{"id":20866,"date":"2018-03-11T12:24:31","date_gmt":"2018-03-11T16:24:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cpricewatch.com\/blog\/?p=20866"},"modified":"2018-03-11T12:24:31","modified_gmt":"2018-03-11T16:24:31","slug":"hot-8tb-wd-external-hard-drive-for-159-at-best-buy-via-ebay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cpricewatch.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/hot-8tb-wd-external-hard-drive-for-159-at-best-buy-via-ebay\/","title":{"rendered":"Hot: 8TB WD External Hard Drive for $159 at Best Buy via eBay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This hot deal from <a href=\"\/go\/Best-Buy-via-eBay\/easystore-8TB-External-USB-3.0\/p=6380&#038;m=137\">Best Buy (via eBay)<\/a> is back! They have the <a href=\"\/go\/Best-Buy\/easystore-8TB-External-USB-3.0\/p=6380&#038;m=49\">WD easystore 8TB External USB 3.0<\/a> for only <a href=\"\/go\/Best-Buy-via-eBay\/easystore-8TB-External-USB-3.0\/p=6380&#038;m=137\">$159.99<\/a>. This is a fantastic price for a 8 TB harddrive.<\/p>\n<p>This deal is especially popular because WD are using either &#8220;Red&#8221; or &#8220;White&#8221; 8 TB Western Digital hard drives inside these external drive enclosures. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/DataHoarder\/comments\/7fx0i0\/wd_easystore_8tb_compendium\/\">Instructions are available<\/a> on how to extract the drive from the enclosure. This is a fantastic deal as the Western Digital &#8220;Red&#8221; hard drives (suitable for NAS) typically go for about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canonpricewatch.com\/click.cgi?u=265825\">$259<\/a>, making this about a $100 savings over buying the drive itself. &#8220;White&#8221; drives have similar performance characteristics to the &#8220;Red&#8221; drives and are also a great deal.<\/p>\n<p>There is a great <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/DataHoarder\/comments\/7fx0i0\/wd_easystore_8tb_compendium\/\">guide on reddit<\/a> for identifying exactly what type of drive is in these and the various implications of it. While the vast majority of drives are WD Red, you may also get a &#8216;white-label&#8217; drive with what appears to be the same performance characteristics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This hot deal from Best Buy (via eBay) is back! They have the WD easystore 8TB External USB 3.0 for only $159.99. This is a fantastic price for a 8 TB harddrive. This deal is especially popular because WD are using either &#8220;Red&#8221; or &#8220;White&#8221; 8 TB Western Digital hard drives inside these external drive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17759,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[889],"class_list":["post-20866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-wd-easystore-8tb-external-usb-3-0"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cpricewatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cpricewatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cpricewatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cpricewatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cpricewatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20866"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cpricewatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20868,"href":"https:\/\/www.cpricewatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20866\/revisions\/20868"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cpricewatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cpricewatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cpricewatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cpricewatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}