wavetrex:

Someone who lives in Europe ;-) It's nice that there in the Desert you get such low prices, but here where the plains are green and the mountains are white, we have higher prices, unfortunately. (Still, nowhere near as high as this ridiculously expensive 18 TB)

Im from Israel and local prices are higher then what you pay in EU, we also pay 17% VAT on everything, so I order from Amazon web sites, all of them, from USA, Germany, UK, France, Italy, Spain, whoever has the lowest price and sale [also Newegg, they also ship INT] Here, even in UK without sales, 12Tb WD, 185GBP https://www.amazon.co.uk/WD-Elements-Desktop-External-Drive/dp/B07VXKF1L4 The Cheapest it got was 154GBP [I use Keepa plugin to follow prices and their history on amazon] This is external HDD, but when you open it, inside it you get Helium enterprise HDD Western Digital WD120EMAZ-11BLFA0, this one does 180MB/s to 200MB/s, its helium but 5400RPM, real CMR, not SMR trash like Seagate Archive and Barracuda drives. If you want a super fast HDD, that does 250 MB/s, Helium + 7200RPM, you wait for when External WD Black 12TB goes on sale [its console oriented HDD], inside it has HGST HUH721212ALE604 And you can re-use the box for backups, install other slower HDD inside, its great box with FAN and USB hub and it opens up with 4 screws instead of clips. People on DATA Hoarder reddit do it all the time, if you want to get best deals go to that reddit Personally I installed Keepa plugin, opened all Amazon web sites worldwide, found these HDD's, and set the plugin to notify me when the price goes down to what i want to pay [I look at price history to set realistic low price] Then you can close the web sites, plugin keeps all the info on their server and send you emails when they go on sale.