Western Digital has its
20TB Western Digital Elements USB 3.0 External Hard Drive (WDBWLG0200HBK-NESN) on sale for
$279.99.
Shipping is free.
Amazon has
20TB Western Digital Elements USB 3.0 External Hard Drive (WDBWLG0200HBK-NESN) on sale for
$279.99 valid for
Amazon Prime Members only.
Shipping is free.
BH Photo Video also has
20TB Western Digital Easystore USB 3.0 External Hard Drive (WDBAMA0200HBK-NESN) on sale for
$279.99.
Shipping is free.
Newegg also has
20TB Western Digital Easystore USB 3.0 External Hard Drive (WDBAMA0200HBK-NESN) on sale for
$279.99.
Shipping is free.
Western Digital via Walmart has
20TB Western Digital Easystore USB 3.0 External Hard Drive (WDBAMA0200HBK-NESN) on sale for
$279.99.
Shipping is free.
Alternatively,
Best Buy also has
20TB Western Digital Easystore USB 3.0 External Hard Drive (WDBAMA0200HBK-NESN) on sale for
$279.99.
Shipping is free.
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But if you want to use the drive in-house/on-prem similar to Dropbox/Google Drive app, you can install Syncthing on each system and configure what folders you want backed up. It will back up changes to the other system over the network - and even do file versioning. Great app, and free to use. No reoccurring cost and no remote (cloud) storage required.
https://syncthing.net/
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Do you have any preference for a specific tool (out of the suggestions you listed)?
I've also tried out smartmontools and that was easy to use and took about the same length of time. Either one is probably fine.
If you do decide to use data lifeguard, you can use it to test any type of drive as long as you have a WD drive connected on your system somewhere. Obviously this IS a WD drive, so no trouble with this regardless of your other connected drives.
It's a pain, but I think doing the full test is a good idea. SMART tests don't really do much IMO. I've had drives fail where the SMART data was fine. I've also had badly working drives where SMART indicated problems and confirmed the bad performance I was noticing. It's not completely useless, but it doesn't always help you before it's too late. At least with a new drive, I like to do all I can to make sure things are good and get a baseline before I start putting my data onto it.
Good luck!
I've also tried out smartmontools and that was easy to use and took about the same length of time. Either one is probably fine.
If you do decide to use data lifeguard, you can use it to test any type of drive as long as you have a WD drive connected on your system somewhere. Obviously this IS a WD drive, so no trouble with this regardless of your other connected drives.
It's a pain, but I think doing the full test is a good idea. SMART tests don't really do much IMO. I've had drives fail where the SMART data was fine. I've also had badly working drives where SMART indicated problems and confirmed the bad performance I was noticing. It's not completely useless, but it doesn't always help you before it's too late. At least with a new drive, I like to do all I can to make sure things are good and get a baseline before I start putting my data onto it.
Good luck!
I will try WD Data Lifeguard or Smartmontools today.
I have WD's Drive Utilities diagnostic software that came with my EasyStore drives - It works on WD and Seagate drives, but it is not compatible with the Elements series specifically (checked online to be sure if was not just me).
I will try WD Data Lifeguard or Smartmontools today.
I have WD's Drive Utilities diagnostic software that came with my EasyStore drives - It works on WD and Seagate drives, but it is not compatible with the Elements series specifically (checked online to be sure if was not just me).
I'm not sure if it has all the features of something like WD Drive Utilities, but I've definitely used the failure codes it generates for damaged WD drives in the past to help with an RMA, so maybe it can act as a full replacement.
That's weird about the Elements vs Easystore. The only difference used to be that Easystore was BB only to avoid price matching and the enclosure was slightly different. When shucking them, the drives were almost always the same. Odd that software (especially WD's own) wouldn't read Elements drives, doubly so because those are the more common. But everything computer-related is bizarre.
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