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There's currently a sale on the Western Digital website. I was thinking of getting the Red Pros since they're high capacity and relatively quiet. In a previous post I made on the datahoarders community, I was looking for an HDD that was basically silent since the NAS will be next to my desk where I WFH.

Currently, two 18 TB drives are going for $620 or about $17.22 per TB. Not the best deal but definitely better than their normal price. I know a lot of people like buying used drives but the ones for sale are usually loud enterprise edition drives which won't work for me. Should I buy the drives now or wait until BF for a possibly better sale?

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[–] Good4Nuthin@lemmy.world 26 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (3 children)

WD has a recycling deal where you can get 15% off your total purchase, once per quarter, by sending in any drive, working or not, to their recycling partner. I just did this with an old Maxtor 60gb 3.5” PATA drive. The shipping is free and it gets processed really quickly (e.g. it was actually delivered today and i already received -and-used- the discount code.

Note that theyre pretty clear/strict about no stacking of codes/discounts.

[–] OccasionallyFeralya@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 days ago

That’s good to know omg

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Cool! I have some old drives laying around because I didn't know how to recycle them.

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 6 days ago (2 children)

A good smack with a hammer then trash like any other electronic.
or
Disassemble the drive, crack/scratch the platters, trash like any other electronic

[–] Glitterbomb@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

The magnets in HDDs are some of the strongest magnets you can find. I rip those out when I can, but I'm a packrat

[–] Good4Nuthin@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

Fyi, i -did- dissasemble the drive, remove the magnets from the head assembly, and scratched tf out of both sides of the platters. :)

Also, re the price, with the discount i paid the same for the drive i ordered that i paid for the same size/model last BF, although this one had twice the cache. :) :)

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

In Germany we don't really have the concept of landfills.
Here usually everything is recycled to some degree.

That's pretty awesome!

[–] Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Okay, that's pretty sweet. Imma have to look into that, i know a guy who just retired a home server with like 10+ old HDDs