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.
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
I think you have environmental issues at play. That failure rate is incredibly abnormal.
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.
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
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?
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.
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.
If you bought those all at once, sounds like a bad manufacturing batch.
I have 2x8TB, 2x10TB 2x12TB, 2x18TB and 14TB, all shucked. No issues. the 8TB’s are at 6 years powered on too.
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.
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
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.
2/8 for me at about the 5 year mark.
I have three that don’t even power around anymore for no reason when I can’t figure out why
Sigh, I just bought the 14tb last weekend. I could return it and buy this though…
Return it?
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.
Mine came in late last week. I hooked it up yesterday, and it is making an incessant clacking noise, so I’m returning it.
FWIW WD is having a “buy 2 18TB Red Pro drives for $549” sale right now
https://www.westerndigital.com/products/internal-drives/wd-red-pro-sata-hdd?sku=WD181KFGX
$25 extra for a Red Pro drive & not having shuck seems like a good value to me
I’m in Canada. In August, I bought the WD easystore 14TB for $299 (Best Buy). The current “Black Friday” price is $399.
Err, the current black friday price for the 14tb WD easystore is $239 CAD at Bestbuy.ca and being matched by others and has been ongoing for several days. The thread for the deal is many pages long at redflagdeals.
For those not in the know we have a website in Canada, extremely popular called redflagdeals. I don’t think I am allowed to post the full link. Want to know about any consumer level deal as well as millions of other things - it is the place. The Hot Deals forum section is a daily staple in the lives of millions of Canadians.
it is 300$ for me for 18 tb easystore in my bestbuy
Thanks, that’s a good price.
Wow I bought something there a few days ago and it was way cheaper than the current “sale” too. Pretty sleazy.
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.
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.
Hoohoo, $400 CAD up in the great white north. a whopping $50 off lol.
We had the 14TB one onsale for $240 last week which wasnt too bad.
Is there a https://shucks.top/ for Canada?
That was a Seagate 14tb external, not a WD.
today the price is 300$ for easystore 18 tb
Ugh just bought two 14TB last weekend for the same price…
I returned the 14TB I bought last weekend and bought this one today instead. I’d recommend doing the same!
These hard drives look nice but let me save yall the trouble from using this as “backup storage”. Literally dealing with an older version of this external drive had to send out for data recovery. It never dropped nor received water damage. It just seems to have failed which I believe is on the PCB end of the drive, hoping so to recover it fairly easily. If you use it just do proper backup management on a cloud or something. I mean that’s a given a general better practice anyway. But these things seem to fail eventually so don’t rely on it
What drive is inside?
Very tempting, but the reliability is concerning me a lot
Should I buy this or wait for a better deal? I was waiting until Black Friday season to get a new hard drive
According to the Best Buy webpage, this IS the Black Friday deal.
18 TB? Amateurs.
What a fucking deal!
if I didn’t have a 16TB version, I might go for it.
I actually quite regret buying it earlier cause damnnnnn.