Saw these drop on NewEgg down to $209, then NewEgg doing it's Newegg crap, jacked it back up. Then saw they dropped on WD's own website.
These are also CMR, not SMR.![Smile :) :)](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7)
(pick the 10TB variant)
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Still not back down to the $0.15/GB they once were, but close.
On a side note, it looks like prices are starting to fall from the Chia craze - especially on the used market. I just picked up 5x 10TB SAS for $170ea for a local school. Lots of used drives starting to dump on homelansales.
These are also CMR, not SMR.
(pick the 10TB variant)
![shop.westerndigital.com](/proxy.php?image=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.westerndigital.com%2Fcontent%2Fdam%2Fstore%2Fen-us%2Fassets%2Fproducts%2Finternal-storage%2Fwd-red-plus-sata-3-5-hdd%2Fgallery%2Fwd-red-plus-sata-3-5-hdd-1tb.png&hash=a25334bfdc67c61648cb299f013bf587&return_error=1)
WD Red™ Plus NAS Internal Hard Drive 3.5" HDD | Western Digital | Western Digital Store
Packed with power to handle the small- to medium-sized business NAS environments and increased workloads1 for SOHO customers, WD Red™ Plus is ideal for archiving and sharing, as well as RAID array rebuilding on systems using ZFS and other file systems. Built and tested for up to 8-bay NAS...
Still not back down to the $0.15/GB they once were, but close.
On a side note, it looks like prices are starting to fall from the Chia craze - especially on the used market. I just picked up 5x 10TB SAS for $170ea for a local school. Lots of used drives starting to dump on homelansales.
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