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Oct 27, 2023 6:38 PM

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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Written by captainguy
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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.
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bcm00re
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Be real...that was a price mistake that likely no one actually got.
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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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Oct 28, 2023 3:25 AM
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nosurprisesplsOct 28, 2023 3:25 AM
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Quote from bcm00re View quoted comment :
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.
It's cooler probably because it's a smaller drive with less platters. Anyways, there was a controversy about it and WD decided not falsely report the SMART data any more https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoar..._actually/
Oct 28, 2023 5:07 AM
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Oct 28, 2023 5:13 AM
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scraejtpOct 28, 2023 5:13 AM
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Quote from Now1 View quoted comment :
What is the main reason someone would need 18tb?
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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Oct 28, 2023 5:47 AM
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AacidusOct 28, 2023 5:47 AM
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Quote from flyingmonkey View quoted comment :
$80 more than last night.
That "deal" only lasted 30 or so minutes, and a price mistake.

This is solid, in which anyone with the membership can get in on it. The lowest it's been is officially $249 and hit front page.
Last edited by Aacidus October 27, 2023 at 10:51 PM.
Oct 28, 2023 5:53 AM
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lastwraithOct 28, 2023 5:53 AM
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Quote from bcm00re View quoted comment :
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.
I was all set to post back "I didn't assume, I clicked the link and it only has manafucturer refurbished and seller refurbished options", but then I checked on something that isn't my phone and sure enough, there's a new option and it's selected.
Turns out my phone ad-blocker is mangling that product page, my apologies.

I'd be tempted to go this route if I needed a drive. These WD helioseal drives (based on Hitachi designs I think) have always treated me well - cool, quiet, quick.

TL;DR - You're right, this is indeed a new drive
Last edited by lastwraith October 27, 2023 at 10:58 PM.
Oct 28, 2023 6:02 AM
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lastwraithOct 28, 2023 6:02 AM
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Quote from scraejtp View quoted comment :
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.
I don't really understand the complaint about losing too much data. Either you care about the data on a drive like this and have backups or you don't and you don't have a backup. Either way, it's not a problem if the drive dies.
And personally, I'd rather have a few drives that are large than a slew of smaller drives eating up power and making heat and noise while taking up space.

With things like OMV, unRaid, TrueNAS, and even Drivepool+Snapraid, it's not hard to cobble together a backup system that doesn't rely on something like RAID-5, so give me the biggest size drive for the money please.
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Oct 28, 2023 7:14 AM
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bcm00reOct 28, 2023 7:14 AM
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Quote from lastwraith View quoted comment :
I don't really understand the complaint about losing too much data. Either you care about the data on a drive like this and have backups or you don't and you don't have a backup. Either way, it's not a problem if the drive dies.
True...folks were saying the same thing about 8TB drives five years ago and then 4-5TB drives just a couple years before that.

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Oct 28, 2023 8:02 AM
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SkillfulPiranha7944Oct 28, 2023 8:02 AM
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Quote from TurboMann View quoted comment :
Was it posted on SL?

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I see it now. Must've missed my alert. Smokin' deal.
Since no one replied directly to you, here's additional info. Yes, it was posted on SL in the middle of the night. But the price was apparently a mistake by Best Buy. They realized the mistake within an hour and the entire page was removed. A few lucky people got to order, however, and there was some debate on whether BB would cancel them. Someone posted today that they were able to pick up the drive so BB honored the sales.
Oct 28, 2023 8:44 AM
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ponagathosOct 28, 2023 8:44 AM
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Quote from Aacidus View quoted comment :
That "deal" only lasted 30 or so minutes, and a price mistake.

This is solid, in which anyone with the membership can get in on it. The lowest it's been is officially $249 and hit front page.
Yes, I paid $249 a few months ago.
Oct 28, 2023 8:48 AM
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xcopyOct 28, 2023 8:48 AM
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Quote from Now1 View quoted comment :
What is the main reason someone would need 18tb?

Because they have many TBs of data.

Video takes up huge amounts of space and 18TB drives are my new capacity floor. Any smaller and I'm out of space in under a 12-18 months.

I just bought some 20TB drives, but I really wanted the 18s so I may get these IF I CAN... With BB, that a BIG IF...
Oct 28, 2023 9:00 AM
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xcopyOct 28, 2023 9:00 AM
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I'm wondering if anyone has any thoughts on whether it's worth becoming a BB+ member, and effectively paying $25 more for a couple of drives so you don't have to deal with the "limited supply lottery" coming up?

It's kind of a steep penalty, but.....
Oct 28, 2023 10:02 AM
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AdelleyOct 28, 2023 10:02 AM
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This is a crazy good price even if it's a few $ more than that price mistake.

Usually $15/tb is considered slick.. This is about $11/tb.
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Oct 28, 2023 12:09 PM
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timobkgOct 28, 2023 12:09 PM
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Quote from lastwraith View quoted comment :
I don't really understand the complaint about losing too much data. Either you care about the data on a drive like this and have backups or you don't and you don't have a backup. Either way, it's not a problem if the drive dies.
And personally, I'd rather have a few drives that are large than a slew of smaller drives eating up power and making heat and noise while taking up space.

With things like OMV, unRaid, TrueNAS, and even Drivepool+Snapraid, it's not hard to cobble together a backup system that doesn't rely on something like RAID-5, so give me the biggest size drive for the money please.
Right, but notice what you said, that you'd want to have "a few drives that are large" and "have backups." There's no issue if you have two or more drives, because then you have redundancy.

The issue is when you have a single drive that you're backing up all your data onto. It's better than not having a backup at all, but your backup now has a single point of failure: your one and only backup drive. Again, better than no backup drive, but not nearly as good as mirroring the backups across two drives, so that in case one fails you still have a backup of all your data. Ideally you'd also have an off-site backup, in case something happens to your local backup drives (fire, flood, theft, tornado, etc).

But you're right that the size of the drive isn't the issue, the issue is that a single large backup drive for all your data isn't as safe as two large backup drives.
Oct 28, 2023 12:52 PM
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nopopupOct 28, 2023 12:52 PM
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ehhhh, you have to pay $50 for membership... I would wait for thanksgiving. Also, I got 20tb for $280 without membership last week.

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when will late access start?

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