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12TB and 14TB WD Red Plus Hard Drives Fall to All-Time Low Price for Prime Day (Updat
If you need voluminous high-performance internal storage, you'll be hard-pressed to find a better deal than the 12TB and 14TB WD Red Plus NAS hard drives that are on sale for Prime Day. Today you can find the 12TB model for a mere $195. That's $60 off, an all-time low, and comes with free shipping from Newegg (you'll need to use the FTSBUAA749 promo code). Newegg has also now marked the 14TB Red Plus model down to $209, also an all-time low for this much storage.
This is the cheapest we can remember seeing WD internal drives of this caliber — the 12TB and 14TB WD Red Pro NAS drives weigh in at only $15- to $16-per-TB.
These are great prices for 3.5" SATA drives that spin at 7,200 RPM, boast a 256MB cache, and can deliver up to 196 MB/s (12TB) or 210 MB/s (14TB) of throughput.
While the Red Plus NAS HDDs are officially geared for demanding use in a network storage device, these drives will be just as potent in a desktop PC. The Red Plus drives also use high-performance Conventional Magnetic Recording (CMR) tech, so you don't have to worry about the performance-sapping SMR technology that is often found in value-centric drives.
Many value seekers will buy cheap external hard drives and "shuck" them by popping them out of their casing, thus getting a solid deal on a slower hard drive that they can then install into a desktop PC. However, shucking a drive voids the warranty.
In contrast, these drives are already configured as internal drives, meaning there's no warranty-voiding shucking required, and they have a three-year warranty. The warranty covers 24x7 use in multi-drive environments, like small or medium business NAS with up to 8 drive bays, so they're designed to survive in far harsher environments than you'll find in your average PC. The warranty also covers a 180TB/year workload, so the drives are plenty robust. Paired with a 600,000 load/unload cycle rating, this three-year warranty is far above what you'll find with most desktop PC-class internal drives.
