I have about a dozen dead wd white labels, all clicked/faulted right around the 3-5 year mark. (Out of 41 disks across 3 servers).
Looking back, the small discount from shucking was not worth it in long run. These are subpar drives.
Just my personal two cents.
I have three that don’t even power around anymore for no reason when I can’t figure out why
I have 8 WD whitelabels that are all around 5 years old. None dead yet but I may have just gotten lucky so far. I’m going to buy 2 of these to start replacing the old ones.
I have 2x8TB, 2x10TB 2x12TB, 2x18TB and 14TB, all shucked. No issues. the 8TB’s are at 6 years powered on too.
If you bought those all at once, sounds like a bad manufacturing batch.
2/8 for me at about the 5 year mark.
I’ve got 10 drives 5 8 tb going on 6 years and 5 14 tb going on 5 years had 1 8tb develop a bunch of write errors at around 5 years in imo they have been worth the money they have been running 24/7 in my main unraid server
So for someone who currently relies on external drives, you wouldn’t recommend this? Would that be all WD easystores or just the 18tb? I’ve still got a ways to go before migrating to internals so I can’t really afford much more than the $200 thus far
This is all anecdotal evidence.
I’ve got 8-8TB, 8-12TB, and 3-14TB drives (all white label shucks) bought between 7yrs ago and now. The 8TBs were all bought over 5yrs and no failures. I’ve had 1 -12TB die recently, it was at the 3yr mark.
Yeah before shucking got popular the white labels were helium filled and the 14tb and 10tb drives required the 3 pin tape mod on all my evga and Corsair psus. I won’t be buying wd to shuck again. I’ve had good luck with seagate expansion drives which are actually labeled exos or ironwolfs which are supported with firmware updates from seagate. Warranty claims also isn’t an issue I worry about with seagate.
I’m coming up to the 4 year mark on my wd white labels and they’re a hassle.
Honestly at this point I’m buying used drives. I have redundancy anyway, and if I get a 50% discount for buying used and have to buy 10% more drives for extra redundancy, that still comes up Milhouse.
I think you have environmental issues at play. That failure rate is incredibly abnormal.
Agreed. Many of my shucks are over the 3 year mark with the oldest approaching 7 years, powered on 24/7 and never spun down. None show any signs of degradation
I agree. 2x6tb, 2x10tb, 8x8 going strong for 6 years 24/7 operation now. All easy store shucks. I just installed 8 18tb from server parts deals in my new NAS as well no issues a few weeks in.
By environmental issues do you mean the condition of where the hardrives are being stored? As in if heat is too high or too much humidity in the air around the machine?
Sigh, I just bought the 14tb last weekend. I could return it and buy this though…
Return it?
Anyone know the exact model of drive?
$11.11/TB, pretty screaming $/TB right there
That’s what I did first too haha 😂 anything below $13 is worth investigation!
Is this a good deal?
aw shucks!
I really don’t need to know this…
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?
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)
I’m in Canada. In August, I bought the WD easystore 14TB for $299 (Best Buy). The current “Black Friday” price is $399.
Err, the current black friday price for the 14tb WD easystore is $239 CAD at Bestbuy.ca and being matched by others and has been ongoing for several days. The thread for the deal is many pages long at redflagdeals.
For those not in the know we have a website in Canada, extremely popular called redflagdeals. I don’t think I am allowed to post the full link. Want to know about any consumer level deal as well as millions of other things - it is the place. The Hot Deals forum section is a daily staple in the lives of millions of Canadians.
Wow I bought something there a few days ago and it was way cheaper than the current “sale” too. Pretty sleazy.
it is 300$ for me for 18 tb easystore in my bestbuy
Thanks, that’s a good price.
Real talk. If you live close enough to the border why not jump over here and buy some? Obviously you probably lose warranty coverage. And I do know there are limits to what you can bring back tax/duty free. I think it’s like 800 cad or something. But If they’re half price you’d think it’s worth it.
Just ordered 3. Thanks for the posting.
Where I live I can’t even get a 4TB one for that price
I hate my country
what’s the noise level gonna be on these?
Just finished using mine. Wasn’t very loud in my opinion.
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.
Are these ok for colder storage use that may get pulled and check maybe 2x a year?
Thinking about buying 2 and shucking them
yes
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