Shucked 12 or 14TB Hard Drives any good (for a NAS)?

[Whiffle]

Hi there.

I am on the look out for a new 12TB hard drive and have just come across "shucking".

I could get a 12TB WD My Book and save quite a lot - could even go for a 14TB.

However, it seems that the hard drives are Whites as opposed to Red.

I am going to be using the drive, on its own, in my server (and Odroid HC2).

Are the White labels reliable enough to take the risk?

 

[Whiffle]

That usb hd is 7200 so probably loud for a nas

Is that the WD Black or the White Labelled drive, taken from a My Book, that I mentioned?

The abovementioned 10TB would be amazing for £210. Unfortunately, I probably do need 12TB and the prices for those are considerably more.

 

[Whiffle]

The WD black D10 was 12TB and £210. Its come up for that price twice in the last few weeks. I've got an alert setup on Hotukdeals in case it comes back on offer.

Sorry - I am with you now. I thought Ultrastar was Hitachi, but had forgotten that they were now part of WD.

£159 for a 12TB WD Elements drive, white labels are absolutely fine, you should backup anything you can't bare to lose anyway as any drive could fail.

Thank you.

If that is the case, even better - I have just read that Elements are essentially My Books but with a more re-usable outer case and (more importantly) cheaper.

Where can you get them for £159? Cannot seem to find any under £205.00.

 

[Whiffle]

Amazing - thank you so much for this.

Depending on what comes up first as a deal, I shall go for either 12TB or 14TB.

 

[Whiffle]

Got to stick with the "Hard" Disk - my Mrs won't stand for a floppy.

 

[Whiffle]

Thanks, FreeStream - you clearly seem happy with these hard drives if you are thinking of using more.

Purely out of interest - what do you store on your current 20TB (I assume that you are using two of the drives for redundancy)?

 

[Whiffle]

The 12TB D10 and the 14TB white labels are back on offer.

Brilliant - thank you very much.

Ordered a 14TB, which should keep me going for a bit .

Other than the annoying pin 3 disable thing (which all four of mine needed) they've been great.

You can clearly tell they are end-of-run drives as all four have slightly different designs of backplanes which I assume is as per their volume customer requests.

Actually 30TB - One parity.

15TB is backups, 5TB is free and 10TB is TV Shows/Films I've taken from DVDs/Blu-Rays so I can have them all via Plex instead.

I'd also look at the WD Duos - They are also on offer occasionally too. WD Reds with 3 year warranties. Looking to get a few of those this year if possible.

Ah right - I have something similar.

I tried Plex but, for some reason, could not get on with it. I ended up using Kodi with a shared MySQL databse on my server.

 

[Whiffle]

I have been using my "shucked" Elements 14Tb in my Odroid HC2 for a couple of years now - no problems at all.

Quiet and temperatures seem pretty low as well.