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expiredChris11891 posted May 10, 2025 12:00 PM

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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Written by Chris11891

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

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May 11, 2025 11:44 AM
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gen2May 11, 2025 11:44 AM
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Why has Seagate been a lot cheaper than WD lately?
May 11, 2025 11:47 AM
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leptoidMay 11, 2025 11:47 AM
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Quote from lleung1980 :
I thought Seagate drive is still unreliable
Not compared to modern wd
May 11, 2025 12:33 PM
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Gleb86May 11, 2025 12:33 PM
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Grabbed one, thanks!
May 11, 2025 2:07 PM
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CrimsonPartner4896May 11, 2025 2:07 PM
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what do people use these for? with that much space
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May 11, 2025 2:19 PM
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xcopyMay 11, 2025 2:19 PM
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Quote from holysin :

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.)
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.
RE: sleep issues

See this video. It may help....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVScOzldCY8


I've done it for 12TB, 18TB, and I'll do it for the 20TBs soon too (I got 2x 20TB on the newegg deal with 2x WD SN770 SSDs included for $279 each).
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May 11, 2025 2:28 PM
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xcopyMay 11, 2025 2:28 PM
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Quote from CrimsonPartner4896 :
what do people use these for? with that much space
Stuff accumulates. Photos, videos, etc. I keep a couple of drives just for routine backups of three computers, and over the last few years I've moved from 12TB, to 18TB, and now 20TB, which should hold me for a while...

Remember, you always want "breathing space" on your drives as well, meaning your goal is not to fill them until you run out of space. Also, when you factor in the space available after formatting (it's base 10 vs base 2 counting thing), for larger drives you should count on *approximately* losing 2TB of space. IOW, a 20TB drive is really 18TB, an 18TB is really 16TB, etc.
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May 11, 2025 2:35 PM
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xcopyMay 11, 2025 2:35 PM
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Quote from xlerate :
Snag?



Same price as Amazon for weeks: https://a.co/d/bw3MYVl
You're not an American, that's for sure... LOL
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May 11, 2025 2:44 PM
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May 11, 2025 2:47 PM
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nitemareMay 11, 2025 2:47 PM
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when $300 is a slick deal for a mechanical drive...only here..
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Quote from xcopy :
These are not made in china. They're made in Thailand, and the real hit is debatable as to what will happen.

The goal of tariffs is to reshore/nearshore, and primarily change the behavior of a 100% malevolent enemy, i.e., china. I'd miss some of the cheap crap, but I'm good with total decoupling and letting china destroy itself. Sooner the better....

Thailand is not in the same boat...
Congrats, you failed economics.

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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May 11, 2025 3:14 PM
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superstealsMay 11, 2025 3:14 PM
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Quote from ddhanota :
Amazon has same offer as well but the model is Elements.
https://www.amazon.com/Elements-D...153&sr=8-3
Easy Store is a Best Buy exclusive label. Element and Easy store are same items except the name!!!
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May 11, 2025 4:10 PM
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MozartAMay 11, 2025 4:10 PM
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Quote from supersteals :
Easy Store is a Best Buy exclusive label. Element and Easy store are same items except the name!!!
As few people and even Google AI mentioned Easy Store and Element have many differences.
So are you saying all the other people in this thread giving examples of the differences are lying?


Quote from holysin :
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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May 11, 2025 5:27 PM
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TenderBird865May 11, 2025 5:27 PM
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2 year warranty. I wouldn't trust 20TB of my data on a drive WD wouldn't warranty for more than 2 years.
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Quote from m3n00b :
Don't these 20tbs have issues with noise and reliability?
Mine have, but I guess it's just their new way of running.. they constantly spin up and down and click click click

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