Bargain new and sealed WD20EURX 2TB AV drives on eBay

[everthewatcher]

Don't know where to post this so I've put it here.

New, sealed WD20EURX 2TB AV drives for £40.49 delivered or £37.25 using the TREAT8 code at the checkout. At the time of writing there are eight left:
www.ebay.co.uk/itm/115450655904

I managed to trip over the leads of my ex-Sky box caddy-mounted backup drive #2 while in use and its resulting drop was terminal.
Found this, ordered one and it's as described - brand new in the manufacturer's vacuum-sealed bag and packed to survive. Mine's dated 2016.
I've just ordered a second one.

 

[everthewatcher]

Now down to three. Anyone here bought?

 

[alanofcleeves]

One is heading in my direction, thanks to your post. I suspect that genuine new ones are rare nowadays.

 

[everthewatcher]

One is heading in my direction, thanks to your post.

Glad I spotted it.

First listed over two years ago with 125 and now down to the last one which will be gone today - I'm guessing a few more people bought after seeing my post.

 

[everthewatcher]

Last one is surprisingly still available 1pm Monday.

Second one arrived today and is currently being given a long format. It's one day younger than the first one: 18/8/24.

[Edit] D'oh! Make that 18/8/16.

 

[Luke]

Second one arrived today and is currently being given a long format. It's one day younger than the first one: 18/8/24.

Is this model still manufactured? If not, then that date makes these HDDs suspicious.

One is heading in my direction, thanks to your post. I suspect that genuine new ones are rare nowadays.

 

[alanofcleeves]

Second one arrived today and is currently being given a long format. It's one day younger than the first one: 18/8/24.

Your date above (one day younger) isn't consistent with your reported date of the first disk. Did you mean 18/8/16 ?

My disk arrived a couple of days ago.
It certainly looks new, pristine inside a sealed Western Digital sleeve.
The label shows date of manufacture 17 Aug 2016 , which seems about right given the type of disk.
I doubt that disks of this type are being manufactured nowadays.

 

[everthewatcher]

Your date above (one day younger) isn't consistent with your reported date of the first disk. Did you mean 18/8/16 ?

You are correct. Not the only mistake I made yesterday with figures...

It certainly looks new, pristine inside a sealed Western Digital sleeve.

Same here. I have no doubt these are new old stock left over from a production run.

Puzzlingly as of 12:10pm Tuesday the last one is still unsold.

[Edit] Just posted about this on another forum.

 

[everthewatcher]

Is this model still manufactured? If not, then that date makes these HDDs suspicious.

Typing error on my part. My two were both dated August 2016 as is alanofcleeves

 

[everthewatcher]

It now says there's 5 available & 125 available, and the 8% off code is now FROSTY8 when I look at it.

 

[EEPhil]

It now says there's 5 available & 125 available,

125 sold, 5 available!

 

[antipodean]

You are correct. Not the only mistake I made yesterday with figures...

About 30 years ago I was doing some deep diving into processor microcode while repairing a minicomputer CPU that used bit slice CPU chips. I then went to write a check and found myself writing the amount in hex figures ...

 

[everthewatcher]

125 sold, 5 available!

I'm not doing too well am I...

 

[Luke]

It now says there's 5 available & 125 available, and the 8% off code is now FROSTY8 when I look at it.

What does it say when you don't look at it?

I'm not doing too well am I...

At least you don't write "check" when you meant to write "cheque", even though you sometimes write "available" when you meant to write "sold".

 

[Black Hole]

About 30 years ago I was doing some deep diving into processor microcode while repairing a minicomputer CPU that used bit slice CPU chips. I then went to write a check and found myself writing the amount in hex figures ...

I designed with bit-slice ALUs and microcoded hardware!

 

[antipodean]

At least you don't write "check" when you meant to write "cheque", even though you sometimes write "available" when you meant to write "sold".

 

[everthewatcher]

What does it say when you don't look at it?

It could have been a discount code aimed at me following my first purchase and I wasn't prepared to log out to check.