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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
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- 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 again slightly drops the price of the WD Easystore 5TB portable hard drive from $104.99 down to $99.99. They seem to do this every week or two now. No telling how long this slightly lower price will be.
https://www.bestbuy.com/site/wd-e...Id=6406512
Still a meh deal on a per TB price ($20 per TB) due to being a portable drive and not the larger dimensioned 3.5 inch desktop external drives that many buy and shuck.
And as previously mentioned in past discussions on this drive it is not shuckable as the USB port is part of the drive.
As a price comparison. Amazon has the WD 5TB Elements portable hard drive at $99.99 right now.
WD 5TB Elements Portable External Hard Drive HDD, USB 3.0, Compatible with PC, Mac, PS4 & Xbox - WDBU6Y0050BBK-WESN [amazon.com]
An alternative 5tB drive at a slightly lower price point, Costco will have the Seagate 5TB portable drive on sale for $89.99 starting 3/10. But it's Seagate which some here despise.
Seaate 2.5" portable 5TB harddrive $90 @ Costco starting 3/10 $89.99
https://www.bestbuy.com/site/wd-e...Id=6406512
Still a meh deal on a per TB price ($20 per TB) due to being a portable drive and not the larger dimensioned 3.5 inch desktop external drives that many buy and shuck.
And as previously mentioned in past discussions on this drive it is not shuckable as the USB port is part of the drive.
As a price comparison. Amazon has the WD 5TB Elements portable hard drive at $99.99 right now.
WD 5TB Elements Portable External Hard Drive HDD, USB 3.0, Compatible with PC, Mac, PS4 & Xbox - WDBU6Y0050BBK-WESN [amazon.com]
An alternative 5tB drive at a slightly lower price point, Costco will have the Seagate 5TB portable drive on sale for $89.99 starting 3/10. But it's Seagate which some here despise.
Seaate 2.5" portable 5TB harddrive $90 @ Costco starting 3/10 $89.99
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 01/15/23 | Best Buy | $90 frontpage |
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| 08/14/22 | Best Buy | $95 popular |
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| 06/11/22 | Best Buy | $99 |
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 03/01/22 |  eBay | $95 frontpage |
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 01/20/22 | Best Buy | $94.99 |
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 01/18/22 | Best Buy | $99 |
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 11/18/21 | eBay | $90 frontpage |
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 08/26/21 | eBay | $90 frontpage |
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 08/09/21 | Best Buy | $107.99 |
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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..