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DEAD WD Easystore 14TB $189.99

Now I'm kicking myself for buying one at $259 two weeks ago. Oh well.
 
Got one of these for $200 a few months ago on Newegg and its been good so far. Hooked it up to my Rpi 4 with SMB for a cheap NAS solution and can saturate my gigabit connection on file transfers (~120MB/s) so can't get much better than that until 10GB NICs/switches become standard.
 
mnewxcv said:
But do I want a 5900x or a 2x14tb Nas is the question....
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I think the Prime Day $440 Synology 920+ was a steal for what you were getting then you have 4 bays instead of 2. Maybe BF pricing on that also?

I have a 1019+ with 3 of these 14TB white drives in it (and 2x12TB misc drives), and it works great. I was thinking of getting two of these to complete the project, but I don't really "need" to spend $380+ tax just to pick up 4TB over the 12TB drives.

I'll probably buy a 5900x if I can find one also though ;).
 
kirbyrj said:
Now I'm kicking myself for buying one at $259 two weeks ago. Oh well.
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kirbyrj said:
I think the Prime Day $440 Synology 920+ was a steal for what you were getting then you have 4 bays instead of 2. Maybe BF pricing on that also?

I have a 1019+ with 3 of these 14TB white drives in it (and 2x12TB misc drives), and it works great. I was thinking of getting two of these to complete the project, but I don't really "need" to spend $380+ tax just to pick up 4TB over the 12TB drives.

I'll probably buy a 5900x if I can find one also though ;).
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My 920+ has 4 of these in it.
 
I bought the 12TB ones from Amazon so I don't need these, but I have to say it wasn't as smooth sailing for me. All my other shucked drives were from BestBuy and from 8-10TB and none of them needed the 5v tweak, the Amazon drives did need it (I used a Molex to SATA power to get them to work). In hindsight I wish I waited for these easystore drives, $15 and change more for an extra 2TB, but too late now since the 12TB ones are all tested, installed and data moved. Definitely don't want to do that again for a long time. :)
 
Dang. Great deal. Sub $14/TB. I don't think there's a better $/TB option out there. But my current 4x4TB still have 2 TB free......

AArgh. I'm going to hold off for now.
 
I bought two the last time these were on sale. Couldn't resist a third...
 
Hope this hows up again when I have a little bit more spendable income in a few weeks..
 
LurkerLito said:
I bought the 12TB ones from Amazon so I don't need these, but I have to say it wasn't as smooth sailing for me. All my other shucked drives were from BestBuy and from 8-10TB and none of them needed the 5v tweak, the Amazon drives did need it (I used a Molex to SATA power to get them to work).
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It's completely random whether you get one that has Power Disable or not.
 
Saw this last night. In fer 2. My FreeNAS/Plex is hungry. Wasn't really in the budget, but seeing as Nvidia doesn't want me to buy a new GPU for a few months, I redid my budget.
 
Epos7 said:
Saw this last night. In fer 2. My FreeNAS/Plex is hungry. Wasn't really in the budget, but seeing as Nvidia doesn't want me to buy a new GPU for a few months, I redid my budget.
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Seems like AMD would be happy to take your money 🙂
 
Last bunch of these I bought were EMFZ, these were EDFZ

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Can anybody provide more info on these drives? I've shucked drives like this a few years ago before there were problems with red drives and the introduction of red+
I'm a bit out of the loop
 
Jedi said:
Whats the difference between EMFZ and EDFZ? I just got 5 of these myself and they are all EDFZ’s as well.
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I think I remember reading that the emfz supports encryption in hardware but the edfz doesn't?

Vendor: WDC
Product: WD140EMFZ-11A0WA
Revision: 0A81
User Capacity: 14,000,519,643,136 bytes [14.0 TB]
Logical block size: 512 bytes
Physical block size: 4096 bytes
LU is fully provisioned
Rotation Rate: 5400 rpm
Form Factor: 3.5 inches
Logical Unit id: 0x5000cca264e043e7
Serial number: 9RJ8ZAUC
Device type: disk
Local Time is: Sat Oct 31 12:48:53 2020 EDT
SMART support is: Unavailable - device lacks SMART capability.


Vendor: WDC
Product: WD140EDFZ-11A0VA
Revision: 0A81
User Capacity: 14,000,519,643,136 bytes [14.0 TB]
Logical block size: 512 bytes
Physical block size: 4096 bytes
LU is fully provisioned
Rotation Rate: 5400 rpm
Form Factor: 3.5 inches
Logical Unit id: 0x5000cca2a3ce6548
Serial number: QBH0NR9T
Device type: disk
Local Time is: Sat Oct 31 12:49:02 2020 EDT
SMART support is: Unavailable - device lacks SMART capability.
 
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Are these good reliable drives? I haven't been paying much attention on hard drives for past couple of years, I do remember seeing titles about issues with some stuff.
I'd like to put one in desktop which already has a SSD primary drive and one connected with router. Anything I should know before buying?
 
Are these SMR drives?

I know WD got in trouble for not disclosing SMR on many of their drives.

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Jedi said:
idk they allowed me to get 5 on one purchase, but that was it.
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This question is for you and anyone else that wants to answer. What are you using all that storage for, movies, TV shows, music, porn? Be specific.
Thanks
 
kirbyrj said:
I bought the Elements drive from Amazon. Even though it is pretty much the exact same drive as the EasyStore, it isn't the same drive, so they wouldn't price match. I think the EasyStore is a BB exclusive.
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It is.

"Where can I buy WD easystore?
To start with, the WD Easystore range of hard drives are only available through Best Buy. Best Buy is a US firm trading in the USA, Canada, and Mexico. This means that the Easystore isn’t officially available outside of these countries, as the product is exclusive to Best Buy."
 
rinaldo00 said:
This question is for you and anyone else that wants to answer. What are you using all that storage for, movies, TV shows, music, porn? Be specific.
Thanks
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porn, lots of porn! just kidding, i converted all my movies and have since the early 2000’s, so I have an extensive library now and with the 4k’s average size being 50-60GB if i rip it with atmos, hd10 in h265, space goes quick. Well not anymore for a little while.
 
What time would they have them at the discount on the 22nd. Is it midnight as soon as it turns the 22nd?
 
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