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WD Ultrastar DC HC550 18TB 512MB SATA Enterprise HDD (CMR, 7200 RPM) $557.26 + Delivery ($0 with Prime) @ Amazon US via AU

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WD Ultrastar DC HC550 18TB 512MB SATA Enterprise HDD (CMR, 7200 RPM) $557.26 + Delivery ($0 with Prime) @ Amazon US via AUAffiliate
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Spizz on 08/01/2022 - 09:25 amazon.com.au (1938 clicks)
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Good deal for those that missed out on the 1 Day ShoppingExpress deal and cheaper to.

Update- Price drop to $561.48 updated in post.
Update 2- Price drop to $560.10 updated in post.
Update 3- Price drop $557.80 updated in post 12/1/22
Update 4- Price drop $551.66 updated in post 13/1/22
Update 5- Price drop $549.94 updated in post 15/1/22
Update 6- Price increased to $557.26 updated in post 19/1/22

I assume currency fluctuations.

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  • justtoreply on 08/01/2022 - 09:40
    -4

    What deal? I see no thread here..

    • Covid19 on 08/01/2022 - 09:52
      +4

      This was one of the recent ones : https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/670097

      • Spizz on 08/01/2022 - 09:54
        +4

        That price did not include GST which you get charged by them during checkout. As per the OP- "The price I posted includes their lowest cost shipping opting, but does not include GST."

        • Covid19 on 08/01/2022 - 10:00
          +5

          Not my deal.
          Just posted link for visibility, and the kind of healthy discussions you folks bring.

          fyi,
          Shopping express black friday deal @$599 https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/674622

        • justtoreply on 08/01/2022 - 11:06

          Yeah OP said you didn't need to pay gst by putting in an ABN. I queried him on it in the thread but TBH I still don't understand if it's ok?!

          • [Deactivated] on 08/01/2022 - 23:01

            @justtoreply: If you are registered for GST, even if you pay it, you claim it back. Assuming this is a business purchase.

            • justtoreply on 09/01/2022 - 10:54

              @[Deactivated]: What's the premise though? If the business is the end user of the product, then no gst will ever be paid on that product?

              • [Deactivated] on 09/01/2022 - 11:23
                +1

                @justtoreply: Correct. Businesses essentially collect GST on goods and services they provide, but get a credit against that for any they paid. It doesn't matter if they were the end user of the product or not, if the GST was on cleaning services for their office etc.

                So essentially you forward the GST you collect from customers to the ATO minus that which you have paid.

                Only individuals end up paying GST (or businesses that collect less GST than they spend or don't register for the GST). Note if you're not registered for the GST, if you put in an ABN your business will be liable for the unpaid GST if they don't collect it.

                • justtoreply on 09/01/2022 - 11:35

                  @[Deactivated]: Thanks. That last paragraph seems crucial and explains why i didn't get it.

                  If an ozbargainer puts in an ABN on newegg to avoid GST, but they run a $0 business, then they've dodged gst illegally (unless they actually choose to pay the ATO later)

                  Of course it probably doesn't get policed properly (newegg talking to ATO).

                  • [Deactivated] on 09/01/2022 - 12:33

                    @justtoreply: I'm not sure the ATO will follow it up, but Newegg would be talking to the ATO at some level if they're collecting GST. (how much I'm not sure). Technically you're also supposed to be liable for extra customs duties (on top of GST) if you import things (or groups of identical things even via multiple transactions) worth more than $1000 as well, but for example Amazon only collect it if in a single transaction.

      • justtoreply on 08/01/2022 - 11:05

        Good work!

  • chartparker on 08/01/2022 - 10:31

    What's the difference between this and WD red pro 18tb?

    • Spizz on 08/01/2022 - 10:35
      +3

      The HC550 has a higher (better) workload, MTBF, etc than the Red Pro.

      • chartparker on 08/01/2022 - 11:00

        Oh right. Damn… I've already got a Red Pro in my NAS… not sure whether I should mix/match with this or not to get RAID1

        • gelvy on 08/01/2022 - 16:33
          +3

          Mix and match away, especially for getting into a RAID 1 setup, but with the bonus of adding a more reliable drive into your NAS. Dont sweat the Red Pro purchase, damn fine drive, and will likely be as reliable for your use case realistically.

  • Xizor on 08/01/2022 - 10:43
    +1

    Prices getting more attractive, though still not low enough to negate the warranty risk for me.

    • Spizz on 08/01/2022 - 10:47

      Just picked up for myself the HC 550 16TB brand new (not refurb nor Recertified) for $398 Australian dollars including Fedex Delivery. Warranty is return overseas as per usual. Ill update more once I receive my drive (Fedex is saying Wednesday), run the serials, etc if you are interested and point you in the right direction of the eBay seller.

      • Covid19 on 08/01/2022 - 10:57
        +1

        Hey @Spizz,
        Where did you buy the 16tb from?
        I am also looking to buy few.

      • Xizor on 08/01/2022 - 11:00

        Interesting. Question will be whether you can successfully register international/aus warranty with WD. I've lost count of the instances on forums etc about a listing (even on amazon) claims there is warranty but then when you try to register the serial it does not accept it, claims OEM and to go to seller who then claims only for origin country only. At $398 though its potentially worth the gamble as similar to external shucking prices .

        • Spizz on 08/01/2022 - 11:07
          +1

          That is the gamble I took at that price, I went in expecting no local Warranty and expecting return to overseas if I had issues. If I can obtain local warranty I would consider that the icing on the cake.

          • Xizor on 08/01/2022 - 11:10

            @Spizz: The problem is some you cannot even get support returning to overseas as the manufacturer do not support and the retailer have their conditions which is hard to work through. Hopefully none of this applies to your mystery seller… eagerly awaiting :D

            • Spizz on 08/01/2022 - 11:13

              @Xizor: As I said at that price i took the gamble sans warranty YMMV as you weigh up your risk aversion.

      • pbjabba on 08/01/2022 - 11:00
        +1

        Which seller? I’m interested too :)

          • pbjabba on 08/01/2022 - 11:44
            +1

            @Spizz: Sounds good. I’m willing to take a gamble on a couple too

      • Bludger on 08/01/2022 - 11:35
        +1

        Yeah, I'd like the details if it works out.

        • Spizz on 08/01/2022 - 11:55
          -4

          Will do and more than happy to do so for anyone else. Even though I was downvoted above I am being cautious as it is outside of their eBay channel and payment is via PayPal only so little recourse in case it isn't New, etc. However considering their feedback I am hoping for the best and took the risk. YMMV. Mid week Ill find out for sure according to Fedex.

          • Nom on 08/01/2022 - 12:42
            +1

            @Spizz:

            outside of their eBay channel

            Pretty crucial information there 🤷‍♂️

          • Butt Scratcher on 08/01/2022 - 12:50
            +4

            @Spizz: Such a tease, most of us ozbargainers aren't that into foreplay I'd imagine

          • Whisper Quiet on 09/01/2022 - 13:21
            +2

            @Spizz: If you paid by PayPal then you're covered for 6 months for any issues. They are very good for stuff like that. If you do have issues just follow paypals instructions not the sellers for refund etc.

          • jace88 on 10/01/2022 - 23:02

            @Spizz: Well let's see when you can share or even post up a deal on here!

            • Spizz on 11/01/2022 - 18:04
              +1

              @jace88: It arrived today. I have sent you a PM with the details. I could list their eBay deal but it would be equal to some of the NewEgg deals. Going direct is where the savings is at and I don't think OzBargain would let you post a business email as a deal but you take some risk as I mentioned in the comments above which only each individual can weigh up.

              • Spizz on 12/01/2022 - 18:01

                @Spizz: If anyone else would like the info, just drop me a PM.

        • t123 on 08/01/2022 - 15:00
          +2

          From his description, seller is likely eastdigitalhk on eBay.

      • Zilch on 08/01/2022 - 11:54
        +1

        bro wtf share

  • Skramit on 08/01/2022 - 11:22
    +9

    Perfect timing thanks. My Linux ISO collection keeps filling up my drives.

    • BargainKen on 08/01/2022 - 14:45
      +1

      Try convert to x265, results aren't bad

      • Flirtle on 08/01/2022 - 18:54

        I've watched them several times

        • 1tightwad on 09/01/2022 - 04:33

          I trim them all to 45 seconds.

      • xylarr on 09/01/2022 - 10:12
        +1

        I set up a script to go through all my ISOs and re-encode them. It ran for months - though to be fair, it was on a low powered machine. It ran at about 7fps. Now that it has caught up the backlog, it re-encodes any fresh distributions as they are released.

        • JBxrm on 09/01/2022 - 23:32

          Manual script or something like unmaniac / handbrake? Not sure I'm patient enough to shrink ~8TB of Linux ISOs but x264 oft transcodes regardless when family want the latest Ubuntu

          • xylarr on 14/01/2022 - 22:38
            +1

            @JBxrm: It's all automatic, managed by systemd timer units (or use cron if you wish). Runs on linux.

        • yacman on 10/01/2022 - 21:03

          Can you give more details about this? Your PMS are turned off, send me a message?

        • Sopzo on 20/01/2022 - 23:41

          This will result in highly inefficient and low quality encodes. It's just better to download quality encodes

  • ChineseElectronics on 08/01/2022 - 11:23
    -5

    Will it blend?

  • bt5555 on 08/01/2022 - 11:31

    Watch out for these drives from Amazon, I got caught out with WD not providing warranty support being an OEM drive. A massive pain if you have already loaded these into your NAS etc…

    • Taxi01 on 17/01/2022 - 16:06

      hey mate, bring such a new drive, u had issues with it already?

      • bt5555 on 18/01/2022 - 10:56

        no but i did try to register it for warranty. thats when WD told me they wouldnt cover it. I then had to go through a returns process with Amazon.

  • B3 on 08/01/2022 - 12:25

    To share my experience after buying 2 of these from Amazon:

    You don't get charged anything extra (gst, duties) for these drives.

    They have no warranty from WD. WD will refer you to your vendor.

    • Butt Scratcher on 08/01/2022 - 12:44

      You do get charged with GST, look at your invoice.

      The price for this post includes GST

      • B3 on 08/01/2022 - 15:00
        +1

        Which is what I said, or tried to say. You pay this price and don't pay anything extra.

  • xdivino on 08/01/2022 - 12:52
    +1

    So is there any definitive warranty on these?
    Or is it a contact Amazon and hope for the best. Seems this is the biggest gripe with hdd deals recently unless they’re external usb drives.

    Would be ideal to have a process defined for sending back and or that there is indeed support one or two years later etc

    • soccerjoe5 on 08/01/2022 - 13:15

      I'd like to know too - the reviews on it say that you need to contact WD directly

    • jace88 on 08/01/2022 - 14:02

      That's what worries me about buying these grey import data centre grade drives. If I'm going to pay a premium over the good ol' shucked white drives, I'd like to know I'm getting some peace of mind for it.

  • [Deactivated] on 08/01/2022 - 13:24

    Anyone know if chias dead???

    • BargainKen on 08/01/2022 - 14:46
      +1

      Hope so.

    • Austere on 08/01/2022 - 15:01

      Doing better than other cryptos, but you won’t make your money back

  • Munki on 08/01/2022 - 15:04
    +3

    18TB. That's a lot of porn.

    • furyou on 08/01/2022 - 16:28

      how many hours of porn is that? Gotta get ready for next lockdown

    • JajaMinx on 08/01/2022 - 16:59
      +1

      18TB is not enough for the latest 4k-8k VR porn…

    • AustriaBargain on 08/01/2022 - 17:47
      +3

      8K dolby vision vr porn will necessitate this.

      • Munki on 09/01/2022 - 16:55

        8k. That's a lot of definition.

  • Spizz on 08/01/2022 - 15:25

    Price drop. Now $561.48 on Amazon AU.

  • Scrobo on 08/01/2022 - 17:26

    Doesn't this work out cheaper?
    https://www.amazon.com/Elements-Desktop-Drive-Compatible-WDB…

    • Vladdo on 08/01/2022 - 17:39
      +1

      That's $551 AUD delivered but it's nowhere near the same calibre of drive.

      • Felixrising on 08/01/2022 - 18:35

        They're often wd white label, which can be the same as the wd red nas drives. Also they show up as 517.05 when I look at it.

      • Nom on 08/01/2022 - 18:38
        -2

        @Vladdo - that's not how it works - you could end up with this exact drive, albeit unlabelled and without warranty once you've shucked it…

        • Tigerhacker on 08/01/2022 - 20:46
          +2

          Keep in mind while the white labels run the same hardware, they're often throttled in firmware to give "5K rpm" transfer speeds, so they are in fact slower

          • Nom on 09/01/2022 - 09:38

            @Tigerhacker: Yep, it's a lottery - you don't know what you're going to get in the external case.
            Absolutely fine for random bulk storage, not fine if you need a drive with specific specs.

    • Sleepycat3 on 08/01/2022 - 21:19
      +1

      No because I paid $422 for it off Amazon AU (shipped from Amazon UK) back in end November. Also, the elements uses a 5400 rpm white drive.

      • DawnShadow on 09/01/2022 - 10:52

        Is this referring to the drive in the OP or one of the other drives discussed in the comments?

        • Sleepycat3 on 10/01/2022 - 15:06

          No, this is in relation to the Elements drive that Scrobo linked in his post above.

  • twang on 08/01/2022 - 22:50

    Does this work for Synology? DS1821+?
    their compatilibity list only shows up to 16gb. Not the 18gb version

    • sav11 on 15/01/2022 - 17:24

      Same with the compatibility list for the DS918+

      The compatibility list's are not exclusive it's just what's been officially tested and confirmed.

      I chanced it and these drives are working perfectly in my DS918+ (bought from this deal with ABN so no GST and a bit cheaper https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/670097#comment-11632097)

      Likely it will be fine but YMMV.

  • smurfstah on 09/01/2022 - 10:48

    Need a deal on the 16tbs!

  • epoch on 09/01/2022 - 10:57
    +1

    $560.10 this morning, seem to be still headed a little south

    • Spizz on 09/01/2022 - 11:22

      Thanks. Have updated post. Seems like currency fluctuations.

  • JajaMinx on 09/01/2022 - 11:49

    I cancelled my order… warranty is a bit of a concern and risk is too high.

  • Boci Levu on 09/01/2022 - 12:21

    Not a great bargain for a user wanting to install it into a desktop PC. DC drives are noisy!

    • Neology on 09/01/2022 - 18:38
      +2

      By reading online reviews this one is the quietest one among all DC HDDs

      • chartparker on 14/01/2022 - 22:38

        If it's anything like the WD Red Pro 18tb I have then it's pretty noisy. Audible through the whole house in the dead of night to the point where my wife makes me schedule the NAS to turn off at 10pm

    • jace88 on 14/01/2022 - 11:51

      Surely there are better options than a DC drive for a desktop PC? Or is it because there just aren't many 18TB drives around?

  • Covid19 on 09/01/2022 - 12:36
    +3

    Purchased for $543.30 using 3% disconnected Amazon gift card.
    Remember to take advantage if you are a Macquarie or Suncorp bank customer.

    • Neology on 10/01/2022 - 16:41

      “Disconnected gift card” - made my day ;)

    • icecream on 14/01/2022 - 21:57

      Have you received your drive, yet? How did it go?

      • Neology on 14/01/2022 - 22:47
        +2

        Ordered 3, two are shipped and one remain unshipped. Will update when they arrives

  • itsme56 on 18/01/2022 - 20:00
    +1

    Mine shipped today. Coming via Australia Post. First I’ve seen this from Amazon US. Seen APG E-commerce commonly but not directly Australia Post. Are they already in Aus?

    • Nom on 18/01/2022 - 20:27
      -1

      Amazon bulk-ship to Australia, then hand over to AusPost 👍

  • Neology on 18/01/2022 - 22:38
    +1

    I ordered three at the same time, two were shipped first at the same time with Fastway tracking numbers, the third one shipped 4 days after with AusPost tracking number.

    Update 18/01: One Fastway parcel arrived today. Unfortunately, it was DOA: NAS reported error, and Win10 cannot recognise the disk. :(
    Contacted WD in the first place, they advised they cannot RMA this one as it is OEM stock from a different region, and suggested I contact Amazon for the replacement. Amazon AU can't replace the item since it's from Amazon US, can only do return and place another order.
    Will see how it goes with the other two.

    • itsme56 on 18/01/2022 - 23:59
      +1

      Thats annoying, I'd ask for an advanced refund so you can re-order without delay. Returns go back to the US so you may not get your refund for 4-6 weeks.

      • Neology on 19/01/2022 - 12:55
        +1

        Great point. Just called Amazon and they agreed to provide early refund.
        Thanks

    • Neology on 19/01/2022 - 12:57
      +3

      Update 19/01: Received the 2nd one from fastway, plugged into the NAS and recognised straightway. Initiated "Bad block" scan, hope it goes well.

    • Neology on 20/01/2022 - 13:44
      +3

      Update 20/01: Bad block scan complete on the 2nd HDD, all good. Disk noise level is low and disk temperature is below 42C degrees over the whole scanning time.

      And the third one just delivered from AusPost, installed into NAS, so far so good.

    • icecream on 21/01/2022 - 13:17

      Thanks for sharing your experience.

      Did you get charged extra for GST? (because of more than $1,000)

      It is a pitty WD won't honour RMA. Did Amazon provide prepaid label for returning the faulty drive?

      Unsure if question is valid, was product registered fine on WD US or AU site?

      • itsme56 on 22/01/2022 - 20:54

        GST is included in the price and therefore and charged when buying on Amazon AU even though it’s from Amazon US.

        Yes, Amazon provide a prepaid label, no charge.

      • Neology on 22/01/2022 - 23:25
        +1

        As joelhinch said, GST is included with the price which can be found in the Amazon invoice. I placed three separate orders to make the each parcel's value lower than $1000, therefore no import duties need to be paid.

        This is actually good, Amazon provided prepaid label, pack the item and dropoff to a parcelpoint location. The label indicates the parcel goes to Amazon Hub in Sydney and they will handle the rest of returning to Amazon US.

        It's WD My Support Portal, I believe it's a global website. Once the product is registered it comes up in my profile, but shows "IN WARRANTY (OUT OF REGION)".

        Hope it helps

        • icecream on 24/01/2022 - 14:51
          +1

          Thanks again for the great info!

  • itsme56 on 28/01/2022 - 13:54
    +1

    Both of my drives arrived via AusPost the other day.
    Full scans complete, all 100% healthy. Nice drives!

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