WD My Book 3TB Desktop USB 3.0 External Hard Drive Storage $79.99 + S/H

The 2TB and 4TB are the only ones available and the code only takes off $20 and only works on the 2TB.
 
In my experience these MyBook things are a questionable buy. If you buy one, just throw away the enclosure and install the hard drive internally. Or, buy a quality disk enclosure from another manufacturer, if you really need an external drive.

You'll notice that the price of a 3 TB WD drive (model WD30EZRX, which was inside the MyBook I bought in 2011) is often nearly the same, or even a few dollars more than, the equivalent MyBook model. This is truth in advertising; the MyBook enclosure is worthless, and in fact contributes negative value.

I say this because I bought a 3 TB MyBook in late 2011. The USB 3.0 connectivity broke after exactly one day of use. After that, it would only connect as a USB 2.0 device. Which sort of defeated the purpose of buying a new external drive in the first place.

I later discovered that these MyBooks perform mandatory disk encryption. WD advertises this as a "security" feature. What it really means is that if (when, really, see above) the MyBook enclosure breaks, you're up a creek. You can't simply swap the drive into a new enclosure, or connect it internally, and retrieve your data. Your data is effectively gone. Windows will see the disk as "unformatted."

At least that was the state of things when I bought a MyBook in late 2011. Maybe WD has removed the idiotic encryption, and improved enclosure quality, in the intervening period.

The HDD itself is OK as far as I can tell. The MyBook I purchased contained a WD30EZRX drive (3 TB "IntelliPower," variable-RPM). It has been working fine - as an internally-mounted drive - since then.
 
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