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

+ Free S/H

$90

$125

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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.

Features:
  • 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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  • About this deal:
    • Limit 3 per member
    • Item may be available in your local warehouse.
    • This deal is the same as previous Front Page deal that earned 96+ thumbs up.
    • Offer valid through April 4, 2021 or while promotion last
  • About this product:
    • Rated 4.5/5 stars (2,058 total reviews)
    • Seagate limited warranty: "If we authorize you to return your product to us or an authorized service provider, Seagate will replace your product without charge with a functionally equivalent replacement product. Seagate may replace your product with a product that was previously used, re-certified and tested to meet Seagate specifications. Seagate will pay to ship the replacement product to you."
    • Seagate warranty information here
  • About this store:
    • Costco will accept returns within 90 days (from the date the member received the merchandise)
    • Costco return policy here
  • Price Research:
    • Purchase this device today and save $35 Off (28% Savings) from the original listed price of $124.99. Next best available price starts/ranging from $104.99 from a reputable retailer

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Written by Not_Johnnybravo
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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.

Features:
  • 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

Editor's Notes

Written by Discombobulated | Staff
  • About this deal:
    • Limit 3 per member
    • Item may be available in your local warehouse.
    • This deal is the same as previous Front Page deal that earned 96+ thumbs up.
    • Offer valid through April 4, 2021 or while promotion last
  • About this product:
    • Rated 4.5/5 stars (2,058 total reviews)
    • Seagate limited warranty: "If we authorize you to return your product to us or an authorized service provider, Seagate will replace your product without charge with a functionally equivalent replacement product. Seagate may replace your product with a product that was previously used, re-certified and tested to meet Seagate specifications. Seagate will pay to ship the replacement product to you."
    • Seagate warranty information here
  • About this store:
    • Costco will accept returns within 90 days (from the date the member received the merchandise)
    • Costco return policy here
  • Price Research:
    • Purchase this device today and save $35 Off (28% Savings) from the original listed price of $124.99. Next best available price starts/ranging from $104.99 from a reputable retailer

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bennor
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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.
thePower777
78 Posts
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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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Mar 9, 2021
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JohnsonDigital
Mar 9, 2021
925 Posts
Can I install steam games on this? My internal drives are cram full.
Mar 10, 2021
15 Posts
Joined Dec 2017
Mar 10, 2021
katrina671
Mar 10, 2021
15 Posts
I just bought this. Does costco do price adjustments?
Mar 10, 2021
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Mar 10, 2021
mikedaley
Mar 10, 2021
3,807 Posts
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.
Mar 10, 2021
175 Posts
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Mar 10, 2021
drl136us
Mar 10, 2021
175 Posts
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.
Mar 10, 2021
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Mar 10, 2021
beggerking
Mar 10, 2021
4,225 Posts
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.
Mar 10, 2021
173 Posts
Joined May 2008
Mar 10, 2021
ssrrr123
Mar 10, 2021
173 Posts
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.
Last edited by ssrrr123 March 10, 2021 at 04:04 AM.
Mar 10, 2021
882 Posts
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Mar 10, 2021
h8 2 lose
Mar 10, 2021
882 Posts
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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mikedaley
Mar 10, 2021
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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
Last edited by mikedaley March 10, 2021 at 05:00 AM.
Mar 10, 2021
163 Posts
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GregoryJ8621
Mar 10, 2021
163 Posts
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.
Pro
Mar 10, 2021
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Mar 10, 2021
boofat
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Mar 10, 2021
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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.
Mar 10, 2021
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RyanL
Mar 10, 2021
6,339 Posts
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.
Mar 10, 2021
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RyanL
Mar 10, 2021
6,339 Posts
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.
Quote from ssi :
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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Mar 10, 2021
231 Posts
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zba
Mar 10, 2021
231 Posts
Quote from rage4order :
This one or the WD one at Best Buy for $99? Just gonna use it as a small media center connected to a Raspberry pi.
Out of 5 failed HD I had - 4 were Seagate. Good luck
Mar 10, 2021
76 Posts
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Mar 10, 2021
withheld
Mar 10, 2021
76 Posts
Unfortunately, I have had multiple failures with Seagate external drives. I just don't have a lot of faith in this brand.
Last edited by withheld March 10, 2021 at 07:19 AM.

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pug_ster
Mar 10, 2021
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I'm currently using this on my Raspberry Pi 4 running OpenmediaVault 5 for over a year running 24/7. Not exactly the fastest or the most redundant but it works and doesn't take up alot of electricity.
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