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WD 8TB My Book Desktop External Hard Drive US$203.52/AU$280.55 Delivered from Amazon.com

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Buying these from Amazon is ordinarily the cheapest way to acquire a non-SMR 8TB drive, and today it's dropped to around US$20 below the usual price (last happened briefly in February).

By all accounts I've read previously, the drive inside is a WD80EZZX, which is basically the same as the 8TB Red, but with TLER off (i.e. less suitable for NAS use).

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  • Does anyone know if it's possible to turn TLER back on (wanting Nas drives)

  • Just reading about nas drives, is this a big benefit? Don't really know much about this.

  • +3

    Used Amazon US currency. Worked out AUD $534.68 shipped for 2. Thanks Jabba
    Edit: I cracked one open last night and they're still using the WD80EZZX.

    • Was it easy to open the case without damaging it (if needed to send back for warranty)?

    • +1

      You could have used Crystal disk info http://crystalmark.info/software/CrystalDiskInfo/index-e.htm… to see what drive it is instead of opening it.

      • +1

        I wanted to use it as an internal drive :)

        • can it be used internally?

    • @KennyPowers how did you get 2? Amazon is forcing only 1 for me right now!

      • Just added 2 and checked out without any problems. Maybe they're now limiting them due to low stock? They were out of stock for a few days before this deal went live.
        Got confirmation they shipped. 2 8tb drives for $534.68 is pretty good in my eyes.

        What happends postage price wise if you buy 2 in seperate orders? Maybe works out to be the same? Worth a shot.

        • I ended up just buying 1

          Buying 2 separately didn't do anything with shipping (which makes sense to me anyway)

  • Perfect timing. Htpc was running out of space. Cheers OP!

  • +3

    Compares to a local Seagate 8TB ironwolf NAS HDD (cheaper than local WD Red 8TB)

    pro:
    Cheap

    con:
    Warranty
    WD Red 5900 rpm vs. Seagate 7200rpm

    • +1

      Compares to a local Seagate 8TB ironwolf NAS HDD..
      con:
      WD Red 5900 rpm vs. Seagate 7200rpm

      Not a con - (in non-LAG configurations) even a single 5900RPM drive is way faster than 1Gb/s ethernet connection to a NAS device. Practically, drive speed only matters during RAID rebuild.

      • Well said. I have 11 HDDs in my 2 NAS boxes, all are 5400/5900RPM drives. Much preferred over 7200RPM for that purpose.

        Incidentally, none have ever failed (not that I'm claiming RPM speed for the reason but still, I've been very happy with them)

        1 x Seagate (4TB)
        5 x Hitachi (4TB)
        3 x WD (2TB)
        2 x Samsung (2TB)

        EDIT: Oh and none of my drives are specifically NAS purpose drives (because at the time NAS drives were all 7200rpm). Years of uptime now, especially the older 2TB ones.

    • +1

      The 5900rpm drives are also cooler, quieter, and use less power. I WANT a 5900rpm drive.

  • Can i open this up and put it in my pc

    • Yes. I've got one in my pc now. You do void the warranty removing it from the enclosure though.

  • I literally just bought 2 of the 16tb (2x8tb) WD myduo enclosures for 720 each. Why you do this to me.

    • If it's any comfort, the Reds will probably have a higher resale value. Someone on eBay recently listed several shucked WD 8TBs; the Red went for $350 while the non-Red (WD80EZZX) fetched under $300.

      • That does make me feel a little better, but my wallet not so good - and I need to buy a synology nas too.

  • I actually want to use this as an external drive (as a backup drive to my Nas). Does this come with Australian plugs and does WD have global warranty?

    • Same, here.

      Tempted!

    • Not entirely sure on the global warranty but I heard that if you register the item with WD for warranty purposes, it will list that it is an external drive - provided you don't want to use it as an internal drive I would keep the external closure and if possible put it back in if you have any problems with the drive before sending back to manufacturer/amazon.

  • Is there any benefit these days with using 28degress cards these days?

    • These days, I am not so sure.

      • Pretty sure 28degrees doesn't charge conversion fees so that's a reason to use them. That being said I think Citibank offers a similar card as well now.

        • After some very poor experiences with 28 Degrees I am switching to Citibank Plus for international transactions. Sucks that it's a debit card though, I will have to keep topping it up.

        • @LoopyLou: What issues/experiences did you have?

        • @jtb:

          I won't go into details but they are basically very pig headed. A couple of times they have made mistakes or applied fees incorrectly and when questioned they try a number of tricks including outright lies to bamboozle you into letting it go. Even if/when they finally admit it's incorrect they STILL refuse to refund it. I have one right now with the Ombudsman.

          It's pretty obvious that their bamboozlement methods are aimed at the less fortunate and less savvy. I mean it's a great card and everything is fine when things go to plan, but when it doesn't they become a cross between Harvey Norman and a pay day loan company.

        • @LoopyLou: Thanks for the info. I've never had to deal with customer service, but I'll admit I don't check my bills nearly as thoroughly as I should.

        • @LoopyLou: Same but I switched to BankWest Platinum Zero Mastercard. It's the only credit card (apart from 28Degrees) I know of that doesn't charge conversion/currency fees and no annual fee. I use it for all international/other currency transactions. I only use my Citibank Plus card for international ATM withdrawals, as you said it's a debit card.

  • Does it come with with an Australian power plug or would I need to buy an adaptor? I assume it handles 120/240V 50/60Hz?

    • +2

      International power adaptor is required. Yes it's 120/240V 50/60Hz

      • Thanks KennyPowers

        I have ordered 1. Should be perfect for backing up my NAS, currently backups are split across 3 external drives :)

      • +1

        dont they come with swaabple heads ?

        • +1

          I think both Seagate and Western Digital used to provide those. Might still apply to aussie stock, but in this case no swappable heads.

  • Cost $298.84 for me.

  • Price up now. Deal over.

    • It's up USD $0.10 to $203.62, not exactly over, what price did you see it at?

      Edit: I see, $217.58 delivered, so not just 10 cents.

  • Hi All,

    I have two of these, one removed from the enclosure and the other still in enclosure.

    When I tested them empty was getting great speeds, now that their ~95% full, the speeds seemed c(r)apped 100MB/s read/write.

    Note: Did more testing, ~170MB/s read when reading the files that were written first. 20GB files copied over to a NVMe @ 170MB/s. Copy the last file, and ~100MB/s

    No, I don't have fragmentation.

    Formatted NTFS, very large files, all measured in GB's

    I have many more coming, so I assume they will all do the same.

    Strange, when cloning the drives, it started at 170MB/s with 15hr to go, but after 12hrs, there was still another 8hrs remaining and speed dropped to 130MB/s and at the end I was barely getting 100MB/s….make sense, performance plummets as they fill up.

    Let me know what others are getting, but keep this in mind.

    • Hey MrH
      I'm copying from an internal WD80EZZX to an external WD80EZZX. Have 143GB (2%) free space on the source drive. Seems to average around 120MBps towards the end, burst for some sections were as high as 190MBps reported by Teracopy. Looking at ProcessHacker I/O R/W graph it seems to be a pretty steady 120MBps.
      Seems pretty normal performance for an 5400rpm > 5400rpm drive. Yeah?

    • I have many more coming, so I assume they will all do the same.

      Normal for a hard disk's sequential read/write performance to look something like this across its full capacity. The drive starts at the outer edge of the platters where the data rate is faster (for a given RPM and data density), and the data rate slows as it gets closer to the centre.

      • +1

        Yep, I think you are both right guys!

        Was thinking about this over the weekend about the physical distance the heads need to travel when they get to the outer end of the platter.

        Even though its pretty clear in the end, I didn't realise there would be such a big drop-off in performance. Coming from 7200RPM drives only over the last 10 years, I didn't really RPM made this much of a difference to throughput, I thought it was latency and IOPS.

        Guess I will have to live with it. Performance/Capacity/Low Price, choose two, and you wont have the third. I chose Capacity and low price, so I can't really expect performance.

  • Edit: Question deleted.
    Was asking if it would have come with AUS plugs. Noticed answer by someone above. Apparently not.

  • +1

    The packaging of my drive was horrible. It was inside a huge box and it slided left and right with just the tiniest of movements. I am wondering if it was an isolated case, that they ran out of airwrap, when packing mine (there was 1 tiny piece that did nothing). Or this is across the board. Would appreciate others' feedback. Thanks.

    • +1

      Standard Amazon packaging. It amazes me that with the millions of crap they send out every day, their packaging is so insanely piss poor and inefficient.

      • Thanks. They sent email asking for feedback on packaging even before the drive arrived. Provided this feedback - not sure if it makes a difference.

    • +1

      Received two packages in the same condition you described. Hoping they work well when I unpack them tonight.

      • OK, so now we know, it is across the board, not isolated incident.
        Each time they ask for packaging feedback, one would have thought such problems would have been ironed out already.

  • Deal is active again, and slightly cheaper

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