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Western Digital 8TB WD Blue Hard Drive HDD - $130 @ Amazon - FS $129.99

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Western Digital 8TB WD Blue PC Hard Drive HDD
5640 RPM, SATA 6 Gb/s, 128 MB Cache, 3.5" - WD80EAZZ

$129.99 with Free Shipping

Also $129.99 @ Western Digital
https://www.westerndigital.com/pr...d#WD80EAZZ

CMR drive.
2 years Limited Manufacturers Warranty.

$10 more than the (now expired) Newegg deal from a couple of days ago.
https://slickdeals.net/f/15839206-8tb-wd-blue-wd80eazz-hard-drive-120
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Created 06-13-2022 at 05:21 PM by JodlRodl
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Model: WD Blue 3.5" SATA III Internal Desktop Hard Drive 8TB

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bavm
06-14-2022 at 10:54 AM.
06-14-2022 at 10:54 AM.
Good price. If you wait you can get the red plus 8tb from $135-145 on sale if the extra year warranty is worth it to you.
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SkillfulPiranha7944
06-14-2022 at 11:38 AM.
06-14-2022 at 11:38 AM.
That's a pretty bad price, given recent sales. The 4TB WD Blue was $44 just a week or two ago. The sale is over but when I checked Amazon yesterday, it was only $66 or so. That's pretty much the same cost per byte as this one. Higher capacity drives are supposed to cost less per byte than smaller ones, but that's certainly not the case here -- especially since the 8tb one is supposed to be on sale whereas the 4tb one is no longer on sale.

Even worse, a 16tb WD Red was on sale for about $220 a few weeks ago, also on Amazon. I don't know much about Red vs Blue, but I do know that the Red was 7200rpm whereas this Blue drive is only 5400rpm (5640?).

In other words, this is not a good deal at all, when compared to pther recent deals.
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SkillfulPiranha7944
06-14-2022 at 11:42 AM.
06-14-2022 at 11:42 AM.
Quote from bavm :
Good price. If you wait you can get the red plus 8tb from $135-145 on sale if the extra year warranty is worth it to you.
[I had posted this before reading your comment, but thought you ight be interested so...] - Apologies for the duplicate comment...

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That's a pretty bad price, given recent sales. The 4TB WD Blue was $44 just a week or two ago. The sale is over but when I checked Amazon yesterday, it was only $66 or so. That's pretty much the same cost per byte as this one. Higher capacity drives are supposed to cost less per byte than smaller ones, but that's certainly not the case here -- especially since the 8tb one is supposed to be on sale whereas the 4tb one is no longer on sale.

Even worse, a 16tb WD Red was on sale for about $220 a few weeks ago, also on Amazon. I don't know much about Red vs Blue, but I do know that the Red was 7200rpm whereas this Blue drive is only 5400rpm (5640?).

In other words, this is not a good deal when compared to other recent deals.
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bavm
06-14-2022 at 12:01 PM.
06-14-2022 at 12:01 PM.
Quote from SkillfulPiranha7944 :
That's a pretty bad price, given recent sales. The 4TB WD Blue was $44 just a week or two ago. The sale is over but when I checked Amazon yesterday, it was only $66 or so. That's pretty much the same cost per byte as this one. Higher capacity drives are supposed to cost less per byte than smaller ones, but that's certainly not the case here -- especially since the 8tb one is supposed to be on sale whereas the 4tb one is no longer on sale.

Even worse, a 16tb WD Red was on sale for about $220 a few weeks ago, also on Amazon. I don't know much about Red vs Blue, but I do know that the Red was 7200rpm whereas this Blue drive is only 5400rpm (5640?).

In other words, this is not a good deal at all, when compared to pther recent deals.
The 4tb blue is a SMR drive. This is CMR. CMR drives are usually a tad more expensive. This one comes out to $16.25/tb, which is good, no great. Great price for CMR would be $15 or less per tb.

The 16tb red was a very good deal but if I remember right that one sold out very quick. The reds are rated for NAS storage and generally gave 3-5 year warranty instead of 2 like on this drive.
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HiddenNomad
06-16-2022 at 08:46 AM.
06-16-2022 at 08:46 AM.
These drives have pretty awful read/write speeds. WD is doing some chicanery on the engineering of these drives to help cut costs. See the Amazon ratings and comments for details.
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06-19-2022 at 02:48 PM.
06-19-2022 at 02:48 PM.
Here is Western Digital hard drive color choices:

Blue and Green: Slow drives that will maybe last 3 year's. These drives are usually found at Best Buy. Not designed for longestivity or performance..

Purple; Designed for security systems, both residential and commercial. Never had one of these. People say they are decent.

Black: The consumer grade and gaming grade drives. Designed for heavy use, genally quiet function and very reliable.

Red, Red Plus and Red Pro: Very reliable, some are 5400 rpm and some are 7200 rpm. Designed for long data storage systems.

Gold and UltraSfar: DataCenter drives, very loud but will last a long time. Designed to be on 24/7 in harsh environments. Can be expensive.
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dealseeker50
06-25-2022 at 10:01 PM.
06-25-2022 at 10:01 PM.
That 16 TB for $220 or $200 was likely a price mistake, that's way too farking cheap
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