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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:
  • Data transfer rates up to 5 Gbps with USB 3.0
  • Automatic backup options
  • Compatible with Mac and PC

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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
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Model: WD - Easystore 5TB External USB 3.0 Portable Hard Drive - Black

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11/17/23Best Buy$99.99
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Seagate is fine you dummies. WD is great too.
Every hard drive manufacturer had a bad model horror story at some point. Don't be so scurred..
Treat it as if every hard drive will fail. The common phrase is 'two is one and one is none'. It's unlikely the 2nd drive (primary backup) will fail concurrently with the 1st, but you never know. That said, precious files should be housed on a 3rd drive (secondary backup), ideally offsite. Backup hard drives are no good if your house/apt burns down with all the drives inside. If you have the bandwidth to do so, cloud backups are a fantastic option for a 3rd drive/location (secondary backup). Cloud could be used as a primary backup (aka the 2nd drive), but it depends how quickly you would need to access/restore your files in the event of a drive failure and how fast your internet is.

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
Uh oh, now you've done it. Someone is likely to come along shortly and throw out the BackBlaze stats [backblaze.com] (even though they are for different drives) to support their claim Seagate sucks. laugh out loud

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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03-03-2021 at 07:55 AM.
03-03-2021 at 07:55 AM.
I bought one of these last week for my nvidia shield. Happy with it so far.
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03-03-2021 at 10:09 AM.
03-03-2021 at 10:09 AM.
This is a great deal. Just ran outta space on my 3tb. I use it for 4K video storage exclusively 😏
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03-03-2021 at 10:10 AM.
03-03-2021 at 10:10 AM.
Quote from Squirrels8MyLunch :
Seagate is fine you dummies. WD is great too.
Every hard drive manufacturer had a bad model horror story at some point. Don't be so scurred..

If you didn't live through the Quantum Bigfoot drives, you haven't had real fun.
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03-03-2021 at 10:15 AM.
03-03-2021 at 10:15 AM.
Shuckable?
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03-03-2021 at 10:27 AM.
03-03-2021 at 10:27 AM.
Quote from Artmonk14 :
Shuckable?
Technically you can shuck it, but the 2.5" drive inside is likely has chip set soldered to the HDD.
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bennor
03-03-2021 at 10:38 AM.
03-03-2021 at 10:38 AM.
Quote from Artmonk14 :
Shuckable?
LOL someone always asks the question. Tried to answer this question in the initial post to start this deal to forestall the usual posts asking about shucking these portable drives. On many of the WD portable external 2.5 inch style drives the USB to SATA adapter is apparently integrated into the drive itself.

These portable WD Easystore drives are not like their larger 3.5 inch sized WD Easystore cousins. Supposedly the Seagate portable drives can be shucked but then you have to deal with it being a Seagate drive.

Edit to add: Example image [wd.com] of the WD portable drive shucked showing the USB port integrated into the drive hardware. And another example, WD Black P10 portable drive, from an Amazon review [amazon.com] which also has the USB port integrated into the drive itself.
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03-03-2021 at 11:24 AM.
03-03-2021 at 11:24 AM.
Available on eBay for $90.
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03-03-2021 at 11:31 AM.
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compatible with PS4?
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slynchy01
03-03-2021 at 11:44 AM.
03-03-2021 at 11:44 AM.
is $99 the new going price for 5TB it was around 119 to 125 about a week or so ago

I only use WD, Seagate or Toshiba

lookin to add 5tb to my xbox that just died so I can transfer the internal hard drive information.
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03-03-2021 at 11:49 AM.
03-03-2021 at 11:49 AM.
Quote from tinh_si :
compatible with PS4?

Plug it in and it will ask to reformat. when you reformat it ...it will be compatible I believe.
I won't buy this till I see an actual reply of NO by someone on your post.
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03-03-2021 at 11:51 AM.
03-03-2021 at 11:51 AM.
another question.

What is better Easy Store... My Passport or ... My Book.
I know Book is big but it's gonna sit next to my Xbox.


I see 6tb My Books new on Ebay for 95
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bennor
03-03-2021 at 12:05 PM.
03-03-2021 at 12:05 PM.
Quote from slynchy01 :
another question.

What is better Easy Store... My Passport or ... My Book.
I know Book is big but it's gonna sit next to my Xbox.


I see 6tb My Books new on Ebay for 95
Keep in mind this deal is for the smaller portable Easystore drive not the larger external USB desktop drive versions like the My Book.

See some earlier comments where at least one person gave their opinion on which of the drives to buy.
https://slickdeals.net/f/14867284-5tb-wd-easystore-external-usb-3-0-portable-hard-drive-100-free-shi...
https://slickdeals.net/f/14867284-5tb-wd-easystore-external-usb-3-0-portable-hard-drive-100-free-shi...

Compare the specifications and warranties. The WD My Passport portable drive has hardware encryption and comes in a few different colors. Both the My Passport and WD Elements portable drive have 3 year warranties, Easystore portable has 2 year warranty. The Easystore portable is typically only sold (new) through Best Buy.
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03-03-2021 at 12:16 PM.
03-03-2021 at 12:16 PM.
Quote from slynchy01 :
is $99 the new going price for 5TB it was around 119 to 125 about a week or so ago
Best Buy has this drive priced at $104.99 for the past few months. They drop it down to $99.99 for a day (or a full week) once or twice a month recently but then push the price back to $104.99.

In the past (use the slickdeals search feature) this drive has occasionally been priced at $89.99.
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bdobslaw
03-03-2021 at 12:21 PM.
03-03-2021 at 12:21 PM.
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This isn't a great deal; it's luke warm at best.

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.
Agreed. This was $90 on BF a year & a half ago. I didn't bite & I've been watching the price ever since. It has, in that time, been $99 on numerous occasions. I'm not desperate for it so I'm holding out for the extra ten bucks. Otherwise, not a new development.
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konradsa
03-03-2021 at 12:35 PM.
03-03-2021 at 12:35 PM.
I just bought this same model for $90 from a different seller:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/20329446...L:LNLK:ITM
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