WD Red NAS drive prices

OverDrive · 14 Feb 2017 at 12:59

Hi all,

I purchased a couple of the above in 3TB form in Sept. 2015 for £70 each. Today they are over £100 each!

What's going on with the prices? Surely this rise is too pronounced for Brexit alone?

Cheers.

Grimley · 14 Feb 2017 at 15:10

I paid £90 each for 2 3TB drives in 2014. It's more to do with the $=£ exchange rate which is not good right now.

Grrrrr · 15 Feb 2017 at 10:07

US Price stable/declining:

https://camelcamelcamel.com/Red-3TB-Hard-Disk-Drive/product/B008JJLW4M

UK Price increasing:

https://uk.camelcamelcamel.com/Red-Desktop-Hard-Disk-Drive/product/B008JJLW4M

KIA · 15 Feb 2017 at 17:34

Shuck the drives. There are great deals to be had, from time to time.

Minstadave · 15 Feb 2017 at 19:11

KIA said:
Shuck the drives. There are great deals to be had, from time to time.

Yup, 4TB Seagate last week - £54!

OverDrive · 15 Feb 2017 at 19:43

Shuck the drives?

Richdog · 16 Feb 2017 at 09:55

Minstadave said:
Yup, 4TB Seagate last week - £54!

Yeah, the least reliable drives in the world...

Minstadave · 16 Feb 2017 at 10:14

Richdog said:
Yeah, the least reliable drives in the world...

It was the 3TB ones that were shockers, the 4 is OK. Got plenty of redundancy anyway so I'll take the risk at 1/3rd the price of a WD Red.

SC0TTRS · 16 Feb 2017 at 10:51

Richdog said:
Yeah, the least reliable drives in the world...

Reminds me, need to look into replacing one of my Seagate 3TB drives, it's been failing for the past 12 months! lol

Can't really complain tbh...it's be used continues for the last 4 years without a problem! lol

bledd · 16 Feb 2017 at 11:03

HDD prices have been going north for a while, I was lucky and never paid over £200 for any of my 6TB Reds. Even managed to get an 8TB Seagate Archive drive for £167!

KIA · 16 Feb 2017 at 17:09

OverDrive said:
Shuck the drives?

Remove the WD Reds from a WD My Book Duo External Hard Drive. The drives come with a 2 year warranty.

crazyDAJT · 16 Feb 2017 at 19:22

KIA said:
Remove the WD Reds from a WD My Book Duo External Hard Drive. The drives come with a 2 year warranty.

Is that really cheaper, doesn't look like it?

KIA · 17 Feb 2017 at 19:36

crazyDAJT said:
Is that really cheaper, doesn't look like it?

It can be. Keep an eye on the deal sites such as HUKD, etc.

crazyDAJT · 17 Feb 2017 at 20:25

KIA said:
It can be. Keep an eye on the deal sites such as HUKD, etc.

Interesting, looks like it's better for higher capacity models. The 16Tb version (I.e 2x8TB) is over £100 cheaper on the WD website without any offers.

Looks like my synology we be getting a nice upgrade.

HEADRAT · 18 Feb 2017 at 06:49

I can remember doing this a number of times a few years ago but I was always unsure of the warranty situation of the drives, I pretty sure when I looked them up on the "warranty site" it knew these were part of a "enclosure" and not a retails drive, maybe it's changed.

ZeroG · 18 Feb 2017 at 06:58

bledd said:
HDD prices have been going north for a while, I was lucky and never paid over £200 for any of my 6TB Reds. Even managed to get an 8TB Seagate Archive drive for £167!

Did you have to sell your soul for that price? Wish I could scoop up those bargains.