Western Digital 20TB WD Gold Enterprise Class SATA Internal HDD $837.92 Delivered @ Amazon US via AU

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20TB is the largest commonly available HDD capacity afaik.

Only a bargain in the sense that it's +$1300 elsewhere and this is as cheap as it has been. I think 18 and 16TB drives offer much better value atm but for those that need or want the biggest, here it is.

Apparently it has "Energy-assisted magnetic recording (EAMR) and triple-stage actuator (TSA)" and "HelioSeal technology delivers high capacities with a low power draw". Not really sure what that means, for me it's just a stonking huge drive that I can't or won't afford!

Also note that it's "Usually dispatched within 2 to 5 weeks".

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  JCRALLYART on 05/05/2022 - 16:51

  +3

  I read quite a bit within the forum that Amazon doesn't bubble wrap the bare drive nore in a box. mostly just in a bag and travel all the way to Australia. So there is a risk with bare drive I guess.

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    shole on 05/05/2022 - 16:58

    +4

    Not sure on these but I got some WD red plus Tb drives and they were packed really well

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      DfknG on 05/05/2022 - 17:20

      I have 5 of 8 of mine lost in transit :(

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        controlc on 05/05/2022 - 17:27

        +1

        I've now lost 2 for 2… not sure if I should try a 3rd time

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        drmac on 05/05/2022 - 17:39

        +1

        I've lost 2 out of 4 18TBs - at least they refund quickly - but annoying having to re-order and wait.
        I spoke to a Auspost rep who said they're seeing a higher than usual rate of hard drives going missing recently. Someone is definitely making some money stealing these..!

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        shole on 05/05/2022 - 21:14

        ouch

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    Mitch889 on 05/05/2022 - 20:01

    Yep, I bought a bare 14TB from Amazon a few months ago, had zero padding and the courier fumbling about on my doorstep dropped it from four feet onto concrete right in front of me.

    Needless to say I returned it without even opening, and haven’t ordered a bare drive from them since.

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    naphman on 05/05/2022 - 23:16

    I bought $4k of 512k format 4tb drives for a system at work - they were all crammed in with two air pockets.
    After testing 3x and found errors. I gave up and sent the lot back.
    Problem is those drives at the time were hard to find.

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  Mechz on 05/05/2022 - 17:18

  +1

  Hmm, 18TB Seagate for $605 seems better value.

  Or I could just start deleting things I'll never watch again.

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    Schmiddler on 05/05/2022 - 17:24

    +1

    Where's your "archiving" spirit?

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  BarneyKB on 05/05/2022 - 17:19

  now that's a lot of data

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  [Deactivated] on 05/05/2022 - 17:22

  +1

  thanks OP bought this for my feet pics archive

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    Azif on 05/05/2022 - 17:26

    How many feet will it fit

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      [Deactivated] on 05/05/2022 - 17:45

      +5

      yes

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  B3 on 05/05/2022 - 17:36

  Be sure you're clear about the warranty situation for these drives before purchasing. Some cheaper drives are OEM so do not get WD warranty / support.

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    hollykryten on 05/05/2022 - 18:30

    This is an Enterprise hard drive so it's sure to be an OEM. They come out of cardboard boxes full of these drives.

    So you might have to seek Amazon only for warranty purposes since they sold the OEM drive.

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  PuppieWayne on 05/05/2022 - 18:51

  Getting such a big HDD isn't a good idea.

  You just running a higher risk of losing more data as opposite to smaller sized drive where you learn to split your stuff across multiple drives.

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    Mechz on 05/05/2022 - 19:24

    -1

    You know you can buy more than one large drive right?

    Also, If you just store a bunch of 4k Linux ISOs that are re-downloadable who really cares?

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      PuppieWayne on 05/05/2022 - 20:08

      -1

      Your answer is to get another big drive for back up?

      I'm going to guess you never been a system administrator?

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        Mechz on 05/05/2022 - 22:00

        Yes let's buy lots of small drives and increase our server costs even though we need petabytes of layered redundant storage compounding yearly for data that needs to be auditable by regulatory bodies for 35 years.

        Not everyone is here to just backup photos of their ugly kids mate.

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          PuppieWayne on 05/05/2022 - 23:09

          @Mechz: 7 years is the requirement.

          And if you are using hdd to backup petabytes of data in hdd instead of tape.. like I said, you never been a system administrator

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    HPdeskjet on 05/05/2022 - 20:31

    this… this is why you have redundancy and backups, no idea who would get a 20tb drive but not run it in a raid array with offsite backups.

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    gruffjaguar on 06/05/2022 - 11:20

    -1

    this is why i use 3 million floppy disks for my data

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  somethingdarkside12 on 05/05/2022 - 19:27

  Watch out for warranty if you buy this from Amazon US, have heard of stories where warranty not upheld for global store purchases

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    garetz on 06/05/2022 - 23:25

    thats only if you make a claim directly with the manufacturer, amazon honors warranty on what they sell.

    I bought a 10tb from amazon uk through amazon au and it died 2 weeks before the end of warranty which was 3 years, they refunded it no issue.