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My Best Buy Plus & Total Members: 18TB WD easystore USB 3.0 External Hard Drive

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Best Buy is offering My Best Buy Plus & Total Members: 18TB WD easystore USB 3.0 External Hard Drive (WDBAMA0180HBK-NESN) on sale for $199.99. Shipping is free.

Thanks to Community Member captainguy for sharing this deal.
  • Note: must login to your Best Buy account w/ an active Plus/Total membership for pricing to activate. My Best Buy Plus/Total Tech membership can be purchased at same time to receive the discounted price, Membership starts at $49.99 a year.
Includes:
  • 18TB External Desktop Hard Drive
  • SuperSpeed USB-A cable (5Gbps)
  • AC adapter
  • Device management and backup software
  • 2-Year Warranty

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Written by jimmytx | Staff
  • About this Store:
  • Additional Information:
    • This offer is part of Best Buy's Early Plus/Total Members Black Friday deals valid through the end of October 29th, after which the offer becomes open to everyone on October 30th at 12am Central Time.
    • Priced at ~$11.11/TB for an external hard drive.
    • Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars on Best Buy based on 430 customer reviews.
    • Refer to the forum thread for additional details and community discussion.

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Best Buy is offering My Best Buy Plus & Total Members: 18TB WD easystore USB 3.0 External Hard Drive (WDBAMA0180HBK-NESN) on sale for $199.99. Shipping is free.

Thanks to Community Member captainguy for sharing this deal.
  • Note: must login to your Best Buy account w/ an active Plus/Total membership for pricing to activate. My Best Buy Plus/Total Tech membership can be purchased at same time to receive the discounted price, Membership starts at $49.99 a year.
Includes:
  • 18TB External Desktop Hard Drive
  • SuperSpeed USB-A cable (5Gbps)
  • AC adapter
  • Device management and backup software
  • 2-Year Warranty

Editor's Notes

Written by jimmytx | Staff
  • About this Store:
  • Additional Information:
    • This offer is part of Best Buy's Early Plus/Total Members Black Friday deals valid through the end of October 29th, after which the offer becomes open to everyone on October 30th at 12am Central Time.
    • Priced at ~$11.11/TB for an external hard drive.
    • Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars on Best Buy based on 430 customer reviews.
    • Refer to the forum thread for additional details and community discussion.

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flyingmonkey
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$80 more than last night.
bcm00re
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Be real...that was a price mistake that likely no one actually got.
scraejtp
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Typically media storage, movies/shows/etc. Though a single external HDD of this size is asking for problems. This is a lot of data to have without redundancy.
Many people who buy these shuck them, taking the drive out to install in a NAS or server.

Regardless, if you do not know what what you would use it for then you do not need it.

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$80 more than last night.
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TurboMann
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Quote from flyingmonkey :
$80 more than last night.
Was it posted on SL?

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I see it now. Must've missed my alert. Smokin' deal.
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Quote from flyingmonkey :
$80 more than last night.
Be real...that was a price mistake that likely no one actually got.
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Early Access deal ...
lol... early access deal has come and gone already
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Unless one is already a member you might as well get this instead: https://serverpartdeals.com/produ...hard-drive
I got one when they had them for $210; mine appears to be a new OEM drive originally destined for Facebook. Remember SPD doesn't charge tax in most states so that makes their pricing even better.
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Quote from bcm00re :
Unless one is already a member you might as well get this instead: https://serverpartdeals.com/produ...hard-drive
I got one when they had them for $210; mine appears to be a new OEM drive originally destined for Facebook. Remember SPD doesn't charge tax in most states so that makes their pricing even better.
I greatly prefer 5400rpm drives vs 7200.

Thanks for sharing. I'm sure many don't mind the difference.
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Quote from bcm00re :
Unless one is already a member you might as well get this instead: https://serverpartdeals.com/produ...hard-drive
I got one when they had them for $210; mine appears to be a new OEM drive originally destined for Facebook. Remember SPD doesn't charge tax in most states so that makes their pricing even better.
I like the helioseal drives but you're going to have a hard time convincing people to pay more (or similar amounts) for a refurb drive with wiped SMART data.
Still, serverpartdeals is always a possible option to think of. They're reputable at least.

Edit - These are new drives and I am wrong. Site didn't load correctly on my phone and I only saw the refurb options listed.
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Quote from flyingmonkey :
$80 more than last night.
Sure, but that was an absurdly good deal (pricing mistake) that was destined to disappear nigh-instantaneously.
By the time I clicked the alert it was already dead, and I don't imagine many of those orders will ship.
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Quote from lastwraith :
I like the helioseal drives but you're going to have a hard time convincing people to pay more (or similar amounts) for a refurb drive with wiped SMART data.
You made a bad assumption!
It isn't a refurbished, recertified, or used drive -- it is a brand new drive from SPD. And it has a longer warranty than this external drive too.
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Quote from TurboMann :
I greatly prefer 5400rpm drives vs 7200.

Thanks for sharing. I'm sure many don't mind the difference.
I like the 5400rpm ones too because they run cooler, but I thought I read these WD externals now had 7200rpm drives. I know the 8TB Easystore I bought about 5 years spins at 5400rpm, and it runs notably cooler than the 7200rpm 5TB Toshiba X300 I bought the year before -- and cooler than the new 18TB WD Ultrastar I just bought.
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Quote from bcm00re :
I like the 5400rpm ones too because they run cooler, but I thought I read these WD externals now had 7200rpm drives. I know the 8TB Easystore I bought about 5 years spins at 5400rpm, and it runs notably cooler than the 7200rpm 5TB Toshiba X300 I bought the year before -- and cooler than the new 18TB WD Ultrastar I just bought.
You're correct. I don't think your 8TB Easystore is 5400rpm either. WD just says they're but they're not in reality -- what a time to be alive.
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richardmmorales
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This only $10 more than what I spent on my 14 TB that I got a few years ago.
I had bought 2 of them at the time. Didn't think I'd see 18 TB drop this low. Since I've only seen the 14TB drop this low a few times in the last few years.
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Quote from bcm00re :
Be real...that was a price mistake that likely no one actually got.
It looks like BB is honoring their mistake. I picked up mine in store. The deal only lasted 30 mins or so, in the middle of the night.
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Quote from nosurprisespls :
You're correct. I don't think your 8TB Easystore is 5400rpm either. WD just says they're but they're not in reality -- what a time to be alive.
SMART data says the rpm is 5400, and like I said it runs considerably cooler than both my 7200rpm drives. The 8TBs sold today are probably 7200rpm now.

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Quote from tqlla3k :
It looks like BB is honoring their mistake. I picked up mine in store. The deal only lasted 30 mins or so, in the middle of the night.
That's cool of them...glad some actually got it!

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