I set up stock info notification on these got email today.
Went for the 12TB only £10 more than the 8TB (£339.99)
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chriss5471
24 Jan 176#9
Stringent quality standards and yet they only warranty it for 6 months...
Ross87
24 Jan 174#1
Use code WDSTORECPN to get it for £339 :smiley:. Now to justify it to the better half...
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Ross87
24 Jan 174#1
Use code WDSTORECPN to get it for £339 :smiley:. Now to justify it to the better half...
chriss5471
24 Jan 17#2
What do they mean by recertified?
Silver47 to chriss5471
24 Jan 17#5
Tested and determined to meet WD’s stringent quality standards. Six month limited warranty.
carefulbuyer to chriss5471
24 Jan 171#25
second hand
omfgzbilly
24 Jan 17#3
Nice looking piece of kit this.
turbomonkey911
24 Jan 172#4
Use code 3wotma2bd for more money off :stuck_out_tongue: £70 worth !!!
pipehippy
24 Jan 171#6
I assume this won't transcode Plex?
poison3k to pipehippy
24 Jan 17#12
It would but not very well.
Really need a My Cloud Pro PR2100 or My Cloud Pro PR4100 as a minimum
Plex Media Server Western Digital NAS Support.
My Cloud Mirror
My Cloud EX2
My Cloud EX4
My Cloud EX2100
My Cloud EX4100
My Cloud DL2100
My Cloud DL4100
Try now. might be a single use code. I had the item in my basket, but have removed it now.
chriss5471
24 Jan 176#9
Stringent quality standards and yet they only warranty it for 6 months...
splender
24 Jan 171#10
That's a lot of copies of the bible, or wait, no it is po...
johneb
24 Jan 17#11
Hot!
pipehippy
24 Jan 17#13
Thanks for the info, presumed as much. I almost exclusively watch at home on an LG app which seems to leave the transcoding to my PC, presumably the client doesn't have enough grunt.
Those are new drives though and not recertified/used.
The rates are still worrying. I try to stick to HGST ultras if at all possible even though I haven't seen any deals on them for a while now.
poison3k
24 Jan 171#15
Correct.
If you don't want to use your PC and want a cheap set up, get a small form factor device with a decent cpu and attach a DAS to it.
Something like a mac mini with a DAS would have low power draw and be powerful enough to transcode (its the cpu that does all the work for plex).
whiteface
24 Jan 17#16
What drives does it come with? 4x4TB in RAID5 or something?
minionibg to whiteface
24 Jan 17#17
4х3tb red drives
ICTHUS
24 Jan 17#18
Choose RAID 0, 1, 5, 10 or select from spanning and JBOD modes
So RAID 0 striped gives you all 12 TB (One big disk across all 4 or JBOD)
RAID 1 gives you 6TB (same data duplicated across 2 volumes)
RAID 5 gives you 9TB (you loose 1 disk to parity)
RAID 10 Gives you 6TB but a bit faster (mirroring and striping)
This seems good value for a NAS drive of that capacity.
alritegeeza
24 Jan 17#19
All gone by the looks of it :disappointed:
ICTHUS
24 Jan 17#20
AND NO STOCK NOW!!
Dizy
24 Jan 17#21
Nice wish I seen it sooner need more TB
moogle
24 Jan 17#22
Would've liked one of these. Are all the drives OEM inside?
sparc
24 Jan 171#23
I'm a videographer and always running out of space. I ordered one.
beergut
24 Jan 171#24
8TB still available
Hassann
24 Jan 17#26
I ordered this when I received the email at around 7.30am, just didn't get the time to post the deal up on here. How simple is it to have additional 3tb red drives and swap them over when you need more storage space?
sparc to Hassann
24 Jan 17#28
This would be cool to know.
davidorridge
24 Jan 17#27
reliable & cheep das are like hen's teeth, tough to find.
Ross87
25 Jan 17#30
Pottery tutorials...:stuck_out_tongue:
Hassann
26 Jan 17#31
I just received mine today. the drives don't have a red label, they have black and white recertified labels on them that state '3TB Recertified SATA / 64MB CACHE - WD30EFRX - NASware 3.0'. What drives are these?
mikeuk2004
28 Jan 171#32
They are red drives. just different label because they been recertified. so people can't sell them on as new.
Hassann to mikeuk2004
28 Jan 17#33
Ah okay that clarifies it. Thank you mate
mk3
29 Jan 17#34
Registration Date January 28, 2017
Warranty Date August 26, 2018
That was unexpected thought 6 months was mentioned
Opening post
Went for the 12TB only £10 more than the 8TB (£339.99)
Top comments
All comments (36)
Really need a My Cloud Pro PR2100 or My Cloud Pro PR4100 as a minimum
Plex Media Server Western Digital NAS Support.
My Cloud Mirror
My Cloud EX2
My Cloud EX4
My Cloud EX2100
My Cloud EX4100
My Cloud DL2100
My Cloud DL4100
https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/articles/201373823
NAS plex compatibility guide https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1MfYoJkiwSqCXg8cm5-Ac4oOLPRtCkgUxU0jdj3tmMPc/edit#gid=314388488
FYI if you want to know more https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-reliability-stats-q1-2016/
The rates are still worrying. I try to stick to HGST ultras if at all possible even though I haven't seen any deals on them for a while now.
If you don't want to use your PC and want a cheap set up, get a small form factor device with a decent cpu and attach a DAS to it.
Something like a mac mini with a DAS would have low power draw and be powerful enough to transcode (its the cpu that does all the work for plex).
So RAID 0 striped gives you all 12 TB (One big disk across all 4 or JBOD)
RAID 1 gives you 6TB (same data duplicated across 2 volumes)
RAID 5 gives you 9TB (you loose 1 disk to parity)
RAID 10 Gives you 6TB but a bit faster (mirroring and striping)
This seems good value for a NAS drive of that capacity.
Warranty Date August 26, 2018
That was unexpected thought 6 months was mentioned