8TB External Hard drive - 7,040 baht!

[killerbeez 17]

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 4,936]

8TB is a lot of movies!     LOL

[killerbeez 17]

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

[johng 7,482]

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 ? ? ?

[Thomas J 115]

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 13,776]

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 435]

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 435]

It's just 2 4gb drives slapped together.

[tweedledee2 329]

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 6,792]

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 5,842]

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 1,980]

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 1,980]

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

(and maybe 5% reduction with the code ?)

[Peterw42 7,144]

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 1,510]

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?