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With today's ssd technology and low prices, nobody in their right mind should be using a mechanical drive as their OS drive.
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"Enterprise Grade" means that they are used 24x7 in some datacenter for years pulled and was replaced by a higher capacity one. I know, I have servers with these 4tb drives that are about 8-9 years...
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Back to regular price
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Glad to see the SMR comment I almost purchased a few. I though the SMR issue was over but sadly they still exist.
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No it's a "white label" drive meaning it's supplied by WD as an OEM drive to a manufacturer. WD assumes no warranty responsibility so if you do experience a failure, it's up to the seller alone to...
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Be aware of a few things. There is no way in hell this drive should be included in a NAS array, period.
WD Blue drives are the lowest quality drive WD offers and according to other forums their...
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Hmm price changed back, I could have thought Newegg had the same price but that's now back too... Maybe it'll be back.
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Damn OOS just added to cart ready to checkout OUT OF STOCK
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Guess it's still better than a WD800BB-63JKC0 though. (yes PATA)
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its good for keeping photos and videos i thought i would never get close to filling mine up but here we are :)
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I dunno. I have the 2TB version of this drive singular. But raid generally only improves the raw read write speeds. That doesn’t improve the 4kb random write speeds. That’s what’s responsible for...
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no, just confirmed its SMR although they have other models similar thatare CMR.
https://nascompares.com/answer/list-of-wd-cmr-and-smr-hard-drives-hdd/
WD40EZRZ this model is CMR but not...
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What if you put them in Raid5 or 10? That should increase the writing speed?
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SMR drives are crazy slow and unresponsive. The biggest let down for me is when I want to go look at some archived photos or videos and it takes like 5-10 seconds to actually populate and show the...
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Since it has a 2 year warranty and a really good price, I ended up buying 3 to replace some really old
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I would like to use this as an external drive, but I need to protect it's content. Any recommendation on best way or practices?
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Just one according to their terms.
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How many recycling code can you do per household?
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I just bought it for about $97 a few days ago directly from WD. You need the 15% recycling promo code and Paypal's 12% CB. They already shipped my HD's out. Paypal confirmed the CB.
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The 8GB (5640 RPM) version is CMR (model number WD80EAZZ).
Here's a spec sheet directly from WD's website where you can compare all the blue drives (it will download a PDF when you click the...
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