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expiredShrewdString611 posted Feb 18, 2023 09:32 AM

18TB WD easystore External USB 3.0 Hard Drive

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Best Buy via eBay has 18TB WD easystore External USB 3.0 Hard Drive (WDBAMA0180HBK-NESN) on sale for $249.99 (discount will show in cart). Shipping is free.

Best Buy has 18TB WD easystore External USB 3.0 Hard Drive (WDBAMA0180HBK-NESN) on sale for $249.99. Shipping is free or choose curbside pickup where stock permits.

Thanks to Community Member ShrewdString611 for finding this deal.

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  • 18TB External Desktop Hard Drive
  • SuperSpeed USB-A cable (5Gbps)
  • AC adapter
  • Device management and backup software

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Best Buy via eBay has 18TB WD easystore External USB 3.0 Hard Drive (WDBAMA0180HBK-NESN) on sale for $249.99 (discount will show in cart). Shipping is free.

Best Buy has 18TB WD easystore External USB 3.0 Hard Drive (WDBAMA0180HBK-NESN) on sale for $249.99. Shipping is free or choose curbside pickup where stock permits.

Thanks to Community Member ShrewdString611 for finding this deal.

Note: Pickup availability will vary by location.

Includes:
  • 18TB External Desktop Hard Drive
  • SuperSpeed USB-A cable (5Gbps)
  • AC adapter
  • Device management and backup software

Editor's Notes

Written by slickdewmaster | Staff
  • About this deal:
  • About this product:
    • Rating of 4.5 from over 270 Best Buy customer reviews.
    • 2-Year Warranty
  • Additional Note:

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emanresu.slaedkcils
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Good price at $13.89 per TB.
Slacky
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My Chase Ink VISA has 10% cashback at BB.
TurboMann
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Typically (historically) the drives in the easystore are rate limited to 5400 rpm by the firmware even if their enterprise equivalents are 7200 rpm.

I prefer 5400 rpm. Less noise and heat. Still plenty fast to max out a 1 gbit LAN connection.

Thanks OP!

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Feb 18, 2023 09:41 AM
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01111000Feb 18, 2023 09:41 AM
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Wow great deal. I think I'm going to try to hold out for the 20tb model though.
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Good price at $13.89 per TB.
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Quote from lukem5 :
Enterprise class regular hdd only 40-50$ more, ok deal i guess if u want something mobile
I thought these are enterprise class drives (Ultrastar variant?) inside.
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Quote from lukem5 :
Enterprise class regular hdd only 40-50$ more, ok deal i guess if u want something mobile
When the price difference is 20% of the total cost of the product.... that's pretty significant.
Also, everyone should have backups for their data (or they don't care about it in the first place), no reason not to buy mostly on price here.
Plus these are usually efficient helium drives which run cool and quiet compared to most enterprise drives.

I prefer these for multiple reasons over getting an "enterprise" drive. If I hadn't already bit on the 14TB for $200 not long ago, I would definitely pick up at least one of these. Nice deal OP!
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Nacho1545Feb 18, 2023 12:09 PM
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This is a great price! Wish I needed another drive but I just bought another one earlier this week.
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JTEEEFeb 18, 2023 12:09 PM
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Windows will report the storage space as less than advertised because in Windows, 1TB = 1,099,511,627,776 bytes, not 1,000,000,000,000 bytes. However, that number is being applied to your files as well, so you are still getting the same amount of storage even if it doesn't seem like it.

I buy a couple of easystores each year and each one is still going strong. This is a great deal.

Only negative is it takes a few seconds to start up if its connected to a PC, but it's not that big of a deal for the savings. I also have one connected to a Nvidia Shield TV Pro and it runs 50gb 4k movies fine on Plex.
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gen2Feb 18, 2023 12:24 PM
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Quote from lukem5 :
Enterprise class regular hdd only 40-50$ more, ok deal i guess if u want something mobile

Also only 16.3 tb not 18, 5400 rpm
Are there any 16+ TB drives that are 5400rpm? All that I've seen are 7200rpm..
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PH3N1XFeb 18, 2023 12:46 PM
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Quote from gen2 :
Are there any 16+ TB drives that are 5400rpm? All that I've seen are 7200rpm..
Red series is 5400
edit- I'm wrong
Last edited by PH3N1X February 18, 2023 at 05:36 AM.
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Feb 18, 2023 01:03 PM
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Pretty big price drop, noicee.
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gen2Feb 18, 2023 01:16 PM
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Quote from PH3N1X :
Red series is 5400
No they aren't.
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Typically (historically) the drives in the easystore are rate limited to 5400 rpm by the firmware even if their enterprise equivalents are 7200 rpm.

I prefer 5400 rpm. Less noise and heat. Still plenty fast to max out a 1 gbit LAN connection.

Thanks OP!
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GeofflolzFeb 18, 2023 01:36 PM
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Would these be good shucked as network drives? I have a Synology NAS used as a plex server that is pretty much full at the moment and have been looking for expansion.
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Quote from gen2 :
No they aren't.
I corrected

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