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Western Digital has 6TB WD Black Performance Desktop Hard Drive (WD6003FZBX) on sale for $169.99. Shipping is free.

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I know I know…I shucked the Easystore drives and I always shot for the $15/TB mark.

With that said, considering the chip shortage, I am not sure how realistic the $15/TB target price is. Plus, I bought the Synology 4-bay 920+ from a few weeks ago. I started looking into the WD Red Pro, WD Black, WD Gold, Seagate Ironwolf Pro, and Seagate Exos. They are all CMR with 5-year Warranty. I'm really hoping there are better built and more reliable. I value my data - pictures, music, movies, etc. I'd pay a premium for that. For these drives, I'd pay $30/TB.

I was going to buy the WD Ultrastar 6TB for $180 in B&H Video BUT it's OOS. That'd be my preferred choice. For $170, I think this WD black isn't a bad deal.

Get it direct from Western Digital or from Amazon which sells it for the same price.

Western Digital 6TB WD Black Performance Internal Hard Drive HDD - 7200 RPM, SATA 6 Gb/s, 256 MB Cache, 3.5" - WD6003FZBX https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0792GS...UTF8&psc=1





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Just because you typed a novel as a reply doesn't make you right. The needs of end users are subjective. The drive has a 5 year warranty. Who the hell switches their drives every three years? Especially HDDs?

You're entitled to your opinion, but your opinion is not fact.
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Ahhhh... Eye candy, seeing miners get screwed is cathartic, thank you!
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FYI these make a clicky noise every 10 15 seconds. I thought it was a faulty drive at first so I exchanged for another one and it still does the same thing. Apparently on these 6tb drives the clicky noise comes from a mechanism that keeps the drive healthy or something.
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Optophobia
07-13-2021 at 02:53 PM.
07-13-2021 at 02:53 PM.
Quote from simbin :
This is a joke. Almost the price of what 12TB was just a couple months ago.
Seriously. I can't understand why people can't just use their time machines right?
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koolkat25
07-13-2021 at 02:54 PM.
07-13-2021 at 02:54 PM.
Quote from cj0r :
$All large format drives were purchased from Best Buy and a enterprise equipment refurbisher for $15-18/TB.
When you mention Best Buy - are you referring to shucked drives ??
Also ,any links or pointers on this "enterprise equipment refurbisher " who sells for $15-18/TB would be appreciated.
I'm looking for a 10TB or higher drive.
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07-13-2021 at 02:57 PM.
07-13-2021 at 02:57 PM.
Quote from DarthCY :
I've got 10 year old WD black drives still running fine and even a couple of nearly 10 year seagates.
8 year old WD black drives checking in here. Haven't had a single issue and I do a TON of read/write
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07-13-2021 at 02:57 PM.
07-13-2021 at 02:57 PM.
Quote from lampstax :
Yes, how dare someone tries to make a buck putting machinery to work. Blasphemy!
haha umad
how much u lose?
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NickW0069
07-13-2021 at 03:04 PM.
07-13-2021 at 03:04 PM.
Really glad I built my NAS last year and didn't wait.
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07-13-2021 at 03:16 PM.
07-13-2021 at 03:16 PM.
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Yes it is but it's out of stock

Oh. Well, they showed up in stock when I posted.
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ptt1404
07-13-2021 at 03:24 PM.
07-13-2021 at 03:24 PM.
my 3tb hd wd black 10 years old has no problems except too nosisy
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moowarcow
07-13-2021 at 05:48 PM.
07-13-2021 at 05:48 PM.
Quote from cj0r :
Ya no thanks. Terrible price and you shouldn't be keeping drives around for 5 years so a longer warranty isn't necessary. Once you start needing drives with space like this, it's most likely for things such as media storage. Any speed benefits are nearly pointless after initial loading of the files so there's no reason to pay a premium for that either. Finally if you try to say "well reliability..." well if you're dealing with this much storage you best not be using outside of a redundant solution.
I have a 1.5TB WD Black from 2010. Still works, I use it for downloading and transfering to external hd.
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MadPup
07-13-2021 at 06:06 PM.
07-13-2021 at 06:06 PM.
Quote from th3g3ntl3man :
What good is a 5 year warranty when this drive will be worth $50 in 5 years?
Your statement makes no sense.
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07-13-2021 at 08:18 PM.
07-13-2021 at 08:18 PM.
Quote from MadPup :
Your statement makes no sense.
A 6TB hard drive will sell for $50 at best in 5 years.
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Hotsoup
07-13-2021 at 08:28 PM.
07-13-2021 at 08:28 PM.
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Lol this guy talking to me about enterprise, I got so many Intel and WD enterprise hardware it'll make your head spin... Having access to data centers or data center grade equipment isn't hard buddy. Running my entire home on top grade for funsies. Yet here I am, being boasted by some guy who's ego got herded, u herded bud? Take a trip to terrenap or DRT, or coresite, or equinox, I don't care where you get yer gear, you change your drive prefailure without any reason is farking stooped, stooped.

This sounds like how we operate. At work, we have a 10-year old EMC. Those 15000 rpm drives stay in. We only had one bad drive so far during its lifespan. We could technically afford two drives falling at the same time - one for running RAID-5 and one for having hot spares on the system.
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07-14-2021 at 06:22 AM.
07-14-2021 at 06:22 AM.
Quote from celayaz61 :
what is the difference between gaming drives and the other drives that makes them more expensive ?

Black, red and silver.
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cowprince
07-14-2021 at 06:26 AM.
07-14-2021 at 06:26 AM.
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Ya no thanks. Terrible price and you shouldn't be keeping drives around for 5 years so a longer warranty isn't necessary. Once you start needing drives with space like this, it's most likely for things such as media storage. Any speed benefits are nearly pointless after initial loading of the files so there's no reason to pay a premium for that either. Finally if you try to say "well reliability..." well if you're dealing with this much storage you best not be using outside of a redundant solution.

Shouldn't be keeping drives for 5 years..HA! My 10 year old WD VelociRaptor would like to have a word with you.
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07-14-2021 at 08:50 AM.
07-14-2021 at 08:50 AM.
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A 6TB hard drive will sell for $50 at best in 5 years.
I understood that bit.
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califsun30
07-14-2021 at 09:45 AM.
07-14-2021 at 09:45 AM.
Just a public service announcement on this deal...

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The 10% off code stacks with whatever discount is already present (YMMV). This took the price down to $152.99 for me before tax. Good luck!
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