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20TB WD easystore USB 3.0 External Hard Drive

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Best Buy via eBay has 20TB WD easystore USB 3.0 External Hard Drive (WDBAMA0200HBK-NESN) on sale for $279.99. Shipping is free.

Best Buy has 20TB WD easystore USB 3.0 External Hard Drive (WDBAMA0200HBK-NESN) on sale for $279.99. Shipping is free, otherwise free store pickup is available where stock permits.

Thanks to Community Member Chris11891 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 over 190 Best Buy customer reviews.
  • Please see the original post for additional details & give the forum comments a read for helpful discussion.

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Best Buy via eBay has 20TB WD easystore USB 3.0 External Hard Drive (WDBAMA0200HBK-NESN) on sale for $279.99. Shipping is free.

Best Buy has 20TB WD easystore USB 3.0 External Hard Drive (WDBAMA0200HBK-NESN) on sale for $279.99. Shipping is free, otherwise free store pickup is available where stock permits.

Thanks to Community Member Chris11891 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 qwikwit | Staff
  • Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars from over 190 Best Buy customer reviews.
  • Please see the original post for additional details & give the forum comments a read for helpful discussion.

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

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May 11, 2025 3:22 AM
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xlerateMay 11, 2025 3:22 AM
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Quote from holysin :
so those who need storage now can snag it.
Snag?

Quote from holysin :
(Deal ends tomorrow or when stock runs out).
Same price as Amazon for weeks: https://a.co/d/bw3MYVl
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May 11, 2025 3:23 AM
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xlerateMay 11, 2025 3:23 AM
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Quote from bcm00re :
Get it for $238ish from WD using the 15% off coupon for recycling an old drive!
Where's this promo?
May 11, 2025 3:34 AM
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rugia007May 11, 2025 3:34 AM
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Quote from xlerate :
Where's this promo?
You have to send in a hard drive to get recycled. You get a 15% off coupon. It's their incentive to get you to recycle hard drives
Edit: it's an everyday promo. Just gotta send in a hard drive. I have a bunch of old ones sitting around just to send them in whenever I need something from their site
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Quote from PeteyTheStriker :
Tariffs are live, prices all been adjusted for already so there is no more uncertainty unless tariffs increase again on China again.
Quit lying.

You haven't even seen reactionary prices, let alone what happens when shortages start.
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May 11, 2025 4:06 AM
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xlerateMay 11, 2025 4:06 AM
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Quote from rugia007 :
You have to send in a hard drive to get recycled. You get a 15% off coupon. It's their incentive to get you to recycle hard drives
Edit: it's an everyday promo. Just gotta send in a hard drive. I have a bunch of old ones sitting around just to send them in whenever I need something from their site
Do you send in HD first to get coupon? I have bins filled with old 20gb & 40gb drives.
May 11, 2025 4:50 AM
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MWinkMay 11, 2025 4:50 AM
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Quote from TristianX :
Ultimately all mechanical drives are unreliable. In general all 20TB + drives tend to show low AFRs (<1%) fail rates. Check Backblaze drive stats for more info.
"Backblaze's 2024 HDD stats show the Seagate 24TB Barracuda drive model (ST24000NM002H) performed very well, with zero failures among the 1,200 drives that filled a single Backblaze Vault."
First, the ST24000NM002H is an Exos X24, not a Barracuda. It's also NOT a HAMR drive, while the Barracuda is. Second, the average age of this model is 21 DAYS.

Quote from lleung1980 :
I thought Seagate drive is still unreliable
Seagate's reliability appears to be slowly improving. That said, these drives use a new technology (HAMR), so no one really knows how they'll hold up in the long run.

Quote from 0verboost :
What type of drives are in these guys nowadays are they still worth shucking?
They're usually the WD "white label" drives. They're potentially low binned drives and generally have their performance reduced approximately 20% compared to their Ultrastar counterparts. Reports so far appear to indicate that the Barracudas Seagate is now using in their externals don't have as much of a performance reduction.
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geek37May 11, 2025 5:25 AM
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resist temptation. uggh!

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May 11, 2025 5:43 AM
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Gb1908May 11, 2025 5:43 AM
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The spinup time when connected to a desktop extends the coldboot of pc another 30-45s...
May 11, 2025 7:11 AM
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meetjasperMay 11, 2025 7:11 AM
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Quote from bcm00re :
Get it for $238ish from WD using the 15% off coupon for recycling an old drive!
Thanks but its not instant. First I will have to send drive and then they will send me. By the time, this deal will be gone.
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holysinMay 11, 2025 8:30 AM
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Quote from xlerate :
Snag?

Same price as Amazon for weeks: https://a.co/d/bw3MYVl
snag - English, verb meaning "to catch or obtain usually by quick action or good fortune" (see https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/snag or your favorite online dictionary of choice.)


Elements != Easystore (there are discussions online about elements being slower feel free to participate in those elsewhere I don't have an opinion as they seem more or less the same speed for my uses - but for me the big no no for Elements is there is no ability to turn off the sleep timer whilst keeping it external which is annoying when one uses it to stream media so at least for my uses elements is only good for backup. Also BB is the only place that sells easystore externals officially.)

Hope that clears up the confusion, feel free to create an elements slickdeals post if you think it's a good deal (it's not really as it's been at that price online for awhile at amazon as you mention as well as the official site which is why the last post for one at this price a few months back was thumbed down more than up while this one is currently at the time of this comment +14.) For an easystore sale, this is an acceptable price for people who want to *snag* a 20 TB external WD easystore storage solution in the near future.
Last edited by holysin May 11, 2025 at 01:34 AM.
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May 11, 2025 9:06 AM
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goatpoacherMay 11, 2025 9:06 AM
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Quote from 0verboost :
What type of drives are in these guys nowadays are they still worth shucking?
¹1 x p⁰p]
May 11, 2025 9:11 AM
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richardmmoralesMay 11, 2025 9:11 AM
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Missed out on the 18 TB for $200 deal they did for Black Friday 2023.
Was hoping to see it again last year but they didn't do it.
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rugia007May 11, 2025 9:15 AM
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Quote from xlerate :
Do you send in HD first to get coupon? I have bins filled with old 20gb & 40gb drives.
Unfortunately yes. I just tried. I forgot about this caveat :/ the coupon lasts around 3 months I think. You're allowed to get this promo quarterly.
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Quote from holysin :
snag - English, verb meaning "to catch or obtain usually by quick action or good fortune" (see https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/snag or your favorite online dictionary of choice.)


Elements != Easystore (there are discussions online about elements being slower feel free to participate in those elsewhere I don't have an opinion as they seem more or less the same speed for my uses - but for me the big no no for Elements is there is no ability to turn off the sleep timer whilst keeping it external which is annoying when one uses it to stream media so at least for my uses elements is only good for backup. Also BB is the only place that sells easystore externals officially.)

Hope that clears up the confusion, feel free to create an elements slickdeals post if you think it's a good deal (it's not really as it's been at that price online for awhile at amazon as you mention as well as the official site which is why the last post for one at this price a few months back was thumbed down more than up while this one is currently at the time of this comment +14.) For an easystore sale, this is an acceptable price for people who want to *snag* a 20 TB external WD easystore storage solution in the near future.
There shouldn't be a meaningful difference in performance between the EasyStore and Elements. I believe they use the same drives, just different SATA-USB bridges. As for the sleep issue, You're not the first person I've heard mention it. Curiously, I've never had issue with mine going to sleep excessively. I wonder if adjusting APM or EPC settings has an effect on its behavior.
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May 11, 2025 10:17 AM
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holysinMay 11, 2025 10:17 AM
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Quote from MWink :
There shouldn't be a meaningful difference in performance between the EasyStore and Elements. I believe they use the same drives, just different SATA-USB bridges. As for the sleep issue, You're not the first person I've heard mention it. Curiously, I've never had issue with mine going to sleep excessively. I wonder if adjusting APM or EPC settings has an effect on its behavior.
The summation of the argument (again, feel free to go elsewhere to read and even participate in the various arguments as there are a few of them - enough that google AI will give you a summation similar to what I'm about to, and I really don't care enough about the difference in speed to have any skin in the game since I'm already forced to the BB model to have an opinion on speed...) in favor of speed differences is that the elements are handicapped from the mfg to give 5400RPM performance instead of 7200rpm to save on heat (this in theory *increases* longevity, where frequent spin-down/ups *decreases* longevity) while the BB ones are less digitally encumbered as they are supposed to be the same model of physical drive.

And unless you're serving media (or are an impatient AF user for the first copy/read command) the sleep timeout isn't really noticeable to the average user as it's usually something high enough that will only be triggered once during a use session. However, when serving media from external drives the spin down can cause issues since people have a habit of pausing their streaming (ala https://forums.plex.tv/t/must-hit...ive/917471 for a mac user experiencing mild frustration) Which then can screw with the viewing experience anywhere from a mild annoyance of hitting retry on up to having to go out and back into the player. This is why drives like this that can have sleep disabled via the drive are more sought after for us plex/kodi/other sharers despite workarounds like scheduled read/write executions existing. In other words, BB specific drives at the same price as other WD drives tend to get a bump in popularity and can't really be compared to those other drives for "is this a deal" questions (there are also *some* who value the increased longevity that no spin ups/downs provides but that's a whole other group of nuts separate from us streaming nuts Wink )
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