8TB External Hard drive - 7,040 baht!

[killerbeez]

Wow! An 8 terabyte Western Digital external hard drive for just $7,040 including the shipping on LAZADA !

It should be here in a couple of days. I'll update this post with a complete review which will include delivery times, packaging and performance speeds.

 

Stay tuned!

[wgdanson]

8TB is a lot of movies!     LOL

[killerbeez]

The 6TB version is also a very good price at just 5,290! Awesome!

[johng]

Whatever you do don't stand it up like in the picture....if it falls over while platter is spinning /read/write then it can very easily be rendered useless....how do I know ? ? ? [emoji35]

[Thomas J]

What could you possibly need 7 Terabytes pf data for.  One of the largest supercenter stores in the USA with over 300 locations, over 60,000 employees, $18 billion in annual sales and hundreds of thousands of product runs the entire company on 1 Terabyte.  Unless you are downloading and keeping the entire library on Netflix I think you have overkill. 

[KittenKong]

I seem to remember reading that those My Book units can contain bare drives that were RMA'd under warranty and refurbished. But who knows?

[ozmeldo]

54 minutes ago, Thomas J said:

What could you possibly need 7 Terabytes pf data for.  One of the largest supercenter stores in the USA with over 300 locations, over 60,000 employees, $18 billion in annual sales and hundreds of thousands of product runs the entire company on 1 Terabyte.  Unless you are downloading and keeping the entire library on Netflix I think you have overkill. 

Entirely different type of data genius. Multimedia vs Unix servers mmmmkay

[ozmeldo]

It's just 2 4gb drives slapped together.

[tweedledee2]

I have a 3TB 3.5" USB 3.0 Seagate Expansion External HD that I bought on clearance from Wal-Mart last year for $35. Now that's a bargain at less than $12 a TB. It is connected to my PS4 console and I use it to store and play all digital content downloaded from the PS Store.  The 8TB WD MyBook you post is priced at $169.99 from the WD online store. 

[mtls2005]

Always a bit strange...

 

these enclosures often cost less, by 15% or more, than the bare drive

 

drives manufactured in Thailand are still less expensive, by 35%++ at the high end, in the U.S. than in Thailand

 

I've been looking for a Seagate 8TB HDD (ST8000DM0004)...

 

$200 all in in the U.S.

10,950 THB (~ $350) here

 

 

[sammieuk1]

16 hours ago, Thomas J said:

What could you possibly need 7 Terabytes pf data for.  One of the largest supercenter stores in the USA with over 300 locations, over 60,000 employees, $18 billion in annual sales and hundreds of thousands of product runs the entire company on 1 Terabyte.  Unless you are downloading and keeping the entire library on Netflix I think you have overkill. 

A bulging Jav collection maybe????

[Pattaya46]

15 hours ago, ozmeldo said:

It's just 2 4gb drives slapped together.

I don't think so.

This category of WD is just one-disk: https://www.wd.com/products/external-storage/my-book-new.html#WDBBGB0080HBK-NESN

The day your 8TB disk dies... you can cry 

 

I by far would prefer (for my own usage) a small NAS with RAID 2x4TB

[Pattaya46]

Same model at 6'990B there: https://www.wemall.com/d/L91354290

(and maybe 5% reduction with the code ?)

[Peterw42]

16 hours ago, Thomas J said:

What could you possibly need 7 Terabytes pf data for.  One of the largest supercenter stores in the USA with over 300 locations, over 60,000 employees, $18 billion in annual sales and hundreds of thousands of product runs the entire company on 1 Terabyte.  Unless you are downloading and keeping the entire library on Netflix I think you have overkill. 

Just storing the photos of 60,000 employees would take a couple of terabytes. Website, product catalogues etc. 

[Henryford]

I prefer to have 4 x 2 TB or 2 x 4TB. What happens if you load all your data on a 8TB and it fails?

[NCC1701A]

17 hours ago, Thomas J said:

What could you possibly need 7 Terabytes pf data for.  One of the largest supercenter stores in the USA with over 300 locations, over 60,000 employees, $18 billion in annual sales and hundreds of thousands of product runs the entire company on 1 Terabyte.  Unless you are downloading and keeping the entire library on Netflix I think you have overkill. 

i have external 1- 4 Terabyte drive, 1 -2 Terabyte, 1- 1 Terabyte, and 1.5 Terabytes of internal drives. and I am around 70% full. 

 

I just got a 4k gopro and my homemade porn collection is growing fast. i will need a giant server farm soon. 

Edited February 10, 2019 by NCC1701A

[clokwise]

I bought one of these to backup my NAS. Works fine for what it is - a backup, but I'd never trust it as my primary data store. One minor error and everything is gone.

[killerbeez]

18 hours ago, ozmeldo said:

It's just 2 4gb drives slapped together.

No it isn't. 

[killerbeez]

19 hours ago, Thomas J said:

What could you possibly need 7 Terabytes pf data for.

My NFL games collection is 1 TB! A thousand movies is another 1 TB. British TV is 3 TBs US and foreign TV is around 1 TBs and porno is another 2 TBs. It all adds up! All the good stuff I have ripped from YouTube is at least another 1 TB. (YouTube deletes a lot of channels so it's best to grab the content and store it offline.)

 

I already have two copies of everything. This 8 TB drive is to back up the most important stuff and send it home to the UK for storage for when I return. 

 

Overkill would be collecting and saving everything. I've deleted and discarded more than I have saved! I just don't like relying on 'the cloud' for my media.

[killerbeez]

Update... This item is now out of stock! 

Edited February 10, 2019 by killerbeez

[killerbeez]

It's packed... yay!

[killerbeez]

Sweet! It's on the way!

 

[SpaceKadet]

Yes, but the only problem is it's a Western Digital drive.... unreliable at best!

 

[SpaceKadet]

On 2/10/2019 at 10:41 AM, NCC1701A said:

i have external 1- 4 Terabyte drive, 1 -2 Terabyte, 1- 1 Terabyte, and 1.5 Terabytes of internal drives. and I am around 70% full. 

 

I just got a 4k gopro and my homemade porn collection is growing fast. i will need a giant server farm soon. 

What he's talking about is the corporate data... as in ledgers, balance sheets, maybe ERP whatever....

 

Not the actual user data. My movies run into 4TB, porn close to 4TB, photos into 1TB, and I'm frugal. BluRay rips can be up to 40Gb a movie.

[killerbeez]

Excellent... it should arrive sometime this morning... or at the latest just after lunch!

[killerbeez]

6 hours ago, SpaceKadet said:

unreliable at best!

I've been buying the WD drives for decades... never had a problem.

[SpaceKadet]

6 hours ago, killerbeez said:

I've been buying the WD drives for decades... never had a problem.

So have I, but did have problems. Eventually replaced most of them with Seagate. 2TB Barracuda are the fastest spinners on the market.

Still have six 1TB WD Green that I don't use anymore, some in USB enclosures. Anybody wants, I'll sell them cheap....

[killerbeez]

32 minutes ago, SpaceKadet said:

Eventually replaced most of them...

Ah, well, I said I didn't have a problem, not that they haven't failed or broken.

 

As everything is backed up, when a drive fails, (happens once every few years) it's simply replaced.

No problem.

 

This new drive will be loaded one time with media and will become a 'read-only' drive in the future.

 

[killerbeez]

Super duper! Everything working as it should!

[killerbeez]

Awesome... now getting better speeds since I unplugged from the hub and directly into the motherboard!