Western Digital Deals & Offers

£3.97 cash back from Quidco

That is a good deal mate ... nice

Cheers its cool, i have emailed LG .. see what they recomend (y) 🏻

I would try the recording to the HDD for you but I don’t even have a tv aerial to plug into the TV as I just use a Sky Q box.

missed yesterday's deal so I grabbed a 1TB one now for £27.99 after using the code 5OFFWDUK Cheers Op!

mine turned up this afternoon, brilliant price and super quick delivery.

I don’t like cartoons.

Pity all those people weren't as amazingly wise and clever as you, I suppose. An off-site backup - it's definitely a profound, ingenius and original idea. Give it a rest. Let people do their backups (or not) their way, and you do yours your way. You're not adding any non-obvious information to this thread. You're just gloating about your uber-smart 5TB Hentai multi-backup scheme.

Not trying to get the better of anyone, I’ve just known far to many people trust external hard drives for backups and be shocked when they lose all their data.

Well that’s pretty obvious isn’t it? I merely stated what the definition of a backup was dependent on the scenario. Off site backup would be good practise. This site makes me laugh, everyone jumping down your throat and trying to get one better on people.

Must of missed it! Mind you it gets a bit manic this time of year.

Nope, i found that deal here as well:)

Good for you, did you post it as a deal? :)

Couple weeks ago, i purshased this price but for new one.

Thanks for the heads up. (y)

Sneaky buggers. Did it on incognito : )

It's still available.. one per customer it seems. Use a different browser and account. May work.

Just tried that but doesn't work? Has it ended? (I have just ordered ano one previously as it only gave you the 5 off one drive, so I thought I'd do two separate orders but the second order isn't applying the discount?)

Top deal, just what I needed. Thanks!

Has someone used this generation of drives under Linux? The instructions I found are contradictory and outdated. Thanks.

Does this one work with ps4?

Ordered, many thanks for posting... :)

Yes, sometimes maybe, but the 4GB sizes are rare in any colour or form. They always seen to have a lot of 1 or 2GB size,

Thank you... Ordered the ultra version for £26.99...I don't know the difference but I like the sound of the ultra bit... (lol)

I would think so, I have one for my Xbox one, I was looking for a 2tb drive, but there did not seem to be one on their site, I intend using this for recording off of my tv

Did you try it today, I tried it before posting. :)

Tried to order ssd last night & it wouldn't take discount off any ssd

It will replace any 2.5" hardrive as there both the same size,so yes!

I have a 17 inch VPCEJ Sony laptop from 2012, would this fit does anybody know?

I've got a 6 tb My book, nice drive, considering there awful mycloud only 3tb left, but with code 50 quid,, never bought a Recertified, it's only for movies, see what we get, they have red decent drives in them, as there designed to be run.

Once it goes on HUKD it'll be sold out within a few hours if it's a truly great deal.

Ok how do I do that? Thanks

Guys - set up your deal alerts - gotta get in quick!

sold out expect for 3TB version

I've always bought Reds for the warranty as much as anything. They've always been decent. I'm giving the 8TBs here a go, Can't get 4 in one go as max purchase is 3. So buying a couple today and a couple Sunday. I always get a bit nervous purchasing drives in multiples as I prefer to buy from different stores to avoid them coming from the same manufacturing batch, However, with the savings here I'm willing to ignore my 'rule'.

Thanks

It's a WD Blue 6TB Standard drive 5400rpm (no Helium).

Do you know if the 6tb is helium filled? Does it really matter? Does the helium deplete in time and make the disk useless or am I just being paranoid?

They won't have retail Reds in them, i.e. red, Reds. They'll be white label with black text, WD don't make a 10TB Blue, so it will be helium filled. OK for a home/SMB NAS. In a small setup, whatever the marketing - the different types of drive (Blue, Red, Black, Gold) only really come into play when you have errors on the drive. How the drive deals with errors, the drives with the least vibration/noise are probably selected at production, to become Reds, but there is no proof of that. I don't believe Reds use different spindles/bearings/motors, say from Blues, maybe? It's mostly clever marketing to latch onto the fear of losing your data. Having a good backup/tested recovery process in place, is far more important than the colour of the drive.

I think the onus is upon the Manufacturer to prove that there is\was no fault with the product within the first 6 months of a Warranty, after that the onus falls upon the Buyer to prove that faults which occurred with goods after those 6 months were through no fault of their own, ie dropped or spilt some kind of liquid on it. From what I've read regarding hard drives they seem to last a hell of a lot longer than say Refurbished TV's which develop dead pixels or suffer from Colour bleeding issues. I could be wrong though, I'm just talking about Warranties as a whole, not just based on Hard Drives :)

Is this accurate? EDIT: Never mind, it's on the product page. That's disappointing and off-putting.

Plus 3 years vs 6 months of warranty

Subtle difference would be the little label at the back of the case says Recertified in 'name of country', and if you crack open the case it will have Recertified printed on the sticker. Other than those two differences, they're the same as new.

Should be no real major difference, recertified is the new common name over "Refurbished". They claim to give the goods a thorough inspection, as is the case with refurbished goods, but Recertified Goods tend to come with a Full Manufacturers Warranty. So technically there should be no visible difference or performance issues between "Recertified" and "New" goods apart from the Price.

Im holding until cyber Monday maybe some code will be live to get it down even more

I bought the 500gb elements for my raspberry pi for £22 the other day. Nice little drive. Going to get a couple more larger drives but holding out for better offers.

Ah I follow now! Thought it was a dimwit accusing someone of being a dimwit (excited)

My only error was failing to type '...' around 'bergers'. Perhaps I should have typed 'barstewards'? Do you get the drift now ElBuc? ...disguised swearing?

I had my previous response deleted because I suggested it was you need that needs re-education because of your bad spelling, that you meant 'beggars' or another word like that which rhymes with huggers which could upset some viewers. I now see you might even have meant 'burgers'. Either way it's back to school for you!