Western Digital 8TB Elements Hard Drive Hits Low $115 With This Smoking Hot Deal

by Brandon Hill — Monday, January 20, 2020, 02:26 PM EDT

If you're in the market for a capacious external hard drive to ease the load off your blazing fast SSD for archiving files, Amazon has a deal running today that might just be right up your alley. The online retailer is discounting the Western Digital 8TB Elements external HDD by a whopping $65 (36 percent off), taking it down to a low $114.99. A quick price check shows that this is the lowest price that we've ever seen for the 8TB external hard drive.

The 8TB Essentials HDD is a no-frills storage device with a USB 3.0 interface (USB 2.0 compatible) and is plug-and-play compatible with both Windows and macOS (although you’ll probably want to reformat it from the default NTFS). In the box, you'll find the external HDD, a USB cable, and an AC adapter -- basically everything you need to get up and running.

If you're running a late model MacBook, however, you'll probably need to purchase a USB-C adapter or dedicated USB-A to USB-C cable. We should also mention that the drive also comes with a 2-year limited warranty from Western Digital

If there's one downside to this deal, it's that the drive is currently out of stock on Amazon (although you can still order it at the $114.99 price). According to Amazon, it will ship within 1-4 weeks, but given the company's quick turnaround, it's likely that you'll be on the shorter end of that time scale. Once it does come back in stock, you'll be eligible for fast Prime shipping and free returns (just in case you need to send it back).

You can click the following link to grab the Western Digital 8TB Elements Hard Drive from Amazon.

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Brandon Hill

Brandon received his first PC, an IBM Aptiva 310, in 1994 and hasn’t looked back since. He cut his teeth on computer building/repair working at a mom and pop computer shop as a plucky teen in the mid 90s and went on to join AnandTech as the Senior News Editor in 1999. Brandon would later help to form DailyTech where he served as Editor-in-Chief from 2008 until 2014. Brandon is a tech geek at heart, and family members always know where to turn when they need free tech support. When he isn’t writing about the tech hardware or studying up on the latest in mobile gadgets, you’ll find him browsing forums that cater to his long-running passion: automobiles.

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