{"id":25606,"date":"2019-05-19T11:16:34","date_gmt":"2019-05-19T15:16:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cpricewatch.com\/blog\/?p=25606"},"modified":"2019-05-19T16:25:07","modified_gmt":"2019-05-19T20:25:07","slug":"why-the-wd-16tb-raid-for-169-99-at-amazon-is-an-amazing-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cpricewatch.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/why-the-wd-16tb-raid-for-169-99-at-amazon-is-an-amazing-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Why the WD 16TB RAID for $169.99 at Amazon is an Amazing Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>UPDATE: Deal expired.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/go\/Amazon\/My-Book-Duo-16TB-Two-Bay-USB-3.0-Type-C-RAID-Array-2-x-8TB\/p=6912&#038;m=20\">Amazon<\/a> has a super-hot deal on the <a href=\"\/product\/06912\/WD-My-Book-Duo-16TB-Two-Bay-USB-3.0-Type-C-RAID-Array-2-x-8TB-price.html\">WD My Book Duo 16TB Two-Bay USB 3.0 Type-C RAID Array (2 x 8TB)<\/a> &#8212; it&#8217;s now only <a href=\"\/go\/Amazon\/My-Book-Duo-16TB-Two-Bay-USB-3.0-Type-C-RAID-Array-2-x-8TB\/p=6912&#038;m=20\">$169.99<\/a>, which is an incredible savings from the $600 list price for this enclosure plus two drives.<\/p>\n<p>It is an amazing deal as WD notes very clearly in the product description: <b>&#8220;The My Book Duo drive comes with RAID-optimized <span class=\"redtext\">WD Red<\/span> drives inside to deliver high-speed, quality storage to rely on.&#8221;<\/b> That&#8217;s right, WD is guaranteeing that two 8TB Red drives are inside &#8212; drives that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cpricewatch.com\/go\/Amazon\/8TB-Red-5400-rpm-SATA-III-3.5quot-Internal-NAS-HDD-OEM\/p=6913&#038;m=20&#038;w=3\">currently retail for $240 each<\/a>. To get two drives for $170 (each $85) is a steal.<\/p>\n<p>This deal is out of stock and available to backorder (with no estimated ship date) from <a href=\"\/go\/Amazon\/My-Book-Duo-16TB-Two-Bay-USB-3.0-Type-C-RAID-Array-2-x-8TB\/p=6912&#038;m=20\">Amazon<\/a>, 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&#8217;t even need to shuck the enclosure &#8212; it&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-RQ3SppjGUQ&#038;t=298\">designed so you can easily take the drives out<\/a>. Backordering for this deal is a no-brainer.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"\/product\/06912\/WD-My-Book-Duo-16TB-Two-Bay-USB-3.0-Type-C-RAID-Array-2-x-8TB-price.html\">WD My Book Duo 16TB Two-Bay USB 3.0 Type-C RAID Array (2 x 8TB)<\/a> for <a href=\"\/go\/Amazon\/My-Book-Duo-16TB-Two-Bay-USB-3.0-Type-C-RAID-Array-2-x-8TB\/p=6912&#038;m=20\">$169.99<\/a> at <a href=\"\/go\/Amazon\/My-Book-Duo-16TB-Two-Bay-USB-3.0-Type-C-RAID-Array-2-x-8TB\/p=6912&#038;m=20\">Amazon<\/a>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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) &#8212; it&#8217;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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25596,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1298],"class_list":["post-25606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-wd-my-book-duo-16tb-two-bay-usb-3-0-type-c-raid-array-2-x-8tb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cpricewatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25606","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=25606"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.cpricewatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27980,"href":"https:\/\/www.cpricewatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25606\/revisions\/27980"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cpricewatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cpricewatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cpricewatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cpricewatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}