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18TB WD Elements USB 3.0 Hard Drive (Black)

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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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  • External Design
  • USB 3.0 Interface
  • Easy to use auto backup
  • Compatible w/ PC/Mac computers

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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.

Thanks to Community Member Phantomchess for finding this deal.

Offers Notes:
  • Sale price may fluctuate slightly
  • This is sold by and shipped from Amazon United Kingdom. This item may not be under US warranty, and may come with UK power adapters and plugs.
Product Features:
  • 18TB Storage Capacity
  • External Design
  • USB 3.0 Interface
  • Easy to use auto backup
  • Compatible w/ PC/Mac computers

Editor's Notes

Written by slickdewmaster | Staff
  • About this deal:
    • Our research indicates that this offer is $61 lower (17% savings) than the next best available price from a reputable merchant with prices starting from $349.99
  • About this product:
    • This is rated 4 out of 5 stars based on over 300 Amazon customer ratings.
  • About this store:
  • Refer to the forum thread for additional deal discussion.

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holysin
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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.
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CollegeRamenEat
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Wouldn't that be eastern digital in that case
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1984LA
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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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May 10, 2022 12:24 AM
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CollegeRamenEatMay 10, 2022 12:24 AM
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Wouldn't that be eastern digital in that case
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holysinMay 10, 2022 12:35 AM
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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.
Last edited by holysin May 9, 2022 at 07:40 PM.
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MerryMoney143May 10, 2022 4:38 PM
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Quote from holysin View quoted comment :
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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hk4lMay 10, 2022 7:05 PM
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Buying to shuck the internals same as us versions?
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epistaxisMay 10, 2022 7:07 PM
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Quote from hk4l View quoted comment :
Buying to shuck the internals same as us versions?
Yes. Outside of warranty anyway.
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epistaxisMay 10, 2022 7:36 PM
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Quote from lesterhung View quoted comment :
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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May 10, 2022 7:52 PM
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1984LAMay 10, 2022 7:52 PM
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Thanks in advance, anyone know what hdd is inside? Rpm? Helium? Cache?
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SlickDealer3645902May 10, 2022 7:58 PM
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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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golfer44May 10, 2022 8:01 PM
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Quote from lesterhung View quoted comment :
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

​LMAO​LMAO​LMAO​LMAO​LMAO

PS: this was meant to sound as ridiculous as the person I quoted.
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dabargainhunterMay 10, 2022 8:05 PM
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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


Quote from epistaxis:
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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1984LAMay 10, 2022 8:40 PM
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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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sdaddict001May 10, 2022 9:23 PM
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Quote from OrangePlant156 View quoted comment :
Seagate over WD anyday and everyday.
You have to take into account backup if it's critical data. Even if you get enterprise grade hard drive, you are bound to find failures otherwise none of the organization would need to have redundancy and backup solutions in place. And it's not the companies but the tier of the drives that you buy that gives you better reliability than companies. I.e. crappy low end WD is going to be worse than top tier Seagate. Likewise low tier Seagate is worse than high tier WD. But none of them are 100% fail proof. You can either get yourself educated to have backups and avoid losing the data or try to distance yourself from specific companies and potentially risk experiencing the failure again. I'd still go with a higher tier drives to avoid having to rely on backups too often.

Edit:. And I'm not at all a master at backing up data. I too have suffered HD failures three times. But once I lost data the first time, I learned really quick to have backups on hand.
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Quote from sdaddict001 View quoted comment :
You have to take into account backup if it's critical data. Even if you get enterprise grade hard drive, you are bound to find failures otherwise none of the organization would need to have redundancy and backup solutions in place. And it's not the companies but the tier of the drives that you buy that gives you better reliability than companies. I.e. crappy low end WD is going to be worse than top tier Seagate. Likewise top tier Seagate is worse than low tier WD. But none of them are 100% fail proof. You can either get yourself educated to have backups and avoid losing the data or try to distance yourself from specific companies and potentially risk experiencing the failure again. I'd still go with a higher tier drives to avoid having to rely on backups too often.

Edit:. And I'm not at all a master at backing up data. I too have suffered HD failures three times. But once I lost data the first time, I learned really quick to have backups on hand.
Ive had a mycloud that had 5tb WD installed in it and it failed after 2 years. Clicking noise became louder and louder each passing day. Ive also had bought multiple WD blue drives and several of them failed DOA. Never again. However, to be fair, maybe I wouldnt get this issue with WD gold? So far I have 10 seagate EXOs and I have absolute not problem with them. It's been over 2 years and they still running flawlessly. I agree with you, anything can failed, so backup is critical because once a hard drive starts failing, it will be impossible to back up all files.
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