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WD Hard Drives (Refurb): 3TB Western Digital My Book External Desktop

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Western Digital via eBay has select Certified Refurbished Western Digital Drives on sale below. Shipping is free.

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Note: These drives also include a 2-Year Allstate Warranty (more info). You may save an additional $15 Off your purchase when you buy 3 or more qualifying items.

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3TB Western Digital My Book External Desktop Drive (Certified Refurbished) $49.99

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Western Digital via Ebay has Select Certified Refurbished Western Digital Hard Drives on sale. Shipping is free.

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3TB Western Digital My Book External Desktop Drive [ebay.com] (Certified Refurbished) $49.99

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4TB WD My Book Desktop Hard Drive [ebay.com] (Certified Refurbished) $54.99 -Now $49.99 OOS
4TB Western Digital easystore Desktop [ebay.com] (Certified Refurbished) $54.99 -~~Now $49.99~~ Now OOS
4TB Western Digital My Cloud Home Personal Cloud Storage Hard Drive [ebay.com] (Certified Refurbished) $99.99 -OOS
8TB Western Digital easystore Desktop [ebay.com] (Certified Refurbished) $99.99 -OOS

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My price research indicates that the 5TB Western Digital easystore Portable Hard Drive was previously on frontpage for $69.99 with +47 Thumbs

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For archival purposes, SMR is fine. Write once, then read mostly. It's constant read/write cycles that kill SMR drives. For important, irreplaceable files like family memories, best to make at least 2 copies and store one copy off site at a different location. I would have no problem using 2 of these drives for my photos and videos, then in the unlikely event one of them fails you will still have the other to retrieve them.

I've purchased one of these refurb drives and I would not recommend it. I ended up getting a refund.

I purchased it knowing fully well that these were SMR drives, but I did not expect 1 MB/sec both read/write speeds. This was transferring and reading large media files.

Trash SMR drives make great plex drives

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07-10-2022 at 10:34 AM.

In for one. Will fill out my 4 bay NAS filled with 3 other WD 8tb drives. All shucked external drives. Price is cheap enough. Thanks OP!

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07-10-2022 at 11:28 AM.

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I'm not sure "refurbished" drives can wholly be lumped into the customer return category, maybe not even largely. Having been in the event management business a number of years ago I had opportunity to see first hand the huge amount of electronics that are routinely loaned directly from the manufacturer to an event for the week/weekend. These were subsequently returned to sender for recertification and sale. For this reason I am less inclined to believe a drive I receive would be a questionable unit.

That said, all my external drives are for archival purpose and see minimal on-time therefore are not driven hard. Upon initial loading I make sure to keep a steady flow of cooling air through them if performing an initial dump of data. Currently have 14 external USB enclosure drives (WD & Seagate, 2TB-14TB, all full) that go back as far as 14 years and have yet to experience a failure. Full disclosure -- A couple of these drives are mirrored as they do contain content for which customers might return.

Sounds like a videographer🤔👋👋

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07-10-2022 at 11:40 AM.

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Sounds like a videographer🤔👋👋

Casting couch.

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07-10-2022 at 12:32 PM.

Are these Red Pros inside?

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07-10-2022 at 12:44 PM.

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Are these Red Pros inside?

It can be. Mine from the last deal was a wd80efax from the EU market originally. But it is like playing lottery, you can get a red or white. Like Forest says, it is like a box of chocolate.

oh yeah, mine says it had been powered on 3 times and ran for 0 hours.

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07-10-2022 at 02:44 PM.

Had one go bad also lost some data. WD replaceed it but still...

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07-10-2022 at 03:07 PM.

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Free replacement mountain-climbing rope when it snaps halfway up your mountain climb!

8TB is a lot to lose. Wonder what the story is on these, customer returns? Why are so many returning 8TB drives?

That's what RAID and backups are for; refurbished or otherwise, you're never safe from a drive failure.

edit: I would suggest people to buy two of these and shuck them. I realized after the fact that many here would just buy as a standalone single drive backup (as WD intends, but I never think that way because I need and recommend data redundancy).

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07-10-2022 at 03:36 PM.

Just bought one - This will be used for secondary backup.

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07-10-2022 at 04:08 PM.

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Can you please explain RAID and backups? I'm a beginner and best I have done is clone the drive as a backup

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07-10-2022 at 04:27 PM.

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Can you please explain RAID and backups? I'm a beginner and best I have done is clone the drive as a backup

You need to web search raid and NAS. (edit: because, big topic)

RAID is redundant array of inexpensive devices. It combines multiple disks to act as one logical disk. There are different levels of RAID, specified by number. The simplest one with redundancy is RAID 1. You can use as little as 2 drives. And they will both be written to when you store or update data. It is called mirroring, for obvious reasons. This comes with no performance benefit (which RAID 0, or striping, offers).

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07-10-2022 at 07:15 PM.

RAID with same drives manufactured around the same time often fail around the same time.

I'm hoping someday there are going to be 4TB WD blue air-based drives for $50 again, they once were for a day but I hesitated.

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07-11-2022 at 03:18 AM.

Are the desktop versions faster or better than the portable ones?

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07-11-2022 at 05:38 AM.

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For anything other than boot drive, Bvckup 2 is amazing for real time backup sync. Relied on it for years, it's rock solid, lightweight, and very customizable. My drive gets synced with archiving every few hours, if the drive poops the bed then it's a copy and paste job onto a new drive and I'm good to go. Amazing peace of mind.

What's the physical set up on that?

2 external hard drives connected to the computer through an adapter on USB?

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07-11-2022 at 09:45 AM.

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What's the physical set up on that?

2 external hard drives connected to the computer through an adapter on USB?

Huh? It's just a PC with an external HD plugged in, like normal. No adapters or anything tricky. Internal syncs to the external. You can also sync to a network share if you prefer.

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07-13-2022 at 08:13 PM.

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The best is to buy 2 hard drives and clone one every once in a while. You can buy a cloning device for about $20 and just pop them in and will clone quickly

thank you good tip.. Amy link to clone device you or anyone in know can recommend?