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expired Posted by iconian | Staff • Apr 20, 2021

4TB Toshiba Canvio USB 3.0 Portable External Hard Drive

or less w/ 2.5% SD Cashback + Free S/H

$76

$116

34% off
Dell Technologies
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Dell Home & Office has 4TB Toshiba Canvio USB 3.0 Portable External Hard Drive on sale for $75.99. To earn 2.5% in Slickdeals Cashback, before purchase, follow the cashback instructions below. Shipping is free.

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  • About this deal:
    • This is $40 Off (34.48% Savings) off the list price of $116
    • This offer also beats our previous popular deal from earlier this month by $4.
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Update: This popular offer is available again

Dell Home & Office has 4TB Toshiba Canvio USB 3.0 Portable External Hard Drive on sale for $75.99. To earn 2.5% in Slickdeals Cashback, before purchase, follow the cashback instructions below. Shipping is free.

Thanks to Deal Editor iconian for finding this deal.

Editor's Notes

Written by persian_mafia | Staff
  • About this deal:
    • This is $40 Off (34.48% Savings) off the list price of $116
    • This offer also beats our previous popular deal from earlier this month by $4.
  • Reviews:
  • About this store:
    • For Dell's consumer terms of sale click here. -persian_mafia

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burner1515
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No matter what you do you will want to backup your data. that should go without saying, but it must be said because it's the most important.

In my opinion long term storage (not connected to a pc) go hard drive. The data should be readable in 10-20-30 years from your fireproof safe. The medium is cheap enough compared to others you could buy two of these 4tb drives before you hit the price of a 2tb SSD. Even if you leave one connected to your pc constantly it should be fine long term if not accessed often.

SSD's are faster and more reliable for everyday use, but when they fail they typically don't give any warning. If you don't BSOD you will have errors reading and saving data then maybe a no boot media found error when restarting or things might work again for awhile until it happens again. In my experience it's very rare, but I have seen it happen and data be unrecoverable. With a hard drive you will have mechanical sounds (clicking, grinding) and greatly reduced performance speeds, but data may be accessed for awhile until it really gets too bad for any normal recovery attempt. In either case at the first time of something odd happening back up your data even if you have to buy a new drive full price same day, it's cheaper then losing everything or paying for an expensive data recovery.

Long term storage of a ssd might be a bad idea as well. Thumb drives need to be plugged in every 5-10 years or you risk losing all the data on them if they completely lose their electrical charge. I have not researched if an ssd could have the same issue, but it might. I won't personally use an SSD for long term storage because it's cost prohibitive to me, but if you go that route you should check that out. To me it makes no sense to spend like $100 a TB for something that will be barely used over 5-10+ years.
rseiler
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1-year warranty.
b.arms
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For those wondering, This is likely not shuckable. USB port is on a proprietary controller PCB for the HDD, there are no SATA ports.

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