$179.99 WD Easystore 10TB External USB 3.0 Hard Drive - Black [Best Buy]

[snoopy7548]

FYI, the 14TB easystore has been on sale a few times for $200, and the 12TB has regularly been on sale for $180. I'm holding out for the next 14TB sale.

 

[SamirD]

...to replicate important files\photos from my unRAID box to a family members house.

I've actually put ipsec vpn routers at all the sites I manage and have them connected to home(s) (mine and my parents). Everything can see everything like one giant lan even though it's across the country. Makes backups, printing documents at each other's place, scanning and a host of other stuff a lot easier.

 

[SamirD]

I just had to return two 4TB Reds to Newegg about two weeks ago because they inexplicably wouldn't work in my sister's NAS (kept dropping out as defective despite diagnostics saying they were fine). Turns out they were almost certainly submarined SMR drives disguised as normal ones. I would not be shocked if these crap drives start showing up in all the USB externals from WD very, very soon.

In short, better grab up the old stock while you can - WD is very soon going to join Seagate as a crap company with crap products.

You do realize you get what you pay for, right? These aren't enterprise drives designed to be put in a nas or anything like that (even though they may have started out life with that target usage).

Both WD and Seagate make very good products, but they're not their cheapest products.

 

[Anandtech1999]

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[Steltek]

You do realize you get what you pay for, right? These aren't enterprise drives designed to be put in a nas or anything like that (even though they may have started out life with that target usage).

Both WD and Seagate make very good products, but they're not their cheapest products.

My sister's NAS originally began life with a pair of brand new (and then, expensive) Seagate Constellation ES.2 drives that I purchased direct from Seagate through an employer's contract with them. However, those two drives resulted in four warranty RMAs in 13 months before I gave up and replaced them four cheaper but lower capacity Reds. No further problems until this came up.

And, this issue was more a case of corporate greed than it is a technical problem. SMR is good tech, but only within certain use cases. WD snuck SMR technology into consumer drives they were marketing for NAS use which made the drives totally unsuitable for their labeled use. They then spent over a year denying they were doing it and refusing to answer questions before they finally half-heartedly 'fessed up about it. It'll cost them a bunch of class action lawsuits, all for a market they they don't really care about anymore.