100% agree with hoof hearted. This is a 4 year old drive in a case that may have been put together last week so they can dump the old stock. See here http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/4tb-3tb-hdd,3183-6.html
This is just a big Co trying not to alienate it's channel but shoving some stock out of the back door. The guys who run the shop do that all the time for loads of vendors. This drive was only going for about 50 just before the tsunami, then prices shot up, they haven't really gone back to a reasonable level since. Now all the old stock is stopping ssd drives from taking off despite their relative high price.
Think I'll pick one up and give it a good check asap and then return it if it's been used a lot. Anyone got a recommendation for a windows app to test with?
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liamo
13 Aug 16#1
Just wondering, i have a HP Gen 8 microserver, currently with 2 * WD Reds 3TB in it, each cost me around £90.
The other 2 disk drive bays are empty currently.
Would buying 2 of these be any good, so to make a RAID of it.
Can you open these up, strip the drives out of both of them, and then put them into a HP Gen8 Microserver.
So putting one of the WD Reds with one of the drives from this together (if it's a WD Green or whatever) into a RAID 1 array, would that be secure.
Would that be safe and work?
Astec123
13 Aug 161#2
I'd be interested to know this too. Are these fairly easy to extract from the caddies and then use as internal drives.
Depends what was refurbished on the CCTV unit, most were open box but never installed, OBVIOUSLY! Motherboards are easily swapped and replaced, components in a hard drive I don't think so. Each to their own just PLEASE don't start a "WHAAAA My drive broke after the very limited warranty (because WD have no faith in the product) where do I stand whaa whaa whaa"
NOT TO WORRY THOUGH THE 30 DAY PERIOD WILL FEEL LIKE AGES!
snagzie
13 Aug 161#5
Never had a problem with the recertified WD stuff (3 HDDs).
Just please don't rely on them as an only source of data storage, BACK THE KUCF UP
Just Wondering
13 Aug 16#6
Is this 7200 rpm? Anyone know the size of the cache?
robert260574
13 Aug 161#7
what gets me is you buy a extra storage device to back up your data then you need a extra device to back up your extra data/data and so on...when do you stop backing up .. bought a recertified wd cloud few years ago from wd outlet and use this for streaming my movies to my tv which it does without any problems.. thinking of another external just to plug into the back of my cloud for extra storage
Moss87
13 Aug 16#8
i went for one i hope it last me a while
whats the best program for testing these hard drives?
Opening post
This is just a big Co trying not to alienate it's channel but shoving some stock out of the back door. The guys who run the shop do that all the time for loads of vendors. This drive was only going for about 50 just before the tsunami, then prices shot up, they haven't really gone back to a reasonable level since. Now all the old stock is stopping ssd drives from taking off despite their relative high price.
Think I'll pick one up and give it a good check asap and then return it if it's been used a lot. Anyone got a recommendation for a windows app to test with?
All comments (39)
The other 2 disk drive bays are empty currently.
Would buying 2 of these be any good, so to make a RAID of it.
Can you open these up, strip the drives out of both of them, and then put them into a HP Gen8 Microserver.
So putting one of the WD Reds with one of the drives from this together (if it's a WD Green or whatever) into a RAID 1 array, would that be secure.
Would that be safe and work?
and regarding making a raid, it would depend which type of raid you are talking about eg some versions of raid use 3 drives to every one.
NOT TO WORRY THOUGH THE 30 DAY PERIOD WILL FEEL LIKE AGES!
Just please don't rely on them as an only source of data storage, BACK THE KUCF UP
whats the best program for testing these hard drives?