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Western Digital Ultrastar 7200 RPM DC HC320 8TB Data Centre HDD $331.18 + Delivery ($0 w/ Prime) @ Amazon US via AU

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Western Digital Ultrastar 7200 RPM DC HC320 8TB Data Centre HDD $331.18 + Delivery ($0 w/ Prime) @ Amazon US via AUAffiliate
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Cheap for a datacentre grade drive. It's even cheaper than most 8TB 5,400rpm NAS drives out there.

Designed with a workload rating up to 550TB per year, 10X desktop rating (Workload rate is defined as the amount of data transferred to or from the hard drive. Workload Rate is annualized (TB transferred X (8760/ recorded power on hours). Workload Rate will vary depending on your hardware and software components and configurations

Up to 2.5M hours MTBF with a 5 year limited warranty

Five generations of HelioSeal technology (10TB and above)

Rotational Vibration Safeguard (RVS) technology for vibration protection

Datasheet available here: https://documents.westerndigital.com/content/dam/doc-library…

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      • XeSSiV on 27/04/2020 - 16:39

        How did you go with generating a 'real' serial for the two units? I'm using it on a N40L and my serial shows up as not valid. I think/hope that this is what's stopping me from using QuickConnect at the very least. Did you have any issues with generating a proper serial? What DSM version were you on, or are on now?

        • jollster101 on 27/04/2020 - 16:46

          My model is represented as a DS918+ running DSM 6.2.2-24922 Update 4. When I configured mine I used a tool called Xpenology_Tool_V142.exe which had all the tools and utils needed to perform the complete install.

          I suspect that tool may have been updated since but searching for that would be a start.

          xpenology.com is where I got all my info.

          HTH.

          edit https://xpenology.com/forum/topic/12422-xpenology-tool-for-w…

      • jedimaster on 03/05/2020 - 02:23

        i still have the hp proliant n54L and use it for my photos storage. will probably upgrade the drives when it fills up. currently running windows server 2016 on it with RAID 5 with a add-on raid card with 4 x 1 TB hdd

    • roller on 27/04/2020 - 16:21
      -1

      Synology is a “just works" choice. A micro server used to be a great option as it was flexible AND cheaper. Now that the latter isn’t as true I’ve swapped to a DS918+ after having a N36 and then an N40. The extra apps and features you get for free with Synology are great and there are some killer apps … backup for Office 365 (SharePoint and exchange especially) was the one for me that isn’t so easy on any other NAS OS and is without limitations like Veeam.

      • jollster101 on 27/04/2020 - 16:37

        Xpenology gives the Synology experience and same apps and packages as well as access to community based packages. When you reference other NAS OS then I agree that they may not have the simplistic nature of Synology.

        Xpenology does though. Its like full Synology but on more powerful hardware (in my instance at least as I am running it on a Core i5 CPU). xpenology.com will give more reference info for people to make an informed choice.

        Each to their own though as to what they prefer.

  • 4foxache on 27/04/2020 - 16:40
    +1

    Just get a WD Elements 8TB and get yourself a Hitachi Helium Enterprise grade drive for much less

    • coxymla on 27/04/2020 - 19:33

      That's not a sure bet though.

      • 4foxache on 27/04/2020 - 20:19

        Has anyone not got one? Seems like most do and worst case you get a WD Red?

  • its on 27/04/2020 - 18:09

    This 8TB or wait for 10TB Elements for similar price?

  • takemymoney on 27/04/2020 - 18:10

    good deal apparently, if advertisment is true - worth checking. these days I prefer a much simpler setup with better components. a simple raid-z with large disk capacity is enough for me + much simpler to upgrade. just shuck the disk's I those cheapo USB enclosures and done ;)

  • ozbjunkie on 28/04/2020 - 20:38

    To buy more hard drives, or to stop downloading ever more trash I will never watch, and keeping stuff I will never rewatch.

    Life is so difficult.

  • pawan1993 on 29/04/2020 - 09:12

    Price has come down a bit to $327 but it's only available from 6 May. Still worth it for great drives IMO.

    • abb on 29/04/2020 - 17:59

      Where are you seeing this?

      • pawan1993 on 29/04/2020 - 21:05

        Saw it this morning but now it's sold out from the looks of it.
        Even the 12 TB drives are sold out!

  • puztin on 30/04/2020 - 10:24

    I ordered this on the 27th but the money hasnt been debited from my card yet, and the item hasnt been shipped. Has this happened to anyone else?

    • podilamaya on 04/05/2020 - 17:01

      I purchased 4 HDDs. Money got debited for three units. But none of them has been shipped yet.

    • pawan1993 on 07/05/2020 - 13:36

      All three had been pre-authorised on my card. One shipped on Sunday and payment authorised Monday, another shipped on Monday and payment authorised on Tuesday, the last one was shipped on Tuesday with payment authorised on Wednesday (yesterday). All three shipped from different locations in the USA and the two I've received so far are all from different batches so it's likely the third is from a different batch as well. Great if you put them all in the same machine so it's highly unlikely that two drives will fail at the same time.

      Another note, packaging was so-so with plastic molds holding it in place in a normal cardboard box but they were all shipped through FedEx (they have all gotten to me within 2 days of being shipped).

  • hypie on 11/05/2020 - 15:40

    My drive just arrived, expected date was 19th of May. So it's about 8 days early! Starting to load it up with my photos on Synology DS218+

    These came through UPS Saver.

  • jongyrocka on 18/05/2020 - 08:58

    Mine came super early as well. I could only order 1, and I really want another one to match.

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