Amazon WD Black 5tb p10 external hdd $99 for the next 3ih hours

[Wrench]

NOT the SDD its the HDD

 

[D-EJ915]

I've got one of these I used to use for backups and it is slow, at least once it gets filled up just FYI. I replaced it with a 3.5" drive and the slowness issues went away.

 

[bigddybn]

That's a lot of portable storage for a c-note.

 

[Dreamerbydesign]

It’s slow. Also have one, and it’s really just a slow 5400 rpm drive in a semi rugged enclosure. Nothing special.

 

[chaikovski2002]

Stay away from this unless its only used for backups once a month, and sits on shelf most of the time powered off. Its abysmally slow by todays standards!

 

[mvmiller12]

But... can you shuck them and throw them into a RAID-6 or ZFS pool? How do they do then? 5TB for $109 is not shabby, and some of us have 2.5" HDD using servers.

 

[D-EJ915]

But... can you shuck them and throw them into a RAID-6 or ZFS pool? How do they do then? 5TB for $109 is not shabby, and some of us have 2.5" HDD using servers.

A server drive and a crappy bus powered smr low rpm drive are not exactly comparable.