I have about a dozen dead wd white labels, all clicked/faulted right around the 3-5 year mark. (Out of 41 disks across 3 servers).

Looking back, the small discount from shucking was not worth it in long run. These are subpar drives.

Just my personal two cents.

Anyone know the exact model of drive?

Sigh, I just bought the 14tb last weekend. I could return it and buy this though…

It is somewhat tempting, but I bought six 18tb drives a few years ago. I have already replaced half of them. My nine 8tb drives have been much more reliable.

$11.11/TB, pretty screaming $/TB right there

I really don't need to know this...

Is this a good deal?

aw shucks!

Hoohoo, $400 CAD up in the great white north. a whopping $50 off lol.

We had the 14TB one onsale for $240 last week which wasnt too bad.

I'm in Canada. In August, I bought the WD easystore 14TB for $299 (Best Buy). The current "Black Friday" price is $399.

FWIW WD is having a "buy 2 18TB Red Pro drives for $549" sale right now

https://www.westerndigital.com/products/internal-drives/wd-red-pro-sata-hdd?sku=WD181KFGX

$25 extra for a Red Pro drive & not having shuck seems like a good value to me

Ugh just bought two 14TB last weekend for the same price…

i stopped shucking with last years 18 tb seagate exos from server parts deals for 194 each but still buy externals for back ups. are the 18 tb wd externals particularly unreliable? i have good luck with wd externals and i have a whole shelf of them. only 1 12 tb died with in 2 years and had to be rmaed. had some 8s and 3tbs die but at the 5 plus year mark and i was phasing them out anyway. i still have 3 tb elements that still worked last that checked

Should I buy this or wait for a better deal? I was waiting until Black Friday season to get a new hard drive

What drive is inside?

About 275 Canadian Pesos for those keeping track. Wish we had the prices you guys south of the border seem to get!

In the past I've given up buying locally and instead bulk ordered drives in the US and shipping to a US address, then package-forwarding them over the border. Saved quite a lot, duties on HDDs aren't that high!

Very tempting, but the reliability is concerning me a lot

18 TB? Amateurs.

Just ordered 3. Thanks for the posting.

what's the noise level gonna be on these?

What a fucking deal!

if I didn't have a 16TB version, I might go for it.

I actually quite regret buying it earlier cause damnnnnn.

Absolutely don't need it, but I want it.

These hard drives look nice but let me save yall the trouble from using this as “backup storage”. Literally dealing with an older version of this external drive had to send out for data recovery. It never dropped nor received water damage. It just seems to have failed which I believe is on the PCB end of the drive, hoping so to recover it fairly easily. If you use it just do proper backup management on a cloud or something. I mean that’s a given a general better practice anyway. But these things seem to fail eventually so don’t rely on it

Are these ok for colder storage use that may get pulled and check maybe 2x a year?

Thinking about buying 2 and shucking them

that is craaaaazy cheap

Where I live I can't even get a 4TB one for that price

I hate my country

Ah man, I just bought a 8TB WD Elements for $99 and now this comes along!

so are these drives worth it? I mean the price is nice but is the quality worth it?

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I'm interested but don't want something to die out. I suppose my other question is what is normal life expectancy if 4/5 years is considered bad.

Jealous in European.

bought 5, do I need them? no. Do I want them? Damn right.

Yooo thanks for the heads up bro!