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Yesterday 05:06 AM
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StreetJediYesterday 05:06 AM
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Why is this downvoted? Storage and memory prices are insane today
Last edited by StreetJedi March 30, 2026 at 10:20 PM.
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VioletRaccoon567Yesterday 05:25 AM
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Our community has rated this post as helpful. If you agree, why not thank VioletRaccoon567

What's actually inside
Users who've shucked (opened the
enclosure) have found a
WD180EMFZ, which identifies as a
Hitachi Ultrastar DC HC550,
running at 540O RPM Best Buy - not
a 7200 RPM drive despite some
listings implying otherwise. It's a
white-label drive, not a proper WD
Red or Gold.
The shucking situation has gotten
Worse
These drives require a 3.3V pin
bypass to spin up if you pull the
drive and install it in a PCor NAS
you either tape pin 3 on the SATA
adapter.
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Great price !
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tegzYesterday 08:30 PM
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Quote from VioletRaccoon567 :
What's actually inside
Users who've shucked (opened the
enclosure) have found a
WD180EMFZ, which identifies as a
Hitachi Ultrastar DC HC550,
running at 540O RPM Best Buy - not
a 7200 RPM drive despite some
listings implying otherwise. It's a
white-label drive, not a proper WD
Red or Gold.
The shucking situation has gotten
Worse
These drives require a 3.3V pin
bypass to spin up if you pull the
drive and install it in a PCor NAS
you either tape pin 3 on the SATA
adapter.
Obviously this is YMMV... I ordered this same drive from B&H just a week ago. Shucked, and found the drive to be a WDC WD180EDGZ-11BLDS0 which Hard Disk Sentinel detected as a 7200 RPM drive. I did have to tape the 3.3V pin, but I don't think that's too big a deal if you're shucking a drive in the first place.
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Yesterday 11:36 PM
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tsigwingYesterday 11:36 PM
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and I thought $300 for the seagate 26tb in January was crazy expensive
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Yesterday 11:47 PM
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LuisG9065Yesterday 11:47 PM
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Quote from tsigwing :
and I thought $300 for the seagate 26tb in January was crazy expensive
I'm kicking my self not getting that deal
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xcopyYesterday 11:51 PM
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I sure am glad I don't need to buy storage. Prices suck....

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MWinkToday 01:55 AM
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Quote from VioletRaccoon567 :
What's actually inside
Users who've shucked (opened the
enclosure) have found a
WD180EMFZ, which identifies as a
Hitachi Ultrastar DC HC550,
running at 540O RPM Best Buy - not
a 7200 RPM drive despite some
listings implying otherwise. It's a
white-label drive, not a proper WD
Red or Gold.
The shucking situation has gotten
Worse
These drives require a 3.3V pin
bypass to spin up if you pull the
drive and install it in a PCor NAS
you either tape pin 3 on the SATA
adapter.
To be clear, these are not actually Ultrastars, no matter what the smartcontrol database may lead you to believe. While they may share the same underlying hardware as an Ultrastar, they are no more an Ultrastar/Red/Gold than the big Barracudas are an Exos/IronWolf Pro. They're also not 5400RPM drives. WD misleadingly classifies some 7200RPM models as "5400RPM class." They still spin at 7200RPM, they just have their performance throttled in firmware.
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Ride_The_SkyToday 02:16 AM
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If we could shuck this, even as a back up drive, slow speeds, should be fine but it seems like won't happen.

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