WD EasyStore 18TB Hard Drive Is on Sale for Over 50% Off at Best Right Now
Best Buy’s Black Friday sale offers a lot of options for those of us who need a lot of local storage. You can purchase the WD EasyStore 18TB External Hard Drive for just $200 , which is more than 50% off the list price of $405. If you’re looking to upgrade your local storage, you’ll be hard-pressed to find a better deal. We recommend that you purchase this item before we run out of stock.
As someone who has purchased four 18TB drives over the past two years (don’t ask), I’ve been tracking the prices of these drives for a long time. You can typically find 18TB drives for servers or data centers for between $260 and $300, and these are internal hard drives. If you want an external drive that’s easy to connect via USB, the price is often over $300.
You can easily track these prices at ShuckStop , a site dedicated to tracking the prices of user-friendly external drives. “Shuffling” is the process of disassembling external drives to remove the hard drive. This is fairly easy to do, but if there are any problems with the drive, you will have to reassemble the external drive before sending it in for service. Each of these external drives has an internal hard drive that you can add to your computer or network attached storage (NAS).
All of this is to say that $200 for an 18TB drive that can be removed from the case is a really good price. When purchasing large hard drives, the optimal price is considered to be $15 per TB. This means that if you buy an 18TB hard drive for $270, you’re already getting a pretty good price. The Best Buy deal puts the drive at $11.11 per TB (before taxes), which is excellent value for money.
You can connect the 18TB EasyStore to your PC or Mac and start backing up your data. Alternatively, you can opt out at your own risk and use the drive with your PC or NAS.