best black Friday deals on hard drives? I only see modest sales on new drivers, should I go with recertified?

I want to by around 6 drives to add to my nas. I was waiting for black Friday sales but they only have modest discounts, recertified drives on ebay seems more enticing

what do you think?

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Shopping in Canada here, but seeing the same thing. If you don't want to deal with shucking or used parts, the WD Red pair bundles seem like the best deal today, and they're not amazing deals. I also need to upgrade about 6 drives at once, if there's anything better I'd like to hear about it.
- I'm in the same boat. Even checked London Drugs' website. They have surprised me in the past.
If you're willing to shuck seagate externals, there is a one from costco. Supposedly seagate is currently using their exos line in their more recently manufactured products. The only downside would be the 1 year warranty.

https://www.costco.com/seagate-14tb-expansion-desktop-hard-drive.product.4000203297.html
- Is exos considered reliable? Backblaze reports in the past have always had seagate in dead last.
  
  Exos aren't inherently bad, I believe it is always going to be down to the specific model number as in their latest drive stat blog for q3, one model of 14tb exo had a ~6% failure rate, while the other had ~1.3% failure rate.
BestBuy has the WD element on sale at $209. Serverpartdeals are lackluster but the Dell Exos is tempting at $179.

I am tempted to get two of the Dell Exos
- what is the capacity?
- Dell EXOs 18TB are $165 USD right now.
  
  what is difference between the dell exos and the seagate ones? bought seagate ones last year.
  
  Is it better than shucking drives?
- Would the recertified Exos be far and away better quality than the shucked easystores for $200 at BB?
Western Digital has some deals if you buy pairs of HD's. Worth checking out.
I don't need that much storage but want to build a small NAS. Any deals on 2 x 8TB drives or so? (or a little bigger is OK if a much better deal). Just don't want to invest much in it since I only need around 2-3tb right now.
- Did u come to a conclusion on this looking to do same
https://www.newegg.com/seagate-exos-x20-st20000nm007d-20tb/p/22-185-011?Item=22-185-011&cm_sp=product-_-from-price-options

$269.99 for 20TB exos 20

Here is a greal deal from newegg for BF sale if you are in the US. It ends tomorrow, so hurry before they run out.
- It’s a limit of one though
  
  Same price at walmart with no limit
  https://www.walmart.com/ip/Seagate-Exos-X20-ST20000NM007D-20TB-7200-RPM-256MB-Cache-3-5-Internal-Hard-Drive/217261330
  
  I see. If so, then just buy 1 at $269.99. The price before BF was $279.99. At that non BF price, it's still good and w/o the quantity limit, I imagine?
- Same drive for sale online at Walmart for the same price of the newegg limit is a problem for anyone
  
  I hope Walmart will still ship even though we bought 4

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