Western Digital 6TB My Book Studio Edition II Quad Interface External Hard Drive from B&H $409 USD Delivered

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neil on 28/12/2012 - 14:46 www.bhphotovideo.com (714 clicks)

B&H Photo-Video offers the Western Digital 6TB My Book Studio Edition II eSATA / FireWire 800 / USB 2.0 External Hard Drive in White, model no. WDH2Q60000N, for $339 with $70 shipping ($0.06/GB). That's $10 under last week's mention and the least expensive 6TB quad-interface external hard drive we've (dealnews) seen. (It's a current price low for this model by $36.) This system features two 3TB drives, a capacity gauge, and RAID support. Although formatted for Macs, it can easily be reformatted for a PC.

Next cheapest is The Apple Store - $580 shipped.

Officeworks has it for $649.

Rated 7/10 on Cnet

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    first in line on 28/12/2012 - 15:21

    Will purchase for my video collection ;)

    • +12 votes
      PinzVidz on 28/12/2012 - 16:04

      That's a lot of pron.

      • +1 vote
        danblar on 28/12/2012 - 17:18

        Must be blu-ray.

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    figarow on 28/12/2012 - 15:24

    "quad-interface" yeah ok

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      samfisher5986 on 28/12/2012 - 18:30

      1x USB 2.0
      1x eSATA
      2x 9-Pin FireWire-800

      Whats wrong?

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    BargainHaggler on 28/12/2012 - 15:34

    Ethernet port? Nas?

  • +1 vote
    elamo on 28/12/2012 - 15:44

    Quad Interface is NOT 4 Ethernet ports as most people would assume by 'quad interface'.
    Quad Interace is 2x Firewire, 1 USB 2.0, and 1 eSata.

  • -2 votes
    Tal_Shiar on 28/12/2012 - 15:52

    6tb… keanu reeves whoa

  • +1 vote
    machej on 28/12/2012 - 16:26

    Hmm, I think it would be better to get a raid drive, unless you don't want to store personal/business data. Imagine losing 6000 GB. :O

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      Curiosity on 28/12/2012 - 23:23

      This is a RAID drive

  • +8 votes
    clubhonda on 28/12/2012 - 17:21

    All I can say is WOW… that's a LOT of space!! But USB2 for 6tb? Isn't that going to take forever for your files to transfer?

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      erwinsie on 28/12/2012 - 18:50

      Agree ^ few montha ago i just transferrd 3.5TB via esata and it was took a day, cant imagine with usb 2.0

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    gunnny on 28/12/2012 - 19:32

    this is more expensive than my 7TB server at home that runs on 20 watts average.

    • +1 vote
      aussieaubs on 28/12/2012 - 20:53

      is that 20W a day?
      also what server are you using that uses that small amount of power? if you dont mind sharing :)

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        TheChorizo on 29/12/2012 - 00:29

        watts are measure of rate of power (joules/second).

        For a days power use you would measure it in Joules/KJ

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        PinzVidz on 29/12/2012 - 08:20

        Wouldn't be 20w a day. If the unit uses 20w, and it's running 24/7, at 25c/kWh, it would be costing about 12c/day to run.

        I run 2x QNAP 4 bays (one as a main NAS, one as a backup NAS), they consume 20w when running, 12w on standby.

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          gunnny on 29/12/2012 - 08:45

          That's right. The computer was a p4 dual core that my office was getting rid of so I take that as free.
          Runs everything just fine for a server needs. I got rid of the graphics card, and all the crap like dvd drive, pci cards etc. Put in 3 2TB drives, and one old 1tb sata for about $400. Cheap 7tb storage :)

  • +1 vote
    brezzo on 28/12/2012 - 21:41

    Could anyone explain the difference/benefits of using this rather than, say, 2x 3tb HDDs? This doesn't have USB 3.0, like most HDDs, and doesn't really seem all that great of a price?

    Especially when deals like this: http://www.jbhifi.com.au/computers/storage/seagate/expansion... come around for the 3tb drives, at only $112.48 pricematched ($118 otherwise), making it <$240 for 6tb. Ok, it's 2 drives and doesn't have a few of the ports, but it's the same amount of storage…

    Thanks.

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      mp3police on 28/12/2012 - 21:46

      i got 2 of those 3TB drivers at usb 3 the 2 drivers is a much better bargain esp if u wanted to spend 400 u could get 12TB all up

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      wholesaleturbos on 28/12/2012 - 23:40

      The benifit is you dont have to build it.

      Granted you can build your own cheaper or use a better cpu/mobo/case.

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        brezzo on 29/12/2012 - 00:41

        I don't get it.. build what? Isn't it just a big (or multiple) hard drive? What's so special about this one that requires the hefty price tag? Can it make me coffee or something? :p

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          wholesaleturbos on 29/12/2012 - 07:51

          Oh, I didnt read it properly, for that price I was expecting a mini server!

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      figarow on 28/12/2012 - 23:45

      it's all about size for some… i'm not that insecure myself

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    tko6070 on 28/12/2012 - 21:59

    oh god usb 2.0 it would taken longer to transfer my movies than re-download them again!

  • +1 vote
    congngo on 29/12/2012 - 00:55

    Wait for USB 3.0

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    andy911 on 29/12/2012 - 10:07

    I'm sorry to say, this does not seem like a good deal to me. A NAS (network connected storage) is far more useful. The ReadyNAS duo can be had on special for about $200 and wil accept standard 3.5" desktop drives. There are a large number of plugins like a torrent downloader, Timemachine etc. And it's a well made metal unit for half this price with far more applications.

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      darkjazz on 29/12/2012 - 22:05

      People vary. To me NAS is never so great. I had two in the past but the torrent download speed really sucked and I ended up it by selling them cheap. Besides it, the enthernet transfer speed is also so poor.

      • +1 vote
        samfisher5986 on 29/12/2012 - 22:49

        +1

        NAS is too slow for anything but basic needs.

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          andy911 on 30/12/2012 - 15:55

          Damn, I accidentally +1 you when I wanted to hit reply.
          NAS is not too slow. The readyNAS will have no problem keeping up with this storage on the USB2 interface, but it is only a very low powered unit and can only sustain 25-30MB/sec. Higher end units wil sustain 85MB/sec which is about as good as you could get out of the FW or eSATA on this unit.
          Same for torrent perf, there's only a little ARM cpu in the ReadyNAS Duo. They have higher end intel CPU units that will provide more torrent throughput. But if your a torrent freak then you probably will have a dedicated setup for that. For my case I have a dropbox folder that I save torrents into from whichever/wherever I am. When my server see's a new file appear in the torrent folder it kick-offs the download and put's it onto the network storage when complete.

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          samfisher5986 on 30/12/2012 - 23:51

          my point still stands.

          Its good for basic needs as you say…. there is a lot of cool stuff you can do, but you generally can't do it on a NAS due to lack of CPU power.

          Just because perhaps a NAS can to 80 MB/s, it doesn't translate to real world performance when the CPU is 100% hit by something else running.

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          andy911 on 31/12/2012 - 16:30

          No, I don't say NAS is only good for basic usage. I say exactly the opposite. NAS is much more useful, more reliable, performance will vary depending on the interface and config of the unit your using.
          DAS is a less sophisticated means of adding disk that you might want to choose to save money (it's normally cheaper). The fact that it's not all that cheap here, is what lead me to make a comment.

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          samfisher5986 on 31/12/2012 - 16:42

          I can name many things a NAS can not do, mostly because they can't multi task very well.

          Basic Usage: One task at a time.

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          andy911 on 31/12/2012 - 19:14

          That's nonsense - are you confusing NAS with something else?
          A NAS is storage with a computer in front of it to handle I/O requests over the network. Exactly the same as a file-server. No-one makes any file servers/NAS that only handle one task at a time.

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          samfisher5986 on 31/12/2012 - 19:20

          I'm talking about CPU Power and tasks not related copying/storing files.

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    andy911 on 15/01/2013 - 18:00

    This OB post http://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/90838?utm_source=newsletter... is for a HP MicroServer N40L.
    It's a grunty box for a NAS and you can have 4 internal drives (and plenty of external if you wanted).
    At $219 its a huge bargain.

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    flyingtrapeze on 18/01/2013 - 17:36

    The 8tb nas is $599, wish the wd firmware was less flaky…

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