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12TB WD Elements USB 3.0 External Desktop Hard Drive Expired
$198
$249.99
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Amazon has for Prime Members: 12TB WD Elements External Desktop USB 3.0 Hard Drive (WDBWLG0120HBK-NESN) for $197.99. Shipping is free.
Note: In stock on February 13, 2021.
Thanks to community member joshieecs for finding this deal.
Product Features:
Note: In stock on February 13, 2021.
Thanks to community member joshieecs for finding this deal.
Product Features:
- 2-year manufacturer's limited warranty
- USB 3.0 interface
- 4.7 out of 5 star rating in over 2,560 customer reviews on Amazon.
- Includes AC power adapter and USB Micro B-to-USB 3.0 Type A cable.
- Backwards compatible with USB 2.0 technology
- Housing: Plastic
- Inner Drive: 3.5"
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at 09:05 AM
Extremely popular drives for shucking, and this is a pretty decent price if are running tight on space can't hold out a few months for another crazy sale. $16.5/TB is the best I have spotted in *weeks and this one of the most reliable drives to shuck.
They were last $175 on Black Friday, and I bought two then. They're good drives. I ended up with two different white labels models, the slighter better EMFZ and the other was EDAZ. I did get "+3.3V pin" power issue, solved in about 60 seconds with tiny piece of black vinyl tape. Except this if you are shucking.
The EMFZ is actually a 14TB drive firmware-locked to 12. It got about 215MB/s speeds, the EDAZ was only 191MB/s. Both are helium-filled CMR drives that WD sells for a lot more money bare box with red label.
If you can hold out a few months you can probably snag some at $175 price. According to price trackers, they tend to have had a ~$175 sale about once a quarter.
*There is also another deal for a slightly cheaper Seagate 12TB going for $190 on today's NewEgg Shell Shocker list. Meaning that sale runs until midnight PST, I think. No idea how long the Amazon's price will last, and I have no experience with Seagate drives to recommend it (or not), so caveat emptor.
Slickeals post for the Seagate offer is here:
https://slickdeals.net/f/14793088-seagate-expansion-desktop-hard-drive-12tb-hdd-external-hard-drive-usb-2-0-3-0-black-steb12000400-free-shipping-189-99
WD deal is on Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07X4V2M3B In stock on February 13, 2021.
They were last $175 on Black Friday, and I bought two then. They're good drives. I ended up with two different white labels models, the slighter better EMFZ and the other was EDAZ. I did get "+3.3V pin" power issue, solved in about 60 seconds with tiny piece of black vinyl tape. Except this if you are shucking.
The EMFZ is actually a 14TB drive firmware-locked to 12. It got about 215MB/s speeds, the EDAZ was only 191MB/s. Both are helium-filled CMR drives that WD sells for a lot more money bare box with red label.
If you can hold out a few months you can probably snag some at $175 price. According to price trackers, they tend to have had a ~$175 sale about once a quarter.
*There is also another deal for a slightly cheaper Seagate 12TB going for $190 on today's NewEgg Shell Shocker list. Meaning that sale runs until midnight PST, I think. No idea how long the Amazon's price will last, and I have no experience with Seagate drives to recommend it (or not), so caveat emptor.
Slickeals post for the Seagate offer is here:
https://slickdeals.net/f/14793088-seagate-expansion-desktop-hard-drive-12tb-hdd-external-hard-drive-usb-2-0-3-0-black-steb12000400-free-shipping-189-99
WD deal is on Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07X4V2M3B In stock on February 13, 2021.
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For hard drives you can imagine the same raw materials are required and the technology already exists, so if you can offer the same product "gimped" at lower price points you increase the number of customers at lower price points, while still absorbing margin from those willing to pay the higher price points for extra TB.
I bought two 12 TB Easystores from Bestbuy for $180 each in November 2019.
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If they were smart about it, they would have also blown some efuses to make the transition one way.