EXPIRED 18TB WD Easystore (Easyshucks) $199.99 at BestBuy

[Sacrilego]

For those of us that don't mind shucking, Bestbuy has the 18TB Easystore at $199.99 right now.

 

[Bert]

Do they still 15% off accept coupons from recycled hard drives?

Edit:
Looks like 10% now.

https://www.bestbuy.com/site/recycling/storage-recycling-offer/pcmcat1628281022996.c?id=pcmcat1628281022996

 

[markgifford]

Earlier this afternoon I went to buy a 14TB Easystore for $199 (also a Black Friday special) when I noticed the 18TB for the same price. Bonus!

 

[Dave Corder]

Do they still 15% off accept coupons from recycled hard drives?

Edit:
Looks like 10% now.

https://www.bestbuy.com/site/recycling/storage-recycling-offer/pcmcat1628281022996.c?id=pcmcat1628281022996

Offer ends 1/27/24. In store only. Customer upon recycling any eligible SSD or HDD storage device (excluding USB) will get a 10% discount on any new WD, SanDisk or SanDisk Professional HDD or SSD (internal, desktop, portable or NAS; excluding easystore drives).

Drat.

 

[PigLover]

Any idea what drives are in them? Can we confirm not SMR?

 

[msg7086]

Can we confirm not SMR?

At least we haven't seen any that fits the description.

 

[ThisPageLeftBlank]

Any idea what drives are in them? Can we confirm not SMR?

I picked one up today to see: WD180EDGZ
Manufactured August 2023 in Thailand

 

[JSchuricht]

I really need to stop looking in here. In for 4 more.

 

[RayNelson]

I snagged one of these today, along with a 48” LG OLED (couldn’t pass it up at $549). Great prices at BB.

 

[splifingate]

Drat.

Yeah; BB reps hem-haw-refused-skirted-around my "recycle" request a few years ago when the 14's were on sale . . . I still nabbed five of 'em because of their seriously low pricing

 

[Samir]

For those of us that don't mind shucking, Bestbuy has the 18TB Easystore at $199.99 right now.

Yep, cheapest cost per TB ever according to shucks.top at $11.11/TB.

 

[seth586]

Received 8x in the mail, abyssal packing job by bestbuy, lets hope the retail packaging + enclosures protected the drives. Running badblocks now... No 3.3v pinmod required.

Cross referencing US7SAS180 leads to this product manual. = Ultrastar DC HC560.

Pics match everything in this HC560 review, including the sandisk 64GB OptiNAND.

sudo wdckit show

wdckit Version 2.18.0.0
Copyright (C) 2019-2023 Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
Western Digital ATA/SCSI/NVMe command line utility.
11/24/2023 06:46:44.985
DUT  Device                Port    Capacity      State          BootDevice  Serial Number       Model Number             Firmware     Lnk Spd Cap/Cur
6        /dev/sda           SATA  18.0 TB        Good           No                XXXXXXXX      WDC WD180EDGZ-11BLDS0     85.00A85    Gen3/Gen3

sudo hdparm -Ttv /dev/sda1

/dev/sda1:
 multcount     =  0 (off)
 IO_support    =  1 (32-bit)
 readonly      =  0 (off)
 readahead     = 256 (on)
 geometry      = 2188400/255/63, sectors = 35156652032, start = 2048
 Timing cached reads:   18316 MB in  1.99 seconds = 9187.20 MB/sec
 Timing buffered disk reads: 628 MB in  3.01 seconds = 208.59 MB/sec
 
sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda1 oflag=direct bs=128k count=16k

16384+0 records in
16384+0 records out
2147483648 bytes (2.1 GB, 2.0 GiB) copied, 9.55719 s, 225 MB/s