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Best Buy.com has 4TB WD Easystore External USB 3.0 Hard Drive (WDBCKA0040HBK-NESN) for $89.99. Shipping is free or select free store pickup where available. Thanks slickdewmaster

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Last Edited by burner1515 April 21, 2017 at 07:07 AM
This drive does not use a proprietary connection and can be shucked for the bare drive fine. It will fit in your PC as a normal 3.5 inch SATA WD40EFRX (WD Red) Bare Drive drive would.

This drive does not have encryption on the pcb board itself.

Please see post

https://slickdeals.net/f/10049636-4tb-wd-easystore-external-usb-3-0-hard-drive-black-89-99-free-shipping?p=99111560#post99111560

and

https://slickdeals.net/f/10049636-4tb-wd-easystore-external-usb-3-0-hard-drive-black-89-99-free-shipping?p=99123296#post99123296

There are a few others, feel free to edit and add here.


If you shuck you lose the warranty. if you check the sn on the external enclosure, it is the same as the internal hard drive. When you register that SN it coems up as 'WD easystore Desktop' on their site. If you ever have to send it in for warranty service you have to put it back in the enclosure. They will know you opened the enclosure and will void the warranty.


IF for some reason WD's site said it was a bare nas drive, they would still not honor the warranty because your receipt shows you bought a external hard drive. You need a receipt for the bare drive. Really silly I need to explain this IF situation.



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At $22.5 per terabyte this is pretty decent.
LOL, are you suggesting Western Digital would use Seagate drives inside their external drives? I guess that would be physically possible, but would make no financial sense; why buy a competitors drive and incur the overhead costs of their manufacturing process???

Anyway, you have any proof of this? I'd really like to know. Or perhaps I just got lured in by troll bait... shake head
So I went to the store because I have some in-store only coupons. However, the coupon won't work because their internal store price is higher ($109) and had to do a price adjustment. No luck on that.

Upon plugging it in, Hard Disk Sentinel reports that the model ID is WD40EFRX-68N32N0. Google searches indicate that it's a Red drive. YMMV.

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hoodihar
04-13-2017 at 08:12 AM.
04-13-2017 at 08:12 AM.
At $22.5 per terabyte this is pretty decent.
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EnergyJunkie
04-13-2017 at 08:16 AM.
04-13-2017 at 08:16 AM.
whats the story with "easystore"? I see 2 year warranty on this drive.
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ascotnot
04-13-2017 at 08:20 AM.
04-13-2017 at 08:20 AM.
Weird. I can barely find any references to this model. BB appear to be an exclusive seller.
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vanbboy
04-13-2017 at 08:25 AM.
04-13-2017 at 08:25 AM.
So this has a USB port right? Could I just hook up my phone and copy and/or transfer files from my phone to this?
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jake88
04-13-2017 at 08:39 AM.
04-13-2017 at 08:39 AM.
are these drive encrypted? I was hoping to extract the drives to use in my NAS
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BingoBrown
04-13-2017 at 08:48 AM.
04-13-2017 at 08:48 AM.
The model number is very similar to this one:

https://www.amazon.com/Book-Deskt...B00E3RH61W

And they look the same, except for the "easystore" name on Best Buy's, so perhaps it's just a rebrand for a Best Buy exclusive model? Dunno. Regardless, looks like a good deal.
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worthmining
04-13-2017 at 08:48 AM.
04-13-2017 at 08:48 AM.
This is the older WD external drive model, also sold at Amazon at regular price. Looks like BestBuy is cleaning inventory. I have the 5TB of this WD model bought from a year ago, used in NAS running strong. Discounted due to onboard encryption that nobody seemed to like.

https://www.amazon.com/Book-Deskt...B00E3RH61W

Just received 3 of the Seagate 4TB from Amazon ordered a while ago at $87 each, keep that or buy this?

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mystic_headlock
04-13-2017 at 08:53 AM.
04-13-2017 at 08:53 AM.
Nice price per TB
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szefte
04-13-2017 at 09:06 AM.
04-13-2017 at 09:06 AM.
Can the drive be removed from enclosure and used in a NAS?
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morespamforme95
04-13-2017 at 09:06 AM.
04-13-2017 at 09:06 AM.
Since it's 3.0,you can use as external storage for an Xbox One correct?
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