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Recertified WD My Cloud 6TB - £129.99 @ WD

£129.99 Western Digital9 Feb 17

Source: HotUKDeals | Deals > Technology

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cornovii

9 Feb 17

Recertified WD My Cloud 6TB back in stock with free standard delivery.

Use Disscount code WDSTORECPN for £10 off the listed price of £139.99.

Also available is the 1TB 2TB 3TB and4TB versions at the time of posting. Don't forget to use the code!

Top comments

JohnPeel

9 Feb 17 9 #15

Good one - I think I will make a comment

Now look out for the cold votes and the hypocrytical anoraks saying "Ooooh it's re-certified I will lose all my data, and I am scared of this, because all brand new disks last forever and have a 3 year warranty, so nobody ever loses data on a new disk, and Joe Nobb 'ead will come on and say "I had one of these that lasted 7 seconds, they're rubbish"

And so on.

So use it as a baby "cloud" server for your home, access movies and music from anywhere in your house, great fun and easy to set up

So plug and go with COPIES of media files or overflow Humax recordings, or your fave MP3's and this will enable to to do lots with your existing TV, or existing phone (probably)

n17d

9 Feb 17 6 #18

If you use a single drive for important data, recertified or not, then be prepared to lose it!

BoB2oo9 to LondonTTB

9 Feb 17 5 #28

What about a car or a fridge?

asking for a friend

pjn

9 Feb 17 4 #12

If this is the one I returned as faulty last week... good luck with it!

All comments (64)

Lawlost

9 Feb 17 #1

Is this a NAS?

shinds to Lawlost

9 Feb 17 #3

Yes - basic

Lawlost

9 Feb 17 #2

Is this a NAS drive

paulj48 to Lawlost

9 Feb 17 1 #5

yes with a second hand hard drive that's been repaired, don't use it for anything important.

Lawlost

9 Feb 17 #4

As good as Zytel?

Jefft

9 Feb 17 1 #6

If it's gone wrong before the chances are it will go wrong again.

friar_chris to Jefft

9 Feb 17 1 #24

Yes but no, but what ARE the chances?

There is certainty that one potential problem has been fixed. There's a 6 month guarantee. Only hard drives I've had die on me have been 2 weeks old and 10 years old. No one gives 10 year guarantees on hard drives.
Also, if it has been checked twice. Presumably someone with a more specialist skill set has repaired it since they are usually made on a production line. So isn't is less likely to fail now? What are the chances?
Also, don't people just return stuff because they changed their mind? I bet WD stick it straight onto the re-certified pile. What ARE the chances?

You will hear this often. The chances are becasue its most peoples experience having dipped their toe in:
I've bought re-certified WD several times. They look brand new and none have failed.

intercake

9 Feb 17 #7

Thanks gone for it :smiley:

Maxow

9 Feb 17 #8

I just got my back in stock email too.
Should be a 6tb green drive inside. Now I need to find in which unit they put the 2tb or 3tb reds in...

gangstarrrr to Maxow

9 Feb 17 #11

My book duo

Maxow

9 Feb 17 4 #9

...and you can find a re certified 6tb drive under £129 can you?

paulj48

9 Feb 17 1 #10

wouldn't touch one with a barge pole thanks.

pjn

9 Feb 17 4 #12

If this is the one I returned as faulty last week... good luck with it!

omfgzbilly

9 Feb 17 #13

Dayum, hell of a price this. Cheers!

derharne

9 Feb 17 #14

Great price. I bought a recertified 2tb external hard drive from these and it has worked flawlessly, even surviving being dropped.

JohnPeel

9 Feb 17 9 #15

VimesUK

9 Feb 17 #16

Finally got one.

Thanks op and great added.

Recertified or not the price is great. Regardless of being , as you always have backups, the risk is minimal, merely an inconvenience if it should fall.

WD and their customer support is amazing

kavajaved

9 Feb 17 #17

hot

n17d

9 Feb 17 6 #18

If you use a single drive for important data, recertified or not, then be prepared to lose it!

intercake

9 Feb 17 2 #19

Like the more versed have already concluded, if you're relying solely on a single drive then you're asking for trouble anyway. The chances of these going wrong is possibly higher then normal drives, but these were normal drives previously so I presume the original owners probably felt pretty happy buying them first time around. Use backups, mirroring, cloud and/or elaborate RAID to enhance you chances of keeping what you value. Banging price for 6TB, using it to replace a lightly used Western Digitial Red 3TB that died after 3 years.

basergorkobal

9 Feb 17 #20

I got the 4TB version last time round.
Very basic NAS functionality. Performance is pretty good for a cheap nas. Drive is a nasware 3.0. it's got a recertified label new serial no and 6 months warranty.

Protoype

9 Feb 17 #21

These WD Red's inside or greens?

bbbazman

9 Feb 17 #22

We'll there's one less now. I've been watching this since it was posted to get a feel for it.
As it's for a back-up of a back-up - it's a no brainer. The chance of three drives dying simultaneously is pretty slim.
No, I'm not challenging the universe.
Thanks OP. Heated up earlier.

ho0da

9 Feb 17 1 #23

This code should get the first person to use it 20% off:

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jeczap to ho0da

9 Feb 17 #38

Here's mine to the first taker: y9i4gey2x

LondonTTB

9 Feb 17 1 #25

I'd never, ever buy a second hand / refurbished HDD. You're just asking for trouble.

BoB2oo9 to LondonTTB

9 Feb 17 5 #28

What about a car or a fridge?

asking for a friend

cactusbob

9 Feb 17 #26

Thanks OP, ordered one

paulj48

9 Feb 17 #27

exactly so don't use this recertified drive full stop, if its been built and sealed in dust proof factory on a production line and then gone faulty I wouldn't like to guess how they've now 'recertified' it.

Midway

9 Feb 17 #29

6TB OOS

n17d

9 Feb 17 #30

Or use it as a back up!!!!!

paulj48

9 Feb 17 #31

I class a 'backup' as an important use so would never use a second hand drive for that.

n17d

9 Feb 17 3 #32

Are you just being argumentative? I keep 2 copies of all my important data. If one goes down, I have another. I have purchased one of these for that exact reason. By all means buy a brand new drive if you have money to burn, but don't think that means you don't need to bother with a backup. Or are you suggesting I should keep a backup of a backup of a backup, just in case!!!! I would also add that I have also purchased refurbished WD drives from this store previously. All appear brand new and never had a problem with years of use. They are not mickey house refurbs, despite what you may believe.

paulj48

9 Feb 17 2 #33

My initial remark was 'do not use this for anything important' I class any back media as important otherwise there's no point having that backup regardless of other copies held.

The remark about 'mickey house refurbs' I'm not sure what that means but I've worked in the 'refurb' sector and sometimes a wipe with a cloth and a power on test is all that is done sometimes, wrap the leads neat and that fools people into thinking they've never been used. Like I said previously if a drive has failed, apart from the pcb on the hard drive there's nothing else that can have been repaired unless in a dust proof environment. I wouldn't be surprised if a quick format of these and a power on test is the only 'recertification' that has been done.

VimesUK

9 Feb 17 1 #34

How long is the warranty on these.?

bbbazman

9 Feb 17 #35

I have money to burn :man:, and I bought one. I'm happy with my decision.:smiley:
The back-up debate stands whether its a top notch drive, run of the mill, refurbished or whatever. It all boils down to likelihood, importance of data, economies and an element of risk.

Jameseh

9 Feb 17 #36

Apart from sailing with Captain Jack Sparrow, what are people using 6TB for?

VimesUK

9 Feb 17 #37

I'll use mine connected to a switch on my home network to share all of our family photos and home videos to PC's, mobile devices and TV's.

Also it will have Macrium Reflect backups from various PC"s

Mucka

9 Feb 17 #39

are these just storage or can they run apps like nzbget without having a client on the pc?

chocci to Mucka

9 Feb 17 #41

Just for storage and basic sharing

The wd apps are shocking so use third party ones like easus todo free or machine reflect

Cypermethrin

9 Feb 17 #40

sadly code not working

gangstarrrr

9 Feb 17 #42

Where are people getting the -20% codes?

jeczap to gangstarrrr

9 Feb 17 #44

Post-purchase email from WD

pjn

9 Feb 17 1 #43

That was my thought on the subject too, so I ordered a 6TB refurbished unit 2 weeks back via an earlier posting on HUKD.

Unfortunately it refused to get an IP address from any of the 3 routers I used for testing. I worked with the support team to ensure that I'd checked as much as possible (4 sec reset, 40 sec reset, different cables, different routers) and the device would not get an IP address, the status light wasn't indicating anything, and it didn't appear in the router configuration pages in any form. I'd consider myself very familiar and comfortable with home networking. The support team eventually agreed that it was faulty so I returned it.

OK, so I was unlucky, but I'm still not convinced that the refurb process was done satisfactorily.

cigbunt

9 Feb 17 #45

We red in this?

nickkelly

9 Feb 17 #46

I agree, there's no way I'd risk a re-certified drive just to save a few £, its false economy. In many cases they won't be able to diagnose the problem correctly so will just ship the faulty drive back out again, or mark a few sectors bad in the drives BIOS. If you back up data to two drives there's a greater chance that you will lose your data if one of them is known to have been faulty in the past.

Not worth the few £ saving.

Weeky

9 Feb 17 #47

Anyone got a 20% code and not going to use it? I would really appreciate it if you can PM me :smiley:

weirdo

9 Feb 17 #48

I bought a 4tb refurb a while ago and when I received it, the damn thing wouldn't even power on.

Their website claim that all refurbs are thoroughly tested, so either they're lying or it got damaged in transit.

Anyway, returned for a refund and bought a new Synology NAS instead. But I did buy a 4tb WD Red direct from WD - a brand new one!

rich139luck

9 Feb 17 #49

I'd avoid like the plague. Have the 3tb mycloud. First one froze completely and was unable to be restored or get anything retrieved. Was unable to use the auto Backup feature for some reason too. Do a bit of research on Google first and see how many issues there are. It's cheap for a reason!!

SCOUSEKEVIN

9 Feb 17 #50

Thanks OP but save the hassle and buy NEW not secondhand lol

cactusbob

9 Feb 17 #51

The problems are much more likely to be due to the firmware on the enclosure rather than the drive itself. With mine, the drive will be coming straight out and into my Synology (if it's a Red that is)

Al_Jolson

9 Feb 17 #52

Anybody still watching this thread who has a 20% code to share? Please PM me if so. I'm going to buy one I think.

Questus

10 Feb 17 #53

Offer seems withdrawn ALREADY?

Marker

10 Feb 17 #54

I bought the 6TB Mirror version nearly a year ago and haven't had any problems with it -- I use it as a backup of my media (movies, music, photos) so I can stream them around the house to TVs, Kodi boxes, etc. Works very well.

As I've mentioned on a few of these WD MyCloud posts, there are a couple of really poorly written services which run on the OS of the NAS and thrash it by doing needless indexing and other stuff. Google "optimise WD my cloud" for instructions on how to disable these and it'll be a great little NAS with very good performance.

LondonTTB

10 Feb 17 #55

Car, yes. Fridge, oh my life, no

candyman86

14 Feb 17 #56

Just out of curiosity, are you going to be able to use this for ps4 installs via USB?

bbbazman

14 Feb 17 #57

So, mine arrived but it doesn't seem to be working. Bahahahahaa :smile: !

The setup webpage can't find it on the network (although it is visible in finder) and the dashboard isn't visible via http://wdmycloud.local/.
The 40second reset didn't work either.

Time for it to go back perhaps ?

candyman86

14 Feb 17 1 #58

has the LED on the front turned blue?

bbbazman

14 Feb 17 #59

Yes, solid blue.

chocci

15 Feb 17 1 #60

Try this utility
http://support.wdc.com/downloads.aspx?p=110&lang=en

And also the WD Access utility

bbbazman

15 Feb 17 #61

I'm using OSX, although I did try "WD MyCloud Setup" software with no success either.

and this..
linky link
That utility found it and let me select the drive, it but will not communicate.
" x lost connection to WDMyCloud "
small poop up top RHS saying "WD Access is ready to use. You can access WD access from the WD menu"
..but I can't

bbbazman

15 Feb 17 #62

I might have cracked it - it seemed to have a dodgy IP thanks to a temperamental Access Point, despite the WD being plugged directly into the router. Another problem for another day.

bbbazman

15 Feb 17 #63

Yup - cheers Chocci. The OSX version of that utility did manage to identify that it's allocated IP wasn't where it should have been and that pointed me in the right direction for resolution.
Nicely done, thanks.

chocci to bbbazman

15 Feb 17 #64

Excellent!

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