Got a few of these drives left over from a big OEM client, recently launched my own store too so I can offer lower prices than my eBay store!
3 years store warranty for the drive, it will have 2~3 weeks handling time before the item is shipped.
GST included and comes with Tax Invoice
Are these SAS or SATA?
Backblaze list these WDC drive at quite low failure rate https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-drive-stats-for-q2-… albeit only the 14TB and 16TB models.
Sata, I do have some SAS Exos 18TB's coming in 2 weeks if you're interested in those (Probably will be around $399 for those)
So the model number is WUH721818ALE6L4?
Also given these are OEM drives, I believe warranty is void if you go out of business?
WUH721818ALN604 which is the 4Kn version, WUH721818ALE6L4 is the 512e version (4Kn can be changed to 512e via software and vice versa)
@Kazusa: It looks like I can’t mix my current 512e with 4Kn in my Synology.
How easy is this software mod to do? Can this be tweaked in Windows prior to installing into the Synology?
This could be a better deal direct from WD. 2 x 20TB Red Pro for USD619.98
https://www.westerndigital.com/en-us/products/internal-drive…
Can you buy direct from the WD USA site or do you need to go via AU?
Looks like you can't
No way yours are 3years without reboot
who says reboot will fix it?
@OzComment: My bad, it wont, but it only affects systems with WDDA that cant be turned off. Im rocking TrueNAS with 12TB Elements and dont care.
If you watch his follow up video, right at the end Synology replied that this can be disabled and that they have removed WDDA from all new NAS model (it has been deprecated) and that it is OFF by default,
That's a clickbait youtuber you're quoting.
He has another video called "5 reasons you DO NOT need a NAS"…. maybe that title can be your next post on OzBargain lol.
Probably a stupid question but can these be used in regular consumer PC's/NAS's?
I'll be ordering a Synology DS423+ within the next few weeks and I need some large hdds for it……
yes but they are louder than Red's
I'm using these in my Synology DS918+ and am happy with them.
I use these in an external dock for backups. quiet when idle. rattly otherwise.
about 9w of power each
@Kazusa to be honest I'm surprised you didn't make a second post regarding the SN740 1 and 2tb drives you have listed unless you're waiting a few weeks for those to come in too.
I'm certain there are a number of people who frequent OzBargain who would want these for steam decks and rog ally devices and not want to deal with aliexpress and the zero warranty and shipping delays that that entails.
those are in stock, didnt think they warranted a post since its cheaper on aliexpress
If your store was an option before I gambled on aliexpress twice (losing once) I'd be on board, still cheaper than the single seller on amazon au.
No idea about the deal, and no idea if you should post them or not, but so glad to see a rep hold back because they understand the spirit of a bargain.
Upvoted your post based on your comment above , for displaying the ozbargain spirit.
I recently purchased one of the 2TB from your eBay store for 225 during one of the EOFY sale things but all things considered i still think $239 is still a damn good price, especially for local stock.
I actually bought a 2tb off his eBay yesterday. EBay plus was $20 off so worked out to $220 which was cheaper than aliexpress. Hurry up and ship my drive @kazusa ;)
store warranty not manufacturer warranty..?
OEM drives… store deals with it.
yeah not for me then -
Any 20 or 22tb?
The 18tb drive is a CMR type, the 20tb+ drives are all SMR.
Where’d you get that from? First time I’m hearing it
What about WD Red Pro 20TB though? The Toms Hardware review indicates it's CMR not SMR: https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/western-digital-red-pro…
the 20tb+ drives are all SMR.
I've got 20TB CMR drives, so that's incorrect.
Where are you sourcing that information ?
What's the warranty process in case anything goes wrong? Is it just to email you at "[email protected]" and arrange for you to replace the drive? Also if it's a store warranty and not a manufacturer warranty, does that mean I can't send the drive to WD in that instance?
Yes, OEM drives are purchased in bulk and part of the discount means that the store deals with the warranty instead of the manufacturer
means seller bought them bulk probably from another country cheap and thats why only store warranty = you could probably who bought them through the serial numbers on WD website
Decent price but them be noisey drives
me, i would never put that much faith in such high capacity drives, i like my data too much
most people buying these would be placing them in a Nas with some sort of redundancy..
are they still making people who think RAID is redundacy, in 2023?
Mate.
It's in the name.
redundant array of inexpensive disks
Perhaps you are confusing this concept with backups or archival.
@rumblytangara: Mate (ill use this in the same condescending way you did, because well, you went there, and i beleive in equality)
Maybe you didnt read on where i point out RAID has been dead for some time, theres no legit hardware RAID aroudn anymnore, its all software…and i wouldnt trust what i have to software RAID, because it provides no real redunancy
@amosmilburn: Oh, no worries about being condescending, because it was completely intentional. All your other replies in this thread suggest you're one of those "old know it all" types who thinks they're always right and has to always waffle on about "back in my day". Just like you think that higher capacity drive automatically = bigger chance of failure <facepalm>
RAID is redundant disks, just like it says on the box. You being wrong about it no longer being used is just laughable. I wonder why the rack-mounted server manufacturers still include hardware RAID controllers.
PS: Falling back to the "no true Scotsman" argument is a cheap trick that only undermines your credibility.
@rumblytangara: nevermind me actually having experience in the space….you seem to like arguing in forums though….have your "win" here, ill go back to the real world
i wasnt aware of any home users here running racks….perhaps you chose to oiverlook the people banging on about NAS's which was the context…..
buy you do you and twist things to a space where you can "win"
@amosmilburn: Does it really matter if it is HW or SW RAID? The idea that one drive may fail and the data should be still accessible remains valid. I am not talking about some silly 16*10TB drives with a single RAID5. That will never rebuild. Just normal RAID1 or reasonable 3-4 disk RAID5
Sure, there may be situation, where whole array fails, but those can happen to both HW as well as SW controllers. If I relied on my personal experience from workplace, then SW RAID wins, because our Synology survived a failure of a drive and mirrored it again without losing data, while ML350G6 with a HW controller ended up with a corrupted filesystem.
That doesn't make any sense.
the form factor hasnt changed in 20+ years, yet more platters and higher density (leading to the evil of SMR) and you want to beleive that all = less failure?
ill keep my smaller drives, and multiple backups thanks
the form factor hasnt changed in 20+ years, yet more platters and higher density (leading to the evil of SMR) and you want to beleive that all = less failure?
I didn't say modern drives were more reliable, read my post again.
The more drives you have, then the more chance you're going to see one fail. Modern drives can be significantly less reliable, but they still easily beat the failure rate of a pool of smaller drives (which has a failure rate multiplied by the number of drives in the pool).
@Nom: Step 1: dont have a pool, i dont, i have multiple single backup drives, different content on dedicated drivers, multiples of, like a sane person….one failure isnt going to affect me, neither is 3, or 4 as it happens (for the critical stuff)…a lot cheaper than trying to shoehorn everything you own onto one massive pushing at the boundary of stupidity hard drive
Good luck to anyone with a very expensive (software) RAID with these kinds of massive drives and false sense of security…RAID has been dead for some time, proper hardware RAID….its all software now….
Come a long way since my 1st hard drive - 5Mb and was the size of a microwave, there is a point where "phwoar more storage, isnt it amazing" on mech every decade or so just becomes stupid.
They really need to take mech drives out into the back paddock, and put two into the back of their heads, its time….and my 1st HDD drive, at the dawn of time was 5Mb and was the size of my microwave….
Will be be stocking any 16TB Enterprise drives?
I'm looking to get at least 3 to expand my unRAID server.
Also, will you be looking at stocking SAS HBA card?
Girlfriend is after DD Silicon.
Any deals?
She should go with Silicone instead.
Got 2 x 18TB WD Essentials which contain some white label drives which I shucked at last years Prime day sale for ~$380 each.
I'm getting really desperate for HDD space, and this price is pretty good, but I would need at least 6 of them to keep me going, but I feel that HDD's are a bit overpriced atm. The price of SSD's/NAND is going down and spinning rust is going up.
Anyway I'd rather spend $2500 on other crap, so I'm going to have to send whatever storage I don't need to cold storage and wait this out.
Or get a BackBlaze subscription?
using ssd then go back to hdd? no way… its like using nbn then go back to phone line modem.
dont, im getting all misty …..i miss the tones!
full disclosure: i used to work at a certain large ISP back in dialup days.
at&f&c1&d2\n3+ms=11,1
I am not able to get SMART info from these drives via Hard Disk Sentinel Pro, or any other app I've tried. They all say SMART is not supported. Which is not what the specs for the drive state.
Is this because they are 4Kn? If so, is there any other app I can use to get SMART info and run the extended SMART tests on these drives?
Seems like w decent price for those who need a drive like this