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BH Photo Video has 14TB WD Elements USB 3.0 External Hard Drive (WDBWLG0140HBK-NESN) on sale for $199.99 when you 'clip' $180 Off coupon found on product page.. Shipping is free.

Amazon.com has 14TB WD Elements USB 3.0 External Hard Drive (WDBWLG0140HBK-NESN) on sale for $199.99. Shipping is free.

Western Digital has 14TB WD Elements USB 3.0 External Hard Drive (WDBWLG0140HBK-NESN) on sale for $199.99. Shipping is free.

Thanks to community member anya618 for finding this deal

About the Product
  • Ample/High Capacity 14TB drive
  • Compact Design
  • Durable Enclosure/Style + Protection
  • Quick/Easy Plug & Play
  • USB 3.0/2.0 Backward Compatibility
  • Formatted NTFS for Windows 11, 10, 8.1, & 7
Includes
  • 14TB WD Elements USB 3.0 External Hard Drive
  • USB Cable
  • AC Adapter
  • Quick Install Guide
Warranty
  • Includes a 2-year limited warranty w/ purchase
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Model: WD Elements 14TB USB 3.0 Desktop External Hard Drive

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Great price. These are usually 7200rpm White label helium filled drives (generally anything >10TB is Helium filled). I have a few of these in a server with 2000-5000 hours on them and no failures. Highly recommend at this price point!
Western Digital store also has it for $199.99 and you'll get an extra year of warranty from them.
Also available at Best Buy for same price: https://www.bestbuy.com/site/wd-e.../6425303.p

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redpoint5
04-02-2022 at 04:26 PM.
04-02-2022 at 04:26 PM.
As I sat shucking my drives last night, I couldn't help but feel like this whole "deal" is wasteful nonsense. I'd rather pay $5 less to have the bare drive without the extra stuff, and WD would be better off if people weren't tearing into these enclosures, damaging drives and making warranty claims.

How does it make sense to make a more expensive product and sell it for less than the less expensive to produce product?

Anyhow, my 2 drives are 90% done resyncing after I created the RAID 1 array. Don't know why blank drives need to resync when there's no data on them, and why that process takes so long. I'd have thought creating a software RAID 1 array in Windows from new drives would take a matter of seconds, not days.
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04-03-2022 at 10:00 AM.
04-03-2022 at 10:00 AM.
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Just received my two drives. Took only 2 days from order to delivery. That's impressive! Does anyone know how long it'll take the 12% cashback to show up on my Paypal account?
I would be interested in hearing how much cash back you get from Paypal. Based upon a couple of posts in this thread, it sounded like it might be capped at much less than 12%, so I chose not to shop through Paypal. I didn't find anything in the terms & conditions, but I didn't go through them with a fine tooth comb.

Raku10 just adjusted my cash back from $1 to $10 on the drive I purchased through them.
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04-03-2022 at 10:34 AM.
04-03-2022 at 10:34 AM.
Quote from BTC007 :
I would be interested in hearing how much cash back you get from Paypal. Based upon a couple of posts in this thread, it sounded like it might be capped at much less than 12%, so I chose not to shop through Paypal. I didn't find anything in the terms & conditions, but I didn't go through them with a fine tooth comb.

Raku10 just adjusted my cash back from $1 to $10 on the drive I purchased through them.
I have seen nothing yet--no sign of a cashback on my account, nor any communication indicating that the cashback was tracked.
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Has anyone gotten their PP cashback?
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04-09-2022 at 03:09 PM.
04-09-2022 at 03:09 PM.
Quote from redpoint5 :
As I sat shucking my drives last night, I couldn't help but feel like this whole "deal" is wasteful nonsense. I'd rather pay $5 less to have the bare drive without the extra stuff, and WD would be better off if people weren't tearing into these enclosures, damaging drives and making warranty claims.

How does it make sense to make a more expensive product and sell it for less than the less expensive to produce product?
I have felt the same. Clearly there is logic here that makes no sense except to someone in WD Marketing.
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04-09-2022 at 06:48 PM.
04-09-2022 at 06:48 PM.
Quote from redpoint5 :
As I sat shucking my drives last night, I couldn't help but feel like this whole "deal" is wasteful nonsense. I'd rather pay $5 less to have the bare drive without the extra stuff, and WD would be better off if people weren't tearing into these enclosures, damaging drives and making warranty claims.

How does it make sense to make a more expensive product and sell it for less than the less expensive to produce product?

Anyhow, my 2 drives are 90% done resyncing after I created the RAID 1 array. Don't know why blank drives need to resync when there's no data on them, and why that process takes so long. I'd have thought creating a software RAID 1 array in Windows from new drives would take a matter of seconds, not days.
Lots of companies do it simply because it's cheaper to produce that way. I think Intel does something similar with their CPUs where an i5 is also an i7 but with cores turned off or something. AMD used to do it on their AM3 chips and people would regularly unlock the disabled cores to get a better CPU than they paid for. Heck Tesla does it with their cars and want you to pay them extra money to access features that the car already has. They paid to build a car with functions, but then don't let you use those functions.

But you're right it doesn't make sense. Why does a drive that also comes inside of an enclosure cost less than the same drive sold bare? Why does low sodium soy sauce cost more than regular soy sauce when they're adding less of an ingredient?

To go off on a tangent, why do companies ship items that are mostly water? Think of the volume that is sold in stores for items like Windex, laundry detergent, juice, etc. where a large portion of the ingredient is water. They could use smaller packaging and ship more product if it was sold as a concentrate and let the consumer add their own water after they buy it.
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04-19-2022 at 09:15 PM.
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Quote from redpoint5 :
How does it make sense to make a more expensive product and sell it for less than the less expensive to produce product?
Basically it is a way to control inventory. Sometimes they have to further discount the drives to get rid of extra drives in the channel. Combined with normally external enclosed drives come with lesser warranty. SO it is often not a pure apples to apples comparison as they increased warranty has some value.

I would think they would do better with selling enclosures separately. Simple less waste.
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But you're right it doesn't make sense. Why does a drive that also comes inside of an enclosure cost less than the same drive sold bare? Why does low sodium soy sauce cost more than regular soy sauce when they're adding less of an ingredient?
My understanding on soy sauce is they have to add the same sodium and then take it back out it out at a later time. SO the process has an extra step. It is like low decaffeinated coffee, but in this case it is reduced sodium.
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05-03-2022 at 11:29 PM.
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Lots of companies do it simply because it's cheaper to produce that way. I think Intel does something similar with their CPUs where an i5 is also an i7 but with cores turned off or something. AMD used to do it on their AM3 chips and people would regularly unlock the disabled cores to get a better CPU than they paid for. Heck Tesla does it with their cars and want you to pay them extra money to access features that the car already has. They paid to build a car with functions, but then don't let you use those functions.

But you're right it doesn't make sense. Why does a drive that also comes inside of an enclosure cost less than the same drive sold bare? Why does low sodium soy sauce cost more than regular soy sauce when they're adding less of an ingredient?

To go off on a tangent, why do companies ship items that are mostly water? Think of the volume that is sold in stores for items like Windex, laundry detergent, juice, etc. where a large portion of the ingredient is water. They could use smaller packaging and ship more product if it was sold as a concentrate and let the consumer add their own water after they buy it.

The story is that these "white" drives are drives that were originally made for server farms that place large orders of drives. Because of manufacturing, they need to produce a few extra due to quality control. These leftover drives do not fit in any existing category, according to the red/black/green/blue lines. So they sell them mixed-in as "mystery" drives with an enclosure while maintaining an adequate margin per sale. People only discovered after shucking that these as bare drives are actually worth a lot more than the discounted price suggests.
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05-11-2022 at 11:26 AM.
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Took the drive out easily. Seqential write/read is >200mbs
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