Sorry, I'm so late to this. You should check out the Best Buy WD EasyStore external hard drive. This is popular with the data hoarding community because it's a 8 TB WD Red. I don't thing it's a pro drive, but it costs $170 right now. Only thing is that you have to shuck it. Just in case you want more.
Drive link: https://www.bestbuy.com/site/wd-easystore-8tb-external-usb- 3-0-hard-drive-black/5792401.p?skuId=5792401 How to shuck it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6VCQ64DkfM On Sun, Mar 25, 2018 at 1:56 AM, Keith Lofstrom <[email protected]> wrote: > A few hours ago, I went to eBay to purchase two Western > Digital 6TB Red Pro drives, and noticed that the cheapest > were the Red NAS drives offered by Best Buy(!) at about > 25% below the competition; indeed, the price per TB was > even lower for the 8TB drives (at $307.99 each). > > So I looked at Amazon and Newegg (prices still above > $400) and bought two 8TB drives from Best Buy. > > I looked again, and the prices on Amazon, Newegg, and > BHPhoto for the WD8001FFWX drives have all dropped to > $306.29 . With notes about "sale ending in X hours" > (Sunday night Mar 25). > > If a price war has indeed begun, it could get interesting. > Or, I find out Monday that the drives are on deep discount > because they catch fire and emit poisonous gas. Or come > pre-loaded with security exploits on the boot tracks. > > Buyer be 'wared. > > Keith > > P.S. My first "big" hard drive purchase was a 600MB > Seagate for $2000. The new ones are 80,000 times > cheaper per byte. > > -- > Keith Lofstrom [email protected] > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
