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8TB WD Easystore External USB 3.0 Hard Drive Expired
$130
$179.99
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eBay via Best Buy has 8TB WD Easystore External USB 3.0 Hard Drive (WDBAMA0080HBK-NESN) on sale for $129.99. Shipping is free.
Thanks to community member sr71 for finding this deal.
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Thanks to community member sr71 for finding this deal.
Features:
- Interfaces: USB 2.0, USB 3.0
- System Requirements: macOS, Windows 10 and Windows 8.1 operating systems; reformatting required for macOS
- Product Height: 6.7"
- Product Width: 2"
- Product Weight: 33.9oz
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= It's easy to remove the internal SATA drive for use without the USB enclosure
"in a non-destructible way "
= You can remove it without destroying the enclosure, so if you wanted or needed to, you could put it back the way it was and it would be difficult or impossible to tell that you had ever taken it apart
"for NAS or other use"
= Many people take the internal drives from these and put them in a NAS because these are typically good drives and much cheaper than buying the bare drive would be
"using a cut-up gift card or other plastic."
= The enclosure can be removed using anything similar to a plastic gift card, hotel room key, etc. YouTube has a ton of how-to videos for "Shucking" drives
"If you are susceptible to the 3.3v pin problem, it's easy enough to circumvent. "
= Some people (typically with older power supplies or older NAS units) may encounter a problem where the SATA power plug doesn't comply with the newer SATA spec that the drives expect. This is easily worked-around by using a small piece of Kapton tape or using a SATA power extension cable. Google if you need to do this.
"Last time I got essentially an Ultrastar Data Center drive in it."
= Many people get higher end drives inside these Easystore enclosures, the bare drives sometimes would cost 2x to >3x the cost of the Easystore drives.
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but i guess we'll just keep saying "due to covid" and put up with higher prices?
for anyone with a NAS, i would advise you skip these and save up the coin and use 12TB or 14TB drives instead, RAID10. you'll thank me later
WD 8tb Red drive (shucked) - USB 3 - 145 MB/s
WD 8tb White drive (shucked) - USB 3 - 202 MB/s
Toshiba 5tb 7200rpm - USB 3 - 200 MB/s
Sanddisk ssd - internal - 420 MB/s
Intel ssd - USB 3 - 403 MB/s
Inland Performance NVMe Gen 4 - internal - 6938 MB/s
Inland NVMe Gen 3 - USB 3 - 435 MB/s
Inland NVME Gen 3 - USB 3 Gen 2 - 1006 MB/s
I know this isn't scientific but should give you an idea of the speeds. The 2 WD drives and the Toshiba were all done with the same enclosure. I was surprised with the speed difference between the red and the white drive but maybe that is because the white drive is actually based off the Hitachi drive.
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It's called "Slick Deals", but there are far more benefits to this site than just saving money.
I can't speak for the person you were replying to, but when it comes to certain topics (like this one), I trust the knowledge and expertise of the people within this community far more than the random results found on Google.
I bought one of the 8TB easystore drives from BB the other day and shucked it like I always do. I plugged it into my server to run a pre-clear (basically a series of read/write tests and a full erase and a signature implanted on the drive so the unRAID software sees that the drive has been initialized). It failed the pre-clear operation after only a few minutes. I pulled the drive and rand both the short and long diagnostic tests using the WD Data Lifeguard software followed by a quick erase on a standalone PC that I use for testing. This time the server completely bogged down and was either slow to boot or it just got hung up and would not boot at all. I pulled the drive again and this time ran a full erase. I could not get the server to boot at all after doing that. Note that the drive is being installed in an unassigned slot so it is not actually set up for use in the server. The pre-clear process runs in the background from a web GUI.
The server had no issues booting with the drive removed from the rack. I have no idea why this happened, but I ended up reinstalling the drive in the enclosure and taking it back to BB for a refund. I initialized it in Windows so at least it would be recognized if someone decided to test it. I had no issues with it working in a Windows 7 PC so it should have worked in the server.
FWIW, I found a YouTube video that explained why these drives are potentially being used instead of the WD red drives. The premise is that there is a shortage of the white label red drives due to lowered production output from the pandemic so WD just grabbed whatever 8TB drives they had on hand to put in the enclosures. The older drives were filled with helium whereas these newer (?) WD80EDAZ drives are filled with air, thereby causing them to run much hotter than the former drives. I won't be buying any more WD 8TB external drives until I'm sure they have started using the original red drives again. For now, I'll stick with Seagates.
Here's a link to the video: https://www.dailymotion