UPDATE: Deal expired.
Amazon has a super-hot deal on the WD My Book Duo 16TB Two-Bay USB 3.0 Type-C RAID Array (2 x 8TB) — it’s now only $169.99, which is an incredible savings from the $600 list price for this enclosure plus two drives.
It is an amazing deal as WD notes very clearly in the product description: “The My Book Duo drive comes with RAID-optimized WD Red drives inside to deliver high-speed, quality storage to rely on.” That’s right, WD is guaranteeing that two 8TB Red drives are inside — drives that currently retail for $240 each. To get two drives for $170 (each $85) is a steal.
This deal is out of stock and available to backorder (with no estimated ship date) from Amazon, but we have no idea when they will turn off the backorder. The maximum order quantity is 3, which would be perfect for building a NAS. You don’t even need to shuck the enclosure — it’s designed so you can easily take the drives out. Backordering for this deal is a no-brainer.
I agree, and ordered 3, but I’d say the chances of them honoring this is slim to none.
You never know with Amazon. Sometimes they cancel, sometimes they honor.
I ordered confidently 6 hours ago but the longer this continues, the less hopeful I get…
Price now shows as $570.38 🙁
Deals over .. it’s returned to list
Only available from third party vendors and no backorder option.
I ordered one on 5/19 and Amazon just cancelled my order 5/22…. Wonder if anyone got this at that fantastic price?
Cancelled my order too, so I doubt it.
Didn’t check until just now, but no, cancelled as well :/
Amazon cancelled all my WD orders, not only this one. So yeah, this was not a deal after all.
Cancelled but they gave me $20 credit. Lol
Mine was cancelled as well. I got the $20 credit as well. Oh, well. They “recently discovered there was an error that caused the item to be displayed at an incorrect price. Bah humbug, I say!
$20 is not a bad consolation prize.
$20 was nice… But, not as nice as nearly $400 off the regular price of the drive 🙂
Yes, they should have honored what they offered. I like the $400 off the regular price of the drive much better, also!