Add backup and storage with the WD Easystore 16TB hard drive down to $255
The WD Easystore 16TB external desktop hard drive has dropped to $254.99 at Best Buy. That’s a huge low price. It even beats a deal we shared late last year by over $100, and the drive’s regular price is actually $200 more than this. The sale is part of Best Buy’s deals of the day, which changes all the time. It may sell out, and it definitely has a time limit. Grab one while you can.
If this price is still too much, you can also grab the 12TB version on sale today. It is down to $189.99 from a regular price of $320. These are both excellent deals that’ll help you expand the space you’re working with.
It’s not a fancy SSD and it’s not designed to be portable. It might come with an external case, but the easystore is at its best when it’s sitting on your desk or next to your computer. Heck, after you buy it you might even want to shuck that external casing and put the actual drive inside your machine. For some hobbyists, that’s exactly what they do with the easystore drives.
Since it it does have such a big capacity, and it’s made to stay in one place, the Easystore 16TB is really easy to use as a backup drive. You can even use the WD Backup software to set schedules and regularly keep everything you’re doing backed up.
Of course it’s also just fine as a semi-permanent storage for all of your photos, videos, documents, and other things. Use WD Discovery to back up your information easily, manage your drive settings, and control everything else about the drive while you’re at it.
Use a USB 3.0 connection, which gives you data transfer speeds up to 5 Gbps. It is backwards compatible with USB 2.0, but the speeds won’t be as fast and you’ll notice the difference. The backwards compatibility does mean it has compatibility with a wide number of platforms and devices.
The drive you get will be formatted for NTFS, and it’s compatible with Windows 7 and up right out of the box. It can work with Mac but needs reformatting to do it.
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