Holy fuck this drive is dirt cheap, $160 for 8 TB

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That's funny because I just got back from buying three 10 minutes ago.

That's pretty damn nice, burgers. Best I got was 219 for an 8TB WD.

don't these have an issue of dying after 6 months? I never trusted externals.

>>61526668
didnt they swap the wd reds for blues?

also, no warranty

>>61526782
did they ever have anything other than greens in them?
of course before the rebranding

>>61526745
Reading must be hard, anon! Clearly says they're regular WD red 8TB drives.

>>61526812
I wasn't questioning the drive used but the general these externals controllers drop dead randomly.

so yeah good deal if you want to rip the drive out and install in a nas.

>>61526668
Yep because they're gonna go with new designs. They're cheap because they want to use all of their old stock.

What do you guys use 8 TB drives for?

>>61526947
Furry porn , CP, loli and 4chan meme obviously

>>61526872
most people buying these in bulk are shucking them

>>61526782
I think that was only for the 4 TB version. 8 TB Blues just don't exist (neither does Black, for that matter).

>>61526964
I swear on my unborn children that this post will be taken out of context by CNN.

just ordered 2, thanks op.

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>>61527901
You can buy more than that but you apparently have to split the orders, regardless of whether you go online or in-person.
Enjoy your 16 TB mate.

>>61527901
Just bought 100k

>>61527919
You mean enjoy your 8TB raid 1

How's returns with BestBuy? I read you might get the older model with 128 MB of cache rather than 256 MB.

>>61528257
Even if true I'd say its worth it

>>61526940
have they revealed the new design yet?

>>61527919
thanks
>>61528146
actually I'm building a nas so I might just order 2 more.

>5400 RPM

isnt that like, shit slow

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>>61529952
Yes

But if somebody just needs tons of storage, here it is

confirmed shuck here:

https://imgur.com/a/vQYRE

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tfw Canadian Best Goy doesn't even sell these and their WD 8TB are never on sale either and probably use blues that are impossible to shuck as well as being garbage.

>>61528257
based on >>61530055 it seems like its 128MB

>>61530055
One 128MB and three 128MB NAS Red drives is pretty good.

>>61526668
Damn. I'm having trouble filling up my 4TB drive I bought like 1 year ago. How do you use up 16TB?

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>>61530914

>>61526668
Time to build a media server. Just buy 4 remove them from the enclosures and put them in old pc with raid...

Am I missing something?

>>61530914
Autism.

Some people are data hoarders and it not really a bad thing.
Anime hoarding is common and encouraged on /a/, some people have many TBs of Anime series.
And it payed off since Nyaa went down overnight and we lost so much.

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>mfw I live in the UK

not happening in CAN either. what the fuck is going on

i need more storage and i am migrating to a mac so i need more storage aaaaaaaaaa

>>61526668
HOLY SHIT! GET THEM!


I bought 4x of these for $188 each 2 months ago. They all have an 8TB WD Red inside!

https://imgur.com/r/DataHoarder/IsZxx

Fucking americans and actually good deals. Never see that here. Daddy needs a new NAS.

sage.

Is the extra cost of Reds worth it over a 8TB Seagate or Toshiba (literally £100 difference in the UK)?

>8TB
enjoy the failure

>>61526668
>Buy in cash
>rip out hard drive
>put back in original packaging
>drive back to store
>ask for refund, complain it doesnt work
>Get money back
>wash hands and repeat until caught/satisfied

> http://www.ebay.com/itm/Hitachi-Ultrastar-A7K2000-HUA722020ALA331-2TB-32MB-cache-Internal-Hard-Drive/252847600522
> $30 * 4 == $120
> cheaper
> better
> dongers

>>61526812
WD reds are terrible drives you fucking retard

>>61532333
You mean 6tb

>>61532964
You mean 3 TB Seagates.

>>61526947
Collecting you and your mother's metadata.

>>61526668
I still haven't filled up my 2tb drive and it's been 3 years.
By the time I get 8tb worth of data the drive will probably be long dead.

>>61532459
>refurbished
and not red

>>61532459
I like Hitachi drives and I don't think I've ever had one die on me but fuck are they loud as fuck

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>>61531057
>>61530914
I hoard everything. Movies, anime, manga, games, pictures, .webms. Anything that tickles my fancy is ferreted away on some kind of storage media.

>>61529952
low RPM is more than made up for by the density required to make an 8TB drive

>>61532459
>Ultrastar
>in a desktop

Hope you have some noise-cancelling headphones to wear. All the time. No matter where you are in your house.

>>61532459
I've owned probably a couple dozen different hard drives over my lifetime
They've all been Western Digital or Seagate, except for one Hitachi I bought because it was on hella sale

Guess which one is the only drive I've ever had which failed under use

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>>61533371
I have a deskstar and it sounds like a box of rocks in a tumble dryer ALL THE TIME. It's maddening.

Recent Seagates are a lot more reliable. Also Toshiba are fairly good now too. HGST are the best still but they are fucking noisy for desktop use (I have a 2TB Ultrastar I put in the other day. You can really hear it ticking loud when it's not idle).

I am in a toss up with buying either a 8TB Seagate or 6TB Toshiba as they are closely priced depending where you shop.

>>61533503
Forgot link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=er3DHNwrWMM

https://www.newegg.
com/Special/ShellShocker.aspx?cm_sp=Homepage_SS-_-P3_22-178-641-_-07232017&Index=3

>>61533545
>RPM not specified
?????

>>61533566
http://www.provantage. com/seagate-st6000vx0001~7SEG90CU.htm

??????

Bought one today famalam.

>>61533380
Seagate? Because that's what happened in my similar case of buying multiple makes and models over the years. See how statistics work when you sample size consists of "fuck all" in the grand scheme of what your comparing?

>>61526947
Storing 8TB of data.

>>61533233
>>61533371
>>61533429
>>61533503
What the hell are you guys doing with your rig's? I own a Deskstar and I never hear the damn thing. Then again, I have a beast of a case that I keep on the floor and use proper dampening on my drives. There's nothing louder than the fans in my system.

>>61534207
My case sits 6" lower than my head and about 2 feet to my left and I still don't hear the Deskstar inside

When does the sale end?

>>61534292
When they sell out bro. Which will be soon because they are $270 drives in a powered enclosure.

>>61532459
How do I put four drives in one bay?

>>61526668
>click of death within the first 6 months of use

guaranteed

>>61534361
Haha so salty are we?

>>61532459
>7k2000's are SATA 3Gbps with 32MB cache... They're much shittier (but are capitalizing on the name of) the 7k3000 and 7k4000 drives with SATA 6Gbps and 64MB cache.

7k3000+ are $33-39 if you shop around and wait a little.

Never pay over about $20/TB if you're willing to buy quality refurbs or Seagate or WD shuckable extenrals.

THe more you know,.

>>61534329
Dont. the cost per bay is not worth it.

Most cost effective method is to buy 2 identical drives at a time; run them mirrored. Expand when needed.

Unless youre a turbo-NEET hoarded pirate thief downloading 4TB/month and never deleting anything...

>>61534427
or mirror 1/2 to 1/4 of your most valuable media (rare music, etc.) and save extra (e.g., 8TB daily driver + 2TB cold mirror)

>>61534376
It's a recent WDC drive with four fucking platters.

It's almost certain to die all of a sudden.

>>61534453
sourrce?

>>61529952
For most stuff, not really. You can use 5.4k rpm today still for everything. Just stuff loads slower really.
For a drive intended as a backup, 5400rpm is fine, you wont be loading games off it or anything.

I just bought 6 6tb blue drives for almost the same price as these. Life is suffering

>>61534465
also draws fewer watts my (((friends)))


am i doin it right

>>61534479
20/TB is the rule of thumb of getting a good deal and happens about quarterly or so

Seagate SMR (shingled... writes overwrite the eges of earlier writes literally like a shingled roof) external shuckables sometimes go $140 for 8TB

>>61534505
I was in need of building a Nas box, couldn't wait any longer.

>>61532459
Literally $20 * 4 = $80
http://www.ebay.com/itm/112492575700

Deal of the century,

>>61530914
So, I have 3-5TB externals and 2 separate 16TB NASes. The two NASes have roughly 22TB of media between them. The externals back up the things I would like to keep.

>>61526712

Kek are they propping up a table

>>61526782
My 2tb in my wdmc is a red, but it;s first gen.

>>61531122
dam bro watch out for religion of peace

>>61534526
>hitachi deathstar
>refurbished
yeah, no.

>>61534462
His asshole.

>>61533343
Same desu. I usually delete it once I go through it but thats going to take years
So glad I hoarded 1tb of anime before nyaa died and bakabt required login though.

>>61534123
Not him but my Hitachi died too. DOA.

...It was refurb but still

Dammit I wanted to buy a cpu, Mobo and PSU....sitting this one out but it's the best deal I think I've ever seen

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Burgers now have seven times higher average salary and three times cheaper electronics than people from slavland

I will always try to evade as much taxes as possible

>>61534207
>>61534235
A Deskstar is not an Ultrastar. The latter is an enterprise drive and they are NOT built to be quiet. The one I have, now in an external enclosure that's powered on only when needed, rattles my desk when powered on and can be heard clearly through the floor in the room downstairs.

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>buying WD Reds without realizing why WD wants it sold out

It's a shit drive which consistently fails and WD is replacing it. Also, a NAS drive is not meant for PCs, it's meant for RAID configuration only. Google TLER, basically the tl:dr is, if you get an error, the NAS drive will shutdown immediately instead of trying to solve the error.

Just bought one. Thanks OP

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>>61530914
>How do you use up 16TB?

Data hoarding basically, but like others have said hoarding data does actually make some sense when you consider how easily torrents can disappear or dry up. Also unlike hoarding physical shit, you can hoard absolutely massive amounts of data in a space the size of a small NAS or two which makes it pretty attractive for people that want to have media stored locally unlike the netflix everything normies.

>>61527492
Sadly not even CNN cares about /g/ anymore

Everyone is too busy with those /pol/ and /r9k/ retards

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>>61528696
Shh. I work for WD. Here they are.

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Are the 1TB WD Caviars still the go to desktop drive?

>>61538571
>external ssd

a flash drive?

>>61538571
Mice Bate

>WD Red

retards detected, enjoy your failure

>>61532914
No they are not. Lowest death rate for 8TB HDs right now

>>61539448
>Source: My Asshole

>>61534427
>cost per bay
What? The important factor is storage per bay, and the 8TB drives are 4x better than your 2TB drives at that.

>>61538792
No, an external SSD.

>>61538571

wtf is a Lumen?

>>61529952
I have a 4TB one and runs games just fine.

>>61530914
Untouched Blurays, 4K Bluray/Netflix rips

>>61537483
10k RPM or ???

Just picked up this drive thanks to this thread. I'm a videographer so I need space for projects. Especially when I upgrade to 4K.

>>61526668
Fuck, sometimes it must be good to live in the land of the free, here it's 200...€

>>61540100
Only 7200RPM. A 2TB 7K3000.

>>61526947
storing files

Where can I get cheap storage in the UK?
I have 10TB of porn and I'm running low on space. If I could get a few of these in the UK for a similar price I would.

On the topic of HDDs, is anyone using a Barracuda pro?

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>2017
>3 years to 2020
>buying hdds

>>61540759
You got any Anikka Albrite and Sophie Dee?

>>61540796
Yes, the 8TB variant.

i ordered two for pickup but not am looking forward to having to crack them open and read/write 8TB to them for testing

>>61540804
call me when SSDs can be had for $30/TB, or $20/TB if you buy em used.

Not everything has "gotta go fast" as top priority.

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>>61542210
Enjoy your 2 years shelf life.

>>61542265
>buy two of em
>put em in a RAID 1 array
>$40/TB, still less than a third the price of an SSD

>>61540759
lol thats a lot of porn and my advise is to buy multiple hard drives and then just write the star on each hard drive

>>61538007
>http://www.ebay.com/itm/Hitachi-Ultrastar-A7K2000-HUA722020ALA331-2TB-32MB-cache-Internal-Hard-Drive/252847600522
this

decent sale for a NAS configuration though

>want to buy a small external HD
>every single one that has more than 20 reviews has 15%+ 1 star ratings with failed drives
How the fuck is this acceptable?

>>61542654
People who had a problem with their drive are much more likely to leave a review. There's a lot of people who buy something, have it work, and are satisfied with it who don't review it.

>>61542654
external drive reviews are filled with false flag shills especially on amazon
reading the seagate externals reviews is a chuckle, WD must be paying money out the ass for all the shilling

>>61532410
That will work once maybe, not worth it.

>>61536764
Nigga you gay. It's 20 fucking dollars, buy 30 of them if you're worried about one failing.

>>61542821
>waste 20 dollars, 30 times
good goy

>>61532410
some anon bought a WD external on Walmart and it had a 320gb samsung drive inside someone had returned before, turns out the drive had confidential corporate data from some Kellogg's factory that hadn't been formatted by the guy that scammed walmart

>>61534526
>feedback as seller: 0

that's a scam you idiot

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>>61538007
>TLER
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Error_recovery_control
>The WDTLER.EXE utility allows for the enabling or disabling of the TLER parameter in the hard disk's firmware settings allowing the user to determine the best setting for his particular usage as either a stand-alone or RAID drive.

Unfortunately Backblaze doesn't have any data on the WD 8TB drives. I'm going to buy a pair anyways.

>>61526668
>WD
Into the trash it goes.

>>61539807
a measure of light in a given area

>>61542741
The WD ones are not getting any better reviews, really.

>>61543125
Isn't Seagate dogshit around here?

I kinda want to buy 4Tb hard drive but it is pricey. 162$. Before I only bought 1Tb ones for 55$. I have a mental barrier for hard drive price.

>>61529952
I though SSD for programs and HDD's for storage was the norm now.

>>61534465
how do i set up scheduled backups? gonna buy one of these now since my 4tb has been acting really slow for the past few months and takes forever to load folders sometimes. (its a wd green so its expected to blow up soon)

>>61526668
I use this drive. Lasted me a year so far.

>>61526947
4k movies.

Plug that shit into my (((smart))) tv.

>>61538571
will they finally use USB C with these new models?

>>61544575
both are fine these days desu

>>61538649
Should be, unless you're going for SSD

>>61544749
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?item=N82E16822235011
$118

>>61542265
That's kind of ironic for someone using SSDs as data storage to say.

Are you mentally challenged?

>>61537367
Still terrible pay. Life is suffering to spend more than half a hour for a 12in Subway sandwich.

>$160 for 8TB
meh
I got 5TB drives for $90 canadian two years ago

>>61547388
bullshit, that's like a buck seventy five in US dollars

>>61540804
Good point. I think I will wait two and a half years before I save anything.

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>>61526668

wd harddrives are pieces of shit. The port where you plug in the usb breaks easily. don't ever plan on ever moving it

>>61526668

>tfw I remember paying $500 for a goddamn 2gb Maxtor drive to replace two 250mb drives I had.

I thought I was hot shit. No longer did I have to uninstall games just to install new games.

>>61531057

I've been data hoarding for 20+ years. I probably have 300 hard drives in my possession loaded with content.

>>61530118
Not impossible to shuck, I have a 6TB Blue in my PC right now.

>>61549834
?
just unscrew and pull it out, you got yourself an 8tb wd red

>>61549970
Why aren't you running a data cloud or tape robot yet?

>>61542265
HDD have way better data retention while unpowered.

>>61550358

but i have a laptop, not a desktop

>>61550673
You can always put the drive into a better USB enclosure (Orico or whatever) if it breaks.

Or you can get a NAS or desktop to fix that "just a laptop" situation.

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>>61550673
>I have a laptop

>>61532975
Dude, mine stopped working several days ago... Rip 1TB of perfectly titled anime. Fuck Seagate.

>>61526668
>$160
>dirt cheap
>9-5 monthly paycheck 250$
e-europe

>>61552567
>$160
Is very nice, yes. To the point where I'm considering hiring a shipping proxy service to some of these imported from the USA. It just irks me that the dead weight of the usb enclosures will add to shipping fees and taxes.

> 9-5 monthly paycheck 250$
In Kosovo perhaps? Sure as hell not in most of western Europe.

>>61546904
>blue
>half the storage
>not less than half the price
Way better off just doing the op deal

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>>61550824
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>>61552718
thanks russia

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>>61530914

If it is interesting enough for me to download, I generally don't delete it unless 1) it's unbelievably corrupted or otherwise horrible 2) virus 3) I am really desperate for space. Currently have so many 2 TB HDDs that are over 90% full I have to estimate that have "about 12" because I'm not willing to check around my house for where they all are. Then I have 2 x 3 TB HDDs and 4 x 4 TB HDDs.

Further, redundancy is a Thing. Quite a bit of what I have (most of my music, all the premium top-quality rips of anime plus a few top-tier movies, some hard to find games) have multiple copies. Usually three, but at least two. In a pinch I can delete the least important copies but, honestly, a couple times a year I run across a good enough deal on mass storage that I just add to the total.

Example, just bought two of these, $100 each:
- https://flash.newegg.com/Product/9SIA5AD5VX9593

No other HDD currently available can beat these for low failure rate, and almost nothing can match them. By the end of this weekend they will be filled with FLACs, and the 2 TB HDDs that most of those FLACs will come off of will be reconditioned and put into other service (such as, the 2 in worst condition will go into my home torenting box and I'll run them until they die there ... which will probably take 3 or more years).

>>61546904
I'm europoor. Can't find good deals here.

>>61526947
I have a movie and TV HDD that's 5TB and totally packed. In fact, I only 16GB left. Not a single porn on it. Just all my favy movies and TV shows in 1080p (mostly)

I need two drives. One for use, and one for backup. The last thing I want to do is lose my movie and TV collection, that I spent 6 years procuring to a corrupted HDD.

>>61555318
It's not much better in maple syrup land.

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>>61532459
>better
You must not be familiar with the DeathStar series...

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>>61538649
Always bet on black

I bought a Western Digitial 2tb external about 2 months ago and use it almost everyday. How much longer until it will fail? I have never dropped it or anything

>>61542265
My 7-year old Intel X-25M's say hello. Be smart nigga, put constant writes on an HDD. Fine tune your system.

>>61558683
That was forever ago, HGST makes the best drives now.

>>61526947
cheese pizza with extra sauce, weeb shit, music, 4chan images you randomly downloaded over the years, movies, ebooks, backup data,

>>61542265
my laptop hdd has been going for 6 years now

>>61559298
forgot webms, gifs (jiffs), wallpapes, also building plans for general contractor shit

>>61552746
doesn't that cost thousands of dollars?

>>61533343
Not much of a hoarder myself but I have been doing it lately after nyaa shutdown.
It is nice being able to browse through you collection and rewatch instantly since downloading takes a good while sometimes there aren't any seeders.

Thinking of just writing a script that fetches folder names and lists them with newline delimiter so I can redownload what I could not salvage later in case of hard drive failure.
Buying a second 8TB for redundancy is just too much.
Wish we had this deal here 160 USD for even a shitty 8TB is a steal would have jumped at the chance. Payed way more for an 8TB deskstar NAS.

>>61526947
My little pony episodes

>>61529998
Cool shirts guy? You're here too?

>>61526668
because it's not SSD
it's useless

>>61560289
Low quality bait

>>61559395
>building plans for general contractor shit
you better have that shit backed up elsewhere

How much porn do you people need? 8 tb at even 1080p is over 150 days worth of 24/7 non stop watching. Don't you people need to sleep?

>>61526668
>WD
I wouldn't use one of these pieces of shit if you paid me.

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>>61560776
As a guy with over 9TB of porn, it's not so much about watching it all, it's about ensuring that when you want to watch a particular video/girl/fetish/etc, that you'll have what you want instantly available.

If all you ever fap to is "generic blonde takes it in the ass from generic busted-up looking dude" then yeah, I guess tube sites are fine, but if you're picky and/or have specific tastes, it pays to save good porn whenever you can find it.

>>61560776
I'll be using it for TV shows and movies. I've only got 7TB total right now and I'm running out as fast as my Internet connection allows

>>61532459
Those refurbished hard drives have tens of thousands of hours on them.

>>61561042
I own six of them. I scrub them weekly and they've given me no problems. Unlike the bought-new seagate that started coughing up checksum errors in under four years.

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>>61560776
My anime archive is reaching the limit of the 4TB drive I use for it, and that doesn't even include my backlog, which is another 1.5 TB.

Other kinds of files I have on my computer don't take up nearly as much space. For example, all of my hundreds of thousands of porn images are still under about 270 GB.

>>61561070
You "scrub" them weekly? What?

>>61561105
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_scrubbing

>>61560964

I'm stockpiling porn on a local server in anticipation of the UK government going full puritan on the porn industry.

>>61526782
>no warranty
there is a 2 year Geek Squad warranty for $20.00
read the page from the link

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My server's storage is almost full. Thank god I've got a pair of 2TB drives I can toss in if I need them. Am thinking of getting a 10TB or 2 5TB drives at some point to have a 2nd backup of everything.

>>61526782
Just claim Magnusson-Moss then.

>>61561221
I do the same.
Except I live in America.