Western Digital shuckable drive price tracker

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32 points·JonathanBuchh··10 comments

I started off shucking drives but one failed and even after getting a RMA shipping label it was unclear if it would actually be honored under the warranty. IMO it is not worth the hassle to shuck drives plus the bare drives typically have longer warranties as well.

What was the result? I've seen comments on /r/datahorder and the like claiming some honoured the RMA without the enclosure whilst others had success returning it to the enclosure.

My go to for this information is https://diskprices.com/, which supports multiple countries and provides a couple more useful columns.

14tb for $200? Don't mind if I do.

Great site!

> 343 days ago

Those "lowest prices last seen on" dates seems to imply it's going to go down another $10 on Black Friday, which I would guess is just them eating some of the sales tax but still "free money"

For the uninformed, what does it mean here to 'shuck' the drives? Just deal hunting or are people doing something with them after buying them like returning/RMAing etc?

Remove the drive from the external casing and be able to use the drive in ones machine.

Shucking means removing the HDDs from the enclosure to use them on PCs or servers. Un-shockable enclosures might have HDDs with proprietary electrical connection which makes standalone usage impossible.

Is there even a SATA connector inside or is the USB interface directly on the hdd pcb?

"Shuckable" is explicitly used to imply that the drive can be used as an ordinary drive outside the enclosure - that is, the USB connector is on a separate board, not part of the PCB that cannot be changed.

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