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Western Digital 16TB WD Gold Enterprise Class Internal Hard Drive $418.36 Delivered @ Amazon US via AU

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Western Digital 16TB WD Gold Enterprise Class Internal Hard Drive - 7200 RPM Class, SATA 6 Gb/s, 512 MB Cache, 3.5" - WD161KRYZ
According to Camel, it might be the lowest price.

26.1475$per TB.

The New WD gold is based on the WD Ultrastar platform, actually, the only difference might be the label. Due to their marketing strategy, WD Gold is usually more expensive than Ultrastar.

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  • ozbs25 on 12/02/2023 - 20:34
    +3

    Was about to post too. Looks to be a great price.

    Edit: Maybe not the cheapest drive if you go purely by $/TB, but this is supposed to be a good drive.

  • Hornpub on 12/02/2023 - 20:35
    +2

    quic math 26.14$per TB

  • masano1 on 12/02/2023 - 20:45
    +1

    Can please anyone advise me of how the warranty works?

    • dman1 on 12/02/2023 - 21:28
      +10

      Afaik if you buy from Amazon AU you return to Amazon AU but when you try to register them on the WD website the serial number comes up with “out of area” or something similar. You can still upload the Amazon Invoice and explain they shipped them from US.

      Amazon AU definitely will take drives from US and UK back through their AU Warehouse in Sydney.

      I don’t know anyone having to return the really cheap essentials models myself but these Gold will be Five Years most likely - double check their website PDF flyer.

      As for dealing with WD in Australia. It’s a shame the UK/US serials will register but have a message against them - but upload the Amazon AU invoice opening a warranty case on the WD AU website and you should be right either way, but me personally would be dealing with Amazon if I had warranty issues - either way - pretty sure both Amazon and WD will be around in 5 years time.

      • masano1 on 12/02/2023 - 21:33
        +3

        Thanks heaps for this. Much appreciated.

  • nmur on 12/02/2023 - 21:13
    +1

    How do these compare to Seagate Exos drives?

    • skwashd on 12/02/2023 - 22:23
      +1

      The difference is $134.31 compared to a "refurbed" 16TB exos drive.

      • garetz on 13/02/2023 - 03:25
        +3

        These are not refurbs, they are ex mining disks, you do not want to buy those disks at all for any price.

        • skwashd on 13/02/2023 - 13:37

          Hence the use of quotes around refurbed. The linked post makes it clear no one should be buying them.

  • Vladdo on 12/02/2023 - 21:14
    +7

    Wonder if these will get shipping in a big box with no padding causing the drive to be a ball in a pinball machine..

    • SirNoble on 12/02/2023 - 21:27

      That or it gets shipped in its retail box.
      Had one the other day that got shipped from the US in just it's retail packaging.

      • Vladdo on 12/02/2023 - 21:37
        +4

        What is retail packaging? an antistatic bag?

        • hollykryten on 13/02/2023 - 21:36

          I think retail packaging means it comes in a retail cardboard packaging box.

          However OEM drives come in an antistatic bag only.

          But there's no way that these WD Gold drives come in retail packaging as it's Enterprise drives and shipped as OEM. It will only come in an anti stagic bag but if you're lucky Amazon will place it into a cardboard shipping box. But most likely there will be inadequate shipping protection in the box so the hard drive will roll all around the box and risk being damaged during shipping transportation. The risk is definitely there.

    • dman1 on 12/02/2023 - 21:31
      +1

      That is always a concern with WD that they don’t pack bare drives with much protection. They do seem to be shipping them to the AU warehouses first before shipping to end user. I’d be more worried about the local AU couriers than international which will be plastic wrapped on pallets.

      • hollykryten on 13/02/2023 - 21:41

        It's not about WD. It's about Amazon itself as the drive will come direct from the Amazon warehouse and Amazon does the shipping packaging. It will be the same for all branded OEM drives which come shipped from Amazon itself.

  • morphio on 12/02/2023 - 21:24
    +4

    This will go well with the gold ram posted earlier today!

  • OzBerghainer on 12/02/2023 - 21:30

    How do you collate two of these to make up the same Drive in windows? (Eg. P:Plex) but that drive is actually two HDD’s?

    • Vladdo on 12/02/2023 - 21:36
      -1

      https://stablebit.com/

    • AwesomeAndrew on 12/02/2023 - 22:13
      +3

      Use Storage Spaces. Built in, no extra software download needed.

      • Vladdo on 12/02/2023 - 22:43

        You can use Storage Spaces to group three or more drives together into a storage pool and then use capacity from that pool to create Storage Spaces.

    • Nom on 13/02/2023 - 16:32
      +1

      Mount one as a folder inside the other - you don't have to give them both drive letters.

      But for Plex, you don't even need to pool them together - just add both drives as video sources on your Plex server.

  • diggityfish on 13/02/2023 - 05:13

    Can this be used in a NAS? Or as a Plex drive in a PC?

    • darxtorm on 13/02/2023 - 07:37
      +1

      Should work great but they may be noisy lads. Don't install them next to your baby's crib.

    • asuka1204 on 13/02/2023 - 08:13
      +3

      They are designed to be used in enterprise data centers, so sure they can be used in a home NAS. But all these enterprises' HDDs are noisy, just keep the NAS away from your bedroom.

  • Sammyboy on 13/02/2023 - 08:03

    Good timing. Using 3 2TB blacks at the moment. 1 has failed and lost everything on it as I was stupid enough not to back up to my WDEX2. Had them maybe 6 years. Guessing blacks aren't the best for data storage anyway…

    • Nom on 13/02/2023 - 16:33
      -1

      Be sure to still backup this new drive otherwise the same thing will happen again one day.

  • GoldAlwaysGold on 13/02/2023 - 09:50

    16TB what would the available space for this actually be?

  • Sirt on 13/02/2023 - 09:56

    I realise these are in China, but a mate of mine has already bought these and swears by them.
    https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/294993342368
    Seagate Iron Wolfe NAS 16TB @ $377.30 plus shipping

    • gregoinc on 13/02/2023 - 11:58

      Awesome price for a solid drive. I am just wondering how warranty would work?

    • J4ckal on 13/02/2023 - 16:27

      $25 shipping makes it less attractive.

      • hollykryten on 13/02/2023 - 21:43

        Hopefully the higher price means better shipping protection. And is not just shipped inside of a cardboard box with zero protection. Remember the cheaper the shipping the more they have to cut corners when it comes to shipping protection. And a delicate thing like a hard drive definitely needs to be shipped right with plenty of impact protection.

        Remember you don't want to be paying $420 odd dollars only to find when it arrives that it's been destroyed by the courier due to inadequate shipping protection inside of the shipping box. You do not want to skimp on that.

        • J4ckal on 13/02/2023 - 22:21

          Very much doubt it. It's coming overseas from a small seller. The don't usually subsidise the cost of shipping.

          • hollykryten on 14/02/2023 - 10:56

            @J4ckal: You never know. I once bought a Seagate Exos 12TB HDD through ebay which was shipped from China and it came shipped in a thick load of bubble wrap protection. Some times smaller sellers care more for the shipping protection than large sellers do such as Amazon because they have more to lose if the item is delivered damaged.

  • ctg on 13/02/2023 - 12:04

    Expired by the looks

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