Best Buy has for its
My Best Buy Members (
free to join):
14TB WD easystore External USB 3.0 Hard Drive (WDBAMA0140HBK-NESN) on sale for
$199.99.
Shipping is free, or select free store pickup where stock permits.
Note: Must be logged in to your "My Best Buy" account to see price. Availability for store pickup may vary by location.
Thanks to Community Member
anya618 for finding this deal.
Product Information:
- Form Factor: 3.5''
- Interface: Micro-USB Type B
- Height: 6.7''
- Width: 2''
- Weight: 32.6''
Top Comments
You don't need extreme skills to work with these things. I've shucked at least 30-40 of these things over the years and not a single clip has been broken. I just wiggle 4 pieces of an old gift card into the back seem, slide it down to where the clips are to release them, and then slide it out. Remove the drive from the caddy, remove 1 Philips head screw to release the sata-usb adapter board, remove the activity light plastic thing, unscrew the 4 screws that mount the drive into the case, and you are home free. I can usually do one in 3 or 4 minutes from start to finish.
Then I put all the parts in a small bag and put it back inside the enclosure, slide it back most of the way, stick it in the original box (serial numbers from the drive are printed on the enclosure *and* the box), and put it in storage for the next 2 years until the warranty expires.
I've had 2 die on me and I've reassembled them and sent them back and WD didn't say a peep and just replaced them.
The only enclosures I've mutilated was about 10 years ago when I tried to shuck the Toshiba drives. Good lord those sucked.
Join The Conversation
Share your experience with the Slickdeals community
Share information with the community. Please follow our Community Guidelines and be kind!
113 Comments
Sign up for a Slickdeals account to remove this ad.
[Update: ToolTech is $200/year and is different from the My Rewards program which is/was free, and is all that is needed to exercise this deal.]
However once you shuck it . Warranty is void unless you have extreme skills to put these enclosures back together . Wd exclusive best buy externals are the worse and will have multiple broken clips
However once you shuck it . Warranty is void unless you have extreme skills to put these enclosures back together . Wd exclusive best buy externals are the worse and will have multiple broken clips
Our community has rated this post as helpful. If you agree, why not thank KnightCrusader
However once you shuck it . Warranty is void unless you have extreme skills to put these enclosures back together . Wd exclusive best buy externals are the worse and will have multiple broken clips
Then I put all the parts in a small bag and put it back inside the enclosure, slide it back most of the way, stick it in the original box (serial numbers from the drive are printed on the enclosure *and* the box), and put it in storage for the next 2 years until the warranty expires.
I've had 2 die on me and I've reassembled them and sent them back and WD didn't say a peep and just replaced them.
The only enclosures I've mutilated was about 10 years ago when I tried to shuck the Toshiba drives. Good lord those sucked.
Sign up for a Slickdeals account to remove this ad.
Our community has rated this post as helpful. If you agree, why not thank speedyslick46
Also seagate is not trash I run 3 , 45 bay supermicros and two unraid servers full of seagates and only had 1 issue with a 8tb smr drive and 1 issue with 18TB cmr drive but died within 24hours after writing to it.
I have 2PiB on my servers.
140.00 for sas through a source i have but only has 90 day warranty.
14TB retail externals should be 150.00 IMO and we may see that on BF as WD has 22TB now
I am waiting . but this deal isn't hot
Sign up for a Slickdeals account to remove this ad.
Join The Conversation
Share your experience with the Slickdeals community
Share information with the community. Please follow our Community Guidelines and be kind!