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NEWEGG (backordered) WD Blue WD120EAGZ 12TB 7200 RPM 512MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive $189.99

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this price was posted already for Amazon but I don't see it listed at all on there when I search.

NEWEGG has the deal, but it is currently backorder. When I looked it said expected 12/1

https://www.newegg.com/blue-wd120...6822234591
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this price was posted already for Amazon but I don't see it listed at all on there when I search.

NEWEGG has the deal, but it is currently backorder. When I looked it said expected 12/1

https://www.newegg.com/blue-wd120...6822234591

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Model: WD Blue WD120EAGZ 12TB 7200 RPM 512MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5' Internal Hard Drive

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Dec 01, 2025 06:55 AM
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uncleskeletonDec 01, 2025 06:55 AM
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Blue drives are junk, if you care about your data. Might as well spend a couple bucks more and get a better drive, like a WD Red or Seagate Ironwolf. They literally had 14TB Gold's (The top level enterprise drives) for $250. I actually grabbed 2 18TB Red Pro's, and while the initial deal wasn't super great, at $299, I used the capital one shopping app and got 24% in rewards, which brought the overall cost down to about $228 per drive, which is $12.66 per TB. This deal is $15.83 per TB for a vastly inferior drive.
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Quote from uncleskeleton :
Blue drives are junk, if you care about your data. Might as well spend a couple bucks more and get a better drive, like a WD Red or Seagate Ironwolf. They literally had 14TB Gold's (The top level enterprise drives) for $250. I actually grabbed 2 18TB Red Pro's, and while the initial deal wasn't super great, at $299, I used the capital one shopping app and got 24% in rewards, which brought the overall cost down to about $228 per drive, which is $12.66 per TB. This deal is $15.83 per TB for a vastly inferior drive.
thanks for the info. I'm old and have to overcome old biases against Seagate.
Dec 02, 2025 03:58 AM
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Joe123456Dec 02, 2025 03:58 AM
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Quote from uncleskeleton :
Blue drives are junk, if you care about your data. Might as well spend a couple bucks more and get a better drive, like a WD Red or Seagate Ironwolf. They literally had 14TB Gold's (The top level enterprise drives) for $250. I actually grabbed 2 18TB Red Pro's, and while the initial deal wasn't super great, at $299, I used the capital one shopping app and got 24% in rewards, which brought the overall cost down to about $228 per drive, which is $12.66 per TB. This deal is $15.83 per TB for a vastly inferior drive.
Quote from ScarletGoat2269 :
thanks for the info. I'm old and have to overcome old biases against Seagate.

I've been using the blue drives for years without ever a problem. IIRC, the red drives are for use in multi-drive arrays. They are made to counteract the vibrations caused by neighboring drives in the same enclosure. Without those vibrations, the drive may not perform to its best. It's somewhat like old vibration reduction lenses would misbehave when placed on a tripod. If you need a faster drive, WD makes the Black drives. Nothing wrong with the Seagate Ironwolf drives either as I remember.
Dec 02, 2025 05:26 AM
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uncleskeletonDec 02, 2025 05:26 AM
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Quote from Joe123456 :
I've been using the blue drives for years without ever a problem. IIRC, the red drives are for use in multi-drive arrays. They are made to counteract the vibrations caused by neighboring drives in the same enclosure. Without those vibrations, the drive may not perform to its best. It's somewhat like old vibration reduction lenses would misbehave when placed on a tripod. If you need a faster drive, WD makes the Black drives. Nothing wrong with the Seagate Ironwolf drives either as I remember.
Red drives are better at handling vibration, heat, and more constant reads and writes. I have an old 500GB black drive that is still going strong. I've had 2 Blue drives fail on me in less than 2 years, so I don't buy them anymore. Luckily one lasted long enough to backup the data after 3 or 4 attempts. Had to let it cool down between sessions, to get everything. I've got two 8TB Ironwolf Pro's going on 5 years, in my current build and two 16TB Ironwolf Pro's in my new build (well I built it last year, but am lagging big time on actually putting it into use). I just grabbed two Red's for a NAS I am setting up, so I can have remote access for video streaming and backups, with minimal power draw.
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Capt.WackyDec 18, 2025 07:14 PM
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Quote from uncleskeleton :
Blue drives are junk, if you care about your data. Might as well spend a couple bucks more and get a better drive, like a WD Red or Seagate Ironwolf. They literally had 14TB Gold's (The top level enterprise drives) for $250. I actually grabbed 2 18TB Red Pro's, and while the initial deal wasn't super great, at $299, I used the capital one shopping app and got 24% in rewards, which brought the overall cost down to about $228 per drive, which is $12.66 per TB. This deal is $15.83 per TB for a vastly inferior drive.
Using a NAS drive in a non-NAS (more specifically a non-RAID) environment is a really bad idea. One of the key differences is that NAS drives by default will have TLER (Time-Limited Error Recovery) enabled.
This is important because in a RAID environment you don't want the whole array pausing while one drive struggles to read one faulty sector. You want the drive to immediately give up and the array will recreate the damaged data from the other copy (RAID1) or parity (RAID5).
In a single drive desktop environment you absolutely want the drive to keep trying to get that data back because there is no redundancy.
So if you use a WD Red as a stand alone drive in a desktop and it has any issue then it is just going to give up and your data will be lost.
Dec 28, 2025 11:50 PM
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uncleskeletonDec 28, 2025 11:50 PM
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Quote from Capt.Wacky :
Using a NAS drive in a non-NAS (more specifically a non-RAID) environment is a really bad idea. One of the key differences is that NAS drives by default will have TLER (Time-Limited Error Recovery) enabled.
This is important because in a RAID environment you don't want the whole array pausing while one drive struggles to read one faulty sector. You want the drive to immediately give up and the array will recreate the damaged data from the other copy (RAID1) or parity (RAID5).
In a single drive desktop environment you absolutely want the drive to keep trying to get that data back because there is no redundancy.
So if you use a WD Red as a stand alone drive in a desktop and it has any issue then it is just going to give up and your data will be lost.
Good to know. Luckily the Red Pro's I bought were specifically for a RAID/NAS Setup. Apparently, you can disable TLER under Linux, permanently, but under Windows, you can only use temporary methods, which need to be re-applied after a power cycle. That said, I would still trust a higher end drive, like a Red, Gold, or Ironwolf, to be less prone to failure or bad sectors than a low end drive like a WD Blue.

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