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Buy HDD on sale now or wait for Black Friday? (www.westerndigital.com)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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There's currently a sale on the Western Digital website. I was thinking of getting the Red Pros since they're high capacity and relatively quiet. In a previous post I made on the datahoarders community, I was looking for an HDD that was basically silent since the NAS will be next to my desk where I WFH.

Currently, two 18 TB drives are going for $620 or about $17.22 per TB. Not the best deal but definitely better than their normal price. I know a lot of people like buying used drives but the ones for sale are usually loud enterprise edition drives which won't work for me. Should I buy the drives now or wait until BF for a possibly better sale?

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[–] 26 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (9 children)

WD has a recycling deal where you can get 15% off your total purchase, once per quarter, by sending in any drive, working or not, to their recycling partner. I just did this with an old Maxtor 60gb 3.5” PATA drive. The shipping is free and it gets processed really quickly (e.g. it was actually delivered today and i already received -and-used- the discount code.

Note that theyre pretty clear/strict about no stacking of codes/discounts.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Cool! I have some old drives laying around because I didn't know how to recycle them.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    A good smack with a hammer then trash like any other electronic.
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    Disassemble the drive, crack/scratch the platters, trash like any other electronic

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    That's not recycling.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    The magnets in HDDs are some of the strongest magnets you can find. I rip those out when I can, but I'm a packrat

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Fyi, i -did- dissasemble the drive, remove the magnets from the head assembly, and scratched tf out of both sides of the platters. :)

    Also, re the price, with the discount i paid the same for the drive i ordered that i paid for the same size/model last BF, although this one had twice the cache. :) :)

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