WD hard drives (and more): 10% off

F

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Jun 23, 2020, 5:03:19 PM6/23/20

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If anyone is in the market for WD products then it might be worth a look
in the WD shop.

WD Red NAS drives are currently cheaper from there than anywhere else I
can find plus, if you sign up for their newsletter, there's a further
10% off your next order.

I've made good use of it...

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Frank

Andy Burns

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Jun 23, 2020, 6:22:24 PM6/23/20

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F wrote:

> WD Red NAS drives are currently cheaper from there than anywhere else I
> can find plus, if you sign up for their newsletter, there's a further
> 10% off your next order.

Are they all the SMR ones that people have returned?

F

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Jun 23, 2020, 7:18:03 PM6/23/20

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No, there's both CMR and SMR. 8TB and above are CMR.

The 10% isn't limited to hard drives.

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RJH

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Jun 24, 2020, 2:54:04 AM6/24/20

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On 23 Jun 2020 at 22:03:18 BST, "F" <news@nowhere> wrote:

> If anyone is in the market for WD products then it might be worth a look
> in the WD shop.
>
> WD Red NAS drives are currently cheaper from there than anywhere else I
> can find plus, if you sign up for their newsletter, there's a further
> 10% off your next order.

I noticed that with Crucial recently - a good few quid cheaper direct from
them.

>
> I've made good use of it...

I've just had a couple of WD 3TB Reds fail at 3 and 3.5 years. Bad batch I
suppose. I'm sure yours will be OK :-)

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Cheers, Rob

Paul G

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Jun 25, 2020, 4:06:22 AM6/25/20

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Reds appear to be out of stock right now.

https://blocksandfiles.com/2020/06/24/wd-16-18tb-disk-drives-leak-into-existence-and-shingling-kerfuffle-gets-red-rebrand-bandaid/
is a useful explanation of the WD rebranding.

F

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Jun 25, 2020, 4:20:08 AM6/25/20

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On 25/06/2020 09:06, Paul G wrote:
> Reds appear to be out of stock right now.

No, for example
https://shop.westerndigital.com/en-gb/products/internal-drives/wd-red-sata-hdd#WD80EFAX

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Paul G

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Jun 25, 2020, 5:03:05 AM6/25/20

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Thanks. Indeed the CMR models are oos eg. WD40EFRX, while they do have
SMR stock WD40EFAX.

F

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Jun 25, 2020, 5:30:57 AM6/25/20

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The example in the link I quoted is in stock and is CMR as are all 8TB
and above.

CMR
WD10JFCX (1TB)
WD10EFRX (1TB)
WD20EFRX (2TB)
WD30EFRX (3TB)
WD40EFRX (4TB)
WD60EFRX (6TB)
WD80EFAX (8TB)
WD100EFAX (10TB)
WD101EFAX (10TB)
WD120EFAX (12TB)
WD140EFAX (14TB)

SMR
WD20EFAX (2TB)
WD30EFAX (3TB)
WD40EFAX (4TB)
WD60EFAX (6TB)

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Frank

Theo

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Jun 25, 2020, 5:31:58 AM6/25/20

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F <news@nowhere> wrote:
> If anyone is in the market for WD products then it might be worth a look
> in the WD shop.
>
> WD Red NAS drives are currently cheaper from there than anywhere else I
> can find plus, if you sign up for their newsletter, there's a further
> 10% off your next order.

Thanks. I might have accidentally bought 42TB of external Elements drives.
This is, if they fulfill the backorder. They're CMR whitelabel SATA
Ultrastars inside. GBP170 per 14TB (including 15% education discount) is a
rather good price :)

Theo

F

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Jun 25, 2020, 5:48:52 AM6/25/20

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Shockingly easy to make mistakes like that! ;-)

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pedr...@lycos.com

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Jun 25, 2020, 6:56:22 AM6/25/20

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On Thursday, June 25, 2020 at 4:06:22 PM UTC+8, Paul G wrote:
> https://blocksandfiles.com/2020/06/24/wd-16-18tb-disk-drives-leak-into-existence-and-shingling-kerfuffle-gets-red-rebrand-bandaid/
> is a useful explanation of the WD rebranding.
>

so what's the difference between Red+ and Red pro?

Jaimie Vandenbergh

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Jun 25, 2020, 3:01:49 PM6/25/20

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On 25 Jun 2020 at 10:31:55 BST, "Theo" <theom...@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
wrote:

It's nice they've included USB2 compatibility. That'd be speedy.

Cheers - Jaimie
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