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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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[–] 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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