WD Easystore WDBCKA0080HBK-NESN
https://www.bestbuy.com/site/wd-easysto ... Id=5792401
It's just unfortunate that most sales are for external drives and not internal.
Personal computing discussed
meerkt wrote:https://www.bestbuy.com/site/wd-easystore-8tb-external-usb-3-0-hard-drive-black/5792401.p
It's just unfortunate that most sales are for external drives and not internal.
meerkt wrote:And if someone trusts Seagate...
Seagate 8TB Expansion STEB8000100, $142:
https://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Expansio ... 01HAPGEIE/
Seagate 8TB Backup Plus Hub STEL8000100, $150:
https://www.amazon.com/Seagate-External ... 01HD6ZLQ6/
Waco wrote:I trust Seagate drives...
Waco wrote:I don't trust Seagate marketing people that stick SMR drives in random things without telling anyone.
That said, they work fine for 99% of user workloads.
just brew it! wrote:Waco wrote:I trust Seagate drives...
I'd flip that on its head. I don't particularly trust any mechanical HDDs, though I probably distrust HGST slightly less than the rest, based on personal experience over the past decade and a half. (I suppose all bets are off now that they're part of WD though.)
Taking a job in the storage industry has been... interesting. I guess you could say it has been a bit of an eye opener. It's pretty amazing the kinds of bugs that make it into shipping product (and all vendors are guilty of doing this). Some days, I find it amazing these things work at all.
just brew it! wrote:Waco wrote:I don't trust Seagate marketing people that stick SMR drives in random things without telling anyone.
That said, they work fine for 99% of user workloads.
That's because 99% of users have pretty undemanding workloads!
SSDs have made high performance HDDs a niche product, so HDDs now compete mainly on $/GB. The way you drive down $/GB is by pushing the density envelope, so sacrificing performance (and consistency of performance across workloads) for density was the predictable outcome.
DPete27 wrote:It was actually a different model for $130, a Best Buy specific one. These $150 models are the same as the real thing. Both of mine read as standard WD80EFAX drives (WD Red 8TB/256MB cache). With the advent of 12+TB drives I'm sure these 8TB ones will drop in price next year.I'm so pissed. Best Buy had that same hdd for $130 in their Black Friday ad. I was ready to pounce after reading their mail flyer on Thursday, only to find out it had already been on sale for $130 for some unknown amount of time and they were sold out everywhere (at least that's what their website said, and I wasn't going to drive 30 minutes for something that was out of stock).
Duct Tape Dude wrote:DPete27 wrote:It was actually a different model for $130, a Best Buy specific one. These $150 models are the same as the real thing. Both of mine read as standard WD80EFAX drives (WD Red 8TB/256MB cache). With the advent of 12+TB drives I'm sure these 8TB ones will drop in price next year.I'm so pissed. Best Buy had that same hdd for $130 in their Black Friday ad. I was ready to pounce after reading their mail flyer on Thursday, only to find out it had already been on sale for $130 for some unknown amount of time and they were sold out everywhere (at least that's what their website said, and I wasn't going to drive 30 minutes for something that was out of stock).
Any idea what the difference was/is on the best buy specific models?
DPete27 wrote:Duct Tape Dude wrote:DPete27 wrote:It was actually a different model for $130, a Best Buy specific one. These $150 models are the same as the real thing. Both of mine read as standard WD80EFAX drives (WD Red 8TB/256MB cache). With the advent of 12+TB drives I'm sure these 8TB ones will drop in price next year.I'm so pissed. Best Buy had that same hdd for $130 in their Black Friday ad. I was ready to pounce after reading their mail flyer on Thursday, only to find out it had already been on sale for $130 for some unknown amount of time and they were sold out everywhere (at least that's what their website said, and I wasn't going to drive 30 minutes for something that was out of stock).
Any idea what the difference was/is on the best buy specific models? I wasn't able to find that info.