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forum threadRumzie posted Nov 10, 2025 11:12 PM

WD Gold Enterprise Class SATA HDD - 24TB (WD242KRYZ) (6Yr Warranty) $450

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Comes with an extra year of warranty, total of 6 years.
Identical specs/MTBF as the Ultrastar drives.
https://www.westerndigital.com/pr...=WD242KRYZ
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Comes with an extra year of warranty, total of 6 years.
Identical specs/MTBF as the Ultrastar drives.
https://www.westerndigital.com/pr...=WD242KRYZ

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Nov 11, 2025 12:24 AM
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ZomboNov 11, 2025 12:24 AM
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Can someone educate me why there is such a price difference between this and other "regular" disks(except the enterprise label)?

Such as https://slickdeals.net/f/18786013
Nov 11, 2025 12:30 AM
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PurpleFruit5141Nov 11, 2025 12:30 AM
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Quote from Zombo :
Can someone educate me why there is such a price difference between this and other "regular" disks(except the enterprise label)?Such as https://slickdeals.net/f/18786013
Better performance usually but more importantly better quality parts that allows it to last longer with a longer warranty. It can go for way more hours.
Nov 11, 2025 12:57 AM
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evilaNov 11, 2025 12:57 AM
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Quote from Zombo :
Can someone educate me why there is such a price difference between this and other "regular" disks(except the enterprise label)?Such as https://slickdeals.net/f/18786013
I'd like to know too
Nov 11, 2025 12:59 AM
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sjuledNov 11, 2025 12:59 AM
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Tempting, I want to put big drive as my parity in unraid to have less big drives.
Nov 11, 2025 01:05 AM
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ZomboNov 11, 2025 01:05 AM
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Quote from PurpleFruit5141 :
Better performance usually but more importantly better quality parts that allows it to last longer with a longer warranty. It can go for way more hours.
Thank you but that's a huge difference. Not sure if it's worth
Nov 11, 2025 02:07 AM
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sergey3Nov 11, 2025 02:07 AM
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Quote from Zombo :
Can someone educate me why there is such a price difference between this and other "regular" disks(except the enterprise label)?Such as https://slickdeals.net/f/18786013
My interpretation for the price difference between consumer drives and enterprise drives...

There is currently high demand for enterprise level drives that can run 27x7 for 5-10 years, for the purposes of AI training (to backup the entire Internet), or for cloud providers like Amazon AWS that have lots of data to store. This is resulting in high quality drives being fairly expensive.

While manufacturing those drives, some drives have minor defects which the manufacturer thinks will cause the drive to fail in less than 5 years of 24x7 usage. So they package those drives as consumer backup drives that only get used occasionally and then turn off. Those consumer drives get sold for about half the price of enterprise drives. As long as you don't run a consumer drive 24x7, it should still last you for years.
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Nov 11, 2025 04:12 AM
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Nov 11, 2025 04:12 AM
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Quote from Zombo :
Thank you but that's a huge difference. Not sure if it's worth
I agree, if you are wanting a drive for general/casual use, then the Gold/Ultrastar drives may not be worth the premium price.
Others (like myself) are running these drives 24/7 and will be reading/writing lots of data, so having a more reliable and longer lasting drive is worth the price difference.

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Nov 11, 2025 02:32 PM
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PurpleFruit5141Nov 11, 2025 02:32 PM
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Quote from Zombo :
Thank you but that's a huge difference. Not sure if it's worth
You're right. Which is why i never buy them. I work in the industry. If you need this type of hardware then by all means. What I need is cheap, disposable, and lowest price per unit. I use it for JBOD pooling and it serves all my needs. Anything that fails with lost data can be easily recovered or is of no significance.
Nov 11, 2025 05:37 PM
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Jason27104Nov 11, 2025 05:37 PM
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Holy moly Batman, hdds are making ssds look affordable.
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Nov 12, 2025 04:49 PM
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superstealsNov 12, 2025 04:49 PM
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Quote from Zombo :
Can someone educate me why there is such a price difference between this and other "regular" disks(except the enterprise label)?

Such as https://slickdeals.net/f/18786013
Leave aside all technical explanations of why, this drives Target audience is enterprises/small businesses that need to run data storage with redundancy, longevity and long warranties - as well as trust factor. When data is critical and any data loss is not tolerated, or if the effort to recover the data will cost more than cost of the drives, these are the choice. Oftentimes these run in data centers and replacing the drives is a special effort, special trip, etc, which will cost lot more than $450…
So if you are running a home lab, and the drives are in a NAS or in a pc, you can simply replace it without much effort, you don't need this. Get the lowest price drives and put them in redundancy like raid 1 or raid 5 or some zfs config in true as.
Nov 16, 2025 03:32 AM
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soccer_jim2002Nov 16, 2025 03:32 AM
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Quote from Zombo :
Can someone educate me why there is such a price difference between this and other "regular" disks(except the enterprise label)?Such as https://slickdeals.net/f/18786013
Plain and simple, if you rely on this drive working 24/7 and you lose money when it goes down (any server for any business) you pay for the product designed to do it. Not only that but commonly they run 2 of these in Raid1 (mirror) so if one dies the server stays up.
Nov 17, 2025 02:58 AM
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JohnJonJoinNov 17, 2025 02:58 AM
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24tb cmr

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