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WD Blue 6TB US$114.59 (~NZ$174), WD Black 4TB P10 Portable External Drive US$103.22 (~NZ$157) Delivered + More @ Amazon

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Save up to 25% on Western Digital & Sandisk Products

WD Blue 6TB 5400rpm class - $164.21 + $15 shipping (to Hamilton) + $26.89 GST.
- Similar item in NZ is $300+

WD Black 4TB P10 Game Drive Portable External Hard Drive - $150.13 + $11.31 shipping (to Hamilton) + $24.21 GST.
- Similar item at similar price in New Zealand would be the 2TB version from Noel Leeming for $159.99

Other decent deals include a SanDisk 512GB Extreme MicroSDXC for $153.01 shipped
$125.11 + $7.95 shipping (to Hamilton) + $19.96 GST.

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  • Nil Einne on 15/07/2020 - 20:54
    +4

    For pure storage, this 12TB seems best, and best US price I've seen ever barring that 'pricing mistake' that never shipped last year. Not that I've been paying much attention in past few months, and of course you will have to pay GST now whereas you may have escaped it at the end of November https://www.amazon.com/12TB-Elements-Desktop-Drive-WDBWLG012…

    Also since it's WD it should not be SMR if you're worried about that. (Probably helium but a slight chance it's non helium PMR.) However if you plan to shuck it, consider the 3.3V standby issue.

    • wellydeal on 15/07/2020 - 22:53

      I bought the 12TB - Thanks!

    • Nil Einne on 16/07/2020 - 03:07
      +1

      B&H Photo also have the 12TB drive at the same price https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1532285-REG/wd_wdbwlg…

      They charge more for shipping to NZ (well lowest tier) although seem to be thumbing their noses at the GST collection regime. (It's possible their rales to NZ are under the threshold where they have to register but I doubt it especially as they sell expensive camera equipment. I doubt it even more in Australia we're they're doing the same thing.)

    • Detruire on 16/07/2020 - 08:45

      Also since it's WD it should not be SMR if you're worried about that.

      I wouldn't make that assumption based on brand alone: WD started shipping SMR drives as Red NAS drives.

      • Nil Einne on 16/07/2020 - 10:38

        Perhaps I wasn't clear enough. I'm aware that WD ship SMR drives. However there's no evidence that they ship device managed SMR drives in capacities above 6TB. It's always possible they will suddenly introduce them without really telling anyone, as they did with the WD Red and especially in external, that's why I said 'should not', as there's never any guarantees when you're buying a product like this. But all evidence is that WD doesn't have drive managed SMR in 12TB.

        To be fair, Seagate doesn't seem to have produced anything above 10TB drive managed SMR so I probably should have just said since it's 12TB rather than since it's WD. I forgot that 10TB was the end.

        But the other point is this. I use SMR drives myself, I personally think the negatives are overblown for non RAID use cases, especially with modern drives (not the early ones) and where you aren't purposely trying to kill the non SMR cache.

        However if you are worried about SMR for high capacity 3.5" drives, then WD stopping at 6TB is convenient. IMO it doesn't make much sense to use 6TB 3.5" any more except for special use cases where it's not just capacity. It's simply too small, price/TB isn't that good especially when you consider you can get 2.5". Even 8TB is now getting a little small, still it's IMO the bare minimum. So at the moment, for 3.5" high capacity drives. If it's mostly true that if it's WD it should not be SMR.

        Again this could change at any time, so you need to keep abreast of things if you care, but it seems to be the way it is at the moment. (Extreme high capacity is a different matter, but all these are host managed. If you're the sort of person able to buy host managed SMR, I assume you don't need to be told any of this.)

        • Jaxson on 16/07/2020 - 10:52

          Haven't misunderstood your point at all, just providing some supporting info for the conversation.

          • Nil Einne on 16/07/2020 - 10:59

            @Jaxson: Apologies, I was replying to Detruire not you. I modified my response to better acknowledge my responsibility for the confusion anyway. Also my memory was wrong, Seagate ended at 8TB for SMR not 10TB, so it's actually anything above 8TB that you probably don't have to worry for any brand.

            I maybe should mention that the other thing is that WD only introduced the SMR recently, so it's even more a case of not something you're likely to encounter if looking for $/TB & high capacity. Actually I'm not the only one to think it's a little weird they did it for the 6TB. Maybe it's because the margins on these are very low, but there is a chance they're testing the waters for further expansion.

            (Because Seagate have had the SMR for a long time, including when 8TB were often best $/TB and they still are sometimes, you're much more likely to encounter SMR with Seagate IMO.)

      • wearnes on 16/07/2020 - 10:48

        seems like you will be safe with a drive larger than 6tb.
        https://www.ixsystems.com/community/resources/list-of-known-…

    • Jaxson on 16/07/2020 - 08:53

      Hi,

      Can you expand/explain this last line please?

      Also since it's WD it should not be SMR if you're worried about that. (Probably helium but a slight chance it's non helium PMR.) However if you plan to shuck it, consider the 3.3V standby issue.

      What's SMR/PMR and what's the 3.3V standby issue when shucking?

      Cheers.

      • Tomo on 16/07/2020 - 09:53
        +1

        SMR drives are a lot slower in large load work and isnt good as a NAS drive. WD recently moved their red drives to SMR without letting people know but it seems like at the moment it only affects drives under 6TB anyways.
        https://www.servethehome.com/wd-red-smr-vs-cmr-tested-avoid-…

        3.3V issue with shucking just means that if your power supply is fairly old and doesnt support the new SATA 3.3 standard iirc, the shucked hard drive wont boot.
        All you would need to do is bypass with a molex to sata or cover the 3rd pin with kapton tape then the drive would boot as normal.

  • Jaxson on 16/07/2020 - 11:14

    Thanks, went with the 6TB option for now. Tempted to go with the fast shipping (said here by Friday?!) and then try and claim this back when it didn't arrive…

    Thanks to the others who posted more info around the options.

    • hsran on 16/07/2020 - 13:58

      Is AmazonGlobal Priority Shipping part of Amazon's guaranteed delivery promise?

  • hsran on 16/07/2020 - 13:50

    Ordered 2 of them as there was a buy limit of 1.
    Might ask Amazon to consolidate my package and save a few pesos.

    • Nil Einne on 16/07/2020 - 16:52

      From my experience it's not really possible. They may ship them together but price paid will be the same. They'll say you need to cancel the orders and ship together or just keep them as separate orders. At best, you may be able to convince them to refund the difference or extra shipping of 1 order as a courtesy and they'll likely ask you to wait until you've received the items before they do so. (It doesn't help that it's rarely an issue for those in the US I'm sure.) To be honest if it was an order limit, I wouldn't raise too many questions.

      • hsran on 17/07/2020 - 19:22

        They looked at it and consolidation wasn’t possible with this purchase.

        Got charged for the first 12TB drive and lets see how long it takes to be delivered in the current climate.

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