Mine came in late last week. I hooked it up yesterday, and it is making an incessant clacking noise, so I'm returning it.
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What a fucking deal!
if I didn't have a 16TB version, I might go for it.
I actually quite regret buying it earlier cause damnnnnn.
Very tempting, but the reliability is concerning me a lot
Anyone know the exact model of drive?
It is somewhat tempting, but I bought six 18tb drives a few years ago. I have already replaced half of them. My nine 8tb drives have been much more reliable.
Setting up my first NAS (synology). This or recertified Exo for the same price and warranty?
$11.11/TB, pretty screaming $/TB right there
That's what I did first too haha 😂 anything below $13 is worth investigation!
Sigh, I just bought the 14tb last weekend. I could return it and buy this though…
FWIW WD is having a "buy 2 18TB Red Pro drives for $549" sale right now
https://www.westerndigital.com/products/internal-drives/wd-red-pro-sata-hdd?sku=WD181KFGX
$25 extra for a Red Pro drive & not having shuck seems like a good value to me
I really don't need to know this...
yeah id get it for future data things but idk what i need it for
Off site backup for your existing data, in case of disaster.
Sorry to burn $200, but you'll thank me later when disaster strikes... living in an area where five neighboring cities all burnt to the ground in the course of 24 months (in the three worst wildfires in California history, back-to-back-to-back)... I have experience here.
i haven't migrated my photos from local storage to my homeserver but maybe i could when i do
maybe a raspberry pi and syncthing for external backups would work well (since it's a USB hard drive)
Welp, there's my Christmas budget... gone in one fell swoop. You might as well join... us... I think there is more than just me here... hello?
aw shucks!
Ugh just bought two 14TB last weekend for the same price…
I returned the 14TB I bought last weekend and bought this one today instead. I'd recommend doing the same!
What drive is inside?
Where I live I can't even get a 4TB one for that price
I hate my country
These hard drives look nice but let me save yall the trouble from using this as “backup storage”. Literally dealing with an older version of this external drive had to send out for data recovery. It never dropped nor received water damage. It just seems to have failed which I believe is on the PCB end of the drive, hoping so to recover it fairly easily. If you use it just do proper backup management on a cloud or something. I mean that’s a given a general better practice anyway. But these things seem to fail eventually so don’t rely on it
Yooo thanks for the heads up bro!
that is craaaaazy cheap
Absolutely don't need it, but I want it.
Should I buy this or wait for a better deal? I was waiting until Black Friday season to get a new hard drive
According to the Best Buy webpage, this IS the Black Friday deal.
Ah man, I just bought a 8TB WD Elements for $99 and now this comes along!
Meanwhile the same 18TB is $499.99 CAD in Canada...
i stopped shucking with last years 18 tb seagate exos from server parts deals for 194 each but still buy externals for back ups. are the 18 tb wd externals particularly unreliable? i have good luck with wd externals and i have a whole shelf of them. only 1 12 tb died with in 2 years and had to be rmaed. had some 8s and 3tbs die but at the 5 plus year mark and i was phasing them out anyway. i still have 3 tb elements that still worked last that checked
About 275 Canadian Pesos for those keeping track. Wish we had the prices you guys south of the border seem to get!
In the past I've given up buying locally and instead bulk ordered drives in the US and shipping to a US address, then package-forwarding them over the border. Saved quite a lot, duties on HDDs aren't that high!
so are these drives worth it? I mean the price is nice but is the quality worth it?
I'm interested but don't want something to die out. I suppose my other question is what is normal life expectancy if 4/5 years is considered bad.
Jealous in European.
bought 5, do I need them? no. Do I want them? Damn right.
Better man than me…
dawg cancel one for me they’re sold out now and i was waiting for payday :(
i may join you with the fact that I'm waiting for mine to ship :(
Don't need this... ok I'll buy just 1
Well, I got an Enterprise one (WUH721818ALE6L4) for US$ 245 shipped.
Cleared out my store's three units.
Pairing this with 8TB SATA SSD for disaster proof backups. After twenty years, getting all my data in one place...
... Well, except the 20TB overflow. That backs up to my $279 20TB's. Which hook into BackBlaze. They had better appreciate the loyalty. The 28TB backups sure cost them a lot.
I'm just glad I don't have more. Then I'd have to set up a NAS and, ugh, I'm just working too hard to enjoy doing that these days.
Only hiccup so far is either my 8TB Samsung 870 QVO died or the enclosure, a whopping 30 minutes in. This is why I backup meticulously in (at least) three separate locales, plus encrypted cloud.
I bought two. One to give me room for another 900 movies on Plex and another to back them up. I should be good for awhile.
Some of the 10TB Easystores in my server are getting close to 5 years, so this is a convenient time to upgrade.
I'm in Canada. In August, I bought the WD easystore 14TB for $299 (Best Buy). The current "Black Friday" price is $399.
Hoohoo, $400 CAD up in the great white north. a whopping $50 off lol.
We had the 14TB one onsale for $240 last week which wasnt too bad.