10TB WD Easystore + 32GB USB $180

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Most of the BestBuy sales have been pretty short, I setup Slickdeals alerts for it, waiting for 8TB @ $130
 
I just got an email from Bestbuy with early access for the president's day sale and the 10TB with 32GB Flash drive are at $169.99. I'm currently chatting with an agent to get my price adjustment from the ones I bought 2 weeks ago.
 
I just got an email from Bestbuy with early access for the president's day sale and the 10TB with 32GB Flash drive are at $169.99. I'm currently chatting with an agent to get my price adjustment from the ones I bought 2 weeks ago.

I guess I'll have to wait for the sale to go active. I didn't see early access in my e-mail...oh well.
 
Yep this is a My BestBuy Early access for Elite/Plus members, but it should go live for everyone starting tomorrow. Don't overlook the 32GB EasyStore drives either, which are really just rebadged Sandisk Cruzer Glides. Great for your Windows Media Creation tools Win10, Server 2016, entire bootable OS etc.
 
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Confirmed I'm elite plus from all the 8TB drives I bought last year :p
 
Mine arrived yesterday and it has a rattle inside the enclosure. What a PITA. I plugged it in anyway and am testing it to see if the drive is good as I'm just going to shuck it anyway.
 
It's still $169 as of now. Interesting that many stores around are out of stock. Maybe BB just unloading them. It's just too low.
 
It's still $169 as of now. Interesting that many stores around are out of stock. Maybe BB just unloading them. It's just too low.

Possible, but its a new product too.
Maybe they’re selling out the combos with the flash drive to make room for a package with just the drive.
 
Is a 10TB supposed to show up as 9.09tb in windows?

Yep, they are still advertising in multiples of 1000 instead of 1024.

So, 10TB in marketing terms = 10 * 10^12 bytes.

1 TB by any legit OS will be calculated as 1024^4 bytes.

So divide 10 * 10^12 by 1024^4 and you get 9.094957.... TB.

So, yes, Windows is correct.
 
After formatting that sounds about right 9.0949TB ~ 9313 gigs

Yep, they are still advertising in multiples of 1000 instead of 1024.

So, 10TB in marketing terms = 10 * 10^12 bytes.

1 TB by any legit OS will be calculated as 1024^4 bytes.

So divide 10 * 10^12 by 1024^4 and you get 9.094957.... TB.

So, yes, Windows is correct.

It's not from formatting, and it's not marketing. It's SI units, which is a IEEE/IEC standard manufactures follow. Decimal vs Binary, SI units are base 10, while Windows uses Binary which is base 2.

IEC Prefixes.
 
It's not from formatting, and it's not marketing. It's SI units, which is a IEEE/IEC standard manufactures follow. Decimal vs Binary, SI units are base 10, while Windows uses Binary which is base 2.

IEC Prefixes.

I didnt say it was due to formatting, not disagreeing with you, but thats the usable space...after you format it :p thats kinda required to be able to use it in windows.
 
So, what file system will give us 10TB out of that 10TB device? And is it something we can actually use, say, on a common NAS? Or is the 10TB just like a quarter pound hamburger, but only if you eat it raw will you ever get a quarter pound of meat out of it?
 
So, what file system will give us 10TB out of that 10TB device? And is it something we can actually use, say, on a common NAS? Or is the 10TB just like a quarter pound hamburger, but only if you eat it raw will you ever get a quarter pound of meat out of it?

You will always lose some in the formatting. Just like your quarter-pounder.lol
 
I figured out what was rattling inside mine. The one plastic clip holding the mounts snapped off. I snapped it back in and it's good as new (for another drive since I shucked that one).
 
So, what file system will give us 10TB out of that 10TB device? And is it something we can actually use, say, on a common NAS? Or is the 10TB just like a quarter pound hamburger, but only if you eat it raw will you ever get a quarter pound of meat out of it?

Read the link I posted. You are not losing or gaining space, the size on disk does not change. In SI units it's base 10, so 1000 bytes to a KiB, 1024 bytes to a kB. What you are doing is looking at them as the same, which they are not, it's like seeing a ruler and wondering why one person says it's 12in and someone else claims it's 30cm. There is no actual reason to use base 2 for HDD, for other memory types such as RAM it's addressed by physical binary address, so using base 2 is a natural fit. Some Linux uses base 10 for HDD and network and base 2 for RAM etc, iOS also does this, Windows however uses Base 2, so 1024 sizes for the file system.

You will always lose some in the formatting. Just like your quarter-pounder.lol

Nothing is lost. :banghead:
 
You will always lose some in the formatting. Just like your quarter-pounder.lol
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Read the link I posted. You are not losing or gaining space, the size on disk does not change. In SI units it's base 10, so 1000 bytes to a KiB, 1024 bytes to a kB. What you are doing is looking at them as the same, which they are not, it's like seeing a ruler and wondering why one person says it's 12in and someone else claims it's 30cm. There is no actual reason to use base 2 for HDD, for other memory types such as RAM it's addressed by physical binary address, so using base 2 is a natural fit. Some Linux uses base 10 for HDD and network and base 2 for RAM etc, iOS also does this, Windows however uses Base 2, so 1024 sizes for the file system. Nothing is lost. :banghead:
Okay, okay, nothing is lost. I just wish MdDonalds would stop formatting my quarter pounders in base sixteen, because I KNOW I'm losing something there.
 
Can anyone comment on the performance of these drives? Looking for a cheap massive options to RAID and video edit off of.
 
Can anyone comment on the performance of these drives? Looking for a cheap massive options to RAID and video edit off of.
Mine get about 220 MB/s sequential read and write. With software RAID-0 (Windows) I get nearly double that. If you use them in the USB 3.0 enclosure your random writes and reads will suffer a bit.
 
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There was around an hour last night where WD Elements 10TB was $145 at B&H with limit two, but I found it too late - right as the SD droolers had run it out of stock. Then price went to $159.99 with backorder. I believe it can still be backordered for $159.99

https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1433062-REG

To my knowledge, lowest they've ever been.
 
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They would be great for Plex. I would keep them as externals until at least the warranty expires.


It's also deal of the day on Amazon today $159.99

Must resist. Must resist...
 
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They would be great for Plex. I would keep them as externals until at least the warranty expires.

Must resist. Must resist...
As long as you're careful shucking them, no reason to not just keep the external enclosures in a box for warranty purposes (this is what I did with the 8x in my server.) If I have a failure, it will be easy enough to put it back into the enclosure, I didn't do any damage at all to any of my enclosures.
 
As long as you're careful shucking them, no reason to not just keep the external enclosures in a box for warranty purposes (this is what I did with the 8x in my server.) If I have a failure, it will be easy enough to put it back into the enclosure, I didn't do any damage at all to any of my enclosures.
This, I shucked all 12 of mine with no issue and have the enclosures in a box in my garage.
 
So what is inside of 10TB Elements? I know 10TB Easystore are white drives.

They are also whites. People are reporting getting either WD100EMAZ-00M9AA0 (air filled) or WD100EMAZ-00WJTA0 (helium filled).
 
Both amazon and B&H are backordered. People are like locust - a few minutes and everything is gone ;)
 
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