boomramada on 28/04/2021 - 10:46
      +2

      That's goes with any drive. Make sure to have a copy.

  • Haroharo on 28/04/2021 - 10:59

    Caution: you get what you pay for (or possibly less than what you pay for if you pay RRP).

    My 4TB MyCloud died just after three years, the HD is completely rekted and won't mount.
    Fortunately it had started showing some symptoms of dying (losing connection once every few days) so I had moved everything to a new NAS by the time it died.
    If I hadn't done so I would've been left high and dry because WD Support is next to useless and after contacting them and getting past their copy-paste support replies, their final response was that they can't help and for me to contact a third party data recovery service if I need to recover my data.

    Compared to my new NAS (Synology) the MyCloud interface was both slow and un-flexible. Obviously this is a different price tier (2-3x the cost), so comes down to how much you value your data.

  • DashCam AKA Rolts on 28/04/2021 - 11:49

    I would have thought the first step would have been to ask at JB's, guess the customer service person said to ask OzBargain forums.

    DashCam AKA Rolts on 28/04/2021 - 11:49 (Collapsed - Offtopic. Show)
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