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14TB WD easystore USB 3.0 External Hard Drive

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Best Buy has 14TB WD easystore USB 3.0 External Hard Drive (WDBAMA0140HBK-NESN) on sale for $199.99. Shipping is free or select free curbside pickup where available.

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Product Details:
  • USB 3.0 interface: Offers easy-to-use connection to devices. Backward-compatible with USB 2.0 for simple connection to your computer.
  • Comes with the WD Discovery backup software that lets you set hourly, daily, or monthly backup schedules and makes it easy to back up high-capacity files to your drive. Compatible with Apple Time Machine (requires reformatting).

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  • About this deal:
    • This price is $95 lower (32% savings) than the list price of $294.99 and matches several previous Frontpage deals for this popular drive.
  • About this product:
    • Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars based on nearly 2,340 Best Buy customer reviews.
  • About this store:
    • Best Buy Extended Holiday Return Policy: When purchased now through Dec 31, you can return this item anytime until Jan 14.

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Best Buy has 14TB WD easystore USB 3.0 External Hard Drive (WDBAMA0140HBK-NESN) on sale for $199.99. Shipping is free or select free curbside pickup where available.

Thanks to Slickdeals staff member Eragorn for finding this deal.
  • Note: Must be logged in to your My Best Buy account to see price (free to join).
Product Details:
  • USB 3.0 interface: Offers easy-to-use connection to devices. Backward-compatible with USB 2.0 for simple connection to your computer.
  • Comes with the WD Discovery backup software that lets you set hourly, daily, or monthly backup schedules and makes it easy to back up high-capacity files to your drive. Compatible with Apple Time Machine (requires reformatting).

Editor's Notes

Written by johnny_miller | Staff
  • About this deal:
    • This price is $95 lower (32% savings) than the list price of $294.99 and matches several previous Frontpage deals for this popular drive.
  • About this product:
    • Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars based on nearly 2,340 Best Buy customer reviews.
  • About this store:
    • Best Buy Extended Holiday Return Policy: When purchased now through Dec 31, you can return this item anytime until Jan 14.

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Model: WD - easystore 14TB External USB 3.0 Hard Drive - Black

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Wouldn't purchase for long-term capacity needs. Prices per GB likely dropping by mid-2023 has much larger capacity drives ship out to both consumers and businesses.

Seagate and WD sales of HDs keeps dropping (because of SSDs, etc.). Manufacturing lower capacity HD drives won't be worth it.

Yes, there's inflation, but I don't see inflation as an issue for computer electronics. I think it's going the other way as consumers will want to spend less and get more. The big push for WFH electronics has gone through. Now plants are at full capacity and eager to bring in revenues fast. Small stick streaming devices are plentiful and given away for almost free. There will be less demand for consumer high storage needs for most, though some will go the other way.

Attached chart of anticipated capacity shipments going forward.
I use 12 of these drives in my NAS. The two model numbers I've seen are WD140EDFZ and WD140EMFZ, though it may be different with newer models (my oldest ones were manufactured Dec-2019).

They are 5400rpm but I still see upwards of 200MB/s read/write.
I honestly don't think so but could easily be wrong.


I believe that they added the easystore line to the exclusions earlier this year.


Correct for today - this should be for everyone starting tomorrow. I'm hoping I'm not wrong but apologies if I am. Worst case scenario everyone just starts downvoting it
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Nov 17, 2022
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Danimal86
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Quote from Nec89 :
Oh boy eyesores! Anyone confirm what drives are in these? Are they worth shucking for something like a NAS?
7200 helium filled reds with white labels on them.
Yes perfect for nas drives
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cheshirecat
Nov 17, 2022
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Quote from Danimal86 :
7200 helium filled reds with white labels on them.
Yes perfect for nas drives
Do white labels mean any difference from red label Reds?
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cheshirecat
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How hard is it to shuck them without voiding the warranty?
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doncaruana
Nov 17, 2022
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Quote from Nec89 :
Oh boy eyesores! Anyone confirm what drives are in these? Are they worth shucking for something like a NAS?
I bought two of them when they were on sale for the same price a couple of weeks ago. They are WD140EDGZ-11B1PA0 - 7200rpm helium filled drives.
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Our community has rated this post as helpful. If you agree, why not thank Nec89

Quote from potatopirate :
is there any real reason a normal household NAS would need 7200rpm? I was debating on getting these or finding a deal on some wd red pro, now just need to decide if 14tb is enough
No, unless you're in a special use case where the NAS has multi gig networking and the devices your serving to also have multi gig and drives that can write the data at higher rates. In most cases you're better off with the slower drives for longevity because that higher RPM means more vibration add to that if speed is what you're going for ssd's or caching to an NVME is the way to go.
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robertw477
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Hold tight for at least Black Friday. Prices heading lower.
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Quote from cheshirecat :
How hard is it to shuck them without voiding the warranty?
From what I've read in the past, it is illegal for WD to not honor the warranty just because you took it out of the case. Now, actually getting WD to honor it is another story because they know you aren't going to take the time/energy to sue them over a $200 hd.
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kupon3ss
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Quote from Nec89 :
Oh boy eyesores! Anyone confirm what drives are in these? Are they worth shucking for something like a NAS?
Not really, 14TB raw drives (often NAS 7200rpms) are routinely at around $200 and are probably better bets/warrantied usually.
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opus123
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But, all those people were posting on the other WD sale threads that the 16 and possibly the 18 TB would be this price are lower on BF. I trusted them!!!!!!!!
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prototype3a
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Quote from Nec89 :
No, unless you're in a special use case where the NAS has multi gig networking and the devices your serving to also have multi gig and drives that can write the data at higher rates. In most cases you're better off with the slower drives for longevity because that higher RPM means more vibration add to that if speed is what you're going for ssd's or caching to an NVME is the way to go.
I have 10gbe and I played with SSD cache for a while. I honestly did not see any significant performance differences. Granted, my particular NAS may have been cpu / sata controller limited. I believe all my drives are 5400rpm and I regularly see 250mb/s sustained transfers and occasionally I see up to 600mb/s depending on what I'm doing.

Imho, the primary advantage to having 10gbe between your NAS and the rest of the network is that a single user on 1gbe can't bottle neck the whole system.
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Nec89
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Quote from opus123 :
But, all those people were posting on the other WD sale threads that the 16 and possibly the 18 TB would be this price are lower on BF. I trusted them!!!!!!!!
Thats kinda what I was hoping for. Just last month I bought 16 10tb Toshiba's at $170 each because the drives started failing in my server and now I need some 18tb drives to go in an 8 bay NAS and would really like to save some money after what I've already had to spend.
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Nec89
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Quote from prototype3a :
I have 10gbe and I played with SSD cache for a while. I honestly did not see any significant performance differences. Granted, my particular NAS may have been cpu / sata controller limited. I believe all my drives are 5400rpm and I regularly see 250mb/s sustained transfers and occasionally I see up to 600mb/s depending on what I'm doing.

Imho, the primary advantage to having 10gbe between your NAS and the rest of the network is that a single user on 1gbe can't bottle neck the whole system.
Agreed which was my primary reason for going 10gbe. Backups from the server to my NAS or to my tape drive were killing my network speeds as all three of those were 2 1g bonded connections. Add that to having 4 or 5 people streaming from it and I had to be careful what time I scheduled those backups.

You also have to factor in what type of raid array your using and what kind of transfer rates your HBA/Backplane on the NAS is capable of. All my wired devices are on a 10gbe switch with my 16 bay server having a 40gbe uplink running 16 drives in raid 61. At this point the limiting factor is the spinning rust in all those devices but I have no need for anything faster as the server is more for data hoarding and media streaming and not doing any "real" work besides the VMs running on it.
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wpbpete
Nov 17, 2022
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Got an email from WD titled "mystery savings" coupon up to 20% off select items. Waiting for it and hoping they match this price 🙏
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WhenKittensATK
Nov 17, 2022
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Quote from Nec89 :
Oh boy eyesores! Anyone confirm what drives are in these? Are they worth shucking for something like a NAS?
I bought two earlier this month. No issues. Your run of the mill White Labels.

What's inside the 14 TB Easystore: WD140EDGZ.

I precleared two of them, no issues. I swapped out my 8TB parity drive with one, no issues. I swapped out a 5 TB data drive with one, no issues. Now I need to swap out another 5 TB with the old 8 TB parity. My server has been down for several days and I'm not crying, you're crying.

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Quote from JONNY2NITE :
This price is only if you are a best buy total tech member which costs $199.99 to join.
Then why does the deal description say "(free to join)"?

Membership is the price of the hard drive, which is not worth it and doesn't make it a deal.
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