I imagine the only reason we still saw it available for so long was they didn't sell nearly as many as they expected over the holidays. BBY commonly works with manufacturers to produce special versions of products that will be exclusively sold at BBY for a deep discount during certain sales periods, namely Black Friday. I'm pretty sure the NEBB was a Black Friday special only, anyways. NEBB appears to be no longer available online. You can also sign up for price alerts at (thanks to /u/veritas413 for the notice on this).
#SHUCKED WD EASYSTORE NOT RECOGNIZED IN WINDOWS PC#
Historical pricing on the drive via PC Part Picker. $199.99 (Appears new effective price as of ) Take it all with the appropriate levels of doubt. This is an amateur's work, after all, and more importantly. This is one man's accumulation of data about a very specific topic, and as such should not be taken as 100% fact. As such, please refrain from making any purchasing decisions solely on the information available here. DisclaimerĪll of the information listed below is presented as is, and I will not guarantee that every last work is set in stone nor 100% factual or vetted for maximum accuracy. This post is to serve as a collection of relevant information about the drives.
As it regularly goes on sale it is a very cheap method to pickup large amounts of reliable storage. It's sought after by many /r/datahoarder folks because it often (but not always) contains a WD Red 8TB drive which can be "shucked" and used in a home server among other similarly shucked Easystore drives. The Western Digital (WD) Easystore 8TB is an external hard drive sold exclusively by Best Buy. If someone would like to take the information here and start a new post I'm happy to pass on the baton, or if someone wants to copy/paste it over the wiki that would be good, too. Maybe I'll pick it back up if I find the time, but I doubt it. Sorry, but as I just don't have the time I'm considering this as closed for future updates. I just moved cross country, finishing my first week at a new job, and I'm realizing I won't have time to really even consider this post as frequently as I used to. (Prices up to date as of: Pacific) NOTICE