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Westerndigital.com [westerndigital.com] is offering what I think is the best yet deal on ANY high performance and high reliability 16TB drive not only because the price is decent, but because you don't have to deal with the
5 years warranty issues when buying the non GOLD labels of this drive thru Amazon, Newegg etc 3rd party sellers (talking about the OEM versions of these drives).
$600 for both
Add 2 to cart:
https://www.westerndigital.com/pr...#WD161KRYZ
10% with new customer discount (just register with email and you will get code within minutes)
OR
15% with
Student, Teacher or Senior (55+) discounts [westerndigital.com] (they use Youth/Senior_verify to verify your status)
OR 15% if you had any recent coupons from their recycle program
Shipping is free
They also charged me less tax than Amz typically does.
* Offer valid on qualifying product WD161KRYZ purchased online through the Western Digital Store. Offer limited to a maximum of 2 units per customer. Retailers, Resellers, Distributors and Western Digital Business customers are excluded from this promotion. The offer is not applicable for any prior purchases. Western Digital reserves the right to change or discontinue this offer at any time without notice. This promotion is valid in the US and Canada regions between February 3rd, 2022 and February 17th, 2022.
Drive info: [westerndigital.com]
CMR
7200 RPM
262MB/s Max Sustained Transfer Rate
512MB Cache
MTFB 2 500 000 Hours
Average Power 6.5W, Idle 5.6W (spin down unknown); Helium=low power
Built for yearly operation 24x7x365
Non recoverable errors: 1 in 10E15 (WD Red Pro for example is 1 in 10E14).
Here is good break down of what is what on the market:
https://www.anandtech.com/show/12...sumer-hdds
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Not buying so don't know if this works here, but it's handy to know about.
On the subject of these drives though, at 7200rpm enterprise drives they're probably somewhat loud, and reviews seem to confirm that. They're intended to be in racks in a server farm where you won't hear them over the din of fans running. If you're buying these for a NAS, I'd only do that if your NAS is somewhere you can't hear it.
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When I bought the drives yesterday morning, I used Honey for first time. It said 1%-12% (unclear) so I didn't post this info in the OP. This morning I got email confirming 12% cash back ($65). Honey is owned by PayPal so the 12% PayPal reward might be the same thing.
https://www.paypal.com/shopping/store-profile/PD8DQ9PRLVFFS
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A 16TB is about $280 - $290, so you have to buy 2 to "save" $20........
unless this is a CMR (but WD just never tell you, they always try to hide if their HDD is CMR or SMR)
nothing special IMO
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The chart on this page - also Anandtech [anandtech.com] for the 20TB equivalents pretty much says it all.
And yeah, these aren't just NAS drives. These are high end datacenter drives.
Keep in mind, a lot of "deals" only make sense if you value your time (and in this case data) at $0.
If I knew about this, or even about those coupons I would have been happier.