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14TB WD easystore USB 3.0 External Hard Drive

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Best Buy has 14TB WD easystore USB 3.0 External Hard Drive (WDBAMA0140HBK-NESN) on sale for $199.99. Shipping is free or select free curbside pickup where available.
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Best Buy via eBay has 14TB WD easystore USB 3.0 External Hard Drive (WDBAMA0140HBK-NESN) on sale for $199.99. Shipping is free.

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  • USB 3.0 interface: Offers easy-to-use connection to devices. Backward-compatible with USB 2.0 for simple connection to your computer.
  • Comes with the WD Discovery backup software that lets you set hourly, daily, or monthly backup schedules and makes it easy to back up high-capacity files to your drive. Compatible with Apple Time Machine (requires reformatting)

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  • About this deal:
    • This price is $95 lower (32% savings) than the list price of $294.99.
    • This price matches this previous Frontpage deal.
  • About this product:
    • Rating of 4.7 from over 2,400 Best Buy customer reviews.
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Best Buy has 14TB WD easystore USB 3.0 External Hard Drive (WDBAMA0140HBK-NESN) on sale for $199.99. Shipping is free or select free curbside pickup where available.
  • Note, pickup availability will vary by location.
Thanks to Community Member raysmd for finding this deal.

Best Buy via eBay has 14TB WD easystore USB 3.0 External Hard Drive (WDBAMA0140HBK-NESN) on sale for $199.99. Shipping is free.

Product Details:
  • USB 3.0 interface: Offers easy-to-use connection to devices. Backward-compatible with USB 2.0 for simple connection to your computer.
  • Comes with the WD Discovery backup software that lets you set hourly, daily, or monthly backup schedules and makes it easy to back up high-capacity files to your drive. Compatible with Apple Time Machine (requires reformatting)

Editor's Notes

Written by powerfuldoppler | Staff
  • About this deal:
    • This price is $95 lower (32% savings) than the list price of $294.99.
    • This price matches this previous Frontpage deal.
  • About this product:
    • Rating of 4.7 from over 2,400 Best Buy customer reviews.
  • About this store:
    • Information about Best Buy returns can be found here
    • Best Buy via eBay return policy: 30 days / Buyer pays for shipping
  • Additional Note:

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lastwraith
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Yeah, I'm the bad guy offering "tripe thoughts" in this thread. Maybe reread your "helpful" post where you complain about the price because you bought this YEARS AGO for less.
Completely unhelpful because times have changed. That's why this is a Frontpage deal, this is a good price.

But sure, I'm the dingus because I'm not crapping on a front page deal that's a good price in modern times - you know, the ones we actually live in and that don't require a time machine unlike the time period where you apparently live and judge prices from.

Maybe look at the recent price history on an item and judge the deal according to that instead of some random price from the past you've held onto regardless of any events that have transpired since. Especially when the deal is the same as previous good FP deals.
Or, you know, just get lost.
r34p3rex
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The last 16 of them I bought over the years are all whites... So pretty sure they'll be whites
lastwraith
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This is slickdeals, not best-historical-price-deals.
I don't know how half of what you've said is relevant honestly.
People come here to find the best current offered price on an item, learn something about the item itself, and find tips about stacking discounts. They don't want to wait 3 years, travel back in time, change the landscape of manufacturing and price fixing, or whatever other nonsense you've brought up. All your comments do is detract from the discussion and muddy the waters of useful discourse.
The purpose of posting here is to either offer useful information, kudos, or potentially correct misinformation. Nothing you've said falls under any of those categories.

Pontificate all you want, but at least try to add to the usefulness of the forum. And the passive aggressive heart is equally unnecessary.

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Jan 16, 2023 10:23 PM
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Nature1Jan 16, 2023 10:23 PM
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Quote from crudo20 :
But, your tag line says "Love everyone!"?
Impaled by my hypocrisy, fallen to the dark ways of anonymous slander have I..

I apologize to you, and to everyone for not engaging in civil discourse, the internet forum reflex has turned me against myself! I banish myself from historical anecdotal price recollections and the venomous and impolite ways in which I "clap back".

THEY are still price fixing, though.... it does not excuse my own hostility
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Jan 16, 2023 10:30 PM
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vivisimonviJan 16, 2023 10:30 PM
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Shucked a MyBook drive recently and it had a drive labeled WD140EDFZ.
Jan 16, 2023 10:44 PM
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llamableatJan 16, 2023 10:44 PM
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Quote from IShouldBuyIndxFunds :
Close to what I paid in October of 2020 (189 vs 200). So not a bad deal given the world and inflation.

Really a lack of WD golds on sale though. I've been trying to buy those when I can, even though I have never had a shucked drive fail.
Turns out I also paid exactly the same price for this drive back then. Looked it up because I couldn't believe it - 2.5 years ago this was also considered a good deal. Is this the start of prices setting new lows after almost 3 years?
Jan 16, 2023 10:59 PM
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llamableatJan 16, 2023 10:59 PM
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Quote from lastwraith :
Yeah, I'm the bad guy offering "tripe thoughts" in this thread. Maybe reread your "helpful" post where you complain about the price because you bought this YEARS AGO for less.
Completely unhelpful because times have changed. That's why this is a Frontpage deal, this is a good price.

But sure, I'm the dingus because I'm not crapping on a front page deal that's a good price in modern times - you know, the ones we actually live in and that don't require a time machine unlike the time period where you apparently live and judge prices from.

Maybe look at the recent price history on an item and judge the deal according to that instead of some random price from the past you've held onto regardless of any events that have transpired since. Especially when the deal is the same as previous good FP deals.
Or, you know, just get lost.
Valid viewpoints both. This is a good "deal" within the context of recent prices. Historically, tho, if we reached the end of a 50 year trend for tech prices falling YonY, that's disturbing. Here's hoping competition breaks the cozy price floor the tech companies enjoyed the last few years. Gas and groceries don't share that historical trend line with tech products.
Jan 17, 2023 12:34 AM
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SGogoJan 17, 2023 12:34 AM
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Quote from lastwraith :
Yeah, I'm the bad guy offering "tripe thoughts" in this thread. Maybe reread your "helpful" post where you complain about the price because you bought this YEARS AGO for less...

...Or, you know, just get lost.
Everybody that reads this knows your comment was fine. Don't get upset by him.

I personally try not to engage with these trolls ... generally you cannot win because he's a zealot trying to make the political statement that "there is no inflation, just price gouging from evil corporations" on a deal site.

These guys use big words they just looked up in a thesaurus to make you feel inferior and push an agenda that they probably know nothing about. Usually they're typing in their parents basement. It's hard to "win" any argument with someone who knows nothing.

Anyway, he will probably respond to you again (and now me too) with even bigger, more ridiculous wording and outrage.

It's the reason I hardly ever post on the web.
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Jan 17, 2023 12:44 AM
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SGogoJan 17, 2023 12:44 AM
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Quote from crudo20 :
But, your tag line says "Love everyone!"?
"...more power to the people, except you, you checked a box we don't like" - Shinedown

It's amazing how intolerant the self proclaimed tolerant are Smilie
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Jan 17, 2023 12:51 AM
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Snakeyes77Jan 17, 2023 12:51 AM
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Quote from Nature1 :
Bought this for $190 @ WD.COM 3 YEARS AGO. Often was this price, 8gb was 120 or less for about 7 years.. this is some gouging
My dad used to watch movies at the theater for 25¢, I used to get a pack of Marlboro's for $1.50. Thanks, for also sharing what we could get years ago..
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Jan 17, 2023 01:03 AM
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SuperorbJan 17, 2023 01:03 AM
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Quote from Nature1 :
Bought this for $190 @ WD.COM 3 YEARS AGO. Often was this price, 8gb was 120 or less for about 7 years.. this is some gouging
Typical covid-era price raising. Nothing to see here.
Jan 17, 2023 01:11 AM
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JgodJan 17, 2023 01:11 AM
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Thanks, have been waiting for it. Got 2. Reviewers saying 14TB is quieter than 18TB so I ended up picking that up.
Jan 17, 2023 01:19 AM
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Nature1Jan 17, 2023 01:19 AM
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Quote from Snakeyes77 :
My dad used to watch movies at the theater for 25¢, I used to get a pack of Marlboro's for $1.50. Thanks, for also sharing what we could get years ago..
Are you familiar with the term "apples and oranges"?

You are comparing the old " When I was your age I could have a night on the town for a nickel"

Which is true. But then use that same analogy on a computer processor or hard drive storage capacity…

People who compare oil (an ephemeral commodity) with technology (which increasingly costs less to manufacture greater information technology products) just can't help but throw everything in the same bag and say look it's just inflation and that's life!

You guys are seriously missing the point. Defending Artificial inflation and price fixing markets is so weird, it's almost like you are that ignorant of what is being done or you kiss the ring of the master's who give you a "front page deal!" ... on the thing that somehow costs more now than it did before.

Maybe the New York times and every other journalist or news agency in the world is also a zealous trolls, or maybe you guys are screeching into your own echo chamber whilst seal-clapping you can pay more for old tech.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/3...demic.html

Never said this was a bad deal, didn't down vote it, just gave a historical reference for those in the market, and then the haters swooshed down from their perch to protect the multi-billion dollar companies making record shattering profits shouting inflation IS ALL!!! REEEEEEEE

A good example is this deal from last week:

https://slickdeals.net/f/16305628-oloy-owl-32gb-2-x-16gb-288-pin-pc-ram-ddr4-3600-desktop-memory-72-free-shipping?attrsrc=search%3Aterm%3Addr4+32gb+3600%7Csearch%3Apage%3A1%7Csearch%3Aposition%3A9%7Csearch%3Aresult_type%3Athread%7Csearch%3Aresult_id%3A16305628&src=SiteSearchV2Algo1

This is 32gb's of 3600mhz ddr4. Years ago, this would've cost more than double the price. Now it's somehow dodged inflation and become it's historically lowest price. How is that possible if everything is MOAR expensive? It's all about market control, everyone please stop using Jensen's Huangs logic.
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MWinkJan 17, 2023 01:41 AM
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Quote from bootymonger :
18TB is $280 again if you want to pay $80 for that extra 4TB.

Are these WD externals just as loud as the ServerPartDeals [serverpartdeals.com]manufacturer recertified enterprise drives that are 14TB for $135?
Most likely, yes. Their WD/HGST drives will probably sound exactly the same, though I can not personally confirm it. I recently bought a Seagate Exos X16 from them and it sounds very similar to the WD EMAZ that it was swapped with. I'm not sure why people complain that one is significantly louder than the other, assuming we're comparing helium filled drives. Maybe there's some difference between specific models/capacities. I don't know. I'm pretty noise sensitive and all the helium filled drives have sounded roughly the same to me.

Quote from shade45 :
How are these drives from serverpartsdeals? Their prices are attractive to store unimportant rip movies
Their prices are attractive, especially that 12TB for $105 ($8.75/TB). I recently bought one and have no complaints so far. It was amazingly well packed (HD > anti-static bag > bubble wrap > box > more bubble wrap > another box). The manufacture date was August 2020, though I don't know whether that's when the drive was first built or when it was recertified. Of course, the SMART data was wiped.

Quote from steev182 :
Honestly the price difference is so marginal, I'd go for the bare drives instead.
With regard to the WD drives, I've noticed that the shucked drives all have APM that can not be permanently disabled. You can use various utilities to disable it but it always resets when the drive is power cycled. On some systems, it resets when the machine is rebooted. Also, even with APM disabled, the drives seem to go into a low power mode every 12 hours, regardless of drive activity. I don't know why but all the drives I've shucked behave this way. I don't have any to confirm but I suspect the bare (WD Red/Gold/etc.) drives won't behave this way.

Quote from nikoli707 :
What are you guys doing with the enclosure after shucking? I could use one for some extra smaller drives i have.
I save them. If/when I take one out of service, I put it back in the enclosure and use it as an external/backup drive. I'd be wary of trying the enclosure with significantly different drives. I've heard they may be vendor-locked to WD. I once tried an older WD drive and it presented the drive as unpartitioned. Luckily, it did not seem to damage the data on the drive.
Jan 17, 2023 01:47 AM
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jhogalJan 17, 2023 01:47 AM
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Quote from TheEdge :
Yes. USB.
Thank you.
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Jan 17, 2023 02:44 AM
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lastwraithJan 17, 2023 02:44 AM
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Quote from nikoli707 :
What are you guys doing with the enclosure after shucking? I could use one for some extra smaller drives i have.
I keep them in case of a warranty claim and then I either use the drives later in life (once I've upgraded to a larger internal) for external backups or sell/give them away. Usually the latter honestly.

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