WD Datacenter Hard Drive DC HC550 18TB SATA Ultra SE NP3 $497.11 Delivered @ Amazon US via AU

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Lowest ever? Was $495 year ago: https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/690002

9:30pm 4/2 Update: price increased 3% from $482.11 to $497.11

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Connectivity technology SATA
Brand Western Digital
Compatible devices Desktop
Hard disk size 18 TB
Specific uses for product Business
Cache size 512
Item weight 690 Grams
Item dimensions L x W x H 14.7 x 10.2 x 2.6 centimetres
Number of items 1

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  hippo2s on 04/02/2023 - 15:25

  why would anyone that source for a data center be making purchases on Amazon…

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    Viospeed on 04/02/2023 - 15:48

    +21

    Because they're rated for datacenter use but don't need to be in a datacenter.

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    OzTech74L on 04/02/2023 - 20:14

    +1

    Because someone running a Proxmox VM "technically" have a datacenter.

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  Hornpub on 04/02/2023 - 15:48

  +1

  those review comments on amazon seems horror.

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  videoman on 04/02/2023 - 15:58

  +12

  The enterprise drives on amazon US are often from scammers selling refurbished or damaged stock. This is how I received mine from a deal last year- https://imgur.com/a/iCljwV2

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    Neology on 04/02/2023 - 16:00

    +2

    That looks terrible :(

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    justtoreply on 04/02/2023 - 16:06

    +3

    This + australia tax is why I no longer buy bare drives.

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    TripleJJJ on 04/02/2023 - 16:11

    +4

    I have similar issue with Amazon US as well. Mine was 4TB portable ssd. The package indicated it was 4TB drive inside, but acutally it was a used 1TB drive in the box. I guess scammer bought the drive, becase the package was only sealed from the top but not the bottom, scammer swapped the drive inside and then lodged the return. Then Amazon put the dodgy return back to the shelf straight away and continued to sell to other customer.

    This only happened from Amazon US…

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    noshopping on 04/02/2023 - 16:28

    did you buy from:
    Sold by Amazon US?

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  Bunnii on 04/02/2023 - 16:55

  +5

  Seagate IronWolf Pro 18TB Enterprise NAS $468.57, buy 2 and save %5 😂👍

  https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/B0B94MRX2H/?coliid=ID016IGECTHB…

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    [Deactivated] on 04/02/2023 - 17:03

    +1

    WD looks more enterprisy

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    grumblerain on 04/02/2023 - 17:36

    +1

    this should be posted as a deal, surely? I ended up purchasing this one instead of the one in the OP. Hope I didn't make a mistake XD

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  OMan on 04/02/2023 - 17:14

  +2

  I have bought 2 WD Ultrastar drives from Amazon US. So far so good. The first one in 2020, 8TB DC HC 320. This drive has had a lot of use. The second drive is a 18TB DC HC550. 6 month usage. The Ultrastar are supposed to be the old Hitachi drives that are supposed to be the best.

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  mikezillakind on 04/02/2023 - 17:59

  i would be tempted by these if not for the fact that i already bought a 20tb External that and we have " Fast hdds" coming out in a short while ….

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  NonCents on 06/02/2023 - 10:48

  Ozbargain user "Neology" organised a group purchase last year for the 18TB HC550's @ $450

  I went in for 2 drives, they arrived professionally packaged with a padded hard drive spacer, the drives report and function as expected. It might be worth investivatigating that supplier to see if you can still get a better price from a vendor that OzBargainers have previously had no problems with: https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/682193