Have you ever had a Thanksgiving dinner so delicious that you wished you had an extra detachable stomach so you could enjoy a second, third or even fourth helping? Yeah, me neither.
While you can’t connect an external stomach to your body whenever you please (unless you know a mad scientist like Dr. Zed from Borderlands), you can connect an external hard drive to your computer or console when it’s low on space. But what do you do when you need more storage but you’re low on cash?
By now, we should all know that the best time to get more storage is during the holiday shopping season – Black Friday in particular. So in this guide, we’re going to discuss a few tips and tricks on how to get the best deals on external hard drives during Black Friday.
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External Hard Drive Deals on Black Friday
Because of the prevalence and accessibility of cloud storage, it feels as if portable offline solutions are slowly being phased out. However, it’s always good practice to keep offline backups just in case your Amazon Echo achieves sentience and decides to enslave humanity.
Competition from cloud storage as well as faster SSDs have made traditional external hard drives a bit more affordable. What this means is with some Black Friday savviness and the tips in this guide; we should be able to get external hard drives for next to nothing. I’m not making any promises here but I believe I can make your Black Friday shopping experience a lot easier. First, we need to identify who has the best Black Friday bargains…
Who Will Have the Best External HDD Deals on Black Friday?
To achieve full shopping dominance on Black Friday, you need to know which stores and retailers are hosting the best deals on external hard drives. In this section, we’ll cover the best places to get external HDDs during Black Friday.
Amazon
As the biggest online retailer in the world, Amazon has consistently broken records for online traffic during Black Friday for the past five years. A key reason as to why is because they host some of the best Black Friday online specials for both external and high-quality internal hard drives for gaming.
Seagate Backup Plus (5TB) $109.99 (Save $20)
As a pre-Black Friday deal, you can get this 5TB portable external hard drive from Seagate for 15% less than usual.
Seagate Backup Plus Ultra Slim 2TB – $79.99 (Save $50)
The Seagate Backup Plus Ultra Slim (2TB) is on a limited-time sale on Amazon for 38% less than usual.
Seagate Portable 2TB – $49.99 (Save $20)
A bit cheaper than the offer above, Seagate Portable (2TB) external HDD is currently on a 30% discount.
Target
If you’re brave enough to venture out during Black Friday, you might want to visit Target. They have a great selection of external hard drives from brands such as Seagate, Toshiba, and Western Digital. They’ve also never been shy of shaving off a couple of dollars off their prices during Black Friday. You can either visit a store near you or shop on their website.
Best Buy
Best Buy is also well known for hosting some of the greatest Black Friday deals. Much like Target, they have brick-and-mortar stores that you can visit in person as well as an online store.
If you don’t have an issue with waiting in huge lines and other known Black-Friday-related unpleasantries, we recommend visiting their retail store and checking out impressive Best Buy Black Friday deals in person.
Newegg
If you find that you can’t connect to Amazon’s website because their servers are inexplicably overwhelmed by Black Friday and Cyber Weekend traffic, maybe you should give Newegg a try. You could save up to $100 (or more) when you purchase an external hard drive from them during Black Friday.
Walmart
Walmart’s inclusion on this list should come as no surprise. They’re one of the most well-known retail corporations in the world, with physical stores in over 25 different countries.
You can bet that they’ll be hosting Black Friday deals on external hard drives in many of these countries.
Other Stores and Retailers
Other stores worth checking out during 2019’s Black Friday are Staples, Micro Center, eBay, HP, and frys.com.
Past External Hard Drive Black Friday Deals
Now that we know who we should be looking at during Black Friday, let’s explore past deals from 2018 to see what we can expect from Black Friday in 2019.
Western Digital Easy Store 10TB External HDD
For those of you who were looking for an external hard drive with massive storage, the Western Digital’s 10 TB Easy Store Hard Drive was available from $179.99 from Best Buy, priced down from $299.99. It also came bundled with a 32GB USB flash drive.
2TB Seagate Back Plus Ultra Slim
This hard drive was available from Newegg for $59.99. Shoppers could have saved $28.34 as it’s usually priced at $88.33. It’s the perfect external hard drive for the PS4 console.
HP 1TB External Portable USB 3.0 HDD
Although Hewlett-Packard is known more for their high-performance pre-built PCs and laptops, they also manufacture and sell external hard drives. Shoppers could get the HP 1TB External Portable USB 3.0 HDD directly from HP’s online store.
Current External Hard Drive Deals
You don’t have to wait till Black Friday to save money. Quite a few retailers have decided to launch early November deals and pre-Black Friday specials. Here are some deals worth checking out today:
WD – Easystore 4TB External USB 3.0 Portable Hard Drive – Black
- Current Price: $99.99
- Previous Price: $149.99
- Retailer: Best Buy
Toshiba Canvio Advance 1TB Portable External Hard Drive USB 3.0 – Blue
- Current Price: $44.90
- Previous Price $53.90
- Retailer: Amazon
Seagate 4TB Expansion Portable External Hard Drive USB 3.0 Model – Black
- Current Price: $89.99
- Previous Price: $99.99
- Retailer: Newegg
*Note: While these deals may seem enticing, I would advise you to wait until Black Friday before capitalizing on them.
Final Word
Thanks to Black Friday and the information in this guide, no longer will you have to worry about fixing your old dead external hard drive. Just bookmark the retailers we suggested in this guide, keep an eye on their prices daily and you should be able to get yourself an early Black Friday external hard drive deal. I hope you have found this guide to be helpful. Thank you for reading.
Here are some other Black Friday deals you might be interested in checking out:
- Black Friday CyberPowerPC Deals
- Black Friday Laptop Deals
- Black Friday Video Game Deals
- Black Friday Monitor Deals
- Cyber Monday Laptop Deals
- PlayStation 4 Black Friday Deals
- Cyber Monday Monitor Deals
- Black Friday Xbox Deals
- Nintendo Switch Black Friday deals
- Black Friday Gaming PC Deals
- Black Friday iBUYPOWER Deals
- Steam Black Friday Deals
- Black Friday GPU Deals