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Reddit mentions of WD 16TB My Book Duo Desktop RAID External Hard Drive - USB 3.0 - WDBLWE0160JCH-NESN

Sentiment score: 15
Reddit mentions: 29

We found 29 Reddit mentions of WD 16TB My Book Duo Desktop RAID External Hard Drive - USB 3.0 - WDBLWE0160JCH-NESN. Here are the top ones.

WD 16TB My Book Duo Desktop RAID External Hard Drive - USB 3.0 - WDBLWE0160JCH-NESN
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2-Bay, 16TB Personal Cloud Storage includes 2 x 8TB HDDUser-selectable RAID 0/1 or JBOD lets you configure your drive for more speed (default setting: RAID 0), data protection (drive mirroring: RAID 1) or operate as two independent drives (JBOD)High-capacity external storage and backup. Ultra-fast, optimized data transfer speeds. Protecting your data with multiple backup optionsComplete backup solutions to secure your data from loss - Integrated backup software, Cloud backup with Dropbox, System-level backupSpeed and security with hardware encrypted RAID
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Height6.5 Inches
Length3.9 Inches
Size16TB
Weight3 Pounds
Width6.2 Inches

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Found 29 comments on WD 16TB My Book Duo Desktop RAID External Hard Drive - USB 3.0 - WDBLWE0160JCH-NESN:

u/hechacker1 · 10 pointsr/DataHoarder

Just a heads up. I've been waiting a couple of weeks on preorder and they're back. I just got charged today.

Looks like newegg is matching at the moment (was $50 more last I checked).

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822235088

EDIT: Amazon is also matching:

https://www.amazon.com/16TB-Desktop-External-Drive-WDBLWE0160JCH-NESN/dp/B01B6BN1CU

u/TheShandyMan · 6 pointsr/DataHoarder

Everyone here seems to be pushing hard on various cloud solutions; but either they haven't actually read all of your requirements, or are ignoring them:

> Occasional read-through of entire dataset (may be several read throughs within a week)

Even on a GigE connection it would still take 11.5 days to download a raw version of that, and if you managed to get a 90% compression rate, that's still ~28 hours of just downloading data.

Right now; these appear to be the cheapest 8TB drives (ignoring the Archive drives which are so slow on bulk writes it would take months to back everything up). So without any parity, you need 14 of those for 100GB raw (8TB drives have 7.3T usable).

If you can play around with your compression and get it < 15TB - which for plain text isn't unthinkable) you can look around for the 16TB WD MyBook for around $500

u/SirCrest_YT · 6 pointsr/DataHoarder

You can often find the Duo 16TB for 500 USD, where on amazon a single 8TB red is like 337.

https://smile.amazon.com/16TB-Desktop-External-Drive-WDBLWE0160JCH-NESN/dp/B01B6BN1CU/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&qid=1485726434&sr=8-6&keywords=8TB+red

https://smile.amazon.com/Red-8TB-Hard-Disk-Drive/dp/B01BYLY4DM/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1485726434&sr=8-1&keywords=8TB+red

So in this case buying a Duo saves you ~170USD. However the disks inside only have a 2yr warranty vs 3 for the whole thing. But for that price, You could probably get a separate thirdparty warranty.

u/outpostnorth · 5 pointsr/DataHoarder

When you can receive two 8TB reds for the same price from amazon in an easily opened enclosure for "shucking" the drives, I would have to recommend that still:
https://www.amazon.com/16TB-Desktop-External-Drive-WDBLWE0160JCH-NESN/dp/B01B6BN1CU/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1487538636&sr=8-1&keywords=my+book+duo+16

u/ender4171 · 3 pointsr/DataHoarder

If you HAVE to go 8TB drives, you would be better off getting 8 of these and shucking the WD 8TB Reds that are inside. The drives you linked are SMR and as such aren't made for 24/7 use and are slow as molasses especially when it comes to writes. They are archive drives for a reason. They are made to be filled and then...archived. If you go with what I linked, you'd be looking at an increase of of $554 (or 14%) which isn't much when you are looking to drop nearly $4k anyways.

u/ruralcricket · 3 pointsr/DataHoarder

Buy this 16tb external and copy your stuff to it from time to time.

u/mechakreidler · 3 pointsr/LinusTechTips

May I suggest instead looking at 8TB drives? It's become really popular over at /r/datahoarder to buy a 16TB WD My Book Duo and harvest the two 8TB WD Red drives inside them, making them essentially $250 each. WAY cheaper per TB than pretty much anything else, and they are really solid drives.

u/nebraskapc · 2 pointsr/DataHoarder

Only in the 16TB My Book Duo. I got mine for $466 each through Amazon (for drives total) because the enclosure had scratches, which doesn't matter when you're shucking.

u/port53 · 2 pointsr/DataHoarder

This particular unit is on sale at amazon today for $499 too, that's where the $20 comes from.

https://www.amazon.com/16TB-Desktop-External-Drive-WDBLWE0160JCH-NESN/dp/B01B6BN1CU/

u/omega_point · 2 pointsr/DataHoarder

I think it's compressed, because last time the same director sent me files, they were .R3D files.

Holy shit, this just made me run a quick test, and I can actually edit these large
.R3D files in Premiere Pro in real time from my 16TB WD RAID 0 external drive!!

Meaning I would be able to easily do my VFX work on R3D files too.

My impression was that these are not compressed, and are just in a container (R3D). But looks like they are compressed like ProPres.

^^^paging ^^^u/beaclicion

u/zductiv · 2 pointsr/synology

If you decide to go with 2x 8TB you could get a WD My Book Duo which you can strip the drives from (has 2x 8tb wd red NAS drives) and save some money over 4x 4tb drives.

https://www.amazon.com/16TB-Desktop-External-Drive-WDBLWE0160JCH-NESN/dp/B01B6BN1CU - $499 for 16tb (2x8tb) vs $548.20 for 4x 4tb

u/SirMaster · 2 pointsr/DataHoarder

Well, the other popular place is for people with edu accounts, you can get 8TB Red for $198 as many as you want from the WD EDU store.

Otherwise, you can get as many 2-bay WD MyBook:
https://www.amazon.com/16TB-Desktop-External-Drive-WDBLWE0160JCH-NESN/dp/B01B6BN1CU

It's not really "shucking" it so much as it's designed to be opened and the disks are designed to be swapped out and carry their own individual warranties. So it's $250 per HDD that way.

u/The_Cave_Troll · 2 pointsr/DataHoarder

I'm taking about this thing, which comes with 2 easily removable WD 8TB Red hard drives. You really haven;t lurked this thread if you haven't heard of those sweet deals.

u/BLKMGK · 1 pointr/DataHoarder

Having never used Jet until today I bought this from Amazon using the "Used - Like New" option thinking it's probably just damaged packaging. I did buy some 5TB drives from Jet this morning though so we'll see how they do - I'd never heard of them before. Either way this box is a decent deal to shuck!

https://smile.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B01B6BN1CU/ref=olp_twister_child?ie=UTF8&mv_size_name=1&mv_style_name=0

u/Jerky_san · 1 pointr/unRAID

I suppose you can't send back the 6 TB ent drives right? If you can.. you should shuck instead.. Shucking is a great way to get 8TB Reds and I'll say I've ran reds since they were released 3TB versions.. 24x7 for almost 4 years or so.. Knock on wood.. no failures.. Reds are VERY good.. and they are power saving..

https://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B01B6BN1CU/ref=dp_olp_all_mbc?ie=UTF8&condition=all <- buy these.. Use a CC that gives you 1 year extended warranty.. There you go.. got yourself 3 year warranty and 8 TB reds for nearly 100-150$ cheaper..

Btw when it comes to unraid.. Use the "preclear plugin" this will do all the formatting and everything BEFORE you introduce them into the array. If I remember right this helps you bypass the parity rebuilds. But also its a burn in test.. Most drives(my own experience) die within the first week of heavy usage.. SO burn the shit out of those drives and if you can let them get on the warmer side.. Like 110-115f to see if they die.. If they can take that torture of being wrote to completely and living. Your GTG..

u/CSTutor · 1 pointr/homelab

Thanks for the input.

I've got plenty of space and noise isn't a concern. Power could be a concern though, not sure how many watts a tape loader pulls during operation.

My main concern with hard drive backups are longevity (for the money) and offsite backups.

A quick google (not much research time at all) says that for about $500 I can get something like this: https://www.amazon.com/16TB-Desktop-External-Drive-WDBLWE0160JCH-NESN/dp/B01B6BN1CU

And that's on sale. So if I went with that solution right now, I'd be paying $1000 on sale. I could backup to one drive then every once in a while swap drives and store one off site.

If either of the drives fail, that's a $500 replacement too.

so I was just thinking if I could find a tape loader that takes somewhat cheap and available tapes all for under $1000 USD I'd have a better overall solution.

I could setup a 1U server with an HBA card to hook up to the tape drive and go from there for backups.

u/IndianaTony · 1 pointr/DataHoarder

In your position I might consider a WD Duo 12-16TB, if it's in budget (B&H has it $50 cheaper than Amazon for the 16TB). It's a USB 3.0 dual-disk enclosure containing two WD Reds. Then I would configure it in RAID-1 giving 6-8TB of usable space with redundancy. The disks can be easily removed from the enclosure and used as internal disks later if you decide to go that direction. One caveat, though: The enclosure encrypts the data on the disks and it cannot be disabled, so if the enclosure dies you have to jump through some hoops to regain access to your data.

I'm running a Silverstone DS380 mini-ITX which has 8 3.5" bays if that helps at all. I stream using Serviio (similar to Plex) with very few issues, but my TV has good codec support so I do very little transcoding. The little C2750 Avoton struggles if it needs to transcode.

u/RomanDoctor · 1 pointr/htpc

Shuck a WD 16TB My Book Duo and you end up with (2) 8TB WD Reds for $31.25/TB and a 2 year warranty on the drives.

u/NiBuch · 1 pointr/buildapcsales

I've also gotten them from 16TB WD MyClouds.

Not quite as cheap as those EasyStores, but the MyClouds always have WD Reds, they're designed to be opened, and they're still a lot cheaper than buying the drives by themselves.

u/PulsedMedia · 1 pointr/DataHoarder

> WD EDU store

You said it yourself :)

> 2-bay WD MyBook: https://www.amazon.com/16TB-Desktop-External-Drive-WDBLWE0160JCH-NESN/dp/B01B6BN1CU

250$ a piece by taking mybook, which isn't too bad, but still more expensive than seagates (~215-235$ a piece for similarly targeted drives)

I actually bought from jet.com one of those (wanted 2) to get some cheap WD Reds so i can have my own data as well during black friday.

I was worried they have firmware changes like Seagate does to ruin performance when used internally. Shucked 5TB Seagates are extremely inconsistent when used internally.

u/victorhooi · 1 pointr/DataHoarder

As in this one?

https://www.amazon.com/16TB-Desktop-External-Drive-WDBLWE0160JCH-NESN/dp/B01B6BN1CU

Hmm - it seems you're right.

Surely there's a catch or something? I mean, sure, I'd have a leftover chassis sitting around - but why would anybody buy them from Newegg when what you said was cheaper for the same drives?

u/AWildRedditorApeared · 1 pointr/hardwareswap

>Equipped with two WD Red HDDs, My Book Duo gives you massive....

https://www.amazon.com/Book-Desktop-External-Drive-WDBLWE0080JCH-NESN/dp/B01B6BN1CU?th=1&psc=1

u/Lt_Awoke · 1 pointr/DataHoarder

This isn't true...the single and duo are reds or purples (WD only makes 8TB drives in Red, Purple or Gold...you'll never get a Gold in one of these).

These two models come with Reds preinstalled:

Single

Duo

u/but_are_you_sure · 1 pointr/PleX

https://www.amazon.com/16TB-Desktop-External-Drive-WDBLWE0160JCH-NESN/dp/B01B6BN1CU

This has 2 WD Red 8TB's in it that can be shucked. It is the best deal on the market right now for the price if you can afford it.

u/RiffyDivine2 · 1 pointr/DataHoarder

> Duo 16TB

One of theses? https://www.amazon.com/16TB-Desktop-External-Drive-WDBLWE0160JCH-NESN/dp/B01B6BN1CU

If so I am so down for paying 500 for a pair of 8's. Is there anyway to know for sure or is it just the higher end/cost ones have them?

Edit: Just saw it says contains reds on the box, I didn't know they did that.