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  • pepis@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year 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.

    • fxcking_hostile@alien.topBEnglish
      1·
      1 year 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

    • Jr712@alien.topBEnglish
      1·
      1 year 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.

    • ZorbaTHut@alien.topBEnglish
      1·
      1 year 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
      1·
      1 year ago

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

    • OnceUponCheeseDanish@alien.topBEnglish
      1·
      1 year 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

    • doodlebro@alien.topBEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

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

      • r34p3rex@alien.topBEnglish
        1·
        1 year 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

      • porksandwich9113@alien.topBEnglish
        1·
        1 year 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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        1 year 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?

    • M4Lki3r@alien.topBEnglish
      1·
      1 year 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.

    • indie_airship@alien.topBEnglish
      1·
      1 year 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.

  • DeathStalker_x77x@alien.topBEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    Yes, but can you shuck them and use them? Or have they added the drive encryption to the interface?

    And what specific model drives are they? (The HDD, not the easyStore)

    -– DS

  • chrisprice@alien.topBEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    Cleared out my store’s three units.

    Pairing this with 8TB SATA SSD for disaster proof backups. After twenty years, getting all my data in one place…

    … Well, except the 20TB overflow. That backs up to my $279 20TB’s. Which hook into BackBlaze. They had better appreciate the loyalty. The 28TB backups sure cost them a lot.

    I’m just glad I don’t have more. Then I’d have to set up a NAS and, ugh, I’m just working too hard to enjoy doing that these days.

    Only hiccup so far is either my 8TB Samsung 870 QVO died or the enclosure, a whopping 30 minutes in. This is why I backup meticulously in (at least) three separate locales, plus encrypted cloud.

  • ArmchairNeckbeard@alien.topBEnglish
    1·
    1 year 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.

  • jszair_p@alien.topBEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    Setting up my first NAS (synology). This or recertified Exo for the same price and warranty?

  • igotthisone@alien.topBEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

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

    • lenzflare@alien.topBEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

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

    • CaptainSur@alien.topBEnglish
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      1 year 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.

    • GGATHELMIL@alien.topBEnglish
      1·
      1 year 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.