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WD 8TB My Book External HDD $239.98 + $19.72 Delivery (or Free with Prime) @ Amazon US via Amazon AU

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Western Digital 8TB My Book external hard disk drive from Amazon US via Amazon Australia has just dropped to AU$240.99. Free shipping with Prime membership (30 days free trial available). Plus an additional 6% cashback available from CashRewards.

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  • ronnknee on 06/08/2018 - 09:52
    +1

    Very good price. Bought it for 180 USD (~$240) 5 months ago when there were deals going on.

    • pinkybrain on 06/08/2018 - 10:01

      are these hdd easily to just remove and put in pc?
      or do you need to do extra modifications to it?

      • ronnknee on 06/08/2018 - 10:07

        Yea pretty easy to shack. There are YouTube videos for it.

        • pinkybrain on 06/08/2018 - 10:28
          +1

          yeah but those videos are old

          WD updates these mybooks
          and I read in another post on ozbargain
          that someone had to do some soldering for the 3.3V or something

          Did you remove the hdd?

        • ronnknee on 06/08/2018 - 10:33

          @pinkybrain:

          Okay no idea on new updates. At least back in March, they were pretty straightforward.

        • chorong on 06/08/2018 - 11:24
          +1

          @pinkybrain:
          Here's a guide for WD MyBooks. They take maybe… 5-10 minutes per drive to shuck. I followed the same guide from drives I got in June. As long as you have enough guitar picks/old credit cards, you'll be fine shucking.

          If your PSU doesn't support 3.3V pin (check here) then you might have to tape over the 3.3v pin, use an adapter, or snip it off.

      • CharcoaI on 06/08/2018 - 10:29
        +4

        You'll need to block the 3v pin from the HDD to allow it to 'spin up'. Use a thin strip of non-conductive tape over the 3rd pin of the power plug to prevent power to it (allowing you to spin it up).

        Picture: https://cdn.instructables.com/FVQ/3RVM/JFMTAL4G/FVQ3RVMJFMTA…
        Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9W3-uOl4ruc

        • shiftyphil on 06/08/2018 - 10:37

          Or use a molex->sata power adaptor so there's no 3.3v to start with.
          Or clip the 3.3v wire on the cable.

        • pinkybrain on 06/08/2018 - 10:52

          thanks

          yeah I read about it in the past ozbargain post and didn't understand it
          but your pic and youtube clip is helpful

          That sucks that WD have made the White WDs to require this modification to get it to work in the PC
          vs Seagate which is just a simple process.

          The only shit thing about Seagate is they still use the SMR archive hdd which I not a fan of.
          So only option is to get the WD drives.

        • pinkybrain on 06/08/2018 - 10:56

          @shiftyphil:

          good idea about the molex > sata adapter
          though someone in that previous ozbargain post
          also mention about these adapters being fire hazzards

          https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=3&v=EYkof-csPfI

          https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/4r6m8d/molex_t…

          is it is possible to clip the 3.3 wire without cut that power to the other plugs?
          Normally one cable has like 3 sata plugs on it.

          What is purpose of that 3.3V wire, if it is normally needed for the regular sata hdd
          but for this WD one, we should remove it?
          Why have it in the first place?

        • CharcoaI on 06/08/2018 - 10:59
          +1

          @pinkybrain:

          From my understanding - if that 3v lane receives power, it "blocks" the drive from spinning up.
          It's WD's attempt at preventing people from shucking cheaper external drives

        • pinkybrain on 06/08/2018 - 11:19
          +1

          @CharcoaI:

          Yeah WD are shit for doing this
          WD also hard solder the usb connectors to their portable 2.5 inch drives as well
          so if we open the 2.5 drives, there is not sata connectors.

          Seagate just let you do what you want.
          If only Seagate would get rid of these SMR drives and replace them with helium ones.
          Is the there any seagate hdd that is not SMR drives?

          So 3V is needed for the other normal hdd?
          If those normal sata hdd don't received the 3.3V, then it won't function/work?
          So cutting the 3.3V wire on the sata cable would makethe other hdd connected to the same sata cable not work?

        • CharcoaI on 06/08/2018 - 11:32

          @pinkybrain:

          Not sure sorry - someone else with more knowledge might be able to chime in

        • pinkybrain on 06/08/2018 - 11:38

          @CharcoaI:

          did you buy one of these WD mybook and did the 3V mod?

        • CharcoaI on 06/08/2018 - 12:30
          +1

          @pinkybrain:

          I just purchased 2x and will putting them into an unRaid server once received :)

        • marko62 on 06/08/2018 - 14:55

          I would be wanting to use the drive in a 4 bay Probox enclosure, would i still need to disable the 3v pin?

        • CH on 06/08/2018 - 18:59

          @marko62:

          Nah no need to, apparently the new whites work unmodified in the Probox's.

        • marko62 on 07/08/2018 - 05:24

          @CH: Thanks

  • dealhunt on 06/08/2018 - 09:54

    My Prime trial already expired so it should be $19 for delivery in the title.

    • rifter on 06/08/2018 - 09:55

      Open a new account for another 30 day free trial.

      • dealhunt on 06/08/2018 - 09:58

        A new account with the same customer details, payment details and same delivery address, how does it work?

        • Frayin on 06/08/2018 - 10:05
          +1

          My partner uses her work address for situations like this lol.

        • rifter on 06/08/2018 - 10:06
          +4

          Can be your wife, partner etc etc. Have used same address and same payment details previously

        • [Deactivated] on 06/08/2018 - 15:50

          They kinda don't care, it inflates their stats. Only gets sus when there's more people with accounts than there are people.

        • Seedy seed on 07/08/2018 - 09:02
          +1

          Lol they dont check i have 34 amazon accounts, i was using the spend 79 get $20 off deal to buy mega bloks 2 bags for $10 but it counted them as a $30 purchase.

          So id add 6 bags for $30, then use $20 off code and bam, 6 bags of mega bloks for $10. Sold and gave away most of them, still got 16 in the cupboard that im gona give to the churches poor kids gift programs they run at christmas.

          Lol bought a new bath tub with my profits.

  • dealhunt on 06/08/2018 - 10:06
    -3

    By the way, you can buy a LaCie Porsche Design one which has much more value than this WD (and possibly a better drive inside), local stock and warranty and I can pick up for $255.
    https://www.umart.com.au/goods.php?id=35305

    • Tigerhacker on 06/08/2018 - 10:11
      +9

      Better enclosure but (generally considered) worse drive

      LaCie has a Seagate SMR Archive drive, this one will have a WD Helium drive with same spec as their Reds

        • bargain_finder on 06/08/2018 - 10:28
          +6

          That's 180 USD

        • dealhunt on 06/08/2018 - 10:32
          -4

          @bargain_finder: That's right I was still thinking at the AU site.
          But I would still buy the Lacie one locally for a similar price and better quality and value.

        • 0FoxGiven on 06/08/2018 - 11:47
          +1

          @dealhunt: The Lacie is not the better deal or hard drive. WD drives> Seagate drives.

        • dealhunt on 06/08/2018 - 12:44
          +1

          @0FoxGiven: If you talk to Seagate fanbois, they'll say Seagate is the best and the same happens for other brands, it's like talking politics.

        • MahyarJ on 06/08/2018 - 14:55
          -3

          @dealhunt: No, Seagates are known to fail much more often. I've never had a WD drive fail on me, I have 2 dead Seagates.

        • dealhunt on 06/08/2018 - 15:31

          @MahyarJ: I told you it's like talking politics but it seems like you didn't get my message :)

        • 0FoxGiven on 09/08/2018 - 10:16

          @dealhunt: Well I'm not a fanboy (Who the hell is a fanboy of hard drives?). I own hard drives from both companies. The Seagate failed me after 2 years, the WD is still going after 4 years.

        • dealhunt on 09/08/2018 - 13:03

          @0FoxGiven:

          Who the hell is a fanboy of hard drives?

          Indeed there are fanbois about hard drives!
          By the way you made your point already so why copy & paste what you already said?

        • 0FoxGiven on 17/08/2018 - 09:18

          @dealhunt: Btw, my reply doesn't look like a copy and paste to me. But your rant all over this page looks like it has been copy and pasted plenty o times :D

    • lbft on 06/08/2018 - 10:16
      +5

      LaCie is Seagate these days, and their drives are the same as any other Seagate external (mostly slower SMR drives). WD externals are superior.

      • dealhunt on 06/08/2018 - 10:22

        I'm not racing in a competition where 3-4 seconds data transfer difference means losing the prize.

      • Jorkus on 06/08/2018 - 10:34
        +6

        Not necessarily. See the Backblaze stats in the link below that shows over time their WD drives have the highest rates of failure and their Seagate drives have survived much better over time:

        https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-stats-for-q2-2018/

        Their Seagate drives have around 1% failures whereas the WD drives are as much as 5%.

        I'm sure both are absolutely fine, but it's a myth that WD are superior to Seagate.

        • dealhunt on 06/08/2018 - 10:39
          +1

          I've to admit that several years ago I had a problem with a Seagate drive but as I said the drives inside these boxes are always different.
          We never know what specific drive is inside today or tomorrow so brand choice has became like talking about politics where everyone spreads good words for the party of their choice.

        • lbft on 06/08/2018 - 10:57
          +3

          AFAIK none of the Seagate drives Backblaze uses are SMR type drives (which makes sense, they don't work well for Backblaze's workloads). I also don't believe any of the WD drives they show stats for are helium drives (the closest is probably the HGST drives, which I believe WD's helium drive designs descend from, but that's likely not a useful comparison).

          So there's not a whole lot of conclusions you can draw from those stats about these external type drives, most likely because Backblaze doesn't need to shuck externals any more.

          Regardless, I was referring to performance more than anything else. I'd be saying something quite different if the Seagate externals were including IronWolf drives rather than the Archive/Barracuda Compute SMR ones.

          WD and Seagate seem to even out over time with regards to lifespan, one's up for a while and then the other is. Excluding truly bad models (e.g. those dreadful post flood Seagate 3TB drives) it's not something I pay close attention to.

          I have and use multiple Seagate externals, because at the time I bought them the cost difference was higher and I just want to store some backups. I certainly still can't see any justification for spending more on a drive with significantly worse performance.

        • syousef on 06/08/2018 - 14:52

          It is down to specific models. Both WD and Seagate have had nightmare drives.

          My personal experience with Seagate 1TB 2.5" and 3 and 4 TB 3.5" drives is shockingly bad. Whereas 4TB WD drives have had very low failure rates.

        • pseudobacon on 07/08/2018 - 14:45
          +1

          I'm also sure that both are fine, but these percentages aren't really comparable unless the number of drives tested was roughly the same. Adding up the totals says they had 76,387 Seagate drives, compared to 660 WD drives. Even if you totalled all the HGST drives together with WD (since they got acquired in 2012, and the first 4TB HGST drives launched in late 2011) this is still nowhere near the number of Seagate drives that were tested.

    • flashi007 on 06/08/2018 - 16:53

      Why are you being nagged for giving a local option at a similar price? Having more options is good for the consumer and some might prefer seagate.

  • hamwhisperer on 06/08/2018 - 10:08
    +1

    $202 AUD (IF you lived in the USA and went to Bestbuy this week) :( :(

    (I need to fly)

    • sirrobin on 06/08/2018 - 10:34

      and lived in a state with no sales tax

      • hamwhisperer on 06/08/2018 - 15:47

        GOOD POINT! I am meaning to pick some up over there soon, I forgot about that. Need to order out of state.

    • [Deactivated] on 06/08/2018 - 16:32
      +2

      Not in the ozbargain spirit I know but i'm happy paying a bit extra for a hard drive in return for decent medical care and 4 weeks a year off.

  • CharcoaI on 06/08/2018 - 10:29

    Thanks OP!

  • luffyex2010 on 06/08/2018 - 10:33
    +1

    wow 8tb……this what I need for my animes.

    • Sage on 06/08/2018 - 12:48
      +2

      8TB drives have been around since 2014.
      Now you can get up to 14TB.

  • jnewau on 06/08/2018 - 10:35

    Are CashRewards via the Global Store supposed to count? I've done a few combined orders - with local Amazon AU and Amazon US in the same cart and only the stuff fulfilled by Amazon AU is counted

    • elusive on 06/08/2018 - 19:08

      My Seagate HDD purchase from last week tracked fine. No idea if it will be approved or not (3 months).

  • luffyex2010 on 06/08/2018 - 10:38
    +1

    decisions, decisions

    WD 8tb review

    887+ve vs 333 critical reviews

    hmmm

    seagate trash seems to be cheaper (149.99) and better ratio
    1138+ve vs 364 critical reviews
    Seagate 8tb review

    • dealhunt on 06/08/2018 - 10:43

      These reviews are pointless and even misleading as Amazon group several different products under the same listing so people's review who bought the 2TB one will count together with who bought the 4TB, 6TB, 8TB and so on.

  • SimpleRoger on 06/08/2018 - 10:57
    -6

    just buy a normal 8tb hdd and buy a hdd enclosure

    • CharcoaI on 06/08/2018 - 11:01
      +1

      Such as these much cheaper alternatives?

    • luffyex2010 on 06/08/2018 - 11:04
      +1

      Check out component prices for 8tb HDD only (MSY prices)

      Seagate Fish and animal range HDD:-
      Seagate Barracuda 3.5" $325
      Seagate Barracuda Pro 3.5" $475
      Seagate Iron wolf $319
      Seagate Archieve $379
      Seagate Hawk $325

      WD colour range HDD:-
      WD Red $339
      WD Purple $404

  • locatelli on 06/08/2018 - 11:02

    8T is really a good size. I need this for my downloads

    • Bellpop on 06/08/2018 - 15:20
      +3

      OK

  • s3n on 06/08/2018 - 11:06

    Great price couldn't resist

    Paid $655 for the 16tb almost exactly 1 year ago and I thought that was cheap

  • s3n on 06/08/2018 - 11:16
    +5

    Don't forget cashrewards $14.40 $13.14 (bloody GST) back @ 6%!!!

    I just cancelled my order and reordered with cashrewards

  • aboutconfig on 06/08/2018 - 11:40

    Good price for 8TB or 4TBX2?

    • venomqo on 06/08/2018 - 12:09

      2 4tb's would be closer to 300.

  • Matt2024 on 06/08/2018 - 11:45

    Pity I bought 6tb WD Elements drive a couple weeks ago.

  • naedtrax on 06/08/2018 - 12:06

    As this is a US item it comes with a US plug, right?

    • dealhunt on 06/08/2018 - 12:46

      Of course, it was intended for the US market.

  • Danthemanz on 06/08/2018 - 12:18

    Very happy to see these on the AU site as losing them to the US closure was one of my big annoyances.
    Ive filled a few NASes with these disks :)

  • kurupted on 06/08/2018 - 12:26

    Can I use this for my PS4 pro 1tb, as an external HDD for more game space?

    • doot on 08/08/2018 - 13:35

      Yes

  • darknebula on 06/08/2018 - 12:46

    Do we know which drives these contain?

    • CharcoaI on 06/08/2018 - 13:01
      +1

      Most likely to be white labelled WD's, but slim chance of being WD Red's

      • mortyestmorty on 06/08/2018 - 13:59

        I've been seeing online that the Easystores now have white labels in them but they're really just relabelled reds. Do you know anything about that? Any chance of those white labelled reds being in this HDD?

    • hetzjagd on 06/08/2018 - 17:06
      +1

      I can't say for certain but when I bought some earlier on in the year I got WD80EZAZ-11TDBA0 out of them.

      More discussion around that can be found here https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/365959

  • HudsonHornet on 06/08/2018 - 13:07

    Do you get a warranty buying a US model?

  • mortyestmorty on 06/08/2018 - 13:22
    +1

    The 8TB EasyStores are on sale at Best Buy for $202AUD :(((((((((((((((((((((((((((

  • Airi on 07/08/2018 - 01:26

    Does this come in AU or US plug?
    If US, can I just plug my current WD plug (AU) to it?

    Thanks.

    • farethewell on 07/08/2018 - 08:24

      1 -US. 2- no idea

    • dealhunt on 07/08/2018 - 08:44
      +1

      can I just plug my current WD plug (AU) to it?

      I guess yes just check (read its label) if it has a 12V output.
      https://support.wdc.com/knowledgebase/answer.aspx?ID=1378

      • Airi on 07/08/2018 - 22:28

        Thanks!!

    • rifter on 07/08/2018 - 09:02

      US plug. Just bend pins to 45 degrees with pliers clamping close to base. 230V works fine. To be sure check output voltage when under load.

      • snoopydoop on 07/08/2018 - 14:26

        Or the $5 US to AU adapter from officeworks

        • Airi on 07/08/2018 - 22:29

          Yeah, I can do that. Wanted to know if it was possible to just plug and use, without extra adapters here and there. But it's better to be safe than sorry, I say. Thanks!

      • Airi on 07/08/2018 - 22:28

        I am too chicken to do that haha. I will check the output voltage then. Thanks!

  • 41202 on 07/08/2018 - 08:04

    Is anyone can tell me that is this item can be use on windows PC?

    https://www.amazon.com.au/Seagate-Backup-External-Desktop-ST…

    • dealhunt on 07/08/2018 - 08:42

      Install the HFS+ driver for PC and you can use the drive interchangeably between Windows and Mac computers without reformatting

      It's a standard hard disk just it came pre-formatted for using on Apple computers so if you only use a PC, just format it fat32 for transferring data.

  • kiitos on 07/08/2018 - 13:14

    I don't understand the "from Amazon US via Amazon AU", is that just for certain items?

    • dealhunt on 07/08/2018 - 13:59
      -1

      I think for items they don't have in stock here.
      I also think with this trick they dodge the tax office.

      • [Deactivated] on 07/08/2018 - 16:38

        You are wrong on both counts. They have this item in stock locally, and since July 1 either way you pay GST.

        • dealhunt on 07/08/2018 - 22:23
          -2

          Too many people who have nothing better to do in the life come here just for the joy of clicking the neg button without even knowing why they did it.

  • marko62 on 07/08/2018 - 16:35

    Thanks OP,
    I bit the bullet and bought one. My Seagate 8TB achive drive is near full and i would be wanting one soon. Hopefully the price won't come down much more before i need it

  • AssociatedSeagateSurfer @ Amazon Global Store on 09/08/2018 - 03:00
    +1

    No matter the drive you need a good back up plan. Basically you want:

    3 copies of any data you don't want to lose
    2 different mediums it's stored on
    1 copy kept offsite, to prevent against disaster.

  • mortyestmorty on 13/08/2018 - 17:54
    +1

    Great! Just got two for $450 with Amazon Prime trial and signing up to CashRewards with a referral. Thanks, OP!

  • marko62 on 14/08/2018 - 05:27

    Mine is being delivered today

  • s3n on 14/08/2018 - 14:28

    Just got mine delivered today

    Price is now $244.32 by the way

    • rifter on 15/08/2018 - 08:46
      +1

      Varies with exchange rate. Based on US$159.99 price in the US.

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