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Amazon Global Store UK has 18TB WD Elements USB 3.0 Hard Drive (Black; WDBWLG0180HBK-EESN) on sale for $288.84. Shipping is free.

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Note that you'll need a plug converter in the US as this comes with EU/UK plug ends. Also warranty coverage *might* be interesting if it's an official UK model as you'll have to go through WD-UK even if you're in the US unless they've changed their support method since I was last in the possession of a UK external drive in the US (2008). At that time it was less of a headache to just buy a new external in the US when my UK one failed.

Edit: I got curious so I poked the current WD warranty and it's the same: "No limited warranty is provided by WD unless your WD Product ("Product") was purchased from an authorized distributor or authorized reseller. Distributors may sell Products to resellers who then sell Products to end users. Please see below for warranty information or obtaining service. No warranty service is provided unless the Product is returned to an authorized return center in the region (warranty regions are identified as Canada, U.S.A., Latin America, Europe, Middle East, Africa, Asia Pacific, India and Thailand) where the Product was first shipped by WD, which may have regional specific warranty implications." from https://support-en.wd.com/app/Warranty_Policy As such, I *strongly* suggest skipping imported drives unless you either don't care about drive warranties (I've not had a drive fail in the last decade) or are ok paying to ship the drive to the EU for service (and possibly return service surcharge) which will cost more than the current $61 savings vs buying from bestbuy... buyer beware and all that crap.
Wouldn't that be eastern digital in that case
Seagate hdds have failed me on multiple occasions. I own more WDs now than seagates, haven't had them fail as often with the exception of a raptor drive that failed 7 years after purchase. WD>Seagate IMO

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05-09-2022 at 05:24 PM.
05-09-2022 at 05:24 PM.
Wouldn't that be eastern digital in that case
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05-09-2022 at 05:35 PM.

Our community has rated this post as helpful. If you agree, why not thank holysin

05-09-2022 at 05:35 PM.
Note that you'll need a plug converter in the US as this comes with EU/UK plug ends. Also warranty coverage *might* be interesting if it's an official UK model as you'll have to go through WD-UK even if you're in the US unless they've changed their support method since I was last in the possession of a UK external drive in the US (2008). At that time it was less of a headache to just buy a new external in the US when my UK one failed.

Edit: I got curious so I poked the current WD warranty and it's the same: "No limited warranty is provided by WD unless your WD Product ("Product") was purchased from an authorized distributor or authorized reseller. Distributors may sell Products to resellers who then sell Products to end users. Please see below for warranty information or obtaining service. No warranty service is provided unless the Product is returned to an authorized return center in the region (warranty regions are identified as Canada, U.S.A., Latin America, Europe, Middle East, Africa, Asia Pacific, India and Thailand) where the Product was first shipped by WD, which may have regional specific warranty implications." from https://support-en.wd.com/app/Warranty_Policy As such, I *strongly* suggest skipping imported drives unless you either don't care about drive warranties (I've not had a drive fail in the last decade) or are ok paying to ship the drive to the EU for service (and possibly return service surcharge) which will cost more than the current $61 savings vs buying from bestbuy... buyer beware and all that crap.
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05-10-2022 at 09:38 AM.
05-10-2022 at 09:38 AM.
Quote from holysin :
Note that you'll need a plug converter in the US as this comes with EU/UK plug ends. Also warranty coverage *might* be interesting if it's an official UK model as you'll have to go through WD-UK even if you're in the US unless they've changed their support method since I was last in the possession of a UK external drive in the US (2008). At that time it was less of a headache to just buy a new external in the US when my UK one failed.

Edit: I got curious so I poked the current WD warranty and it's the same: "No limited warranty is provided by WD unless your WD Product ("Product") was purchased from an authorized distributor or authorized reseller. Distributors may sell Products to resellers who then sell Products to end users. Please see below for warranty information or obtaining service. No warranty service is provided unless the Product is returned to an authorized return center in the region (warranty regions are identified as Canada, U.S.A., Latin America, Europe, Middle East, Africa, Asia Pacific, India and Thailand) where the Product was first shipped by WD, which may have regional specific warranty implications." from https://support-en.wd.com/app/Warranty_Policy As such, I *strongly* suggest skipping imported drives unless you either don't care about drive warranties (I've not had a drive fail in the last decade) or are ok paying to ship the drive to the EU for service (and possibly return service surcharge) which will cost more than the current $61 savings vs buying from bestbuy... buyer beware and all that crap.
Thanks, I was wondering these things
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05-10-2022 at 12:05 PM.
05-10-2022 at 12:05 PM.
Buying to shuck the internals same as us versions?
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05-10-2022 at 12:07 PM.
05-10-2022 at 12:07 PM.
Quote from hk4l :
Buying to shuck the internals same as us versions?
Yes. Outside of warranty anyway.
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05-10-2022 at 12:36 PM.
05-10-2022 at 12:36 PM.
Quote from lesterhung :
WD do NOT have warranty at all, regardless of where you buy it and if you didn't shuck it.
PSA. WD DO NOT HONOR WARRANTY.
On bbb.org, where companies can PAY money to buy their reputation, WD still manages to get a F
https://www.bbb.org/us/ca/fremont...116-882225
I'm sure people have had warranty issues with WD but I've never ever had an issue with the 100s of RMAs I've done with them. Quite honestly the only issue I've ever had on a HDD RMA was with Toshiba and they eventually relented anyways.
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05-10-2022 at 12:52 PM.
05-10-2022 at 12:52 PM.
Thanks in advance, anyone know what hdd is inside? Rpm? Helium? Cache?
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05-10-2022 at 12:58 PM.
05-10-2022 at 12:58 PM.
thanks, ordered!

Anyone know what the difference is between buying here vs. buying same drive on WD.com (bought that one for $280 a few months ago I think)
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05-10-2022 at 01:01 PM.
05-10-2022 at 01:01 PM.
Quote from lesterhung :
WD do NOT have warranty at all, regardless of where you buy it and if you didn't shuck it.
PSA. WD DO NOT HONOR WARRANTY.
On bbb.org, where companies can PAY money to buy their reputation, WD still manages to get a F
https://www.bbb.org/us/ca/fremont...116-882225 [bbb.org]
WD DOES HAVE A WARRANTY AND GETS AN A+++. BUY FROM THEM AND NOBODY ELSE!!!

https://www.bbb.org/us/ky/louisvi...-159153898

LMAOLMAOLMAOLMAOLMAO

PS: this was meant to sound as ridiculous as the person I quoted.
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05-10-2022 at 01:05 PM.
05-10-2022 at 01:05 PM.
Quote from lesterhung :
WD do NOT have warranty at all, regardless of where you buy it and if you didn't shuck it.
PSA. WD DO NOT HONOR WARRANTY.
On bbb.org, where companies can PAY money to buy their reputation, WD still manages to get a F
https://www.bbb.org/us/ca/fremont...116-882225


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I'm sure people have had warranty issues with WD but I've never ever had an issue with the 100s of RMAs I've done with them. Quite honestly the only issue I've ever had on a HDD RMA was with Toshiba and they eventually relented anyways.


Had a small 120GB drive for the past 12+ years, dragging it around a lot, still going strong.
OTOH, Seagate Barracuda drive died w/in several weeks.

Only had one WD internal Red SATA that was DOA and amazon / WD exchanged it w/out issues. Installed close to 50 WDs in various machine over the years and have multiple large externals (12-18TB).
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Seagate hdds have failed me on multiple occasions. I own more WDs now than seagates, haven't had them fail as often with the exception of a raptor drive that failed 7 years after purchase. WD>Seagate IMO
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