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Amazon has 4TB Western Digital WD Blue 5400 RPM 3.5" Internal PC Hard Drive HDD (WD40EZAZ) on sale for $48.85. Shipping is free.

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  • SATA 6 Gb/s interface
  • 256 MB Cache
  • 3.5" Standard internal desktop hard drive form factor
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Western Digital 4TB WD Blue PC Hard Drive HDD - 5400 RPM, SATA 6 Gb/s, 256 MB Cache, 3.5" - WD40EZAZ available for $48.85.

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Model: Western Digital Blue WD40EZAZ 4 TB Hard Drive - 3.5" Internal - SATA (SATA/600) - Desktop PC, All-in-One PC Device Supported - 5400rpm - 2 Year Warran

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It is SMR so it has slower write speeds.
Not great for anything other than a backup drive, not a main boot drive.
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It depends on what's your use case. For most regular home users whose use case is to store the files, it doesn't matter. But if you are planning to run something off it - I would 'recommend' CMR. But it costs at least 50% more.
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pug_ster
06-12-2022 at 08:59 AM.
06-12-2022 at 08:59 AM.
Quote from ssen2004 :
Any suggestion if this is a better drive at almost same price? https://www.amazon.com/7200RPM-En...C40&sr=1-4. Thanks
Most likely this drive is an older used drives.
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06-12-2022 at 09:07 AM.
06-12-2022 at 09:07 AM.
Quote from passinos :
I think These are OEM drives. so no warranty other than from Amazon and seller. but still a great deal for some cheap mass storage.

Sold through and shipped by Amazon and the description says 2 years? You seeing something different?
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Blackanese
06-12-2022 at 09:20 AM.
06-12-2022 at 09:20 AM.
Does SMR/CMR matter if you're just using to run media off of (via a plex server)?
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06-12-2022 at 09:26 AM.
06-12-2022 at 09:26 AM.
Quote from Blackanese :
Does SMR/CMR matter if you're just using to run media off of (via a plex server)?

Slow write, but read speeds are fine, if you don't move the data around it's okay.
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06-12-2022 at 09:29 AM.
06-12-2022 at 09:29 AM.
Any chance of 8tb or higher around 100 or so this year. Trying to go bigger as I replace all my older 4tb out.
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PocketsThick
06-12-2022 at 09:39 AM.
06-12-2022 at 09:39 AM.
Quote from Conformer101 :
Were WD Blue drives always SMR? For some reason, I thought they weren't.
The 8GB (5640 RPM) version is CMR (model number WD80EAZZ).

Here's a spec sheet directly from WD's website where you can compare all the blue drives (it will download a PDF when you click the link):
https://documents.westerndigital....pc-hdd.pdf
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06-12-2022 at 09:41 AM.
06-12-2022 at 09:41 AM.
Quote from xmenxmenxmen :
Any chance of 8tb or higher around 100 or so this year. Trying to go bigger as I replace all my older 4tb out.
I just bought it for about $97 a few days ago directly from WD. You need the 15% recycling promo code and Paypal's 12% CB. They already shipped my HD's out. Paypal confirmed the CB.
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fantasylin
06-12-2022 at 09:59 AM.
06-12-2022 at 09:59 AM.
Quote from PocketsThick :
I just bought it for about $97 a few days ago directly from WD. You need the 15% recycling promo code and Paypal's 12% CB. They already shipped my HD's out. Paypal confirmed the CB.

How many recycling code can you do per household?
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06-12-2022 at 10:01 AM.
06-12-2022 at 10:01 AM.
Quote from fantasylin :
How many recycling code can you do per household?
Just one according to their terms.
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06-12-2022 at 10:02 AM.
06-12-2022 at 10:02 AM.
I would like to use this as an external drive, but I need to protect it's content. Any recommendation on best way or practices?
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slugbug
06-12-2022 at 10:11 AM.
06-12-2022 at 10:11 AM.
Since it has a 2 year warranty and a really good price, I ended up buying 3 to replace some really old <2TB drives. Thanks, op!
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06-12-2022 at 10:11 AM.
06-12-2022 at 10:11 AM.
SMR drives are crazy slow and unresponsive. The biggest let down for me is when I want to go look at some archived photos or videos and it takes like 5-10 seconds to actually populate and show the mini previews. They can transfer speeds upto 200mbps which is it's only saving grace. But they are nice as a running archive drive for those files you don't need all the time but on occasion or want to copy back over to your SSD for a project
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06-12-2022 at 10:14 AM.
06-12-2022 at 10:14 AM.
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SMR drives are crazy slow and unresponsive. The biggest let down for me is when I want to go look at some archived photos or videos and it takes like 5-10 seconds to actually populate and show the mini previews. They can transfer speeds upto 200mbps which is it's only saving grace. But they are nice as a running archive drive for those files you don't need all the time but on occasion or want to copy back over to your SSD for a project

What if you put them in Raid5 or 10? That should increase the writing speed?
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06-12-2022 at 10:18 AM.
06-12-2022 at 10:18 AM.
Quote from Limian :
Smr, should I buy?
no, just confirmed its SMR although they have other models similar thatare CMR.


https://nascompares.com/answer/li...rives-hdd/


WD40EZRZ this model is CMR but not on sale.

Whew...

wd40ezrx this model is CMR, green version


https://www.truenas.com/community...rives.141/

bummer...good price. Good for a backup data drive rather than a peformance drive where you need high write speeds.

May I recommend this 7200RPM drive that is CMR....yes, more money...wait for sale.

WD4000FYYZ 4TB CMR
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06-12-2022 at 10:24 AM.
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What if you put them in Raid5 or 10? That should increase the writing speed?

I dunno. I have the 2TB version of this drive singular. But raid generally only improves the raw read write speeds. That doesn't improve the 4kb random write speeds. That's what's responsible for your responsiveness.
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