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Western Digital 14TB Elements Desktop External Hard DriveUSB 3.0 external hard drive $199.99 Amazon

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Jul 30, 2025 7:32 PM
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MasejoerJul 30, 2025 7:32 PM
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Wow - while the $250 Seagate 26TB external may not be the best, depending on which drive model you get in the enclosure, this drive at 14TB is a terrible price today. Inflation or not, WD 14TB externals were this price at Bestbuy five years back.

Seagate 26TB: https://slickdeals.net/f/18493867-seagate-26tb-stkp26000400-249-99
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Quote from Masejoer View quoted comment :
Wow - while the $250 Seagate 26TB external may not be the best, depending on which drive model you get in the enclosure, this drive at 14TB is a terrible price today. Inflation or not, WD 14TB externals were this price at Bestbuy five years back.Seagate 26TB: https://slickdeals.net/f/18493867-seagate-26tb-stkp26000400-249-99
Seagate drives have a bad rep. I have had two fail on me in the past 1 yr. I have 8 WD drives in my NAS with no problems!!
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MasejoerJul 31, 2025 7:19 AM
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Quote from BeepBopBeep View quoted comment :
Seagate drives have a bad rep. I have had two fail on me in the past 1 yr. I have 8 WD drives in my NAS with no problems!!
I'm with you there, but the difference on drives from the last 5 years isn't so drastic like it used to be. Even if Seagate became more reliable than WD for years, it would still take me some time to adjust to wanting to buy them again. I still have a bad opinion of them ever since my three 1.5TB 7200.11 drives failed within weeks apart - Seagate drives were excellent prior to that. Same as it was with WD drives back in my 2TB-4TB days - they weren't great, whether a WD Green that liked to fail, or Reds that were their better stuff, but still had higher failures within the first couple years. Samsung and HGST had good products in the 2-4TB era.

With that said though, 14TB at this price is insane today - so expensive. I'd personally still rather have the 26TB Seagate for 25% more, for nearly twice the capacity.. Even better if one got an Exos drive in the Seagate, but I'm sure most people would receive Barracudas instead.
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bennorAug 2, 2025 10:24 AM
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Quote from BeepBopBeep View quoted comment :
Seagate drives have a bad rep. I have had two fail on me in the past 1 yr. I have 8 WD drives in my NAS with no problems!!
WD drives fail too. Recently had a 8TB WD Red (shucked from a WD Easystore enclosure) fail after eight years of moderate use. Meanwhile two very, very, old Seagate 320GB drive chug along. Morel of the story, any manufacturer's hard drive can fail (some sooner than others). Have backups of the data to avoid issues.
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dznutzAug 6, 2025 1:56 AM
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I'll hold out for wd on sale. My 20 year old self built pc using wd and a samsung hdd still work with 0 drive errors. All other drives have died.... especially seagates
Aug 12, 2025 6:13 AM
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Editor1Aug 12, 2025 6:13 AM
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Waiting a couple more weeks to see if this price drops further, i.e., US$180, which is what my 10TB's cost prior to Covid, so circa 2019. The Seagate costs seem good, but like others, have fears about failure - want to use for my media collection on Plex. If had funds, would go Seagate 24-26TB but buy 4, utilise two and use two as back-ups.
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JohnJ5169Aug 25, 2025 12:55 PM
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Friends dont let friends buy seagate!

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