Not the best price ever but ~$1 cheaper per TB than others. Not SMR inside.
Price of hard drives appears to be dropping steadily over the past 1-2 months so if you don't immediately need it, might be best to hold off.
Limit: 3 per customer
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it's not the best price but good price.
Anyone know about the "shuckability" of this drive?
Just search on YouTube.
Yeah. Also want to know. I’ve had 3TB (7 yo WD RED so had a nice life) and 4TB (under warranty - not SMR WD RED) fail in my NAS this week. Lucky I had dual drive redundancy but not impressed… maybe the centre of my NAS gets hotter (they were next t each other) I need 2 larger drives to replace.
Any recommendation for a NAS.
I don't need that many TBs, but want something reliable, and cheap (yeah, I'm a real OzBer)
I'm shopping around for something new myself actually. Looking at 4 drive bay Synology NAS so I can add later but haven't decided on which one. Perhaps some deals will come up and make the choice easier. Some good option 2 bay stuff available as well if on a budget depending on what you used it for. I think I will get something with more CPU grunt this time to be able to transcode PLEX.
You can start with a single 2TB drive for example and add more later. I stated with 3 drive 0.5+1+1TB in my 5 drive enclosure and until recently had 5 drives and dual redundancy (2 drives can fail which is what happened)
I've had a Drobo 5N for over 7 years and love the simplicity but they've had severe shortages of stock worldwide since December. If you need to replace the NAS you are in massive trouble. Drobo recently stated that they should resolve issues by August but 8 months+ not being able to buy one except second hand is beyond troubling. (Since they use their own RAID you need another Drobo to read your drives if the NAS dies). I found a Russian company who sells software that can recover Drobo RAID data but the software costs as much as a NAS (around $1K). I have a feeling covid19 has severely impacted Drobo's future growth prospects. They'll probably have to rebrand. Anyone who's come face to face with the shortages is likely to tell their friends. Every single product even in their global store is sold out and has been for months. https://www.drobostore.com/collections/frontpage
@slick7: Thanks.
I would use it to store family photos and videos only. I think a 2-slot with RAID-1 is enough for me. The Drobo ones seem to be overkill for me :)
@Averell: would stay away from Drobo atm - I fell the brand damage may send them out of business by the end of the year - I want to sell mine asap while it's still worth something (it's worth more than normal to someone who has a failed drobo and is unable to retrieve their data until stock of the NAS is available again)
5-year-old Drobo 5Ns are going for well over $500 atm
@Averell: this one looks perfect for your needs and just came out https://au.pcmag.com/nas/66314/synology-diskstation-ds220j
@slick7: Thanks a lot.
I could see the DS220+, not sure whether that's different.
Also, there's on TerraMaster F2-210 (https://www.amazon.com.au/TerraMaster-Network-Attached-Perso…). Do you have experience on TerraMaster?
@Averell: I was looking into that - seems the models are in a totally different league.
Models ending in + are quite a bit more expensive than ones ending in j. The main difference is CPU grunt + RAM + dual GbE LAN ports so if you need photos and video storage only that's probably not worth the extra money. Also consider if you're likey to need extra grunt in the future but DS220+ seems to be over $700 vs under $300 for the DS220j
https://www.amazon.com.au/29DS220J-SYNOLOGY-DISKSTATION-DISK…
Quick Google search says due to hardware encryption shuck ability is a no go… Saying that I don't have one so happy to be wrong
They do shuck fine, done a couple myself. I think the encryption is in the circuit board, the drives themselves are the same as the Elements/EasyStore.
I was one of the lucky few to scoop the $100ish 10tb pricing error drives last year. Shucked 2 of them; WD white label drives inside. Research suggests that they are same as WD red 10tb drives. Working fine as internal drives in my home server but beware you will need to insulate one of the sata power pins (easily done with a little sliver of kapton tape - or any tape really - on the pin).
Price of hard drives appears to be dropping steadily over the past 1-2 months so if you don't immediately need it, might be best to hold off.
A true OBZer
You mean OZBer.
I just want Seagate 4tb from binglee to drop around $80
I miss the old days where you could get Officeworks to pricematch these down near $220…
Soon, soon I tell myself.
Price is coming down. I'll bite when I can get a pair for a monkey delivered. Mike Brewer style….HOLD OUT YA HAND!
I've always found his over-zealous hand shake method a little confronting. If I just bought a car and the seller shook my hand like that I'd think I've just been fleeced, it screams used car dealer schtick.
bought 2 of these in april 2019 NZD $254 delivered
Still a while to go for prices to drop..
These went for $129.84 mid 2019, amazon said it was a price error, but about 10% of orders were filled.
10%?? did you just pull that figure out of thin air?
Probably not even 1% got their orders fulfilled.
I read through the thread, and alot of people got the disk, and alot of people complained they didnt, had a look at the number of responded, and used that as comparative estimation, propably not accurate, but that was my impression at the time.
Now with 5% cashback
And a reduced price due to currency fluctuations I guess ($289.06 atm)
so these are super easy to shuck? Comment above says you must "insulate one of the sata power pins (easily done with a little sliver of kapton tape - or any tape really - on the pin)"
how do you know if you have to do this? will the drive not get detected by NAS? do you have to research the exact HDD model number to work it out?
by the way, I am holding out to see if it drops further during 4th July sales. It would be great if the 5% cashback is still on in a couple of days
good point - delivery is 15 days regardless so no rush to order today
waiting for 4th July further drops not going well - seems this product is currently out of stock :(
haha yeah the waiting strategy is not working so well. Had my eye on the WD 12TB Elements too and that is out of stock as well. Just have to move up the chain, now hoping for a killer sale on the WD 14TB Elements.
since it's sold out is this comparable in terms of the quality of the internal drive which I'll be using in a NAS?
https://www.amazon.com.au/10TB-Elements-Desktop-Drive-WDBWLG… $305 atm
WD 10TB Elements Desktop Hard Drive - USB 3.0 - WDBWLG0100HBK-NESN
vs
WD My Book Desktop External Hard Drive 10TB
https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/B07CMH78R5 (was $289 when available)
$29/Tb. Nice!