Newegg has 2TB WD My Passport Portable Hard Drive (Various) on sale for $149.99. Shipping is free.
Note: Use drop-down menu to select color.
Editor's Notes & Price Research
Written by
About this deal:
Our research indicates that this offer is $10 lower (6% savings) than the next best available price from a reputable merchant with prices starting from $159.99
About this product:
5-Year Limited Warranty
Password enabled 256-bit AES hardware encryption
Shock and vibration resistant. Drop resistant up to 6.5ft (1.98m)
Cross Compatible USB 3.2 Gen-2 and USB-C (USB-A for older systems)
You gave thanks to GreenRecess | Staff for this post.
Thank you!
GreenRecess | Staff posted this deal. Say thanks!
Original Post
Written by
Edited December 2, 2022
at 07:45 AMby
Amazon[amazon.com] has WD 2TB My Passport SSD Portable External Solid State Drive, Silver, Sturdy and Blazing Fast, Password Protection with Hardware Encryption - WDBAGF0020BSL-WESN for $149.99. Shipping is Free
Product Description from Store
Blazing fast NVMe technology with speeds of up to 1050MB\/s and write speeds of up to 1000MB\/s. | Based on read speed unless otherwise stated. As used for transfer rate, 1 MB\/s = one million bytes per second. Based on internal testing; performance may vary depending upon host device, usage conditions, drive capacity, and other factors.
Password enabled 256-bit AES hardware encryption
Shock and vibration resistant. Drop resistant up to 6.5ft (1.98m)
Cross Compatible USB 3.2 Gen-2 and USB-C (USB-A for older systems)
4TB is a little higher than double ($330), but interesting to me.
Does anyone have experience with the hardware encryption? I just bought a SanDisk 2TB, but I like this encryption thing, may pick this up too.
SanDisk and WD are the same companies, and this review suggests that aside from the external enclosure, the 1TB version of drives are identical. Not sure if newer iterations have been released since 2020.
To be clear this is an SSD not HDD. Calling it "hard drive" in the title is misleading…though great price thanks for posting!
Thats kinda splitting hairs as OP said hard drive not hdd. I agree ssd is not a hdd, but it could fall under the 'hard drive' category:
Types of Hard Drives
Currently, hard drives are divided into 4 major types:
Parallel Advanced Technology Attachment (PATA)
Serial Advanced Technology Attachment (SATA)
Small Computer System Interface (SCSI)
Solid State Drive (SSD)
Thats kinda splitting hairs as OP said hard drive not hdd. I agree ssd is not a hdd, but it could fall under the 'hard drive' category:
Types of Hard Drives
Currently, hard drives are divided into 4 major types:
Parallel Advanced Technology Attachment (PATA)
Serial Advanced Technology Attachment (SATA)
Small Computer System Interface (SCSI)
Solid State Drive (SSD)
Thats kinda splitting hairs as OP said hard drive not hdd. I agree ssd is not a hdd, but it could fall under the 'hard drive' category:
Types of Hard Drives
Currently, hard drives are divided into 4 major types:
Parallel Advanced Technology Attachment (PATA)
Serial Advanced Technology Attachment (SATA)
Small Computer System Interface (SCSI)
Solid State Drive (SSD)
That's not splitting hairs at all. Hard drive = HDD. The linked listings don't call these hard drives. No one calls an SSD a HDD, and no one posts SSDs here and lists them as HDDs. Not sure where you're cutting and pasting from, but the interface technology is irrelevant to whether an SSD is a HDD. And it's 2022, no one is using PATA hard drives and you completely missed NVMe/PCI express drives.
30 Comments
Featured Comments
Sign up for a Slickdeals account to remove this ad.
Does anyone have experience with the hardware encryption? I just bought a SanDisk 2TB, but I like this encryption thing, may pick this up too.
https://www.anandtech.c
Types of Hard Drives
Currently, hard drives are divided into 4 major types:
Parallel Advanced Technology Attachment (PATA)
Serial Advanced Technology Attachment (SATA)
Small Computer System Interface (SCSI)
Solid State Drive (SSD)
Types of Hard Drives
Currently, hard drives are divided into 4 major types:
Parallel Advanced Technology Attachment (PATA)
Serial Advanced Technology Attachment (SATA)
Small Computer System Interface (SCSI)
Solid State Drive (SSD)
Sign up for a Slickdeals account to remove this ad.
Nice price, but Amazon also has multiple SanDisk and Crucial external SSDs for $150 and under, at least.
Types of Hard Drives
Currently, hard drives are divided into 4 major types:
Parallel Advanced Technology Attachment (PATA)
Serial Advanced Technology Attachment (SATA)
Small Computer System Interface (SCSI)
Solid State Drive (SSD)