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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.
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Wouldn't that be eastern digital in that case
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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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sdaddict001
05-10-2022 at 02:23 PM.
05-10-2022 at 02:23 PM.
Quote from OrangePlant156 :
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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OrangePlant156
05-10-2022 at 02:40 PM.
05-10-2022 at 02:40 PM.
Quote from sdaddict001 :
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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05-10-2022 at 03:53 PM.
05-10-2022 at 03:53 PM.
Quote from OrangePlant156 :
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.

They go back and forth with reliability issues on certain lines. I have both, use both, and prefer neither for this reason.

There was a good stretch of 10 years where Seagate had all sorts of failures on their Barracudas due to faulty, unpatchable firmware.

If you want cheap enterprise drives for reliability, look into the WaterPanther Arsenal series.
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05-10-2022 at 03:55 PM.
05-10-2022 at 03:55 PM.
Wonder if you can price match at Best Buy then add the 10% discount for trade ins.
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05-10-2022 at 03:57 PM.
05-10-2022 at 03:57 PM.
Must.... hold.... out.... for..... WD Gold..... deal....
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05-10-2022 at 03:58 PM.

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05-10-2022 at 03:58 PM.
We're all going to give anecdotal data on drive reliability. For me, I've got one Seagate fail of all the ones I've purchased (dozens) - have two 6TB Surveillance drives at least 3+ years old still going strong. But I haven't had a WD drive fail yet (knocking on wood). So just based on that, I'm partial to WD drives.

Want a more holistic look at reliability? Take a look at BackBlaze's drive stats that they put out every quarter. And while we're talking about BB, those of us Slickdealers looking at buying these drives without having an offsite backup in place may want to first set the latter in motion before pulling the trigger. Peace
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05-10-2022 at 04:28 PM.
05-10-2022 at 04:28 PM.
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Wonder if you can price match at Best Buy then add the 10% discount for trade ins.

I highly doubt Best Buy will price match this because their Western Digital drives are their own Easystore line vs the Elements drives that WD sells themselves. I mean that's the whole reason BB does that is so they don't have to price match WD drives.
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05-10-2022 at 04:32 PM.
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You are always going to need a backup drive for when one of them fails.
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05-10-2022 at 04:34 PM.
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Quote from OrangePlant156 :
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.
Yeah all of my failures have been with WD as well but to be fair only one of those were truly a failure on WD part. Other two were my stupidity...oops lol. My next drive will be gold series but I also heard good things about red pro or red plus(?) version as well. I think the blue, white and possibly the regular red are their bottom tier drives.
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05-10-2022 at 04:48 PM.
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Seagate over WD anyday and everyday.
Friends don't let friends buy Seagate Smilie
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05-10-2022 at 05:26 PM.
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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.

Good that they have provided you customer service. Bad Quality Control in that you've had 100s of RMAs. Hopefully you work for a large data center OR you were just exaggerating.
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Quote from Nacho1545 :
Wonder if you can price match at Best Buy then add the 10% discount for trade ins.

I tried price matching and did not have any luck. They said that they can't price match from Amazon UK as a seller, only amazon. Frown
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bad deal, its always best to have multiple harddirve that add up t0 18gb than 1 unit. at least when one fails, others still work. when this dies, everything dies.

Who says this or any other HDD is going to be someone's one and only drive?
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