WD Blue WD10EZEX 1TB 3.5" PC Desktop CMR Hard Drive $40.50 Delivered @ Amazon AU

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1TB CMR drive for the lowest price I have seen in a while. Unlike the higher sized variants, this one has CMR so should be all right to do ZFS or put in a NAS

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  Avatar on 21/12/2021 - 16:38

  +19

  What is this? A hard drive for ants?

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    darxtorm on 21/12/2021 - 16:40

    +1

    dammit i just laughed out loud in an otherwise quiet office

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    rainbowunicorn on 21/12/2021 - 16:49

    +1

    it needs to be at least 3 times bigger than this!

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      Nugs on 21/12/2021 - 17:39

      +3

      that's what she said
      .

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    sanrs on 21/12/2021 - 21:43

    yeah, a entry level SSD at $100 /TB, will be a much better choice, even those SATA ones.
    1TB HDD is too slow for system disk, and too small for storage warehouse, so not suitable for anything at the moment.

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  vid_ghost on 21/12/2021 - 16:51

  +1

  1TB nvme/sata SSD drives can be had for $100 :) well worth double the price for the time saved waiting for things to copy, past, load and install.

  Now if you need more then 1TB for video storage/steam game library backup…Thats when mechanical storage starts to make sense for the price per GB is way better value and they can go up to 18TB ext..

  I just use portable 2.5" USB 3.0 hard drives for this purpose as i don't like to clutter my PC with internet 3.5" drives wasting power and generating heat for no reason. USB drives are almost just as fast and use less power when in use and no power when not plugged in.

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    masterBrain on 21/12/2021 - 20:56

    +1

    These are two different use cases. You can have 8x1TB in RaidZ2 with redundancy over two drive failures for $320. (Giving an effective storage of ~6TB)
    If you plan for drive failures and redundancy, NVME drives get expensive very fast

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  BROKENKEYBOARD on 21/12/2021 - 17:26

  +1

  There's a 2TB one for $66 https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/B08VH8R94B

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    digitalaxon on 21/12/2021 - 18:14

    Worth mentioning the 2Tb WD20EZBX uses SMR recording (tech spec sheet : https://documents.westerndigital.com/content/dam/doc-library…)

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  iridiumstem on 21/12/2021 - 17:29

  +2

  I bought an internal hdd which arrived yesterday from Amazon. The packaging that mine came in was appallingly bad. It was literally just a large thinly padded envelop (the ones that you would ship, say a hoodie in), inside it was the cardboard box that had the hdd. No bubble wrapping or anything, the box was just moving around inside the envelop.

  So ymmv with the packaging (at least mine were appalling), and that may cause problems down the line.

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  Nilfunds on 21/12/2021 - 19:02

  it looked pretty good till i saw the nvme comment - its so true…

  blues are horribly slow, you really feel it copying files between it's partitions

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  kml22 on 21/12/2021 - 20:40

  It's a crime to create such capacity at this size 3.5".

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  USER DC on 22/12/2021 - 08:58

  Anyone know a decent drive reader case for these 3.5" SATA drives?