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20TB WD easystore USB 3.0 External Hard Drive

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Best Buy has 20TB WD easystore USB 3.0 External Hard Drive (WDBAMA0200HBK-NESN) on sale for $249.99. Shipping is free.

Thanks to Community Member captainguy for sharing this deal.

About this Item:
  • USB 3.0 interface
  • Comes with the WD Discovery backup software
  • 2-Year Warranty
  • Compatible with PC and Mac

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  • Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars from customer reviews.
  • Offer valid for a limited time only / while supplies last.

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Best Buy has 20TB WD easystore USB 3.0 External Hard Drive (WDBAMA0200HBK-NESN) on sale for $249.99. Shipping is free.

Thanks to Community Member captainguy for sharing this deal.

About this Item:
  • USB 3.0 interface
  • Comes with the WD Discovery backup software
  • 2-Year Warranty
  • Compatible with PC and Mac

Editor's Notes

Written by SaltyOne | Staff
  • Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars from customer reviews.
  • Offer valid for a limited time only / while supplies last.

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Written by captainguy

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Model: WD - easystore 20TB External USB 3.0 Hard Drive - Black

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BestBuy has a tendency to put out one of these drives on deal (ie: $250 for this one), so people rush out and buy it.. only to drop the price on another drive later on (like 18TB for $179, or 22TB for $229). My guess is that they try to get a higher sale out of these initial offers and then scoop up some additional sales of better-discounted versions in the coming weeks.

This is more of just a heads-up that if you buy this you might want to hang onto the packaging/box in case a better deal comes up and you end up doing an exchange.
Total came out to $232.50 (excluding tax)

Don't forget Amex has $25 off $250.

Also GCGranny or CardBear can give you 7% off Best Buy gift cards.
Careful with enterprise drives if your NAS/DAS isn't tucked away somewhere that you can't hear or see it. Enterprise drives tend to be much louder than commercial/consumer drives.

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Starting to get tempting :o
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*REMOVED due to repost*
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What drives are in these? Same as the Western Digital HD560's?
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Edit: (removed double post, kept this one)

Of note for this and the 18TB model it says "black friday deal" which normally means @ BB that the price won't be lower by black friday (cyber monday however might count as something else, but I've not seen that with BB in my time of buying drives there...) I was hoping for a deal on the 22/24s but I'm in for two to use my $10 BB cert, $25 AMX credit ($250+ so don't forget to add a filler if you're only getting one!) to replace a pair of aging 8TB externals on my plex server. (12.50 a TB is also likely to be a better price than you'll see next year in the US market I fear...)
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Total came out to $232.50 (excluding tax)

Don't forget Amex has $25 off $250.

Also GCGranny or CardBear can give you 7% off Best Buy gift cards.
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was hoping for the 22TB, but still in for 1 or 2. Frown

edit: wait, just realized the 18TB last year was $199. wth, waiting for a better deal.
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Prices never seem to fall by much, outside of some unattainable outliers. I bet $250 will be a good price of these for a while.

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Quote from Dreamliner330 :
What drives are in these? Same as the Western Digital HD560's?
Same Hardware, but a special fireware limit its reading down to ~200MB/s, make it 5400RPM like.
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20TB Elements was $280 more than 1.5 years ago. It should be way cheaper than $250 at this point:

https://slickdeals.net/f/16549645-20tb-wd-elements-usb-3-0-external-desktop-hard-drive-280-free-s-h?v=1
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Quote from holysin :
Weird, my reply didn't show up. Apologies if this double posts eventually:

Of note for this and the 18TB model it says "black friday deal" which normally means @ BB that the price won't be lower by black friday (cyber monday however might count as something else, but I've not seen that with BB in my time of buying drives there...) I was hoping for a deal on the 22/24s but I'm in for two to use my $10 BB cert, $25 AMX credit ($250+ so don't forget to add a filler if you're only getting one!) to replace a pair of aging 8TB externals on my plex server. (12.50 a TB is also likely to be a better price than you'll see next year in the US market I fear...)

If you're using these for Plex then I assume they're shuckable?
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Used to go for these every few years. However I'm firmly in the used enterprise HDD camp.

Still have six 8tb shucked drives going after 6+ years.
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Quote from dannyboy1191 :
If you're using these for Plex then I assume they're shuckable?
They're very much shuckable (at that point, there's pretty much no difference in the easystore and the other versions sold everywhere else) but I use external drives so the reason I'll always prefer these even if they're a little more is with the windows wd util you can disable the power savings features (autospin down) another reason some like these over the non easystores is as they sit they are faster according to people who test such things religiously (exact speed escapes me at the moment.)

Really, if you have the desktop space (and nothing that will knock things over!) there's no reason not to use externals for pretty much any content that you'd stream on a gigabit ethernet connection with modern USB speeds. The only reason you'd want to not use an external is if you're doing any raid style outside of a raid-1 full mirror (because I'm a bit insane I mirror with a task schedule, hence replacing the drives in pairs, if I do remove the 8s from the desk I'll have 10 externals on this system you take a bit of an available space hit but the ease of upgrading kept me from doing a box of disks.

Again it's an excellent drive platform, and even though I got my last 18TB for 199 last BF I'm not mad at this price.
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In for 2 to fill up my 2nd 920+.

When these get full time to upgrade my 8tb drives... probably next black friday
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Quote from holysin :
They're very much shuckable (at that point, there's pretty much no difference in the easystore and the other versions sold everywhere else) but I use external drives so the reason I'll always prefer these even if they're a little more is with the windows wd util you can disable the power savings features (autospin down) another reason some like these over the non easystores is as they sit they are faster according to people who test such things religiously (exact speed escapes me at the moment.)

Really, if you have the desktop space (and nothing that will knock things over!) there's no reason not to use externals for pretty much any content that you'd stream on a gigabit ethernet connection with modern USB speeds. The only reason you'd want to not use an external is if you're doing any raid style outside of a raid-1 full mirror (because I'm a bit insane I mirror with a task schedule, hence replacing the drives in pairs, if I do remove the 8s from the desk I'll have 10 externals on this system you take a bit of an available space hit but the ease of upgrading kept me from doing a box of disks.

Again it's an excellent drive platform, and even though I got my last 18TB for 199 last BF I'm not mad at this price.
10 externals! Nice. Must be a heck of a collection.
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