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5TB Western Digital My Passport Portable External Hard Drive (Black)

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Amazon has 5TB Western Digital My Passport Portable External Hard Drive (WDBPKJ0050BBK-WESN, Black) for $99.99. Shipping is free.

Thanks to Community Member mendelsphotography for finding this deal.

Features:
  • Automatic backup - easy to use
  • Password protection 256-bit AES hardware encryption
  • WD Discovery software for WD Backup, password protection, and drive management
  • SuperSpeed USB-A 3.0 (5Gpbs), 2.0 compatible
  • Compatibility :Windows 10 or Windows 8.1 , Chrome OS and Requires reformatting for other operating systems.

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  • About this deal:
    • This price is $50 lower (33% savings) than the list price of $149.99.
  • About this product:
    • Rating of 4.6 from over 25,000 Amazon customer reviews.
  • About this store:
    • For the 2021 holiday season, returnable items purchased between October 1 and December 31 can be returned until January 31, 2022.
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Amazon has 5TB Western Digital My Passport Portable External Hard Drive (WDBPKJ0050BBK-WESN, Black) for $99.99. Shipping is free.

Thanks to Community Member mendelsphotography for finding this deal.

Features:
  • Automatic backup - easy to use
  • Password protection 256-bit AES hardware encryption
  • WD Discovery software for WD Backup, password protection, and drive management
  • SuperSpeed USB-A 3.0 (5Gpbs), 2.0 compatible
  • Compatibility :Windows 10 or Windows 8.1 , Chrome OS and Requires reformatting for other operating systems.

Editor's Notes

Written by powerfuldoppler | Staff
  • About this deal:
    • This price is $50 lower (33% savings) than the list price of $149.99.
  • About this product:
    • Rating of 4.6 from over 25,000 Amazon customer reviews.
  • About this store:
    • For the 2021 holiday season, returnable items purchased between October 1 and December 31 can be returned until January 31, 2022.
    • Don't have Amazon Prime? Students can get a free 6-Month Amazon Prime trial with free 2-day shipping, unlimited video streaming & more.
    • If you're not a student, there's also a free 1-Month Amazon Prime trial available.

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Model: WD My Passport 5TB USB 3.2 Gen 1 External Hard Drive, Black

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aerischan
USB 3.0, USB 3.1 Gen 1 and USB 3.2 Gen 1 all mean 5 Gbps (~625 MB/s). Kind of a moot point since the mechanical disks themselves top out at ~125 MB/s (1 Gbps).

Easystore, Elements, Black and Passport portables all use the same underlying 2.5" SMR drives. Difference is mostly chassis and features.

Elements: absolute basic drives, pre-formatted NTFS iirc, Easystore is just the Best Buy branded version

Passport: has hardware encryption and password protection, pre-formatted NTFS

Passport Ultra: same as Passport but with USB-C connector instead of microUSB

WD_BLACK: basic drive in nice metal chassis, pre-formatted exFAT

I prefer the WD_BLACK line since those have better heat dissipation.

As for reliability, all drives can fail at any time. I've got a couple boxes of dead WD, Seagate, Hitachi and Toshiba at my office so I don't have any brand loyalty whatsoever. If data is important, you should have a backup (3-2-1 rule).
mateo_
Never choose seagate over WD. Prone to failure, lower quality.
AkarshK
Costco has Seagate 5Tb for 89

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I Have 2 of these drives they are amazing and great its one of best you can get for your buck with the amount of storage Plus Price
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mer063
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Is WD Black for same price a better deal or not?
https://www.amazon.com/WD_Black-D...TFHD5?th=1

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Quote from mer063 :
Is WD Black for same price a better deal or not?
https://www.amazon.com/WD_Black-D...TFHD5?th=1 [amazon.com]
nope there different hard drives
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Quote from mendelsphotography :
nope there different hard drives
what is the difference? and which one is better? i thought that black was their top line ?
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nowarabx
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is this an old model?
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heyman69
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what's the read speed?
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dabargainhunter
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Good drive, but usually around $90 at Best Buy (and if you can hack with 15% recycling an old drive coupon), you are down to under $80.

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coronalForce
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2.5 drives rarely get this cheap
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emmakendrick01
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Best Buy has these for the same price and you can use the 15% recycle coupon on them to reduce them further.
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AkarshK
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Costco has Seagate 5Tb for 89
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Quote from mer063 :
what is the difference? and which one is better? i thought that black was their top line ?
I was researching these a bit - from everything I gathered, there's no significant performance or quality difference between the WD and Seagate 5TB portable variants (although each brand has it supporters and detractors). The selling point for the "Black" external drive is packaging. I picked up the basic black Easystore at BB for $90.
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in5ane
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I would rather give my money to BB or Costco
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slidog
Nov 25, 2021
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Thanks, got the 2TB. Same price on the WD website.
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Axelxbc
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Quote from emmakendrick01 :
Best Buy has these for the same price and you can use the 15% recycle coupon on them to reduce them further.
What exactly would you have to recycle to get the 15% off? And how easy is it?

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Quote from mendelsphotography :
nope there different hard drives
How are they different? And which is better? I have 6 black drives. Haven't had any fails.

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