WD140EDGZ-11B1PA0
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These are CMRLinux smartctl indicates they are helium-filled, 7200rpm drives. Ran Crystal disk info on these while in a dock. They show 100% for the helium level and they all read 7200rpm. |
Link to the BB page about this program:
https://www.bestbuy.com/site/recy...82810229
If Best Buy employee has trouble finding where to locate the coupon follow these steps!
"Traded in a hard drive and got an additional 15% off. $170 before tax out the door. Additional 10% off chase offer for Best Buy brings this down to $153 not including tax!
Best Buy employee has to click "recycle and save" and go through the process. Later there is a part where they can click landline, that is where the coupon is hidden!"
The required tab is hidden from lower level Best Buy employees. If they can't find it, a more senior level associate or manager needs to login to see it.
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^^re this suggestion: A basic employee at the counter had not even heard of this program (even though it has been ongoing for months). He could not find it following the (previously provided here in the wiki) instructions on where to look. He called the manager, who told him they have never been able to complete this process. Next ,the counter guy was trying to pass the buck back to me to go online and look for a mail-in trade-in your storage item option, or call 800-Bestbuy. (FYI there is not even any proper automated option to get to a human that I could work out. So after a couple of dead-end attempts, I picked sales to try to get to a human and was on hold for a while, refreshed this page and then saw this new suggestion.
Then I advised counter person that a management-level employee may need to login to see the option.
Moments later the management-level guy still had no luck finding it trying the methods already mentioned in this wiki.
Bottom line is while I was still on hold, the manager advised the counter person to give me a manual 15% off of a WD drive and I bought it. I would have preferred to have it shipped and use the coupon online and access extra cashback available. This way was still an equivalent for an either/or situation with the savings up-front instead of later with CB sites (10% + 5% as detailed in the thread somewhere).
---My experience- long term.
I hate how these trade-in offers @BB are often impossible to work out for their employees. No one communicates how to do them to the stores, apparently. Even after having these for many years, it is always a gamble to show up to try, based on who you end up getting at the counter, or else not even the management knows.
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There is no stated end date on the recycle and save promo but the discount voucher has a valid date of 8/8/21 to 01/29/23 so get the voucher and bank it for the next 15 months.
This is what the voucher looks like. [ibb.co]
For those price matching earlier purchases, the web price match form failed for me - be sure to web chat and get your price match honored!
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All my enclosures are stored in a book box out in the storage unit in case I ever need to return one.
The 8s are pushing 5 years old now, but they seem to be holding up well. It's a Plex server mostly, using MergerFS, so the older drives don't get a lot of activity.
Gotta check the budget to see if I can pull the trigger today or not. I've got about 12t free space right now. (After adding 3 14t last BF).
I'm at the point where I can have one of these cracked open in like 30 seconds now. Using 4 old credit cards. Probably could do it in my sleep. I'm at 11 drives since 2017.
So if you want less headache and have an actual old hard drive lying around, that's probably the best bet.
Great deal, thanks for posting.
You statement is true for Backblaze however as they provide information publicly.
With that said you can look at backblaze drive pool. WD drives are small compare to the millions Seagate they use.
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I'm at the point where I can have one of these cracked open in like 30 seconds now. Using 4 old credit cards. Probably could do it in my sleep. I'm at 11 drives since 2017.
i still remember the first attempt....what a B
after that was a breeze. like you said, 30 seconds or something.
only issue is i haven't done it in 3 years. i wonder how many tabs i'll break when i go to shuck one of these
I'm guessing they didn't and these are still CMR/PMR, but I think it's important for people to realize that unless a person is using this specifically in a NAS, SMR is (generally) going to be a faster and more efficient drive for their purposes since the increased cache and SMR process is going to give them better performance 99.9% of the time.
I think SMR gets an unfairly bad rap, and that the effects in a NAS environment are overblown (or, rather, that the people who see actual impacts from SMR vs CMR are few and far between).
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when I got the 5tb portable SD they 1st hadn't heard of it so I directed them to their own website..., then they couldn't figure out how do to the coupon... they just did manual override to take 15% off for me
and for those that got a physical coupon from the recycle program.... how long is coupon good for? i'd like to go do the recycle offer now and use it online later
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