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expiredholysin posted Jul 08, 2025 08:02 AM
expiredholysin posted Jul 08, 2025 08:02 AM

Easystore 20TB at Best Buy for $280 $279.99

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(Note these were $250 for black friday/cyber monday and are likely to be there or lower this year)

For my fellow WD heads, the 20TB easystores dropped in price for the black friday in july sale to $279.99. If you're happy with seagates, and don't need easystores this isn't a good deal for you but if you are like me, in need of more space before November heads up that this is an acceptable deal. Apparently I should have bought 6 last nov as I'm in for 2 more. Also of note, if you don't need 20TB, that 14TB is a better value both today and vs the last black friday per TB price ( https://slickdeals.net/f/18433966-wd-easystore-14tb-external-usb-3-0-hard-drive-black-169-99? )

https://www.bestbuy.com/site/wd-e...Id=6500985
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(Note these were $250 for black friday/cyber monday and are likely to be there or lower this year)

For my fellow WD heads, the 20TB easystores dropped in price for the black friday in july sale to $279.99. If you're happy with seagates, and don't need easystores this isn't a good deal for you but if you are like me, in need of more space before November heads up that this is an acceptable deal. Apparently I should have bought 6 last nov as I'm in for 2 more. Also of note, if you don't need 20TB, that 14TB is a better value both today and vs the last black friday per TB price ( https://slickdeals.net/f/18433966-wd-easystore-14tb-external-usb-3-0-hard-drive-black-169-99? )

https://www.bestbuy.com/site/wd-e...Id=6500985

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

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Jul 08, 2025 09:51 PM
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ThoJul 08, 2025 09:51 PM
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There's the non-best buy equivalent elements on Amazon for $10 cheaper! Thinking of jumping on this
https://www.amazon.com/Elements-D...087fee0848
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Jul 09, 2025 10:43 AM
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holysin
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Quote from Tho :
There's the non-best buy equivalent elements on Amazon for $10 cheaper! Thinking of jumping on thishttps://www.amazon.com/Elements-D...087fee0848
Yep if you don't have a specific need for the Best buy ones (disable-able spindown and POSSIBLY slight speed differences) the elements work just as well and are frequently a hair cheaper 💜
Jul 13, 2025 05:53 AM
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unknownuser5Jul 13, 2025 05:53 AM
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Quote from holysin :
Yep if you don't have a specific need for the Best buy ones (disable-able spindown and POSSIBLY slight speed differences) the elements work just as well and are frequently a hair cheaper 💜
Can you explain more about
Best buy ones (disable-able spindown and POSSIBLY slight speed differences)
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Jul 14, 2025 01:33 AM
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Quote from unknownuser5 :
Can you explain more about
Best buy ones (disable-able spindown and POSSIBLY slight speed differences)
There is (a lot of) debate about speed differences between the Best buy only version and the version you get everywhere else not sure if it's real or not but people claim that it's somewhere around 10% faster. The Best buy model also is the only one that allows you to completely disable the spin down timer with the included software. The argument in favor of using spin down is power savings based, the argument against is a slight lag is introduced every time you access the drive as it needs to do the power on cycle (possibly problematic if you serve media) and there is also a lifespan argument that by staying powered on (and spinning) 24/7 you might end up with a longer lifespan as the start/stop cycle adds some strain on spinning drives each time vs just spinning forever. (I can say as a data point that in the last 15 or so years of using just Western digital drives from Best buy I've not had a single drive fail before it was too small and needed to be replaced )
I use my drives for Plex so even without the lifespan argument I would opt for drives that allow the disabling of the timeout, the speed differences (if they exist) don't factor into my preference. If you're only using the drives for a regular backup routine once every X days instead of hours, then there is (IMHO) no reason to worry about auto spin down. Those of us who "need" the BB specific WD drives are definitely in the minority of users.
Last edited by holysin July 13, 2025 at 11:56 PM.

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