Shucking WD External drives

dulcificum · 15 Apr 2020 at 21:48

This post is great but a few years out of date now: https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/7fx0i0/wd_easystore_8tb_compendium/

How do you go about telling what sort of drive you get in a WD Easystore before buying? What's the current state of affairs in Europe?

dulcificum · 16 Apr 2020 at 11:34

FreeStream said:
Still getting white labelled reduced RPM data centre drives in the 8/10/12/14TBs versions.

Looking to get some 14TBs soon to replace my 10TBs.

Ah that's a pain. EMZZ or EMAZ?

And is the cheapest place to buy them still WD with 15% student discount?

I need about 50 TB and not sure whether to wait for a sale. The 8 TB are only about £124 atm.

dulcificum · 16 Apr 2020 at 12:19

Why what?

How often does the river have sales? I'm guessing not for a while so we have to suck up £229 for 14 TB?

dulcificum · 19 Apr 2020 at 04:07

Deaths_Calling said:
I shucked a 12tb Elements recently and got a EMAZ drive. Spec wise it looks the same as a Red just half the price...
I recommend setting up some deal alerts.

Thanks. 12 TB are currently £193 from wd so I already grabbed 6.

dulcificum · 19 Apr 2020 at 12:38

Deaths_Calling said:
I paid £160

When? They go that low occasionally but haven't done for a couple of weeks.

dulcificum · 19 Apr 2020 at 23:00

Deaths_Calling said:
2nd April. They've been at that price a few times recently it seems.

Hmm, I didn't see it happening again within a month so had to buy...