great price. i'd buy it just to rip the hard drive out and put it in my synology. if i had £75 quid of course :smiley:

Ordered and heat added, cost me £59.99 with discount voucher i had

Where you get voucher from

Is it easy to rip out drive are they reds ?

Another hdd refurb...

I wouldn't trust a product with only a 30 day guarantee...

Second hand mechanical hard disk?

No thanks.

What drive is inside the enclosure? Red? Blue?

Green or blue not red for sure

If you're looking at a raid setup, probably worth considering 2 x 3TB @ £99.98 with code WDSTORECPN

Also cannot find this?

This one?

http://store.wdc.com/store/wdeu/en_GB/DisplayAccesoryProductDetailsPage/ThemeID.22586100/WD_Outlet/My_Book_3TB_Recertified/productID.300324400/categoryId.69923000

2 for £99 mentioned here http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/recertified-wd-book-3tb-54-99-western-digital-2188889

6 months... when if you buy it new its 2 years

The only hdd I ever had fail was from WD. Perhaps I should list on on an auction site as 'Used vgc but needs attention'? (the lack of punctuation is the current fleabay style I believe?)

wouldn't recommend I bought 4tb refurbished wd ripped it out of the case and put it into my synology nas within 2 months the hard drive completely failed on me with irrecoverable bad sectors and major io errors and since I took the hdd out of the enclosure no warranty. Lucky I managed to recover my data before it completely died. Lesson learnt, I now have a 4tb WD red and that's been going strong 24 hours use.

Is it good idea to use refurbished storage units, especially when there is limited warranty?
Data is precious.

No its not its a second hand hdd... wiped and tested to see if it works then sold at discount...

it takes some big hairy ones to buy western digital, but recertified WD is bravery the likes i've never known! cold.

The gates of the sea could open and swallow all your data...

is this a better choice for £10 more

http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/seagate-expansion-4tb-external-usb-3-0-84-99-argos-2479892

I wouldn't trust WD with 4 terabyte of my important data

Got the last deal for the 3tb ones delivered for £44 each, two running now for last few months, one in my pc and the other in xbox one, no problems at all. Copying across from pc ssd, i get about 150meg a second via usb3. Way faster than my buffalo nas 20meg a second.

http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/upto-25-off-western-digital-outlet-another-20-off-with-code-code-works-discounted-2426242

Recertified Mybooks have Green (or sometimes Blue) drives. The MyCloud units have Reds (labelled simply as NasWare).

People claiming WD make bad drives are talking out of the wrong hole - I have seven WD HDDs among my drives, three of which with 30,000+ hours on them (2 Greens and an Enterprise Black) - My Reds are less than two years old but haven't skipped a beat. In contrast, one of my Samsungs and two of my Seagates have died.

Can you rip out wd elements drive to use in a nas