Western Digital Deals & Offers

Offer is gone.

Of course - the hardest part with be finding a suitably fast enclosure

To what end?

not working

Can I use this as an external drive for an iMac late 2013? Hoping to boot MacOS from an external hard drive.

Yes looks like, the voucher is gone... :( Have to expire it.

Don't seem to be getting these offers though: Is it Prime only or something?

Thanks Thanks will give that a go!

Search for HyperX, couple of deals with them.

Lots of 1Tb offers, when 2TB ones? 8)

Yeah it says all that in the video

Cut a little bit of regular selotape over the third pin. No longer annoying. Alternatively use a USB3 docking station. I don't recommend using a molex-sata cable. I've had a drive fail due to the power being intermittent through one of those cheap things.

Looks like the original voucher must've been €40 off

May have been a glitch ? As voucher showing this now ...

That video is from 2018 and is talking about the PWDIS feature added to SATA v3.3 in 2016. Shouldn't be a problem with a supply made since then. https://www.tomshardware.com/uk/news/hdd-sata-power-disable-feature,36146.html If you are worried your power supply is older than 2016 then you could buy the MyBook Elements 8TB which doesn't have a EZ model code and thus does not have PWDIS but there are air and helium versions that makes it a tricky decision. MyBook 8 TB WD80EZAZ-11TDBA0 helium My Book Elements 8 TB WD80EMAZ-00M9AA0 air filled runs hot My Book Elements 8 TB WD80EMAZ-00WJTA0 helium filled, runs cool but has extremely loud seek It's possible the EZ drive also has SED (hardware encryption) which if it does will be very beneficial in the future once it becomes the norm for everyone to be encrypting all their hard drives.

Code has expired now.

Ha, the HDD has miraculously sprang, or tottered, back to life, like Marley's ghost! I had one last go at starting it up, only this time I did a factory reset, and after much fiddling, voilà! Currently d/l 164 updates (annoyed) I'll bung some more RAM in it, too, just for a laugh. I only need it until November, as I'll be buying a new laptop before Xmas. Thanks for your advice, much appreciated :D Cheers!

No you'd need an internal drive to replace the broken one although it would be technically possible to use a USB drive as a boot drive at USB 2.0 speeds using a SSD would be a waste of time as even a basic hard drive would be faster than the USB 2.0 interface could handle. I would say that if your laptop only has USB 2.0 it must now be quite old and impressive you've kept using it up until now. As the value is not great I'd look for a 120-240gb SATA drive to replace the broken drive if you feel you must keep it running, but make sure that this is the correct connection, I doubt it'd be an PATA drive but who knows :) Of course after fitting the drive you'll have to reinstall windows.. The drives usually go for £15-£25 for 120gb and £25-£35 for 240gb Something like this @ £16.14 would probably work https://www.amazon.co.uk/KingDian-Original-Internal-Desktop-Laptop/dp/B019W9C0AW not the greatest drive but will be more than enough for old hardware. If it were me and it was my only machine I think I'd decide that this is a good reason to buy a new or even refurbished laptop, itzoo can do some good deals on refurbished Thinkpads which seem well rated by Hotuk members.

The hdd in my old laptop has failed, would this work as a replacement? Only has usb 2.0.

Yeah it is very strange that website. I could get the deal above for £65 without the code. Not sure how it works.

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oooh.. a 1.6tb iPod...

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says The coupon code entered is no longer valid. bugger and when using student code it wipes off the £10 discount and uses student to take £9 off leaving it at £51 missed my chance lol

I wouldn't recommend it. The fancy photo options in that phone would overwhelm the write buffer in a few seconds and suddenly everything would slow down. It might be better matched with a ridiculously cheap chinese phone such as a Cubot or a Ulefone or something, but I would be really surprised that someone would want to put a 400GB card in one of those...

Worked.Registering account was a key.Thanks.

Software is poor. Looks outdated. Upgrading to a premium costs £ 15 although the premium version often shows an error.

I’m literally getting it at the op price i added it to the cart, then signed up went back to the cart then went to check out and it applied the discount

OP it’s just applying 10% off to your order once you’ve signed up

Thanks.

USB soldered on

Can’t get this deal now I don’t think. Bit confusing their site.

No stock at Currys...anywhere

Are these a normal drive inside or do they have the USB soldered on?

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You can. i got it for £101

You cant have both

Yeah tried both, it takes the original promotion price off when I put in the student discount code

Should be 15% off Try a different t browser and clear cache maybe

Id keep an eye on you bank account for a PayPal refund. i haven’t got one yet but you never know. im hoping it’s just a technical glitch on their site ...

Mine too, did it say that the other day also or has it changed? I don't recall. Paid via PayPal too so money was taken weeks ago. It would sting a bit if some people got theirs and others didn't.

Yup, payed via paypal !

Did you order via PayPal? I ordered via card and the total cost is fine although I haven't been charged yet.

This is a bit worrying, i checked the order page on the WD sites and it says the following:- Delivery - FREE Total - FREE I'm hoping its not a case of being given a forced refund :( status still says:- In Process though

Expired now anyway.

That's a very valid point. Pay In euro and save on the exchange charge.

Why would you pay in £ if you have a fee free card or post office credit card? especially when Amazon are charging a fee ?

Got the 14 for about £185 not too long ago

Got the 12TB version just before Christmas for 153. Waiting for these prices to return. Hopefully not be too long a wait.

Order cancelled for me

Probably, assuming you have software looking for them. I've never had windows report an issue to me! Longest usage drive is at over 40k hours usage. Most drive companies suggest 20k hours is a good lifespan. So I have done ok.

I see, I've got drives I bought almost a decade ago that haven't yet shown signs of failure, perhaps I don't use it as much then. Never seen a SMART error before... guess that's good news then?

I have 3 drives showing smart errors. Nothing absolutely critical, but they are showing the kind of errors that would lead you to consider replacement sooner rather than later.

How do you know they're failing? SMART readout? Slow read/write?