Western Digital 3TB USB 3.0 External Hard Drive

Best Buy offers the Western Digital My Book Essential 3TB USB 3.0 External Hard Drive, model no. WDBACW0030HBK-NESN, for $149.99. (Amazon has it for the same price.) With free shipping, that's $0.05/GB, $8 below our mention from two weeks ago, and the lowest total price we've seen. (It's also a current low by $15.) Sales tax is added where applicable. This drive is purported to run 3x faster than a similar USB 2.0 device when connected to a USB 3.0 port. It also features password protection with hardware encryption.