I didnt realise non refurbs wont "fail anytime" You best print out all your data as any mechanical hard drive can fail at anytime. Whether you use a refurb or otherwise you should back up. I'm personally not concerned that my refurb or non refurb may fail as everything is duplicated. I'd rather use the money for two refurbs and have two copies then rely on one non refurb drive.

I bought my book 3tb for £50 at tesco few weeks back so I doubt this is being a fantastic deal

I cleared up your confusion, you decided to link a desktop drive on a cloud drive deal, you're right on one thing there's nothing worse than an ill informed comment, which is why I corrected you, you're welcome.

Also when we're at it who's "we" do you have a team behind your moronic comments?

It's an autocorrect, and here you are claiming not to be pendantic, I was willing to let it go but you clearly have personal issues. The link you provided had 2 drives 3 & 4TB, easy mistake to make, completely ignoring the fact one was a desktop and the other a cloud device after I pointed it out takes a special kind of stupid. So you are wrong!

No. Your first post stated "The £71 deal wasn't a my book live and was only 3tb," which is wrong as it was 4TB and while I'm here what is a tb? a mutation of Terabit (Tb) or were you attempting Terabyte (TB). Admittedly I over looked there was a difference in the spec of the enclosures.

I believe so but it won't support transcoding, if your files can be played directly it apparently works fine but I use an old pc for that. I've only installed Transmission on there so far which does work fine. If I knew what I do now when I bought it I'd have gone for something beefier but as far as being network attached storage it's actually been great.

Can Plex be install on it?

i thought discount codes didnt work on recertified drives i have a 10 % off code only works on premium stuff

My first reply said it wasn't the same drive. Glad we're on the same page now though.

I think people click cold because the lately horrible WD services (I read the latest Hotuk WD threads full of angry customers).

The deal you linked to

WD My Book (New) Desktop External Hard Drive 3TB £62.99 & 4TB £71.99 - RECERTIFIED @ Western Digital

This deal

Western Digital 4TB My Cloud (re-certified) - £94.99 (free P+P) @ Western Digital

As it is not the dual harddrive version - it is not worth buying! The firmware is a hassle and lognin across devices are not smooth the moment you add passwords. It does not handle plex and tonky is actually more wonky (you would understand if you have this)

Can you explain how I'm wrong? The link you provided is for a desktop drive this deal is for a my cloud, two totally different types of drive.

maybe because that's not the cloud version...it does not have a NAS hdd inside (wd red)...People buy it for the HDD and throw away the enclosure :smiley:)

No you are wrong again. We are not being pedantic you are just wrong.

If I put a couple of mkv movie files on this would my LG smart TV (I believe it runs Web OS) pick it up and be able to stream it?

Not voted but 6 month warranty puts me off.

Please read the user reviews for these drives before buying. They all seem to be pretty poor. I'm staying away!

Generally I'd agree, but I bought one and it worked for exactly 7 months then died, false economy Imo, i've had alot of luck with Amazon warehouse on the other hand which give all their items a 12 month warranty and their customer service/returns is second to none.

Good deal OP, I've got several 4 in a RAID in a NAS and some i've been using for years - I've just brought a 4TB My Book and had a discount code:
My Book 4TB (Recertified) Unit Price: £ 119.00 Qty Ordered: 1 £ 79.99
SubTotal: £ 69.32
Shipping: £ 0.00
Tax: £ 10.67
Total: £ 63.99
Recertifies - new parts put into it so they are then within WD specification. Had more new drives fail in shorter time than these.

I would never buy re-certified, never. It may fail anytime and my files are more important than saved £££

Much better going for the cloud mirror at £139..
4tb mirror link

Nonsense. Feel sorry for you...

It's £62.99 if we're being pedantic but it still doesn't make it a My Cloud drive.

The £71 deal wasn't a my book live and was only 3tb, I can see it going cold though as it's reverified, it's £155 new from Amazon for comparison.

There's a bit more to re certifying a drive than a quick once over with the Mr. Sheen and a new anti static bag. Buy one off ebay and ask if the seller has re certified it for you...

You only have to look at the post underneath yours :smile:

A second hand hard drive should be much cheaper than this. You can call it a "referb" or a bucket of carrots if you like , it's second hand

As you may soon see a lot of people on here seem to have a crazy aversion to them "because they might fail" which of course you could say about any drive brand new or 10 years old. I have bought a few refurb drives in the past and so far no problems at all and some have been in use over a year.

This is a decent price though personally think the cloud features are a bit of a gimmick, I'd rather have a basic drive a bit cheaper but if you want those features its a very solid price...

are these one drive or two?
cheers

Oh wow, how did it get cold, thats a great price?

I doubt this will get much heat as the deal on thursday was for £71 and went to minus 50