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Sam's Club Members: 5TB WD My Passport Portable Hard Drive (White)
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Sam's Club has for their Members: 5TB WD My Passport Portable Hard Drive (White, WDBPKJ0050BWT-WESB) for $79.91. Shipping is free for Plus Members, otherwise shipping costs will vary by location.
Thanks to Community Member rainking12 for finding this deal.
Features:
Thanks to Community Member rainking12 for finding this deal.
Features:
- Slim design
- Software for device management and backup with password protection
- 256-bit AES hardware encryption
- SuperSpeed USB port; USB 2.0 compatible
- 3-year limited warranty
Editor's Notes
Written by johnny_miller | Staff- About this Store:
- Don't have a Sam's Club Membership? Join today: Club Membership $50/yr. or Plus Membership $110/yr.
- Additional Information:
- Our research indicates that this offer is $40.08 lower (33% savings) than the next best available price from a reputable merchant with prices starting from $119.99.
- Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars at Sam's Club cased on over 170 customer reviews.
- Please see the original post for additional details and/or view the Wiki and forum comments for further helpful discussion if available.
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Sam's Club has for their Members: 5TB WD My Passport Portable Hard Drive (White, WDBPKJ0050BWT-WESB) for $79.91. Shipping is free for Plus Members, otherwise shipping costs will vary by location.
Thanks to Community Member rainking12 for finding this deal.
Features:
Thanks to Community Member rainking12 for finding this deal.
Features:
- Slim design
- Software for device management and backup with password protection
- 256-bit AES hardware encryption
- SuperSpeed USB port; USB 2.0 compatible
- 3-year limited warranty
Editor's Notes
Written by johnny_miller | Staff- About this Store:
- Don't have a Sam's Club Membership? Join today: Club Membership $50/yr. or Plus Membership $110/yr.
- Additional Information:
- Our research indicates that this offer is $40.08 lower (33% savings) than the next best available price from a reputable merchant with prices starting from $119.99.
- Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars at Sam's Club cased on over 170 customer reviews.
- Please see the original post for additional details and/or view the Wiki and forum comments for further helpful discussion if available.
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The average number of writes for an SSD in its total lifespan is rated for what a decent hard drive is rated to handle in just one year. And the mechanical operation for hard drives is rated in hundreds of thousands, if not millions of hours.
On top of this, an SSD can't be used for cold storage, as they require power occasionally to maintain data retention. Leave a mechanical drive on a shelf for 5 years and you'll still have data on it when you power it back up.
These are just some of many reasons why large data centers are still primarily using mechanical drives and even tape for storage.
For home backups, I'd advise the same.
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The average number of writes for an SSD in its total lifespan is rated for what a decent hard drive is rated to handle in just one year. And the mechanical operation for hard drives is rated in hundreds of thousands, if not millions of hours.
On top of this, an SSD can't be used for cold storage, as they require power occasionally to maintain data retention. Leave a mechanical drive on a shelf for 5 years and you'll still have data on it when you power it back up.
These are just some of many reasons why large data centers are still primarily using mechanical drives and even tape for storage.
For home backups, I'd advise the same.
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When I plug in to laptop it just makes "click" sound and the fan runs fast and nothing accessible
I have so much data in the 2TB passport and do not how to recover it
Check out DMDE software (DMDE.com), worked really well when I had the same issue. Free version can do the trick, but it's purposely limited by only allowing you to recover one file path at the same time, so it'll be tedious if you have a lot folders and subfolders. The odd file here and there was unrecoverable because of the damaged drive, but I probably recovered 96% of it.
FYI, if there's important stuff on it, I think the best practice is to try to clone the disc image of the damaged drive to another drive first and recover off of that instead of the damaged drive, but obviously that's not really practical in a lot of cases as most people don't have an equal empty portable drive hanging around.
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You can't leave them unpowered for years and expect to hold data.
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When I plug in to laptop it just makes "click" sound and the fan runs fast and nothing accessible
I have so much data in the 2TB passport and do not how to recover it
They can actually seize up over time.
If you feel like you have nothing to lose, you can try the freezer trick and run the drive in an orientation different from which it normally ran (if vertical, try horizontal or even upside down).
If you take it to a professional and they find that this is the issue, they'll typically just open the drive and work the spindle free.
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Total data amount is just around 1.5TB.
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Total data amount is just around 1.5TB.
For local backups, just follow the N+1 rule (a backup isn't a backup unless it has a backup) as well as you can feasibly afford and maintain.
It wouldn't hurt to keep the really important stuff in a fire bag inside a decently rated fire safe.
And if you want to go really crazy, you could set up a networked drive in your car that syncs up with your devices whenever it's on.
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You can't leave them unpowered for years and expect to hold data.
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