Shuck AWAY! - WD 8TB Easystore on sale at Best Buy $130

[Jailer]

Just snagged 5 of these for a storage upgrade. The limit is 5 per customer so I've got to figure out a way to get that 6th drive I need. May just have to suck it up and take an hour drive to Best Buy.

https://www.bestbuy.com/site/wd-eas...-3-0-hard-drive-black/5792401.p?skuId=5792401

 

[Jailer]

Well that's kind of stupid. They limit you to 5 per order so I went back and placed another order for an additional drive and it went through. Kind of defeats limiting you to 5 drives when you can just place another order for more. Oh well at least I've got my 6 new drives on their way.

 

[Ericloewe]

Damn, that's a good price. Warranty be damned.

 

[pro lamer]

$199 now...

Sent from my mobile phone

 

[Jailer]

Ya gotta move on Black Friday deals if you want them.

 

[Jailer]

Just got my first one in and shucked it. It's a EFAX red! Can't wait to see what the other 5 are, they shipped yesterday.

 

[Ericloewe]

And they're Reds too? Damn.

 

[Jailer]

Yup. $300 drive for $130. Can't beat that with a stick.

 

[Jailer]

And here's the best part. ;)

Code:

22 Helium_Level			0x0023   100   100   025	Pre-fail  Always	   -	   100

 

[Jailer]

Got the remaining 5 in today and shucked them all. All 5 are white labels and do not work with my power supply. A simple molex to SATA converter gets them running but I was hoping they would all be red's so I wouldn't have to do that. They also show attribute 22 as "Unkown_Attribute" but the output is the same as the Red so I'm sure that's also helium level. On a good note the drives do support TLER out of the box so that's a good thing.

Overall a good score. Now to finish testing them all so I can get them deployed.

 

[Jailer]

Well it seems one of the drives is a dud. It's been stuck on a long test at 90% for several hours now. The test was started over 24 hours ago. I'll give it until tomorrow night but I have doubts it will complete. Has anyone ever RMA'd a drive with WD because it wouldn't complete a smart long test?

 

[diedrichg]

@Jailer A year and a half later... How are those 8TB Easystores holding up?

 

[Jailer]

Working great. Zero issues with them.

 

[jgreco]

I've got a dozen of the 8TB with a year and a half runtime, no failures, no issues.

I've also got around 20 of the 12TB with somewhere between three and six months on them, also no failures, no issues.

 

[elorimer]

$140 now at Best Buy.