Western Digital 26TB WD Red Pro NAS $806.80 delivered @ Amazon AU (sold by Amazon US)

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According to CamelCamelCamel, this is an all time low.

A comparison of top five $/TB HDDs thanks to AI powered Google search:

Price per TB (AUD) for 20TB+ CMR hard drives

Model Capacity Best Price (AUD) Source Approx. Price/TB (AUD)
Seagate Exos X24 (ST24000NM002H) 24TB ~$715 staticICE (via Centre Com) ~$29.79
Western Digital Red Pro (WD202KFGX) 20TB ~$603 Amazon AU ~$30.15
Western Digital Red Pro (WD260KFGX) 26TB ~$807 Amazon AU (approx) ~$31.03
Toshiba N300 Pro (HDWG62AXZSTB) 20TB ~$664 Amazon AU ~$33.22
Western Digital Red Pro (WD221KFGX) 22TB ~$771 Amazon AU ~$35.02

I did a fact check on the Seagate price and it was a hallucination. :-( Just goes to show you can't trust AI generated answers.

Personally I would not go anywhere near a Seagate drive, which leaves the WD Red Pro NAS drives or Toshiba N300 Pro. The Toshiba drives are not very price competitive.

For me, the extra data density of the 26TB HDD (when compared to 20TB) is worth the additional $1/TB.

When using BTRFS, adding this drive is a no-brainer as you don't have to match drive sizes.

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Comments

  • A 1 on 18/10/2025 - 00:16
    +4

    CMR for those who are interested.

    Anyone know if I could drop one of these (26tb) in to a Netgear ReadyNAS RN104? I know it's old but it still works for me, specs say max 4tb drives but that could be because that was the largest size reasonably available at the time (~2013). Not sure if 4tb drives is a hard limit.

    (26tb - That's a lot of Linux distros!)

    • thadius83 on 18/10/2025 - 00:33
      +1

      I had 12TB drives in the 104 a few years ago. So it’s a maybe.

      • A 1 on 18/10/2025 - 01:10

        Cheers for the info.

    • peteru on 18/10/2025 - 00:34

      17k braw video files are large.

  • peteru on 18/10/2025 - 00:51

    BTW: ShopBack has a 0% cashback rate on the Computer category, so might have to stock up on gift cards at 1.5%.

    • mantra on 18/10/2025 - 01:04

      best double check with $5 domination but just week or two ago i swapped ShopBack Home Swap with Amazon at 2.25% + Bank Bonus (1% Westpac)

      last checked working on 12th October

  • jv on 18/10/2025 - 01:23
    +8

    Thanks… Now I can backup all my comments on the one drive !!! 😃

    • Stuj on 18/10/2025 - 08:06
      +20

      Maybe two, it takes extra space to store all the markup for your bold words

  • RedSky on 18/10/2025 - 01:28

    800 dollarydoos???

    • dollarydoos on 18/10/2025 - 08:44
      +3

      There’s 800 of us!? I thought I was special.

  • tigger16 on 18/10/2025 - 09:30
    +2

    Has anyone actually received correct HDDs from Amazon US. Every purchase that I've made for one from there, I ended up receiving another capacity. Purchased 18TB received 8TB, - purchased 20TB received 2TB, purchased again another 18TB, and received 4TB. I'm filming - taking pictures of what I'm receiving and sending them back for a refund.

    • Horacio on 18/10/2025 - 09:38

      Really? Good grief. How are they packaged btw?

      • tigger16 on 18/10/2025 - 09:45
        +2

        Packaging was fine - brown box inside had padding or a cardboard cushion and then the HDD in a sealed bag. I would check what was sent - reading the label on the HDD through the bag, without opening it. It's just a disappointment and hassle.

        • Horacio on 18/10/2025 - 09:59
          +1

          Thanks @tigger16 and @peteru, I ordered a 20TB.. and mysteriously the cost came to A$548 on checkout. That's $70 cheaper than the $619 I was poised to spend on an 18TB Exos. Let's hope the correct drive arrives, intact.

    • Horacio on 18/10/2025 - 10:00
      +1

      I wonder if folks deliberately returning the wrong drives to Amazon and them not checking is what responsible for that happening btw?

      • tigger16 on 18/10/2025 - 12:13

        When returning the drives, the refund was not automatic, - they had to receive it - scan the drive that I sent to confirm it matches what was sent out, - only then would they refund it. But, that's what I was told, not necessary for them to actually do that. Do let us know if you do receive the drive. Perhaps I was just unlucky. The SSDs, and NVME drives arrived perfectly fine - matching what I bought, I only had the issue with the HDDs

    • petestrash on 19/10/2025 - 07:44

      Never ordered bare drives, but plenty of externals for Shucking. Never had the wrong capacity sent.

    • SubNoize on 19/10/2025 - 18:52

      Exactly the same for me, they just didn't send me a drive the last 2 times. Ended up getting the refund.

      I'd avoid at all costs, took like 4 months and ended up with nothing

  • coulstee on 18/10/2025 - 14:55
    +2

    how does warranty work here?

    i've never had a HDD die on me so i think my luck is running out.

    i was going to put this in my PLEX/media server (DELL OPTIPLEX 7060). currently using a 14tb EXOS drive i grabbed from eastdigital. but now that im on a FTTP connection i was going to take my linux iso distribution train to an industrial level. i dont really care about backing up media. just the fear of the drive dying and not getting a replacement

    • Chrool on 18/10/2025 - 20:13
      +1

      I would say you'd get a standard 12 months and then after that youre out of luck. The fact that they have 5 year warranty means WD believe it wont fail within that period, for what its worth

      • peteru on 18/10/2025 - 20:17

        You still get 5 year warranty, but you can't go to the Australian distributor for service. Since the distributor never got their cut for importing the drive in the first place, they'll send you back to the retailer. IMHO, buying it from Amazon AU means you should be covered by ACL and it ought to be enforceable, so they can't refuse to deal with it.

        They go on about you taking the risk, et, etc, in the conditions, but when you get near the bottom you see this:

        IMPORTANT NOTICE TO AUSTRALIAN CUSTOMERS

        Nothing in these Conditions of Sale is intended to exclude, restrict or modify any non-excludable right or remedy you have under law including the Australian Consumer Law. Any disclaimer, exclusion, or limitation as provided for in these Conditions of Sale applies to the full extent permitted by law and subject to any non-excludable right or remedy.

        • Chrool on 18/10/2025 - 20:26

          Thats very interesting. I'd pull the trigger on one of these if somewhere on here posted their warranty experience first hand.

          • peteru on 18/10/2025 - 21:23

            @Chrool: You might want to ask people who buy Seagate drives. I'm sure there's a much higher probability they had to deal with failed drives a lot more often.
            ;-/

            • Chrool on 19/10/2025 - 21:45

              @peteru: Good idea. Just had a bit of a search on here, concensus is that as long as you purchases on .com.au site you at least have acl rights that will cover you, though you will need to argue with them a little 😉

  • peteru on 18/10/2025 - 19:49

    I bought about 8 or so drives from Amazon over the years. Roughly half of those were direct purchases from Amazon US and the other half through Amazon AU. I only had an issue once, when a drive went missing somewhere between clearing customs, but before Amazon scheduled it for delivery. That was a direct Amazon US import. They made me wait for about four weeks, before declaring it lost, then gave me full refund. I got lucky then and managed to order another drive for pretty much the same price. That one made it through fine.

    So far I've never needed to do a warranty return for a HDD I purchased from Amazon. They've all been fine - I still have WD40EFRX dated 5 Dec 2013 in service. Once I bought an 8TB WD Red from an Australian retailer (CPL in Vic) and that drive was DOA. It took five months of stuffing about before they finally replaced it. They tried to convince me to take a factory recertified drive, which I said no way it's DOA, replace or refund.

    TL;DR - I've had a good run with buying WD Red Pro NAS drives from Amazon, even the US imports.

    • Jeromeo on 22/10/2025 - 13:54

      Same, same. I have found if you get it shipped in the original packaging option (to save packaging waste) then it goes missing at the Australian entry point. If you get it shipped in an Amazon box it gets delivered.

  • dav3 on 20/10/2025 - 10:38
    +1

    Tempting, I'm just not sure I can trust an Amazon Flex driver to NOT throw it at the front door from 5 metres away at the top of some stairs.

    • peteru on 20/10/2025 - 13:14

      Not all deliveries use Amazon drivers for the last leg. Sometimes it's AusPost person.

      • dav3 on 20/10/2025 - 15:13

        Yeah there's a combination of Amazon and AusPost drivers, however I saw the last person who lobbed a parcel into the front door as I was right next to it when I heard the thud, no uniform or anything, just a youngish person from the subcontinent in casual clothes talking loudly on their phone.

        The vast majority of delivery employees are generally a lot more careful, even for woeful companies like Aramex.

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