Western Digital has
20TB Western Digital WD Red Pro 3.5" 7200 RPM NAS Internal Hard Drive (WD201KFGX) on sale
2 for $599.98.
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- Note: Valid only for 20TB (WD201KFGX), select from the dropdown menu. Must order 2 to get deal price, otherwise a single drive is $379.99.
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20TB Western Digital WD Red Pro 3.5" 7200 RPM NAS Internal Hard Drive (WD201KFGX) on sale
2 for $599.98 (Sold as a Combo).
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Specs/Key Features:- Supports up to 300TB/year workload rate
- Enhanced reliability with 3D Active Balance Plus technology and error recovery controls with NASware 3.0 technology
- Extended drive testing to ensure each drive is tested for extended reliable operation
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To anybody that thinks shucking a drive and keeping an enclosure around for an RMA is annoying, I think it's a pretty small price to pay. The other option is to pay more for a better warranty.
I completed a parity check on my WD 18TB white label and it came back with zero errors although speeds dropped from a steady 230MB/s to around 150 in the last 20% of the process. No idea if that's due to the drive or how unraid operates.
I think we all can agree that no matter what, these prices are much better than a few years ago!!
To anybody that thinks shucking a drive and keeping an enclosure around for an RMA is annoying, I think it's a pretty small price to pay. The other option is to pay more for a better warranty.
I completed a parity check on my WD 18TB white label and it came back with zero errors although speeds dropped from a steady 230MB/s to around 150 in the last 20% of the process. No idea if that's due to the drive or how unraid operates.
I think we all can agree that no matter what, these prices are much better than a few years ago!!
To anybody that thinks shucking a drive and keeping an enclosure around for an RMA is annoying, I think it's a pretty small price to pay. The other option is to pay more for a better warranty.
I completed a parity check on my WD 18TB white label and it came back with zero errors although speeds dropped from a steady 230MB/s to around 150 in the last 20% of the process. No idea if that's due to the drive or how unraid operates.
I think we all can agree that no matter what, these prices are much better than a few years ago!!
Example helium filled drives used to be exclusivly on the enterprise offerings, but now is part of the better consumer drives.
Certain things like SLC for SSD's and such are still pretty eclusive to enterprise rated products.
But there are other nuances that the average user may not really care for such as SAS interface and IOPS, etc.
The end of the day they are rated for more endurance, have longer warranties, and often enteprise equipment gets pulled with really new stuff, that is why I would grab them in perfect situations, because you get a business liquidation sale and you can get those drives DIRT cheap.
the way i figure is, after the return period, within 5 yrs, any failed new red pros, gets replaced with a refurbed red pro.
the same thing happens with refurbs from SPD except the warranty period is only 2 yrs.
for the same amt of $$$ spent on 5 new drives, i can get about the 8 or 9 refurbs.
thus, the trade offs are more storage for a shorter warranty period vs less storage for a longer warranty period.
I have them installed in my NAS now and did a full pre-clear, write, read test on them without any issues and all the other drives I have in my nas were also WD externals.
My older NAS has drives over 5 years old without any issues at all.
So you can absolutly save more if you are willing to put in a bit of work for it, but the nice thing here is no extra work and warranty support.
By now I have saved enough that should a drive be bad buying a new one is still cheaper than buying direct drives.
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the way i figure is, after the return period, within 5 yrs, any failed new red pros, gets replaced with a refurbed red pro.
the same thing happens with refurbs from SPD except the warranty period is only 2 yrs.
for the same amt of $$$ spent on 5 new drives, i can get about the 8 or 9 refurbs.
thus, the trade offs are more storage for a shorter warranty period vs less storage for a longer warranty period.
I like the idea of starting off with 2 "new" 18tb shucked drives but if those are good to me, I see no problem with adding manufacturer refurbs into the mix
I have them installed in my NAS now and did a full pre-clear, write, read test on them without any issues and all the other drives I have in my nas were also WD externals.
My older NAS has drives over 5 years old without any issues at all.
So you can absolutly save more if you are willing to put in a bit of work for it, but the nice thing here is no extra work and warranty support.
By now I have saved enough that should a drive be bad buying a new one is still cheaper than buying direct drives.
People using tape or cutting pins are nuts IMO. All you need to do is make sure the 3v doesn't make it to the drive. If you don't want to cut into your PSUs SATA cable, buy a SATA extension (I would advise against a SATA to molex adapter) and cut the 3v lead.
But it completely depends on what drive you get. You shouldn't assume that you will get the same drive as somebody else, but if you have a cable that has that 5th lead cut, you don't have to worry
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