Sigh, I just bought the 14tb last weekend. I could return it and buy this though…

Anyone know the exact model of drive?

Hoohoo, $400 CAD up in the great white north. a whopping $50 off lol.

We had the 14TB one onsale for $240 last week which wasnt too bad.

i stopped shucking with last years 18 tb seagate exos from server parts deals for 194 each but still buy externals for back ups. are the 18 tb wd externals particularly unreliable? i have good luck with wd externals and i have a whole shelf of them. only 1 12 tb died with in 2 years and had to be rmaed. had some 8s and 3tbs die but at the 5 plus year mark and i was phasing them out anyway. i still have 3 tb elements that still worked last that checked

What drive is inside?

Ah man, I just bought a 8TB WD Elements for $99 and now this comes along!

These hard drives look nice but let me save yall the trouble from using this as “backup storage”. Literally dealing with an older version of this external drive had to send out for data recovery. It never dropped nor received water damage. It just seems to have failed which I believe is on the PCB end of the drive, hoping so to recover it fairly easily. If you use it just do proper backup management on a cloud or something. I mean that’s a given a general better practice anyway. But these things seem to fail eventually so don’t rely on it

Jealous in European.

Do these have the 3.3v pin issue?

Yes, but can you shuck them and use them? Or have they added the drive encryption to the interface?

And what specific model drives are they? (The HDD, not the easyStore)

-– DS