Back in December I was having some really bad luck with my travel NAS, those little drives just kept failing, one after another, but I have that machine stable and then my main storage server had a failed drive.

This wasn't unexpected, it was an older drive, but there was still lots of capacity on the machine so I was able to wait for a drive to go on sale.

I picked up a couple of WD 8TB My Book Desktop External Hard Drives on sale to shuck

Once they arrived at my office I immediately "shucked" them, and re-purposed the cases for a couple of smaller drives I had for archive storage. They are now part of my picture editing workflow ;).

The shucking is easy, just watch this video.

What drives were they?

The drives were the WD80EDAZ drives, and unlike what I have seen on reddit and a couple other forums I'm having no over-heating issues. They are in my case and running a parity on the full 8TB at a very cool 37C. The room the computer is in is relatively cool, but if there was a problem I would have expected temperatures at least in the 40C range.

If you like to learn more about how I set up my local cloud based system so I don't have to rely on big tech to spy on my bytes, but also have a stable system that doesn't need constant administration, let me know in the comments.

New Hard drive day for my bulk storage server

The shucking is easy, just watch this video.

What drives were they?

If you like to learn more about how I set up my local cloud based system so I don't have to rely on big tech to spy on my bytes, but also have a stable system that doesn't need constant administration, let me know in the comments.