16TB WD Elements

[hornetstinger]

Looking into buying a WD Elements 16TB, Recertified. Will be shucking it and fit into a NAS.

Anyone with same drive?

 

[Snapshot]

No, but I have two shucked 18TB drives in my backup NAS. They clunk a lot.....

 

[hornetstinger]

No, but I have two shucked 18TB drives in my backup NAS. They clunk a lot.....

White label western digital?

 

[Snapshot]

Yup. WDC WD180EDGZ

 

[hornetstinger]

Went for 16TB Elements, I have literally no space. From reading all drives are noisy hopefully this one is acceptable.

I could wait for 16TB SSD but I think I'll be waiting a while..

 

[im4gine3]

i have a large number of WD drives of varying sizes which i have shucked and work fine in a NAS.. granted not a 16, but 12 and 14 work fine... then again in terms of noise.. aren't most external drives using 5400rpm rather than the 7200rpm variants

 

[Snapshot]

The last 8TBs I shucked were 5640RPM, same as WD Red Plus 8TB. I'll check my un-shucked 18TB later.

<Later> The Elements 18TB contains a WD180EDGZ which is 7200RPM.

 

[Moobert]

From what I gather these are not the best noise wise however if kept out of earshot, wont be an issue

 

[FreeStream]

The last 8TBs I shucked were 5640RPM, same as WD Red Plus 8TB. I'll check my un-shucked 18TB later.

<Later> The Elements 18TB contains a WD180EDGZ which is 7200RPM.

As I found with all my 10 and 14TB WD shucks, the firmware limited the performance to 5400RPM speeds. Maybe they've stopped the practice with the newer drives, what are the R/W speeds? If its 220-230 or so rather than 270-280 then you've got a Firmware limited drive...

There was a SMART trick with my drives that if you ran a SMART test, you'd suddenly get 270MB/sec, compared to the normal 220MB/sec. For example: https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarde...ite_label_12tb_and_14tb_drives_get_30_faster/

Replaced all the drives with Seagate instead as absolutely pointless having a 7200RPM drive, with its power draw (and noise, not that I cared about that with the server in a cupboard) yet limited to 5400RPM speeds, worst of both worlds...!

 

[im4gine3]

Didn't WD get fined for misleading information about drives.. something to do with CMR and SRM or something

 

[hornetstinger]

I'll do a synology benchmark test later, currently doing some intensive CPU/network thing

 

[hornetstinger]

From what I gather these are not the best noise wise however if kept out of earshot, wont be an issue

Yeah a bit clicky sound

Could possibly be enterprise white label?

WD161KRYZ-01AGBB0

 

[hornetstinger]

Yeah it's pretty damn loud doing benchmark test on Synology Nas and random access is mega loud and rattling the Nas case.

16tb is a bit louder than the 8tb

I'll try the second drive in the Nas, a wd elements 8tb and post inages

Benchmark takes a while

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[GIBURROWS]

Where are people getting these drives from, I've got 29tb(don't ask) NAS and would like to upgrade...?

 

[kona786]

Where are people getting these drives from, I've got 29tb(don't ask) NAS and would like to upgrade...?

29?

200 here!

Recert drives are from wd direct

 

[GIBURROWS]

I've only got a 4 bay at the minute, with 1gb Internet I don't really need much bigger anymore but would like matching HDDs

 

[hornetstinger]

Where are people getting these drives from, I've got 29tb(don't ask) NAS and would like to upgrade...?

WD direct, recertified (not paying the £300-£400) price.

have a 8 and 16TB that's enough for a while, total remaining is 8TB, and still have 2 bays free so I don't think I need another drive for a while