Seagate 14tb external | Best Buy | $250. In case you didnt buy it the first 9 times it went on sale. It's on sale again.
Seagate Expansion Desktop 14TB USB 3.0 External Hard Drive (STKP14000400) | Best Buy Canada
Is Seagate dumping these?
So far so good with my shucking, but these frequent $17/TB sales are suspicious.
It's better to calculate the cost after tax, that way you get a slightly-more accurate view of the actual cost to you
In my province this works out to about $20.45/tb total
Quite true. I guess I've been sucked in to the usual way of expressing prices.
One of the problems with the implementation of sales taxes on Canada has always been how vendors are allowed to advertise prices without taxes as long as they include in tiny text something along the lines of ^+tax^. That should never have been allowed, since its predecessor, the Manufacturers' Sales Tax, was a Value Added Tax and only got piled on for each successive manufacturing/packaging step, so it wasn't meant to be visible to the consumer. Even in cases where taxes vary by location, it would be trivial to require factoring the highest possible combination of taxes on adverts just to cover their ass.
They're an external kit, so what's in em? Can we crack the shell and use the guts for real/internal disks?
Recent batches have Exos 2x14 drives in them. I have three of those. I bought two a couple of years ago that had regular Exos x14's in them. And yes, "shucking" means opening them up and separating their valuable contents. That's how I am using my drives as plain SATA drives in a SAS2 disk shelf. The Seagate Expansion Desktop case, however, is designed such that the plastic clips holding it together will break easily.
Why so cheap?
Because you have to buy another one in a year