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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You haven't even seen reactionary prices, let alone what happens when shortages start.
Everything begins in a country impacted by these tariffs.
You aren't escaping this by singling out China, but clearly our entire economy revolves around even the smallest screw made there.
Moreover, even if you exclude all of these origin countries, where do you expect to get the labor to replace them?
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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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You haven't even seen reactionary prices, let alone what happens when shortages start.
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
"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."
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Same price as Amazon for weeks: https://a.co/d/bw3MYVl
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.
Was hoping to see it again last year but they didn't do it.
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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.
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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
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