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Costco Members: 5TB Seagate Backup Plus USB 3.0 Portable Hard Drive Expired

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Costco Wholesale has for its Members: 5TB Seagate Backup Plus USB 3.0 Portable Hard Drive (STHP5000600) on sale for $89.99. Shipping is free.

Thanks to community member Not_Johnnybravo for finding this deal.

Note: Members Only: Warehouse pick up is available for this item. Availability for warehouse pickup may vary by location.

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  • Data Transfer Rate: 120 MB/Sec
  • Requires Windows 7 or higher, or Mac OS X 10.11 or higher operating system
  • Drag and drop file saving right out of the box
  • Available SuperSpeed USB 3.0 port (required for USB 3.0 transfer speeds) or backwards compatible with USB 2.0 ports at USB 2.0 transfer speeds
  • Includes 2 Years of Data Recovery Services
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Costco will be offering $35 off starting 3/10 on the Seagate 5TB, bringing it to the lowest it has been, similar to last year.
This will be available both in-store and online @ costco.com.

https://www.costco.com/seagate-ba...10586.html

NOTE: Doesn't start until 3/10!
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Last Edited by nashi March 22, 2021 at 12:30 PM
Don't forget to use your Chase Freedom card for 5X back!
This is a SMR drive

https://www.seagate.com/internal-...-smr-list/



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At $89.99 that would put it at around $18 per TB. Still not as good as sale priced larger capacity external 3.5 USB desktop drives. but better than the $20 to $21 or so of the typical sale priced WD portable; Easystore, My Passport and Element drives. Will be interesting to see what others say about this particular drive considering the number of folks around these parts who dislike (or hate) Seagate drives in general.

For anyone interested past slickdeal discussions on this Costco drive.
2020:
https://slickdeals.net/e/14616118-costco-members-5tb-seagate-backup-plus-portable-hard-drive-94-99
https://slickdeals.net/e/14227235-costco-members-5tb-seagate-backup-plus-portable-hard-drive-2-years...
https://slickdeals.net/e/14039009-costco-members-5tb-seagate-backup-plus-portable-hard-drive-90-free...
https://slickdeals.net/e/13917035-seagate-backup-plus-5tb-portable-hard-drive-89-99
https://slickdeals.net/e/13892861-seagate-backup-plus-5tb-portable-external-hard-drive-with-rescue-d...

For 2019 and earlier one can use the search bar.

Edit to add: Past posts in earlier deal discussions, like this post, indicate the drive (at least in the past) was shuckable. Some, like this post, likewise claim this drive is SMR which may account for the horrible speeds some claim they have.
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I bought this drive on sale for $65 about 2 years ago(it was the last item on shelf) I shucked it (it is thicker than usual 2.5" drive) and put it in my pc. No issues with it.
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03-07-2021 at 12:53 AM.
03-07-2021 at 12:53 AM.
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Frank_Nitty
03-07-2021 at 05:48 PM.
03-07-2021 at 05:48 PM.
I'd be all over this if there was a Costco in my area.
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BraveLlama527
03-07-2021 at 11:03 PM.
03-07-2021 at 11:03 PM.
Quote from boofat :
Thanks OP. Went ahead and ordered and will submit price adjustment request when sale price goes live.

https://customerservice.costco.co...adjustment

So glad you shared this. Will do the same
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03-09-2021 at 11:21 AM.
03-09-2021 at 11:21 AM.
Can I install steam games on this? My internal drives are cram full.
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katrina671
03-10-2021 at 02:07 AM.
03-10-2021 at 02:07 AM.
I just bought this. Does costco do price adjustments?
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mikedaley
03-10-2021 at 02:13 AM.
03-10-2021 at 02:13 AM.
Quote from Frank_Nitty :
I'd be all over this if there was a Costco in my area.
If you are a member they will ship to your house.
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drl136us
03-10-2021 at 02:39 AM.
03-10-2021 at 02:39 AM.
Quote from thePower777 :
I bought this drive on sale for $65 about 2 years ago(it was the last item on shelf) I shucked it (it is thicker than usual 2.5" drive) and put it in my pc. No issues with it.
Is it sata connector? I've bought a drive like this before and the manufacturer had built it with a USB3.1 connector on the drive instead of sata with a usb bridge.
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03-10-2021 at 02:51 AM.
03-10-2021 at 02:51 AM.
These can often be found on Amazon warehouse for about $75. Purchases 3 for warm/cold storage for my server and they've been good so far. These are smr so don't expect to write too often.
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03-10-2021 at 04:03 AM.
03-10-2021 at 04:03 AM.
This Anandtech overview runs tests [anandtech.com] on the Backup Plus and WD My Passport trying to determine whether it is SMR. They think they both are, but it doesn't make all that much difference nowadays. However the speeds of the Backup Plus appear to fluctuate a lot more than the My Passport with consistent use.
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03-10-2021 at 04:54 AM.
03-10-2021 at 04:54 AM.
Quote from roguephoenix :
are costco members the only ones who can buy this?

If it's sold at Costco, you must be a member. I have a membership and will buy for you, if you really want it.
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03-10-2021 at 04:57 AM.
03-10-2021 at 04:57 AM.
Quote from beggerking :
These can often be found on Amazon warehouse for about $75. Purchases 3 for warm/cold storage for my server and they've been good so far. These are smr so don't expect to write too often.
So far so good
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03-10-2021 at 05:29 AM.
03-10-2021 at 05:29 AM.
Quote from roguephoenix :
are costco members the only ones who can buy this?
Yes. If you have a shop card, you can go into the Costco store and buy it with that. But, you have to be a Costco member to log into your account and make the purchase.
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03-10-2021 at 06:02 AM.
03-10-2021 at 06:02 AM.
Quote from BraveLlama527 :
So glad you shared this. Will do the same

Just filed my claim. In the past it's taken about 2-3 days to process.
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03-10-2021 at 06:18 AM.
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Quote from thePower777 :
I bought this drive on sale for $65 about 2 years ago(it was the last item on shelf) I shucked it (it is thicker than usual 2.5" drive) and put it in my pc. No issues with it.
Quote from reron :
Thanks for pre-answering my question:
1) is it shuckable. I like better than 3.5" for power/heat/size
2) size: larger than standard 95mm, prob 12.5mm

I'll be buying 1. Thanks!
I bought one of these to shuck and put into my Tivo Bolt a couple of years ago but I would go 3.5" desktop drive 9 out of 9 times if given the choice between the two. They can be had cheaper and last much longer than laptop drives.
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03-10-2021 at 06:27 AM.
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Quote from ElatedGuitar705 :
Not a bad price. $90 seems to be the pricepoint for these 5tb portable drives. The WD has been this price a few times over the last year. That being said, I'd hold out for the WD as the seagate drives are pretty universally known to be trash.
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ditto that. Blackblaze [backblaze.com] stats could back that statement as well. keep in mind that Blackblaze uses Seagate higher end drives, and they are still trash.
People keep on bringing up those Blackblaze reports for years and years now. But I've only had 2 Seagate drives go bad (a laptop drive and a 1.5TB desktop one) over the years and with Western Digital almost all of the ones that I bought went bad.
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