News Holy Shuck! WD's 18TB external hard drive is on sale for an incredible $199 — only 1 penny per GB — and it's shuckable

[Admin]

The WD Easystore 18TB hard drive is on sale for a mere $199, which is half the normal pricing and works out to a mere penny for each gigabyte of storage.

Holy Shuck! WD's 18TB external hard drive is on sale for an incredible $199 — only 1 penny per GB — and it's shuckable
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[carl_carlson]

TL;DR: I'm salty that I missed out on this deal despite seeing this just 3hrs after it posted.

The "long-format" version:
As mentioned, I saw this article a mere 3 hours after it was posted but it was already unavailable. I don't know why I bother clicking on tech deals, as 9 times out of 10, they don't show up in my feed for 2-3 days after publishing, and by then the promo is history≈95% of the time. As added salt in the wound, on the rare occasion I'm privy (much) sooner, I still come up short, as evidenced by this deal in particular.

I'm especially salty about this one because not only did I think for sure that with only 3 hours elapsing I'd be able to take advantage of the deal, but I also happen to be in the market for a couple of large external hard drives and it doesn't get any better than 18TB@$200, which is by far the best price per GB/TB I've seen in a long time. Maybe ever.

I bought two 10 TB WD external HDDS (iirc, Elements model) about 5-6 years ago. One is still sealed in OG packaging, but the other is ≈800GB from full. I got those for $160 a piece and thought that was a pretty decent deal and considering that even after making the 10TB Elements purchases right up until now, I've been passively watching data storage price trends and occasionally diving by deeper (in hopes of finally putting a proper backup solution in place) but never saw anything close enough to motivate me to buy, it was a decent deal. BUT 18TB for only $40 more than I paid for 10 is a "bonkers-absolute-MUST-BUY-right-fricken-now" deal

I'm considering 20 @ $280 and Newegg has 18 @ 230 but it's also sold out. Unclear if backordering still allows one to get the promo price even after stock is still payed

 

[abitaman205]

I have tried since noon today and can't get the deal....seems like Tom needs to be a little quicker in getting the news out.

 

[popatim]

HAHA - This was sold out before this was even posted. I tried to mention it in the HDD best BF deals but guess what didn't go thru. The author locked the thread years ago and just keeps re-editing it, the article, with many useless sales that were expired or sold out.

 

[JeffreyP55]

The WD Easystore 18TB hard drive is on sale for a mere $199, which is half the normal pricing and works out to a mere penny for each gigabyte of storage.

Holy Shuck! WD's 18TB external hard drive is on sale for an incredible $199 — only 1 penny per GB — and it's shuckable
: Read more

Aw, no more drives available. I still have a full height 5.25" 10 Meg MFM Seagate ST412 drive sitting around somewhere. It cost over $1500.00 or more (I don't remember) for 10 megs. Not for sale.. LoL