Amazon Prime Day is in its final hours, but you can still save a ton of cash on essentials—like external drives, a necessary accessory for all your backups. (You are backing up your files, right?) If you have a lot of data to store, you’re in luck, because the price on a Western Digital Elements 16TB external hard drive is down to $228, or 26 percent off.
After monitoring prices for the last year, I like this particular deal for how low the price is, as this popular, spacious drive has been much more expensive since last fall.
This USB 3.0 desktop hard drive is meant for holding massive collections of bits and bytes: Think all your PCs, media, photos, video, and game files. As such, it requires its own power source (rather than just plugging into a USB port) and a dedicated spot on your table or shelving. And while it doesn’t come with a lot of extras—no built-in encryption or automatic backup software—you can get tools for each. Most people won’t need encryption for backups of, say, family photos and videos either.
Get the WD Elements 16TB external desktop drive for $228Don’t want something quite so gigantic, both in capacity and physically? You can check out our round-up of the best Amazon Prime Day storage deals, which includes picks for portable SSDs. The well-rated 2TB Crucial X9 is just $110 right now, for example.
To shop Prime Day deals, an Amazon Prime subscription is required—if you don’t have one yet, you can just sign up for a 30-day free trial. That’ll allow you to take advantage of Prime member deals.
After you sign up, you can have a look at deals in other categories through PCWorld’s best Prime Day deals roundups.
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