Once the test passed, we opened our WD My Book 8TB in a manner that is not very gentile. It is easy to return a failed drive in the first day or two while still in its external enclosure. This is very important to do because hard drives have a high initial failure rate so running the drive with some stress for a day or two often means you can find bad drives quickly. The first thing we did was to purchase two drives on : WD My Book 8TB AmazonĪfter the drives arrived, they were tested for 24 hours before removing them from the external enclosure. These drives are a phenomenal value and can be used in popular multi-bay NAS units from Drobo, Synology, QNAP and others. After publishing our how-to guide on saving money with the Toshiba 5TB 7200rpm external drives, we planned to do the same with the 8TB drives. For years we have turned to liberating internal drives from external enclosures, and today we are looking at the implications for 8TB drives.
HOW TO OPEN THE WD MY BOOK EXTERNAL DRIVE FULL
The WD My Book 8TB drives retail for about $249.99 on making them a full $90 less than the WD Red 8TB drive or about $200 less than the 7200rpm HGST HE8. We had two WD 8TB My Books en route from when Pcper published that it got HGST He rpm hard drives from units procured at Best Buy. We have some benchmarks and the scoop on the Western Digital 8TB drives found on newer (2016) Western Digital My Book external drives.
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