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Originally Posted by cc_in_oh
I've bought several external HDDs from Amazon, mostly Seagate but most recently a 16TB WD Elements. Today they have a 14TB Seagate Expansion for $180, a much lower price per TB than the other available sizes. When I tried to check out it told me it couldn't ship to my address. I assume they realized the price is a mistake but what a weaselly way to handle it?
Edit> Now the price is $205 and my shipping address has magically become acceptable.
Edit2> I kept trying and today it accepted my order at $180. Got confirmation but I suppose they could still renege, tell me they ran out or something.
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14TB really is pretty cheap at that price. I'd consider buying a few of them just to strip them out of the housing to use them as internal disks. BTW, you really should look into NAS if you're relying on external disks a lot. You can build your own with some spare PC parts lying around and by installing something like Truenas Scale to it, or you can go for pre-build NAS severs. Much easier, and safer on the data, than fooling around with external disks.