WD Elements 10TB USB 3.0 Desktop Hard Drive Black $150

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11-27-2020 at 05:12 AM #2

is this pretty much the lowest price for these now? Or shall I wait for better deal soon? Though need 8Tb

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11-27-2020 at 05:34 AM #3

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is this pretty much the lowest price for these now? Or shall I wait for better deal soon? Though need 8Tb

This matches the lowest price from two weeks ago. Hasn't been lower. Buy if you missed that one.

Edit: 8TB gets much cheaper, so wait for that if that's exactly what you need.

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11-27-2020 at 06:09 AM #4

I rather buy it from other retail stores for better return policy. Newegg charges a $10 return fee if you decided not to keep it.

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11-27-2020 at 09:02 AM #5

Are these Red or White drives inside?

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11-27-2020 at 09:22 AM #6

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I rather buy it from other retail stores for better return policy. Newegg charges a $10 return fee if you decided not to keep it.

Not if it's 'defective'

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11-27-2020 at 09:47 AM #7

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Not if it's 'defective'

That is correct. Defective is free return any place across the board. Retail stores especially do not charge $10 when you return anything back to their stores, Newegg does.

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11-27-2020 at 09:54 AM #8

Got this from Amazon, same price a week or so back. I shucked them. I found they were air filled drives, versus the cooler helium filled ones.
I bought two WD 10TB Easy store drives almost a year ago, and they were helium filled, and run something like 10 degrees cooler..

The 14TB ones I just got (Best Buy, WD Easy Store, $190) are helium filled..

And if you decide not to shuck them, they will run hot. Even the helium filled ones run hot when i tested them in the original supplied housing.

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11-27-2020 at 10:20 AM #9

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This matches the lowest price from two weeks ago. Hasn't been lower. Buy if you missed that one.

Edit: 8TB gets much cheaper, so wait for that if that's exactly what you need.

The 8TB was $120, which works out to be $15/TB, same as this one per TB. On absolute dollar spent, yea the 8TB was cheaper.

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11-27-2020 at 04:34 PM #10

I bought the 10TB reds yesterday for a Qnap NAS and I was wondering if I buy this one and shuck it would it work by adding it to my RAID 5 array. It's the same size drive so imagine it should work.

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11-27-2020 at 04:42 PM #11

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The 8TB was $120, which works out to be $15/TB, same as this one per TB. On absolute dollar spent, yea the 8TB was cheaper.

But they hit $99 on sale. I bought four from staples a couple months ago on a SD deal $110 each with tax

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11-27-2020 at 05:07 PM #12

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But they hit $99 on sale. I bought four from staples a couple months ago on a SD deal $110 each with tax

Dang it, where was I?

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11-27-2020 at 05:15 PM #13

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I bought the 10TB reds yesterday for a Qnap NAS and I was wondering if I buy this one and shuck it would it work by adding it to my RAID 5 array. It's the same size drive so imagine it should work.

Yep it will work fine. Just normally stick to same size and speed. Same brand even better.

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11-27-2020 at 08:49 PM #14

those were the Seagate Expansions though, different drives - not likely to happen again since they're excluded now from the coupon deals.

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Dang it, where was I?

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But they hit $99 on sale. I bought four from staples a couple months ago on a SD deal $110 each with tax

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Quote from Samaritano :

I bought the 10TB reds yesterday for a Qnap NAS and I was wondering if I buy this one and shuck it would it work by adding it to my RAID 5 array. It's the same size drive so imagine it should work.

Don't use RAID 5 unless it's data you don't mind losing! In 2020, given raid rebuild times, you really want to be using RAID 6, which allows for a second drive failing - which is moderately likely during a rebuild / re-silver, when you add a replacement drive to your degraded RAID-5 array after a drive failure.

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