New price drop to $185. US$13 delivery to Sydney.
Varying reports as to the drive inside. Some report Red drives, some say Blue.
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These don't have anything weird going on with the usb board? just a standard desktop drive with a usb board attached, so easy to decase?
Super easy. There are tutorials how to decase without breaking any clips, I just went in and broke them. Inside there's just a board Philips screwed onto the drive. The drive is screwed with a torx to the internal enclosure. That's it.
Here's some more info on what drive they are: "January 2016 Drives are WD Branded firmware still 100% hgst drives though slowed to 5xxx rpm and tler default off "
https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/4cq3ct/liberat…
Cheers.. yeah, I bought a few 4tb seagate externals that are now coming up to 3 yrs old so time to replace them.. I just broke the clips too and removed the usb board.. I just remember reading that some new drives have a usb only connection removing the chance to use them as a sata drive..
cheers (y)
Have you tried to enable TLER at all? Curious if it can still be enabled on the newer firmwares
No. I'm using them in a ReadyNAS in X-RAID which doesn't use TLER i've been told. Also told enabling TLER without raid is bad for data integrity.
Do these have HW encryption turned on by default?
Latest reports of Amazon for the 8TB says WD80EZAZ, whatever that is.
where does it say that? Can't find the code in any reviews
2nd answer to the second question as I see it…."Ordered Oct 28, 2017. I got a WD80EZAZ with 256MB cache
By xiaosong on November 1, 2017"
Yep, that's what was inside my drive. Any idea if it's a red or green though?
Here are some Crystal DiskMark benchmarks I just did if anyone was interested. Using USB 3.0
pardon my ignorance but isnt it better to buy 2 4TB drives at $140 each? You pay an extra $40 for australian warranty and having portable drives. thats just me though
Many people who buy this are going to take out the drive to use in a desktop or server, so go with the 4TB drives if you want portability.
Again?
What I meant was to wait for Amazon store to open in AU, so that you can get the HDD faster (as it will be shipped from AU warehouse)
Youd have received the HDD already before Amazon AU is likely to open, plus nobody knows what their prices will be like.
I know I know.
I was trying to say every year before Christmas "Amazon is opening warehouse in Australia" - the same story again and again.
Third time lucky - this time it can be real.
@SickDmith: they have actually been job ads, warehouse location, ect, so I think they are actually doing it this time.
Warehouse
https://www.lifehacker.com.au/2017/08/amazon-is-opening-a-hu…
@psterio: The prices will be a minimum 10% higher than the equivalent in US because of GST. Current purchases less than A$1000 from Amazon US are GST exempt until July 2018.
@SickDmith: oh…is this the third year? Didn't know…there must be lots of legislation to have them here
Postage from Amazon is pretty quick, it's an estimated 2 weeks for this item.
It wouldn't make sense to wait for an arbitrary time frame of Amazon AU opening.
Mine just arrived today. Has a WD80EZZX inside.
Edit: From futher searching appears they are WD green (now blue) but according to a reddit user they are Ultrastar He8 with WD branding and turned down to 5400rpm an no TLER
https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/49otf1/wd80ezz…