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5TB WD Easystore External USB 3.0 Portable Hard Drive Expired
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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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Edited March 1, 2021
at 07:42 AM
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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| 07/16/22 | Best Buy | $95 |
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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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 08/09/21 | 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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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.
I have this. Have had this since 2013 and it runs like a top. .
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
Super helpful response, thanks man.
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.
To be fair I've lost multiple Seagate drives in the past with no chance of recovery. They just went bad with the clicking. They may be fine now, but that experience makes me avoid them.
That is why I have an unraid backup now.
I have several 10+ year WDs going strong.
All anecdotal evidence, but twice bitten makes me sour on Seagate.
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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.
Buy a NAS enclosure, or run unraid on some old pc hardware you have sitting around.
Eventually all hard drives will fail. Having a parity drive like unraid will let you restore. Unraid let's you have many drives to one parity so that is good for expansion.
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
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
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
Can you quickly describe the difference between WD Easystore (this thread), WD My Passport, WD Black?
https://www.bestbuy.com/site/wd-e...Id=6406512
https://www.bestbuy.com/site/wd-m...Id=6380848
https://www.bestbuy.com/site/wd-w...Id=6427863
Per the links above (all 5 TB), it appears the MSRP on Easystore is the highest ($179.99). Does this indicate it's better in some way?
Thank you.
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No others have had a temporary mistake. Everyone else fixes any issues after the sale and do QC before the sale. They listen to the people using their product to perfect it.
Seagate sacrifices quality for profit margin. They did one good thing. They bought Samsung's HDD business and continued to make Samsung's good HDD's back then. But are the current Samsung "Momdentus" drives more Seagate Momentus or Samsung's HDD evolution? Samsung made great HDD's.
Anyone who says Seagate wasn't evil back then and bad now doesn't know how momentus, deliberate and deceitful and fraudulent, theft the issues were and and how bad their product has always been.
It's not a matter of opinion or taste or being an oblivious fanboy if some one hates or loves them for no real reason. It's a matter of knowing or being oblivious. It's real. The fact is all credible, independent tests, test them to be the worst, so bad that you put your data at risk if you buy them.
You wouldn't trust software that put malware on your computer that cost you data. How can you trust hardware that will cost you data? If you've had luck with Seagate, good for you. The clock is ticking. All industries have some percentage of lemons (fails). Maybe it works in the reverse for Seagate and you're the lucky one who got one that's not a lemon. Every industry has less than 10% lemons. Seagate has below 10% that aren't lemons. Everyone else should backup on non-Seagate drives. Better yet, spend a few dollars more and skip the risk of Seagate.
Sorry if I've bored or offended anyone. It's the truth and it's all been said before by all who look at the facts. Calling it fake news puts your data in jeopardy.