Looking for some drives for my NAS and spotted this. Was around $830 just last week, but I just saw this drop today.
CamelCamelCamel.
nah…
Between storage and ram prices and useless slop it's heartening to watch people becoming more against AI by the week
Just waiting for the bubble to burst.
Yeah, wouldn’t want to be doing a PC build at the moment. Part prices are getting ridiculous.
Gonna be a long wait
if it is a bubble…
This is a deal?
Deal or no deal, just thank the God's it is not a used hard drive. The most illogical item in the history of deals with high speed moving parts that people use to store their precious data on, buying thrashed hard drives with 30,000 hrs on them being voted to the front page. Never made sense to me.
Because you dont understand that HDDs usually die within the first few months or last years. And anyone buying recerted drives also generally runs them in raid, one drive failing shouldn't mean you lose data, everyone should have backups.
I would not mind getting a few 8tb drives but don't see anything on special.
https://diskprices.com/?locale=au&condition=new&disk_types=i…
Shows all internal, new drives on Amazon Australia and sorts by price per TB.
you are a godsend, thank you
Both poster and the website owner are doing god's work.
Hot damn, that's incredibly helpful!
Thanks to your information, I was able to buy HDDs.
I'm more worried about Amazon's reputation of sending drives like pillows in the biggest box they can find with no protection whatsoever.
Ok so I finally have had time to check out the Western Digital 20TB WD Red Pro NAS drive I bought through one of these same "@ Amazon US via AU" deals about two months ago. Cost A$547 delivered so about $27 per TB. It took a month to arrive, the packaging was simply the a retail box bouncing around inside a much larger box.. BUT the retail box is reasonably padded with a plastic spacer holding the drive away from the inside surfaces of the box (inside a sealed static-free bag).
Label claims manufacture in Thailand in September this year. I checked the SMART data - power on hours were zero, power on count was one. I'm doing a h2testw write & read across the whole drive to coax out any potential bad patches now. The catch though is that the WD warranty site says that the serial number for the drive is for an OEM drive, and there's no 5-year warranty. This despite it being in a retail box which is labelled as having the warranty, and there being a warranty booklet in with the drive. Given I'd have to get the drive back to the USA at my own expense to claim on the 5-year warranty, maybe it's worth keeping given the decent 27/TB price. I presume Amazon Australia as the seller has to deal with any warranty claim in the first year under oz consumer law?
Additional: Model is WD202KFGX-SPCKWN0 in case anyone is wondering which version they're selling through these listings
$30.92/TB.