Wow if you can find one. All 5 of mine (3TB MAC) had WD REDs in them, so to get a 3TB RED for £23 would be one hell of a bargain.

I went in to Watford to ask if they had any with my receipt from Hayes and the SA said no but they'd now gone down to 23!

Man alive I was so close :disappointed:

For any one interested there are 3 2TB ones left at tesco bradley stoke for £48 , no 3TB or MAC versions usually bradley stoke store hasnt got any of these clearence deals ae apprently they are shipped off some where else these are an exceptionthey already have the new versions on shelf .
Btw i saw it on their app these have been discontinued since february

Hi, thanks again for the good tips, I should do better next time.

Firstly when I took the box to customer services, response was, 'this box should have not been outside!! wonder who put it out!!, I checked it couple days back for another customer and it's not in stock'. Then decided to go to stores and I followed her up to the store door, where she asked someone about it and found the item. Then when I asked her to confirm that price is £50 as per tag (showing the tag as aisle is close to the stores), she asked another staff member who came to the stores at that moment and I over heard, that person confirm that it was her that printed the labels two days back & its usually over £100 but now £50 and they got loads of them left. At paying for the item at the customer service till, she said something about it being the 'last' in stock. So it seems like they rather not sell the reduced items to the public, maybe they get it @ £0 once things don't move even at reduced price.

I would advise anyone that finds such an item (and actually wants it) to ask for the manager. Have you ever been refused a full price item when the barcode is missing? For me they always find a way to sell me the full price item. The shenanigans only start when the item is on offer. I live very close to a Tesco Express, so pop in regularly and often hear the staff asking those reducing to put items aside before they hit the shelves.

Hi, he do have the item with barcode, but he could not sell it as no price show on the screen.

Maybe next time I ask (sincerely) to talk to Manager to learn about such policy when I have the time.

It happen to me last month, I saw a camp light lying around on a random shelf (I then checked camp items shelves and that was the only one I could find). The cashier at the till could not sell it to me as no price shown on the screen. I had prepared to pay full price but have to go home empty hand.

initially for the Mac when I went to the desk they said they couldn't do anything with it as there was no barcode. It was then that I said I'd go get the SEL and then they could find it. So I think you're right - without the code, even if they'd found the item they wouldn't have sold it to me. It's nuts.

Ohok. Ya only the labels were £48 for normal 2tb and £50 for 3tb Mac. Customer services did say it shows as no stock but the lady decided to go check in stores and came with one. Did over hear them saying they got many but she said something about being last one when paying for it.
It's very quick to format it to Windows using the wd quick formatter. Wonder if they got any more left by now.

Got the 3tb at 53 in Hayes, last two. Not marked as such and I actually went to buy the Mac version using the empty box and SEL but they couldn't find it in stock, so brought these out for me and said they were half price.

Test it before popping the case. And use the method I posted as it didn't leave any obvious indication case had been opened. That way you can pop it back in for warranty.

Also you might be lucky getting an older one. I've been reading posts and the earlier ones appear to have REDs. Later ones they started using green, then blues. And worse still some have USB interfaces rather then SATA.

Thanks, I managed to get 5 already :smiley: Populated my NAS now so will leave the rest to others :smiley:

Anyone found any around West London. Need a few drives for a new NAS :smiley:

Thanks pal.

Picked up a 2tb tonight at Tesco Handforth thanks to helpful chap. That's all they had out it was 2am so couldn't check stock. It was £48 and is an older model in a box like this :



Indeed good luck to a Mr Mahmud who took the photograph who has a few spare ones - possibly a Tesco customer. :laughing:

I'll confirm what drive is in it later but google suggests a caviar green probably this one.

Fairly well reviewed and quiet and it's good price for any 2tb drive, but this is older tech circa 2012.

My box looks like to have been booted round the store a bit. :smile:

Can you use the Mac version as an internal drive on windows PC?

BTW if anyone else is planning to remove the video this is the best technique I found:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQa0QaK36j0&vl=no

Most video's involve lots of fiddling around and will likely damage the case. Luckily stumbled upon this after trying those other techniques. Managed to open both in seconds. The second one without a visible sign it had been opened (the other one with some scratches due to following other videos).

And even better. Managed to grab 3 more from another Tescos I'd popped in to fill up. Once again only standard 2TB on shelf but asked them to check and they came back with one. Asked how many more they had and grabbed the other two aswell.

Hopefully these have the WD Red's in aswell. In which case 15 TB of WD RED storage for my NAS's for £250 :smile:

Thanks again for posting OP. Was scratching around for the cheapest price on WD REDs, 3TB drives are currently ~£100 everywhere, so effectively half price.

Anyone know what hdd is in these. Building a new NAS, so may be worth buying these and stripping the drives

anyone got a barcode for this

Tesco newry northern Ireland 50 quid for 3tb and 48 for 2tb

Gutted they said they had reserved one aside. Hour later phoned to check price and they said that it wasn't there :disappointed:

if buying a mac version for windows as expected it does not show up but very easy to format and have running within minutes!

Super hot! Shame my local Tesco never has deals like this!

quick heads up, just picked a mac one up from widnes, left one on the shelf (worth asking if they had more though as they are just empty boxes out!)
no price on the shelf so happy after he confirmed it was in stock it was £50.
Now need to hope i can get it working on windows... otherwise it will be on ebay tonight :smile:

Could I use one of these on a Mac and PC? On the Mac for Time Machine backups and also maybe an PC backup or atleast files that could be shared between both PC and Mac?

More like 2.5gb after partitioning and the way windows looks at HDD

:'( lol it happens. heat added to the op tho

Haha sorry man =/.

yes. the dark blue box (normal) and the white box (mac). thought I was on to a winner, must have looked like such a mug grinning ear to ear until I got to the till

none left in spring hill. I just left. empty boxes with no barcodes on the shelf. asked them to type it in manually, confirmed oos

Took box to counter it looked like the guy scanned it but maybe he didnt will check on next run out.

Same price in St Rollox, but they don't have any. May save someone a trip.

just called In at my local Tesco stores on the way home,full retail £109 story of my life thanks op anyway.