Mine came in late last week. I hooked it up yesterday, and it is making an incessant clacking noise, so I’m returning it.
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.
Very tempting, but the reliability is concerning me a lot
Ah man, I just bought a 8TB WD Elements for $99 and now this comes along!
Meanwhile the same 18TB is $499.99 CAD in Canada…
i stopped shucking with last years 18 tb seagate exos from server parts deals for 194 each but still buy externals for back ups. are the 18 tb wd externals particularly unreliable? i have good luck with wd externals and i have a whole shelf of them. only 1 12 tb died with in 2 years and had to be rmaed. had some 8s and 3tbs die but at the 5 plus year mark and i was phasing them out anyway. i still have 3 tb elements that still worked last that checked
About 275 Canadian Pesos for those keeping track. Wish we had the prices you guys south of the border seem to get!
In the past I’ve given up buying locally and instead bulk ordered drives in the US and shipping to a US address, then package-forwarding them over the border. Saved quite a lot, duties on HDDs aren’t that high!
so are these drives worth it? I mean the price is nice but is the quality worth it?
I’m interested but don’t want something to die out. I suppose my other question is what is normal life expectancy if 4/5 years is considered bad.
Jealous in European.
bought 5, do I need them? no. Do I want them? Damn right.
dawg cancel one for me they’re sold out now and i was waiting for payday :(
i may join you with the fact that I’m waiting for mine to ship :(
Better man than me…
Don’t need this… ok I’ll buy just 1
Well, I got an Enterprise one (WUH721818ALE6L4) for US$ 245 shipped.
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.
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.
Some of the 10TB Easystores in my server are getting close to 5 years, so this is a convenient time to upgrade.