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Interestingly these drives are on sale on newegg.com right now.
by S_A_P 6y ago
Interestingly these drives are on sale on newegg.com right now.
- mark-r 6y agoThat's what happens when you have trouble selling something.
- Hamuko 6y agoDo they actually have trouble selling? How many people shopping for these kind of drives understand what kind of a difference SMR has theoretically and what kind of a difference it has for them? When you Google "best NAS HDDs", you'll basically run to a bunch of articles recommending WD Reds alongside Seagate Ironwolves. I think only one link on the first page of results had a warning against the lower capacity WD Reds due to this.
- blibble 6y agothat's because they know they're going to be worth essentially zero very soon
- metalliqaz 6y agothe SMR debacle has been going on for months now, the prices haven't taken much of a hit
- loeg 6y agoThis is generally why shopping sales/discounts as a first-order criteria is not great for value. Find some acceptable parts first, then price hunt those parts.
- kabdib 6y agoYup. I narrowly escaped buying one of these drives as a spare for a Synology. Anecdotal evidence is that the SMR drives will mostly work. It's not worth the time or trouble. WD is dead to me until the next cycle of vendor rage forces me to choose them again. :-/
- StillBored 6y agoI just looked at it, and funny enough the EFAX (SMR) drives are more expensive by 10% than the EFRX. In my case its the EFRX drives which are on sale. (course newegg sales and all that).