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Jan 30, 2023 3:45 AM

12TB WD My Book USB 3.0 Desktop External Hard Drive

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Amazon has 12TB WD My Book USB 3.0 Desktop External Hard Drive (WDBBGB0120HBK-NESN) on sale for $169.57. Shipping is free.

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    • Our research indicates that this 12TB WD My Book USB 3.0 Desktop External Hard Drive (WDBBGB0120HBK-NESN) is $10.42 lower (5.7% savings) than the next best available price from a reputable merchant with prices starting from $179.99 at the time of this post.
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Amazon has 12TB WD My Book USB 3.0 Desktop External Hard Drive (WDBBGB0120HBK-NESN) on sale for $169.57. Shipping is free.

Note: Usually ships within 2 to 5 weeks.

Thanks to Community Member satellite779 for finding this deal.

Editor's Notes

Written by Corwin | Staff
  • About this deal:
    • Our research indicates that this 12TB WD My Book USB 3.0 Desktop External Hard Drive (WDBBGB0120HBK-NESN) is $10.42 lower (5.7% savings) than the next best available price from a reputable merchant with prices starting from $179.99 at the time of this post.
    • Refer to the forum thread for additional details and discussion.
  • About this product:
    • This external hard drive has a 4.4 out of 5 star overall rating on Amazon based on over 9,300 reviews.
  • About this store:

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lastwraith
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Honest question - what does Bluetooth have to do with the physical location of an external drive? You aren't transferring multiple gigabytes of data over Bluetooth unless you're a masochist.
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dealstorm
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Cats beg to differ.

Actually, you are correct. Cats don't need a reason.
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Jan 30, 2023 10:34 PM
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ElatedWalrus2609Jan 30, 2023 10:34 PM
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Quote from Eagles89 View quoted comment :
Every computer has bluetooth now. There is literally no reason for your hard drive to get "knocked to the floor"
Huh? Bluetooth is hardly a robust networking protocol to move large blocks of data. It's for earphones and speakers and has very limited range highly subject to interference.
Jan 31, 2023 7:18 AM
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dRuEFFECTJan 31, 2023 7:18 AM
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Quote from lastwraith View quoted comment :
No, if you read and processed my post, you'd see that I told them to ask the question they really want answered.
They asked "is it shuckable" (which is always yes for these) but really wanted to know about any "gotchas" for when the drive was shucked. So just ask that in the first place and people will be more inclined to answer and share their experience vs the "yes" that it's otherwise going to be every time because people are tired of answering.

Hopefully that explanation makes you understand why I posted what I did. If I just wanted to be toxic, I wouldn't have bothered adding so many details about the actual drive enclosed.
I also don't even think the tone of my response was at all aggressive. If you think that post is an example of "toxicity", I'd love to know where/why. Also, you're going to be in for a rude awakening here and on the internet forums at large.
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Jan 31, 2023 5:08 PM
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yoFuJan 31, 2023 5:08 PM
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Quote from lastwraith View quoted comment :
Drive size makes no difference for data loss. All drives fail eventually, regardless of the reason.
Either you care about your data and have backups or you don't. Bigger drives just make it easier from a density standpoint.
I would never NOT buy a drive simply because it's big and when it fails I might lose data. If I don't have a backup for the data on that drive.... I clearly can afford to lose it all.
If you're letting people know that physically jostling a mechanical drive when it's in operation isn't a great idea, hopefully people already know that. Also, just put these on their side and they can't tip over. The drives won't care and the tipping hazard is removed.
The largest drives in my storage setup ARE used for backups, never primary storage. For primary storage, I go with drives that have 5 yr vendor warranties. That shows the vendor believes in the hardware, unlike these USB devices which usually have a 1 yr or even just 90 day warranty. My look up for the warranty on this drive says 3 yrs. That's a typical "Blue" HDD warranty.
BTW, WD has gotten into the habit of marketing the outside cover of the enclosures (black) as a way to imply that a WD-Black HDD is inside.

WD-Black drives have 5 yr warranties and are higher cost devices due to the added engineering involved to meet that warranty. I have 3 WD-Black HDDs. 2 are over 10 yrs old and show ZERO issues in their SMART data. Last fall, I picked up an 8TB Black for what I though was a deal at the time, model: WD8002FZWX-00BKUA0. Most of my primary storage HDDs are Gold/DC models from WD/Hitachi. They all have over 5 yrs of run time and don't appear to show any issues in the SMART data. I've gotten my money's worth from them, unlike so many lesser quality/lower warrantied HDDs from nearly all vendors (Seagate/Hitachi/WD and others).

Have some 320GB and 300GB Seagate HDDs that are nearly 20 yrs old now - still running well too. Something drastic changed in Seagate engineering when they started making 650GB and larger disks. I've had a few Seagate 2TB HDDs fail right around 1 yr after purchase. One just before the warranty expired and 1 just after. Extremely disappointed by that vendor.
Mar 23, 2023 10:50 PM
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dealstormMar 23, 2023 10:50 PM
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Drive makes a noise every few seconds when it should be idle; an older My Book doesn't do this. Also, the software install hung and there are multiple reports online of the exact same behavior.

I've had a high opinion of WD quality for years but I'm afraid it may no longer be warranted.

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