If your education e-mail address isn't on the list drop them a line on: [email protected]
Shipping & Order Placement:
Shipping is free on all orders!
One final word of warning:
Orders once placed CANNOT be cancelled, you have to return them. So make sure you order correctly folks!
The Process:
- Go to the WD Student Store
- Log in/create an account using your ac.uk email address
- Buy one of their products containing multiple WD Red drives for far less than the usual price of the drives*
- Install the drives in your chosen PC/NAS
- Celebrate knowing you've just saved some serious money on quality drives
*works on some sizes of drive but not others, see below for details!
WD Red Deals - cheapest price per (in stock!) drive in bold
2TB WD Red: WD Student Store: £76.50
Amazon/Ebuyer/etc: £84.00+
WD Student Store: Buy a 4TB My Book Duo with 2 x 2TB WD Reds inside £209.99 (WD Reds therefore cost £105 each)
3TB WD Red: WD Student Store: £89.15
Amazon/Ebuyer/etc: £99+
WD Student Store: Buy a 6TB My Book Duo with 2 x 3TB WD Reds inside £239.99 (WD Reds therefore cost £120 each)
4TB WD Red: WD Student Store: £134.99
Amazon/Ebuyer/etc: £139.99+
WD Student Store: Buy a 6TB My Book Duo with 2 x 4TB WD Reds inside £289.99 (WD Reds therefore cost £145 each)
6TB WD Red:
WD Student Store: £206.10
Amazon/Ebuyer/etc: £210+ WD Student Store: Buy a 12TB My Book Duo with 2 x 6TB WD Reds inside £379.99 (WD Reds therefore cost £190 each)
8TB WD Red:
WD Student Store: £305.10
Amazon/Ebuyer/etc: £299.99+ WD Student Store: Buy a 16TB My Book Duo with 2 x 8TB WD Reds inside £449.99 (WD Reds therefore cost £225 each)
For uber money saving types, you can then sell on your empty WD MyBook Duo enclosure on e-bay. Sold prices indicate these sell for about £40.
I thank you ! *bows*
All comments (67)
5nowman
19 Jan 16#1
have you checked the warranty on the reds individually inside rather than the book duo warranty? that would be good to know!
Heat added!
Scorpion to 5nowman
19 Jan 16#8
I have indeed. They're marked as 'OEM' by Western Digital and you can't register the drives seperately (I tried that and e-mailed support to see if I could). You register the enclosure, if a drive fails you just send that drive back for replacement.
merchant_ac
19 Jan 161#2
I don't need a student, but thanks anyway.
Rich44
19 Jan 161#3
Nice I got ISIC add on when I got my nus card for Amazon :smile:
robodan918
19 Jan 16#4
I don't get how to do this? Is there a promo code or something?
Been 25 days and what I ordered (which was in stock at the time btw) still hasn't shipped. Seeking a refund now.
Cattle to zebrum
19 Jan 16#7
Judging from all the WD recertified HDD’s on HUKD that may actually have saved you from losing your coursework!
allOgIc
19 Jan 16#9
As per usual/recent of WD, most of the items are out of stock.
Scorpion to allOgIc
19 Jan 16#10
Most of the WD Reds and all but the 12TB Duo were in stock when I posted it up initially. I guess they have limited 'student' stock, as they appear to have things in stock on the regular site, but then not in stock on the student site.
allOgIc
19 Jan 16#11
True, the best deal was the 8TB My Book Duo @ £96.50 each, but that went quckly!
Scorpion
19 Jan 16#12
The prices on some of the NAS enclosures are also very good.
WD My Cloud EX2 Nas Enclosure:
WD Student Store: £82.99
Amazon: £128.19
Ebuyer: £120.80
It's worth checking the stock levels on a morning, as quite often they seem to have more in stock each day.
zebrum
20 Jan 16#16
That's great to know thanks. I managed to get my 25 day old order that never arrived finally cancelled, it took 3 emails.
Dear,
Thank you for contacting the Western Digital Online Store.
Please accept our sincerest apologies for the delay of the delivery of
your order.
A request has been submitted to cancel shipment of your order.
Please take note of your ticket number for your future reference:
You will be receiving an update within 2-3 business days via email.
Your understanding and patience are highly appreciated.
If we could be of any further help, please let us know.
Scorpion
20 Jan 16#17
These aren't recertified drives or products, these are all brand new.
The RMA process for Western Digital is apparently much better than that of the likes of Seagate (I've experience of the latter and it's a real PITA).
Cattle to Scorpion
20 Jan 16#19
Give it time :stuck_out_tongue:
Scorpion
20 Jan 16#18
My Cloud EX4 16TB:
£508.99
For that you get 4 x 4TB WD Red drives and the enclosure to then sell on if you don't need it! I'd expect that to easily sell for £100 on eBay, leaving you with 4 x 4TB WD red drives for about £100 each.
MrBlobby999
20 Jan 16#20
CAN SOMEONE TELL ME HOW TO GET TO THESE DEALS? I SIGNED IN WITH MY STUDENT ACCOUNT BUT CAN;T SEE THESE DEALS ANYWHERE!
allOgIc to MrBlobby999
22 Jan 16#24
First of all, turn off caps lock.
Once turned off then reply to this message and we will tell you how to use your student account.
Thanks!
Shard to MrBlobby999
30 Jan 161#43
It's great to see that oaps are still interested in education
Once logged in you'll then be directed to the student store, which looks pretty much identical to the normal store, but the products are priced differently they have a 'promo' price. E.g.for the My Cloud EX2 which contains two WD Red 6TB disks...
Scorpion
22 Jan 16#22
8TB My Book Duo back in stock! That's 2 x 4TB WD Red drives for £192.99 !!
allOgIc to Scorpion
22 Jan 16#23
I know! Thanks! Got an email from them saying that they were back in stock!
YOUR ORDER AND BILLING INFORMATION
Order Number: ------------
Order Date: 22 January 2016
Product Name Price
My Book Duo 8TB
Unit Price: £ 439.00
Qty Ordered: 2
£ 385.98
allOgIc to Scorpion
22 Jan 16#25
I think they are the best value for money!
MrBlobby999
22 Jan 16#26
im looking for the 4tb mybook but cant find it
Scorpion to MrBlobby999
22 Jan 16#27
Log into the student WD store, then hover over external storage in the menu. Click on desktop, click on 'My book' if that's what youre after. Select 4TB and the price should be £80.99.
N.b. the hard drive contained in this enclosure isn't a WD Red, it'll likely be a blue, but if you're not using it in a NAS that's fine.
HTH
Scorpion
22 Jan 16#28
Mine are working perfectly in a Synology NAS. I gave them a format prior to putting them in, but they didn't actually need it. It's a total steal for the money if you're after WD Reds in 4TB form.
Scorpion
22 Jan 16#29
I must confess I did consider ordering another couple, but as I don't really need them, I'll do without.
CyDoNiA
22 Jan 16#30
Showing at £439.00 for me now. I thought I had submitted an order but it seems to have not done it or its been cancelled.
CyDoNiA to CyDoNiA
22 Jan 16#31
Ignore this orders gone through OK now. :smiley:
Cheers.
Scorpion
22 Jan 16#32
Glad you've got it working now ! :-)
Jakg
23 Jan 16#33
Can anyone post the prices for 6TB reds please? I need 5!
Scorpion
25 Jan 16#34
@jakg
£206.10 if purchased as a red drive
£135.99 if purchased with a mybook duo (2 year warranty, 2 HDD per duo ordered)
The latter is a bargain IMO.
Scorpion
27 Jan 16#35
The 8TB is now £ 199.99, still a bargain!
aceuk
29 Jan 161#36
Scorpion. It's not just students who qualify for the discounts in the WD education store.
I e-mailed [email protected] and got them to add my schools domain so that staff are eligible for the discounts too. :smiley:
I then bought a 12TB WD MyCloud EX2.
Nexusfifth
29 Jan 16#37
I have a question which might be silly but would help me a lot.
I would like to get the ex2 NAS with 2*4TB drives inside.
Now instead of paying 400£ they are asking (plus it is out of stock) my idea was to pick up a my book duo 8TB for 200£ and an empty ex2 for 85£ and simply moving the drives from one to the other. This costs me 285£ and leaves me with an empty My Book Duo enclosure.
Now what I am interested in is whether the current deals on the Toshiba E300 drives Toshiba E300 3TB drive 66£
Would 2 of these work in a my book duo? And if yes with Raid 1 setup? As then I could gift/sell the my book duo rather than having an empty enclosure. Also another alternative is to pick up 2 WD red 3TB drive from say amazon and put those in wd my book duo, but I am interested whether the drives need to have some sort of software support to work in My book Duo.
Any help would be much appreciated as I would hate to throw away a good Raid 1 capable external enclosure and it might bring my price even more down.
Scorpion
29 Jan 16#38
Excellent stuff :-)
I'm sort of shocked this has become hot all of sudden, for days it bumbled round at 80degrees !
Scorpion
29 Jan 161#39
I think this will work yes, however a word of caution!
The My Book Duo uses hardware encryption, so when you boot it up the chip inside the enclosure writes info the HDDs which then means that to access the content on the discs you need the enclosure. This is bad because should the enclosure fail there is no method for getting your data off the discs, the best you could do is format them. For that very reason my enclosure is boxed up and will probably never see service. If you're happy to take that risk with your data, then it should be fine though.
HTH
Nexusfifth
29 Jan 16#40
Thank you very much for your advice.
And I would presume buying a second enclosure won't solve this issue? But if I am not missing something this is a problem with the My Book Duo to start with (regardless of the drives in it) and is an absolutely massive issue as I guess most people would buy 2 bay especially to safeguard data if one of the disks fail. I suppose I can only hope that the chance of enclosure failing is low compared to the hdd's, but still this is a major issue. So there is no way to turn off encryption?
Scorpion
29 Jan 161#41
@Nexusfifth
Buying a second enclosure won't help no, as the hardware encryption key used on this is different to that of enclosure #1. (WD will not release details of the keys for obvious reasons!)
You're correct in deducing that it's a major issue, there are loads of threads about it on the WD forum. There is no way you can turn the encryption off on that model.
My advice would be to never buy a hard drive enclosure (that you plan to use!) which enforces use of hardware encryption. The encryption can be done using software if that's what someone wants, so buy an enclosure without this if you plan on using the enclosure. To be fair to WD they do make it pretty obvious which products have hardware encryption, and this isn't purely a WD thing, other storage manufacturers do the same thing.
For me buying a My Book Duo made perfect sense as I was purely interested in the very very cheap WD Red drives inside it.
Nexusfifth to Scorpion
29 Jan 16#42
I really appreciate the information.
My primary interest is of course the wd reds inside, I just thought that the enclosure, being dual bay as it is might be worth something, as a gift or to sell on. My primary storage is going to be the ex2 NAS. (Do you know if the ex2 also does this? google suggests it has some kind of optional encryption but I can't really find hardware encryption details)
And I will probably just sell the my book duo then, with or without hard drives, I don't need it and I don't want to be a culprit of someone losing 3TB of data in RAID1...
Out of interest can you give me a link to the forum discussions you mentioned?
malkin94
30 Jan 16#44
Not really worked out that great for me IMO.
You're better off using the mailing list 10% off and WDSTORECPN as these will stack and the code doesn't stack on student store. 4TB WD Red £115.99 in this method.
Shame I'm after 3TBs, can't use the code as it's under 100, amazon beats it at 83 against 89 and if I buy two and use the code it still only makes them 84.
Scorpion
1 Feb 16#45
Unless you want two 4TB drives in which case paying £96.50 a drive is far far better than the above, which was sort of the point of the deal....
cbvpt
1 Feb 16#46
Even with the discount the prices are not as cheap as amazon :/
Scorpion to cbvpt
1 Feb 16#47
For what exactly? The WD reds of 4-6TB are all cheaper than Amazon. Especially if you want a couple of them!
Tomb
1 Feb 16#48
Looks good !!
redmoorphil
4 Feb 16#49
Was about to push the button on the mybook duo 8tb but the hardware encryption is a deal breaker for me. If the enclosure fails then you have no way of getting your data off either drive which defeats the point of the drives being mirrored for security. WD's answer to this - you should always backup your duo to another backup drive!! Trying to justify the purchase of 2x Hitachi drives now with a synergy enclosure instead but would have jumped at the WD if you could turn off encryption.
Scorpion to redmoorphil
8 Feb 16#52
The point of this deal is more that the WD Reds within the My Book Duo's are vastly lower (in some cases) than buying the drives stand alone. You could buy a my cloud mirror with 8TB for £235 or so, which would offer the same sort of functionality (and then some!) but without the encryption of the my book duo. For a like for like Synology setup you're looking at £350 easily.
wakkaday
4 Feb 16#50
How much are 6tb reds? Can anyone help me get these on student I don't have an account thanks
Scorpion to wakkaday
8 Feb 16#51
£206.10 each if you want them with a 3 year warranty.
If you use my MyBook Duo trick (buy one of those which contains two WD Reds with a 2 year warranty) then it costs £265.99, so each drive would cost you £132.99 which in my book is a bargain given these are usually more like £215 each.
Sorry I can't help with the education e-mail address, I only have the one and it's something I can't mess about with.
wakkaday
8 Feb 16#53
What's best price for 6tb
Scorpion to wakkaday
9 Feb 16#54
I posted that above. What else do you want? Your **** wiping?
Can someone help how much is it just for say 4tb with this caddy thing?
im trying to see how this is justified rather than buying 2tb or 4tb portable for alot less ?
amazon WD My Cloud EX2 Nas Enclosure 4tb £262
Scorpion to flashjmp
23 Feb 16#60
Like for like product: WD My Cloud EX2 4tb = £164.99
Nearest to Amazon price: WD My Cloud EX2 8tb = £270.99
Scorpion
2 Mar 16#61
WD Red 8TB have just been added.
In Mybook Duo form it's £399.99, so £199.99 per drive, which is about £100 less per drive than the RRP!
Shonk
16 Mar 16#62
16 TB Mybook Duo is now £349.99
8 TB Mybook is now £159.99
Have an 8TB Mybook already and got another two on order
bally12345
24 May 16#63
Is this still active?
Scorpion
12 Jan 17#64
Updated with the latest pricing, it's not quite the deal it was initially, but for those wanting WD Red drives this is still your best bet !!
Scorpion
12 Jan 17#65
Prices accurate as of 12:30 12/01/17
DarrylJohn
31 Jan 17#66
Can you get discount on recertified my books? It's already only 79.99 for 4TB. Figured you could get more discount?
Scorpion
8 Feb 17#67
Just had a look, the answer is no, it appears the recertified gear is the same price, so £79.99 for the 4TB. I'd be pretty cautious using a recert drive for anything remotely important though!
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Opening post
There are deals to be had on the student site if you qualify! If you're building a NAS you can save a bundle. Here's how!
Prerequisites:
- an ISIC card
- An e-mail address that corresponds to this list (e.g. .ac.uk, .edu etc etc):
http://store.wdc.com/store/wdeu/en_GB/html/ThemeID.30604000/pbPage.EducationProgramSchools
If your education e-mail address isn't on the list drop them a line on: [email protected]
Shipping & Order Placement:
Shipping is free on all orders!
One final word of warning:
Orders once placed CANNOT be cancelled, you have to return them. So make sure you order correctly folks!
The Process:
- Go to the WD Student Store
- Log in/create an account using your ac.uk email address
- Buy one of their products containing multiple WD Red drives for far less than the usual price of the drives*
- Install the drives in your chosen PC/NAS
- Celebrate knowing you've just saved some serious money on quality drives
*works on some sizes of drive but not others, see below for details!
WD Red Deals - cheapest price per (in stock!) drive in bold
2TB WD Red:
WD Student Store: £76.50
Amazon/Ebuyer/etc: £84.00+
WD Student Store: Buy a 4TB My Book Duo with 2 x 2TB WD Reds inside £209.99 (WD Reds therefore cost £105 each)
3TB WD Red:
WD Student Store: £89.15
Amazon/Ebuyer/etc: £99+
WD Student Store: Buy a 6TB My Book Duo with 2 x 3TB WD Reds inside £239.99 (WD Reds therefore cost £120 each)
4TB WD Red:
WD Student Store: £134.99
Amazon/Ebuyer/etc: £139.99+
WD Student Store: Buy a 6TB My Book Duo with 2 x 4TB WD Reds inside £289.99 (WD Reds therefore cost £145 each)
6TB WD Red:
WD Student Store: £206.10
Amazon/Ebuyer/etc: £210+
WD Student Store: Buy a 12TB My Book Duo with 2 x 6TB WD Reds inside £379.99 (WD Reds therefore cost £190 each)
8TB WD Red:
WD Student Store: £305.10
Amazon/Ebuyer/etc: £299.99+
WD Student Store: Buy a 16TB My Book Duo with 2 x 8TB WD Reds inside £449.99 (WD Reds therefore cost £225 each)
For uber money saving types, you can then sell on your empty WD MyBook Duo enclosure on e-bay. Sold prices indicate these sell for about £40.
I thank you ! *bows*
All comments (67)
Heat added!
http://store.westerndigital.com/store/wdeu/en_GB/DisplayActivatePurchasePlanPage/marketID.965000
WD My Cloud EX2 Nas Enclosure:
WD Student Store: £82.99
Amazon: £128.19
Ebuyer: £120.80
My Cloud EX4 enclosure
WD Student Store: £158.99
Ebuyer: £237.76
Amazon: £237.14
Dear,
Thank you for contacting the Western Digital Online Store.
Please accept our sincerest apologies for the delay of the delivery of
your order.
A request has been submitted to cancel shipment of your order.
Please take note of your ticket number for your future reference:
You will be receiving an update within 2-3 business days via email.
Your understanding and patience are highly appreciated.
If we could be of any further help, please let us know.
The RMA process for Western Digital is apparently much better than that of the likes of Seagate (I've experience of the latter and it's a real PITA).
£508.99
For that you get 4 x 4TB WD Red drives and the enclosure to then sell on if you don't need it! I'd expect that to easily sell for £100 on eBay, leaving you with 4 x 4TB WD red drives for about £100 each.
Once turned off then reply to this message and we will tell you how to use your student account.
Thanks!
http://store.wdc.com/store/wdeu/en_GB/DisplayActivatePurchasePlanPage/marketID.965000
Once logged in you'll then be directed to the student store, which looks pretty much identical to the normal store, but the products are priced differently they have a 'promo' price. E.g.for the My Cloud EX2 which contains two WD Red 6TB disks...
YOUR ORDER AND BILLING INFORMATION
Order Number: ------------
Order Date: 22 January 2016
Product Name Price
My Book Duo 8TB
Unit Price: £ 439.00
Qty Ordered: 2
£ 385.98
Link:
http://store.westerndigital.com/store/wdeu/en_GB/DisplayProductDetailsPage/ThemeID.30604000/categoryID.67744100/subCategory.67744200/parid.13831800/catid.13832200/My_Book
N.b. the hard drive contained in this enclosure isn't a WD Red, it'll likely be a blue, but if you're not using it in a NAS that's fine.
HTH
Cheers.
£206.10 if purchased as a red drive
£135.99 if purchased with a mybook duo (2 year warranty, 2 HDD per duo ordered)
The latter is a bargain IMO.
http://store.wdc.com/store/wdeu/en_GB/html/ThemeID.30604000/pbPage.EducationProgramSchools
I e-mailed [email protected] and got them to add my schools domain so that staff are eligible for the discounts too. :smiley:
I then bought a 12TB WD MyCloud EX2.
I would like to get the ex2 NAS with 2*4TB drives inside.
Now instead of paying 400£ they are asking (plus it is out of stock) my idea was to pick up a my book duo 8TB for 200£ and an empty ex2 for 85£ and simply moving the drives from one to the other. This costs me 285£ and leaves me with an empty My Book Duo enclosure.
Now what I am interested in is whether the current deals on the Toshiba E300 drives Toshiba E300 3TB drive 66£
Would 2 of these work in a my book duo? And if yes with Raid 1 setup? As then I could gift/sell the my book duo rather than having an empty enclosure. Also another alternative is to pick up 2 WD red 3TB drive from say amazon and put those in wd my book duo, but I am interested whether the drives need to have some sort of software support to work in My book Duo.
Any help would be much appreciated as I would hate to throw away a good Raid 1 capable external enclosure and it might bring my price even more down.
I'm sort of shocked this has become hot all of sudden, for days it bumbled round at 80degrees !
The My Book Duo uses hardware encryption, so when you boot it up the chip inside the enclosure writes info the HDDs which then means that to access the content on the discs you need the enclosure. This is bad because should the enclosure fail there is no method for getting your data off the discs, the best you could do is format them. For that very reason my enclosure is boxed up and will probably never see service. If you're happy to take that risk with your data, then it should be fine though.
HTH
And I would presume buying a second enclosure won't solve this issue? But if I am not missing something this is a problem with the My Book Duo to start with (regardless of the drives in it) and is an absolutely massive issue as I guess most people would buy 2 bay especially to safeguard data if one of the disks fail. I suppose I can only hope that the chance of enclosure failing is low compared to the hdd's, but still this is a major issue. So there is no way to turn off encryption?
Buying a second enclosure won't help no, as the hardware encryption key used on this is different to that of enclosure #1. (WD will not release details of the keys for obvious reasons!)
You're correct in deducing that it's a major issue, there are loads of threads about it on the WD forum. There is no way you can turn the encryption off on that model.
My advice would be to never buy a hard drive enclosure (that you plan to use!) which enforces use of hardware encryption. The encryption can be done using software if that's what someone wants, so buy an enclosure without this if you plan on using the enclosure. To be fair to WD they do make it pretty obvious which products have hardware encryption, and this isn't purely a WD thing, other storage manufacturers do the same thing.
For me buying a My Book Duo made perfect sense as I was purely interested in the very very cheap WD Red drives inside it.
My primary interest is of course the wd reds inside, I just thought that the enclosure, being dual bay as it is might be worth something, as a gift or to sell on. My primary storage is going to be the ex2 NAS. (Do you know if the ex2 also does this? google suggests it has some kind of optional encryption but I can't really find hardware encryption details)
And I will probably just sell the my book duo then, with or without hard drives, I don't need it and I don't want to be a culprit of someone losing 3TB of data in RAID1...
Out of interest can you give me a link to the forum discussions you mentioned?
You're better off using the mailing list 10% off and WDSTORECPN as these will stack and the code doesn't stack on student store. 4TB WD Red £115.99 in this method.
Shame I'm after 3TBs, can't use the code as it's under 100, amazon beats it at 83 against 89 and if I buy two and use the code it still only makes them 84.
If you use my MyBook Duo trick (buy one of those which contains two WD Reds with a 2 year warranty) then it costs £265.99, so each drive would cost you £132.99 which in my book is a bargain given these are usually more like £215 each.
Sorry I can't help with the education e-mail address, I only have the one and it's something I can't mess about with.
£123.99
im trying to see how this is justified rather than buying 2tb or 4tb portable for alot less ?
amazon WD My Cloud EX2 Nas Enclosure 4tb £262
Nearest to Amazon price: WD My Cloud EX2 8tb = £270.99
In Mybook Duo form it's £399.99, so £199.99 per drive, which is about £100 less per drive than the RRP!
8 TB Mybook is now £159.99
Have an 8TB Mybook already and got another two on order