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5TB WD Easystore External USB 3.0 Portable Hard Drive
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Best Buy via eBay has 5TB WD Easystore External USB 3.0 Portable Hard Drive (WDBAJP0050BBK-WESN) on sale for $99.99 (price shown in cart). Shipping is free.
Best Buy has 5TB WD Easystore External USB 3.0 Portable Hard Drive (WDBAJP0050BBK-WESN) on sale for $99.99. Shipping is free or select free curbside pickup where stock permits.
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Best Buy has 5TB WD Easystore External USB 3.0 Portable Hard Drive (WDBAJP0050BBK-WESN) on sale for $99.99. Shipping is free or select free curbside pickup where stock permits.
Thanks to community member bennor for finding this deal.
Key Features:
- Data transfer rates up to 5 Gbps with USB 3.0
- Automatic backup options
- Compatible with Mac and PC
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Written by RevOne | Staff- About this product:
- 4.8 out of 5 stars overall on BestBuy.com based on over 5,908 reviews.
- Manufacturer's Warranty Parts / Labor: 2-Years
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Best Buy via eBay has 5TB WD Easystore External USB 3.0 Portable Hard Drive (WDBAJP0050BBK-WESN) on sale for $99.99 (price shown in cart). Shipping is free.
Best Buy has 5TB WD Easystore External USB 3.0 Portable Hard Drive (WDBAJP0050BBK-WESN) on sale for $99.99. Shipping is free or select free curbside pickup where stock permits.
Thanks to community member bennor for finding this deal.
Key Features:
Best Buy has 5TB WD Easystore External USB 3.0 Portable Hard Drive (WDBAJP0050BBK-WESN) on sale for $99.99. Shipping is free or select free curbside pickup where stock permits.
Thanks to community member bennor for finding this deal.
Key Features:
- Data transfer rates up to 5 Gbps with USB 3.0
- Automatic backup options
- Compatible with Mac and PC
Editor's Notes
Written by RevOne | Staff- About this product:
- 4.8 out of 5 stars overall on BestBuy.com based on over 5,908 reviews.
- Manufacturer's Warranty Parts / Labor: 2-Years
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Every hard drive manufacturer had a bad model horror story at some point. Don't be so scurred..
So in your circumstance, get 2 external drives but don't get them at the same time or from the same store. Try to stagger their ages if they're going to be used simultaneously to reduce the likelihood of them failing together. If you're going to be plugging one in permanently and plugging the backup in at regular intervals to do the backups (if you're responsible enough to remember), then they can be from the same place/age/production since one is cold storage
Most have their own personal hard drive horror, and click of death, stories from all drive manufacturers. Some have good luck with WD or Seagate, others don't. Years past Seagate did have one specific line of drives that were lemons and some use that as justification to avoid Seagate all together. Shrugs. Their choice.
Drives fail. Period. Back them up (which one should be doing for any critical or irreplaceable data) if one is worried about it.
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Just had a 2TB Seagate portable drive die with the click of death within a year.
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Every hard drive manufacturer had a bad model horror story at some point. Don't be so scurred..
Every hard drive manufacturer had a bad model horror story at some point. Don't be so scurred..
Most have their own personal hard drive horror, and click of death, stories from all drive manufacturers. Some have good luck with WD or Seagate, others don't. Years past Seagate did have one specific line of drives that were lemons and some use that as justification to avoid Seagate all together. Shrugs. Their choice.
Drives fail. Period. Back them up (which one should be doing for any critical or irreplaceable data) if one is worried about it.
Thanks, OP, for having such amazing detail on a "meh deal"!
WD Easystore 5TB External USB 3.0 Portable Hard Drive - $99.99
So to do this, do I get... another external HDD? Which could also fail? But I guess the point would be that it's very unlikely BOTH would fail on me simultaneously (if at all).
Or do people have other recommendations for a better backup? I'm a little new to this so apologies if the question is dumb. The comments about Seagate above freaked me out a bit lol.
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So to do this, do I get... another external HDD? Which could also fail? But I guess the point would be that it's very unlikely BOTH would fail on me simultaneously (if at all).
Or do people have other recommendations for a better backup? I'm a little new to this so apologies if the question is dumb. The comments about Seagate above freaked me out a bit lol.
So in your circumstance, get 2 external drives but don't get them at the same time or from the same store. Try to stagger their ages if they're going to be used simultaneously to reduce the likelihood of them failing together. If you're going to be plugging one in permanently and plugging the backup in at regular intervals to do the backups (if you're responsible enough to remember), then they can be from the same place/age/production since one is cold storage
WD Easystore 5TB External USB 3.0 Portable Hard Drive - $99.99
I have this. Have had this since 2013 and it runs like a top. Use it for all my footage for immediate and then longterm storage. It's usb 3.0, and takes it's own power. From what I remember of the original thread, it's schuckable to a Red drive, but its more utility to me as a portable until it breaks. Plenty of 100gb SSDs floating around for any random internal space needs.
I paid $79 on BF over 5 years ago (might have been 2016, but I can go through my email for receipts if it's that dire. Bought it from BB on a price match to the sale on amazon at the time
Just had a 2TB Seagate portable drive die with the click of death within a year.
Includes 2 Years of Data Recovery Service. In case someone is interested..
I got the WD 5tb black drive from Amazon last year for $92, the passport drives with 3-yr warranty have also been in the $90s, while the BB easystore is only a 2-year warranty and more expensive. No thanks.
Over paying for drives is only warranted if you absolutely need it today. If you can wait, I'd say wait.
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