Very tempting, but the reliability is concerning me a lot

These hard drives look nice but let me save yall the trouble from using this as “backup storage”. Literally dealing with an older version of this external drive had to send out for data recovery. It never dropped nor received water damage. It just seems to have failed which I believe is on the PCB end of the drive, hoping so to recover it fairly easily. If you use it just do proper backup management on a cloud or something. I mean that’s a given a general better practice anyway. But these things seem to fail eventually so don’t rely on it

what’s the noise level gonna be on these?

Absolutely don’t need it, but I want it.

Meanwhile the same 18TB is $499.99 CAD in Canada…

so are these drives worth it? I mean the price is nice but is the quality worth it?

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I’m interested but don’t want something to die out. I suppose my other question is what is normal life expectancy if 4/5 years is considered bad.

Jealous in European.

Don’t need this… ok I’ll buy just 1

bought 5, do I need them? no. Do I want them? Damn right.

Yooo thanks for the heads up bro!

FWIW WD is having a “buy 2 18TB Red Pro drives for $549” sale right now

https://www.westerndigital.com/products/internal-drives/wd-red-pro-sata-hdd?sku=WD181KFGX

$25 extra for a Red Pro drive & not having shuck seems like a good value to me

$11.11/TB, pretty screaming $/TB right there

It is somewhat tempting, but I bought six 18tb drives a few years ago. I have already replaced half of them. My nine 8tb drives have been much more reliable.

Cleared out my store’s three units.

Pairing this with 8TB SATA SSD for disaster proof backups. After twenty years, getting all my data in one place…

… Well, except the 20TB overflow. That backs up to my $279 20TB’s. Which hook into BackBlaze. They had better appreciate the loyalty. The 28TB backups sure cost them a lot.

I’m just glad I don’t have more. Then I’d have to set up a NAS and, ugh, I’m just working too hard to enjoy doing that these days.

Only hiccup so far is either my 8TB Samsung 870 QVO died or the enclosure, a whopping 30 minutes in. This is why I backup meticulously in (at least) three separate locales, plus encrypted cloud.

Well, I got an Enterprise one (WUH721818ALE6L4) for US$ 245 shipped.