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WD GOLD hard drives with 18 Terabyte Storage Volume start listing for 649 bucks
The race to 'as much storage volume as possible' on that mechanical HDD is just brutal, announced a while ago but now starting to list are 18 Terabyte HDDs from WD, the gold series in specific.
The 3.5-inch model WD181KRYZ is a unit to be found in the enterprise series WD Gold and seems to be priced in a 649 euros region. The spot of this HDD is interesting as WD does not even have a product page online just yet, but yeah it's already listed at etailers. In addition to the 18TB model, a 16TB model was released as well. The 18 TB version is listed as: 18TB GOLD 512 MB 3.5IN SATA 6GB/S 7200RPM
Before hitting that buy button, you might want to wait and see when the WD product page goes online, it is uncertain if the HDD will be CMR or SMR based.
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#5802883 Posted on: 06/24/2020 08:05 PM
Someone who lives in Europe ;-)
It's nice that there in the Desert you get such low prices, but here where the plains are green and the mountains are white, we have higher prices, unfortunately.
(Still, nowhere near as high as this ridiculously expensive 18 TB)
Im from Israel and local prices are higher then what you pay in EU, we also pay 17% VAT on everything, so I order from Amazon web sites, all of them, from USA, Germany, UK, France, Italy, Spain, whoever has the lowest price and sale
Here, even in UK without sales, 12Tb WD, 185GBP https://www.amazon.co.uk/WD-Elements-Desktop-External-Drive/dp/B07VXKF1L4
The Cheapest it got was 154GBP
This is external HDD, but when you open it, inside it you get Helium enterprise HDD Western Digital WD120EMAZ-11BLFA0, this one does 180MB/s to 200MB/s, its helium but 5400RPM, real CMR, not SMR trash like Seagate Archive and Barracuda drives.
If you want a super fast HDD, that does 250 MB/s, Helium + 7200RPM, you wait for when External WD Black 12TB goes on sale , inside it has HGST HUH721212ALE604
And you can re-use the box for backups, install other slower HDD inside, its great box with FAN and USB hub and it opens up with 4 screws instead of clips.
People on DATA Hoarder reddit do it all the time, if you want to get best deals go to that reddit
Personally I installed Keepa plugin, opened all Amazon web sites worldwide, found these HDD's, and set the plugin to notify me when the price goes down to what i want to pay
Then you can close the web sites, plugin keeps all the info on their server and send you emails when they go on sale.
Someone who lives in Europe ;-)
It's nice that there in the Desert you get such low prices, but here where the plains are green and the mountains are white, we have higher prices, unfortunately.
(Still, nowhere near as high as this ridiculously expensive 18 TB)
Im from Israel and local prices are higher then what you pay in EU, we also pay 17% VAT on everything, so I order from Amazon web sites, all of them, from USA, Germany, UK, France, Italy, Spain, whoever has the lowest price and sale
Here, even in UK without sales, 12Tb WD, 185GBP https://www.amazon.co.uk/WD-Elements-Desktop-External-Drive/dp/B07VXKF1L4
The Cheapest it got was 154GBP
This is external HDD, but when you open it, inside it you get Helium enterprise HDD Western Digital WD120EMAZ-11BLFA0, this one does 180MB/s to 200MB/s, its helium but 5400RPM, real CMR, not SMR trash like Seagate Archive and Barracuda drives.
If you want a super fast HDD, that does 250 MB/s, Helium + 7200RPM, you wait for when External WD Black 12TB goes on sale , inside it has HGST HUH721212ALE604
And you can re-use the box for backups, install other slower HDD inside, its great box with FAN and USB hub and it opens up with 4 screws instead of clips.
People on DATA Hoarder reddit do it all the time, if you want to get best deals go to that reddit
Personally I installed Keepa plugin, opened all Amazon web sites worldwide, found these HDD's, and set the plugin to notify me when the price goes down to what i want to pay
Then you can close the web sites, plugin keeps all the info on their server and send you emails when they go on sale.
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Yep