It is very unlikely that they would have put white label drives in any of their external units that have user-replaceable drives (like the My Book Mirror, for example), as those are typically branded as coming equipped with WD Red units installed. Bear in mind that all of the above would not necessarily apply to other WD external units. We say early because it only makes sense for WD to shift over to actual Reds in the future, as My Books are not marketed as performance units and would generally only be performance-rated with 5400 RPM drives. Ok, so what we have figured out so far is early WD My Book 8TB models may have gone out with relabeled HGST He8’s. This is what he found:Ĭonnecting the He8 directly to a system gave us similar results, but with the 'correct' model number appearing as the device ID instead of the My Book label. I don’t think he even plugged it in first. Sebastian ran out to his local Best Buy and picked up a single WD My Book 8TB model, promptly took it home and ripped it open. Since the 8TB Red and My Book 8TB were launched simultaneously, and we were just provided early samples of the 8TB Reds last week, how could there already be 8TB Reds on the shelf just down the street? Could they have shipped some earlier form of the 8TB Red in the external My Book and continued tweaking their NASware algorithms / firmware prior to the Red launching? Our curiosity got the best of us, and we decided to find out. Ryan happened to look them up and discovered that our local Best Buy actually had them available for store pick-up. While the street prices of the bare drives seemed to be a bit high ($333), the WD My Book was on sale for $250.
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HGST Enterprise He8 HDD Found in Early Retail 8TB WD My BookĪs we were publishing our full review of the Western Digital Red 8TB, we noted something odd.
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