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14TB WD Easystore External USB 3.0 Hard Drive

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Best Buy has 14TB WD Easystore External USB 3.0 Hard Drive (WDBAMA0140HBK-NESN) on sale for $189.99. Select free store where stock permits. Thanks silentalarm

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Best Buy has 14TB WD Easystore External USB 3.0 Hard Drive (WDBAMA0140HBK-NESN) on sale for $189.99. Select free store where stock permits. Thanks silentalarm

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SHR always uses one drive with the largest capacity for parity, so putting one 14TB in won't get you anything more than what the Synology has now. You will want to buy at least two 14TB drives. Replace one drive, wait for SHR to rebuild, then repeat with the other new drive. You will end up with 2TB more than current. If you were to replace all four 12TB drives, you would end up with 6TB more than current.
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The golden question, what's inside?

Extended returns in effect if you're on the fence.


Purchases made October 13, 2020 through January 2, 2021 have an extended return period through January 16, 2021
klutch14u
These won't get lower. BB does this every year, they offer the BF pricing a few weeks ahead of BF and then again at BF. I buy their BF special drives every year and upgrade both my servers and sell off the drives from the year before. It's the exact same scenario every time. This year it's the 14TB. Last year was the 12TB, 10 before that and 8 before that.

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Quote from Teddy6321 :
I feel you. Had it happen to me this month too. Buyer said not as described, PayPal tells him to send it back and freeze the money on my account. Buyer tries to wait out and not send it back. Paypal sees he never shipped it back and switch directions in my favor. I had a perfect eBay rating for 19-1/2 years, never an issue. I don't think I will chance it again because this was a $250 photography filter the guy wanted to scam me out of. Good thing I had insurance and adult signature on it. I learned my mistake 14 years ago when another scammer said he did not receive the merchandise and I ended up taking the loss back then.
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Agree, good policy.
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Quote from aerodynamics :
I bought one of these at the beginning of the month at $229. I'm past the return period and BB chat won't do a price adjustment. Is there anything else I can do or just SOL?
I guess Before 10/13?
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Quote from Teddy6321 :
I feel you. Had it happen to me this month too. Buyer said not as described, PayPal tells him to send it back and freeze the money on my account. Buyer tries to wait out and not send it back. Paypal sees he never shipped it back and switch directions in my favor. I had a perfect eBay rating for 19-1/2 years, never an issue. I don't think I will chance it again because this was a $250 photography filter the guy wanted to scam me out of. Good thing I had insurance and adult signature on it. I learned my mistake 14 years ago when another scammer said he did not receive the merchandise and I ended up taking the loss back then.
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Start using computer forums to sell (for example https://hardforum.com/) or use https://www.reddit.com/r/hardwareswap/
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Quote from bearstampede :
It's fine lol. if you look back on past deals you'll see an endless ocean of "inb4 shuck" comments. It's kind of a tradition at this point. If you're just using it for additional storage, there's no reason to shuck it. people usually buy these in bulk to use in special enclosures, but if you're not doing that there's no real benefit aside from less clutter and negligible reduction in power usage (this comes with it's own "wall wart" power supply), but this doesn't really become a factor unless you're running several of them.
Is it faster to run this drive inside my desktop?
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Also I bought these back when they were $200. Both my drives are WD140EMFZ-11A0WA0 also.
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bearstampede
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Quote from kxl19 :
Actually, great question, can these enclosures be used with any SATA drive? Or is it specific to WD?
they can be used with any SATA drive, and the actual controllers are quite small. After shucking, I keep the SATA controllers around along with the cables in case I need them.
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Quote from Cornholio :
In for 4 - free shipping, no tax.. $759.96. I just had a talk with the wife when Amazon Prime Days had the 12TB for 179... this is such a better deal. Glad I waited. Thank goodness for Slick Deal Alerts!
No tax? You must be a billionaire. Only billionaires get to pay zero taxes.
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Any deals on the 16TB?
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Quote from funkmasterta :
Is it faster to run this drive inside my desktop?
Theoretically SATA III maxes out at around 600MB/s, while USB 3.0 maxes out at ~500MB/s--but in reality you're not going to be hitting these speeds due to both a) the physical speed at which the drive actually spins (e.g., 5400RPM vs 7200RPM vs 10000RPM) and b) because sustained read/write vs. random read/write will cause speeds to fluctuate constantly. USB 3.1 is significantly faster than USB 3.0, but because they're still mechanical drives, the SATA III transfer limit will eventually become the bottleneck. In my personal experience, most mechanical drive operations will max out somewhere around 100±30MB/s regardless of the interface.

TL;DR It won't be a significant difference for the vast majority of people.
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Quote from Gb1908 :
Any deals on the 16TB?
Wait about a year lol.
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Quote from bearstampede :
Wait about a year lol.
In a year, I'll want a deal on a 20TB if I don't buy this year...
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Quote from funkmasterta :
No tax? You must be a billionaire. Only billionaires get to pay zero taxes.
Definitely not a billionaire, but definitely living in a state that has no sales tax. shake head
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Quote from wasssup :
Where do you guys sell your old hard drives?

I stopped selling things on eBay / PayPal because I simply got scammed too much. Now I have a ridiculous surplus of tech in my house.
Be careful trying to sell hard drives. Unless you do a deep format, your data can be recovered to some extent. Further, there is always possibility of damage in shipping and even if you package and ship it out carefully, if the buyer decides to return it back to you, they might not be so careful in packaging.

Its best to sell HDD after proper formatting locally to avoid these hassles. I just tend to keep old drives with backups instead of trying to sell them. Doesnt seem worth the effort for me.
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Quote from Gb1908 :
In a year, I'll want a deal on a 20TB if I don't buy this year...
That is my thinking as well. I skipped buying last year and went straight for 14tb from 10tb 2 years back.

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Quote from aerodynamics :
I bought one of these at the beginning of the month at $229. I'm past the return period and BB chat won't do a price adjustment. Is there anything else I can do or just SOL?
Check with your credit card. Some credit cards still have 60 days or more of price protection.

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