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Costco Calgary - WD My Book 6TB $154

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Costco Calgary - WD My Book 6TB $154

Saw the WD My Book 6TB for $154@Costco Calgary Beacon Hills location, regular price is $189. You may find similar prices at other warehouses.
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Less than $26 per TB. Good price, and not hard to remove the drive from the enclosure if you don't mind voiding the warranty.

Anyone see this in Vancouver?
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Not for the first time I notice, among different WD disk sizes, 6TB is often cheaper per GB. Any known reliability issues?
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Orpheus wrote: Less than $26 per TB. Good price, and not hard to remove the drive from the enclosure if you don't mind voiding the warranty.

Anyone see this in Vancouver?
I understand the enclosure warranty being voided when opening up the drive. But does the drive itself lose its warranty as well?
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tatung wrote: I understand the enclosure warranty being voided when opening up the drive. But does the drive itself lose its warranty as well?
Yes, it voids the WD warranty. However, you might be able to put the drive back in the enclosure and see if Costco will accept the return. Costco is very good about returns.
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tatung wrote: I understand the enclosure warranty being voided when opening up the drive. But does the drive itself lose its warranty as well?
The bare drives in these things are known as OEM, just like those supplied in a computer. So, effectively, they have no warranty apart the one for the entire unit -- that has not been opened.
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Orpheus wrote: Less than $26 per TB. Good price, and not hard to remove the drive from the enclosure if you don't mind voiding the warranty.

Anyone see this in Vancouver?
You’ve probably already checked but in case you haven’t, yes downtown and Willingdon have these drives in stock.

This is a price drop - Costco’s pricing fell from $190 to $180 and now to $155 in a span of 2 months! Not to mention they were also on sale on Amazon.ca two weeks ago for $155 so the price drop is likely manufacturer driven.

I bought two last night, shucked the drives and stuck them in my NAS.

Yes I know they aren’t NAS grade drives, but I have off-site backup as well (Crashplan for now) so the effective added capacity for my setup is great for the price!
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vancityguy0 wrote: You’ve probably already checked but in case you haven’t, yes downtown and Willingdon have these drives in stock.

This is a price drop - Costco’s pricing fell from $190 to $180 and now to $155 in a span of 2 months! Not to mention they were also on sale on Amazon.ca two weeks ago for $155 so the price drop is likely manufacturer driven.

I bought two last night, shucked the drives and stuck them in my NAS.

Yes I know they aren’t NAS grade drives, but I have off-site backup as well (Crashplan for now) so the effective added capacity for my setup is great for the price!
Have you checked what drive is actually in it (ie use Passmark Diskcheckup) ? I bought a 4TB and it had a WD Red in it.
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vancityguy0 wrote: You’ve probably already checked but in case you haven’t, yes downtown and Willingdon have these drives in stock.

This is a price drop - Costco’s pricing fell from $190 to $180 and now to $155 in a span of 2 months! Not to mention they were also on sale on Amazon.ca two weeks ago for $155 so the price drop is likely manufacturer driven.

I bought two last night, shucked the drives and stuck them in my NAS.

Yes I know they aren’t NAS grade drives, but I have off-site backup as well (Crashplan for now) so the effective added capacity for my setup is great for the price!
What drives were inside of them?
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I picked one up in Ontario - same price here.

According to Passmark Diskcheckup it's got a WD Blue in it model WD60EZRZ.

Just needed some more storage - can't complain for the price.
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Bazooka Joe wrote: I picked one up in Ontario - same price here.

According to Passmark Diskcheckup it's got a WD Blue in it model WD60EZRZ.

Just needed some more storage - can't complain for the price.
Same with me, bought in St-Hubert
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vancityguy0 wrote: You’ve probably already checked but in case you haven’t, yes downtown and Willingdon have these drives in stock.

This is a price drop - Costco’s pricing fell from $190 to $180 and now to $155 in a span of 2 months! Not to mention they were also on sale on Amazon.ca two weeks ago for $155 so the price drop is likely manufacturer driven.

I bought two last night, shucked the drives and stuck them in my NAS.

Yes I know they aren’t NAS grade drives, but I have off-site backup as well (Crashplan for now) so the effective added capacity for my setup is great for the price!
What are the specs of the drive? 5400 RPM?
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What brand/model is the best bet to get a 7200 drive? Seems like a My Book is a crapshoot and unlikely to get a Black.
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$154, lots of stock at Richmond, BC Costco as of 18-Mar-2018.
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Saw this price in Stoney Creek location today
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Confirming there are several at the Pickering, ON Costco, same price.

Thanks OP.
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Kontos wrote: Is WD better than Seagate? I'm looking at the 8TB Seagate drive on Amazon

https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B01HD6 ... UTF8&psc=1
I've had a lot of issues with Seagate drives, one had a firmware boot issue that bricked the drive after a certain number of reboots, and two other Seagate drives that just straight up died on me.

Never had a WD drive fail like that on me though. Take that for what you will, but I feel like I hear a lot more stories about Seagate being unreliable

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