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WD My Book 18TB External Drive $299 Newegg. $299.99

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Best Price I've seen for 18TB.

https://www.newegg.com/wd-my-book...6822234461

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Model: WD My Book 18TB External USB 3.0 Hard Drive, Black (WDBBGB0180HBK-NESN)

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Mar 3, 2022
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dabargainhunter
Mar 3, 2022
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That's a good deal! Got enough right now, but if needing a large HD, this would be the choice.
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Mar 3, 2022
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lqnguyen
Mar 3, 2022
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Thanks! Got 1
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EricGRIT09
Mar 3, 2022
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Quote from pholly :
These huge hard drives seem like too much of a gamble for me, if these go bad you will lose LOTS of data.
Flip side is that if you need a lot of storage space (like if you still need 5-10+ of these drives) then it is prohibitively complex to go with smaller drives. Safest way no matter how to approach this is to have local redundancy and at least one off-site backup if your data is that important.
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nasst
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Can you use these bigger drives with video game consoles? Like is there a limit that xbox will let you use?
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DaddyLongLegs
Mar 3, 2022
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This one looks more "boxy" than the other 18tb drive that was on sale the same price a few weeks ago. I think that one was an Elements. I believe those are white CMR drives. These I believe inside are blue drives. No clue if it's SMR or any worse than the white and red labels usually inside the more rounded enclosures.
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cj0r
Mar 3, 2022
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Quote from pholly :
These huge hard drives seem like too much of a gamble for me, if these go bad you will lose LOTS of data.
No one should be using drives like these unless the data they're keeping on them is 100% replaceable or using it with redundancy (to an extent). I personally use unraid at home and have since around 2008.

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dealsquirrel
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Quote from DaddyLongLegs :
This one looks more "boxy" than the other 18tb drive that was on sale the same price a few weeks ago. I think that one was an Elements. I believe those are white CMR drives. These I believe inside are blue drives. No clue if it's SMR or any worse than the white and red labels usually inside the more rounded enclosures.
I was wondering about the difference too. I have several of the 12 and 14tb elements drives for my big YT channel. Apparently the difference is the My Book series has a bunch more software, including incryption. Supposedly the case runs cooler, I don't know how. I'm not going to shuck mine this time, it will be really nice to have an extra 4tb in one drive.
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Quote from EricGRIT09 :
Flip side is that if you need a lot of storage space (like if you still need 5-10+ of these drives) then it is prohibitively complex to go with smaller drives. Safest way no matter how to approach this is to have local redundancy and at least one off-site backup if your data is that important.
Any recommendations for off-site backup software that isn't super involved to setup? I can work with Linux command line etc, but don't have the time to constantly troubleshoot network issues and syncing.
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boourns84
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I might bite. $280 was cheapest for 18tb.
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apexdeal
Mar 3, 2022
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Quote from boourns84 :
I might bite. $280 was cheapest for 18tb.

Maybe now but not during Christmas time when BBuy had on sale and was taking old sd and thumb drives as trade in. It was $245 (I believe) after the 15% off.

Of course cue the time machine comments Smilie

More so that you know where the lowest price has been.
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Mar 3, 2022
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BrianA8169
Mar 3, 2022
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Grabbed one to backup my movie library on my NAS… just in case!
Thanks!
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BrianA8169
Mar 3, 2022
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Quote from pholly :
These huge hard drives seem like too much of a gamble for me, if these go bad you will lose LOTS of data.
Agree! I've got 12 TB of movie data on my NAS that gives me disk redundancy, but this will serve nicely as a backup for that data if something unforeseen happens to my NAS.
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Quote from apexdeal :
Maybe now but not during Christmas time when BBuy had on sale and was taking old sd and thumb drives as trade in. It was $245 (I believe) after the 15% off.

Of course cue the time machine comments Smilie

More so that you know where the lowest price has been.
I am hopeful lol, waiting for sub $250 again or possibly sub $280.

And not from Newegg lol..
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BlueVoyager308
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I'll buy a $200 14TB drive. 18TB is nice, but I won't pay extra $100 for 4TB more. Not yet. Not this year anyway.

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