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  • pepis@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I have about a dozen dead wd white labels, all clicked/faulted right around the 3-5 year mark. (Out of 41 disks across 3 servers).

    Looking back, the small discount from shucking was not worth it in long run. These are subpar drives.

    Just my personal two cents.

    • indie_airship@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      Yeah before shucking got popular the white labels were helium filled and the 14tb and 10tb drives required the 3 pin tape mod on all my evga and Corsair psus. I won’t be buying wd to shuck again. I’ve had good luck with seagate expansion drives which are actually labeled exos or ironwolfs which are supported with firmware updates from seagate. Warranty claims also isn’t an issue I worry about with seagate.

      I’m coming up to the 4 year mark on my wd white labels and they’re a hassle.

    • Jr712@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      I have 8 WD whitelabels that are all around 5 years old. None dead yet but I may have just gotten lucky so far. I’m going to buy 2 of these to start replacing the old ones.

    • OnceUponCheeseDanish@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      So for someone who currently relies on external drives, you wouldn’t recommend this? Would that be all WD easystores or just the 18tb? I’ve still got a ways to go before migrating to internals so I can’t really afford much more than the $200 thus far

    • ZorbaTHut@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      Honestly at this point I’m buying used drives. I have redundancy anyway, and if I get a 50% discount for buying used and have to buy 10% more drives for extra redundancy, that still comes up Milhouse.

    • ketosisrunner@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      I have 2x8TB, 2x10TB 2x12TB, 2x18TB and 14TB, all shucked. No issues. the 8TB’s are at 6 years powered on too.

    • doodlebro@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      I think you have environmental issues at play. That failure rate is incredibly abnormal.

      • porksandwich9113@alien.topBEnglish
        1·
        10 months ago

        I agree. 2x6tb, 2x10tb, 8x8 going strong for 6 years 24/7 operation now. All easy store shucks. I just installed 8 18tb from server parts deals in my new NAS as well no issues a few weeks in.

      • HaussingHippo@alien.topBEnglish
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        10 months ago

        By environmental issues do you mean the condition of where the hardrives are being stored? As in if heat is too high or too much humidity in the air around the machine?

      • r34p3rex@alien.topBEnglish
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        10 months ago

        Agreed. Many of my shucks are over the 3 year mark with the oldest approaching 7 years, powered on 24/7 and never spun down. None show any signs of degradation

    • M4Lki3r@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      This is all anecdotal evidence.

      I’ve got 8-8TB, 8-12TB, and 3-14TB drives (all white label shucks) bought between 7yrs ago and now. The 8TBs were all bought over 5yrs and no failures. I’ve had 1 -12TB die recently, it was at the 3yr mark.

    • fxcking_hostile@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      I’ve got 10 drives 5 8 tb going on 6 years and 5 14 tb going on 5 years had 1 8tb develop a bunch of write errors at around 5 years in imo they have been worth the money they have been running 24/7 in my main unraid server

  • Celcius_87@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Sigh, I just bought the 14tb last weekend. I could return it and buy this though…

      • chrisprice@alien.topBEnglish
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        10 months ago

        Off site backup for your existing data, in case of disaster.

        Sorry to burn $200, but you’ll thank me later when disaster strikes… living in an area where five neighboring cities all burnt to the ground in the course of 24 months (in the three worst wildfires in California history, back-to-back-to-back)… I have experience here.

        • neumaticc@alien.topBEnglish
          1·
          10 months ago

          i haven’t migrated my photos from local storage to my homeserver but maybe i could when i do

          maybe a raspberry pi and syncthing for external backups would work well (since it’s a USB hard drive)

    • fedroxx@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      Welp, there’s my Christmas budget… gone in one fell swoop. You might as well join… us… I think there is more than just me here… hello?

  • igotthisone@alien.topBEnglish
    1·
    10 months ago

    I’m in Canada. In August, I bought the WD easystore 14TB for $299 (Best Buy). The current “Black Friday” price is $399.

    • GGATHELMIL@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      Real talk. If you live close enough to the border why not jump over here and buy some? Obviously you probably lose warranty coverage. And I do know there are limits to what you can bring back tax/duty free. I think it’s like 800 cad or something. But If they’re half price you’d think it’s worth it.

    • CaptainSur@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      Err, the current black friday price for the 14tb WD easystore is $239 CAD at Bestbuy.ca and being matched by others and has been ongoing for several days. The thread for the deal is many pages long at redflagdeals.

      For those not in the know we have a website in Canada, extremely popular called redflagdeals. I don’t think I am allowed to post the full link. Want to know about any consumer level deal as well as millions of other things - it is the place. The Hot Deals forum section is a daily staple in the lives of millions of Canadians.

    • lenzflare@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      Wow I bought something there a few days ago and it was way cheaper than the current “sale” too. Pretty sleazy.

  • useful_tool30@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Hoohoo, $400 CAD up in the great white north. a whopping $50 off lol.

    We had the 14TB one onsale for $240 last week which wasnt too bad.

  • ArmchairNeckbeard@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I bought two. One to give me room for another 900 movies on Plex and another to back them up. I should be good for awhile.

    • Celcius_87@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      I returned the 14TB I bought last weekend and bought this one today instead. I’d recommend doing the same!

  • edgan@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    It is somewhat tempting, but I bought six 18tb drives a few years ago. I have already replaced half of them. My nine 8tb drives have been much more reliable.

  • pdhouse@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Should I buy this or wait for a better deal? I was waiting until Black Friday season to get a new hard drive