WD 4TB My Passport Ultra Portable External Hard Drive USB 3.0 US$137.22 (~ AU$180 Delivered) @ Amazon

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WD 4TB My Passport Ultra Portable External Hard Drive USB 3.0 US$137.22 (~ AU$180 Delivered) @ Amazon

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Amazon dropped the price of the WD 4TB My Passport Ultra Portable External Hard Drive USB 3.0 to US$137.22 (~ AU$180 delivered) for black only. Thanks to Ruriko for alerting the new price.

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typhoonadventure on 09/10/2016 - 17:42

Details on the hard drive inside and if it has a hard wired usb or whether it is sata?
- terahammer on 09/10/2016 - 18:38
  
  -4
  
  You can research it yourself…..
  - typhoonadventure on 09/10/2016 - 18:49
    
    sigh I could I was hoping the original poster was going to have an idea.
    - Elijha on 09/10/2016 - 18:57
      
      have you found out yet?
    - O O on 09/10/2016 - 18:59
      
      +4
      
      Here are some feedbacks from buyers
      
      Most external hard drives allow you to open it up and plug it into an adaptor. This one does not. Everything is soldered together and there's no SATA access port.
      
      and
      
      Incidentally, learning from the data recovery process - WD drives have a non-standard proprietary USB connector, soldered in. The hard drive itself cannot be removed from the casing and you cannot connect it to another source should there simply be a failure in the USB connection.
    - Elijha on 09/10/2016 - 19:16
      
      @O O: Not surprised. I was trying to figure out what made these 'ultra' drives and it seems it is to do with the ability to encrypt the drive an make it secure - hardware based encryption would not tend to make this a nice destructible drive..
    - O O on 09/10/2016 - 19:22
      
      +1
      
      @Elijha: Not as secure as you thought it would be. Checks it out
      
      Western Digital self-encrypting hard drives riddled with security flaws
      
      and
      
      Western Digital encrypted external hard drives have flaws that can expose data
    - typhoonadventure on 09/10/2016 - 19:50
      
      -3
      
      @O O: sounds like a useless piece of junk.
      
      Buy another brand with more options for use and more recover options upon failure.
    - Maverick-au on 09/10/2016 - 20:44
      
      -1
      
      @acex1138:
      
      sounds like a useless piece of junk.
      
      Why? Because there are a few flaws in some models that are now fixed? Will this drive stop 99.999% of people from reading your data with its easy to use encryption? YES.
    - tm001 on 09/10/2016 - 20:48
      
      @acex1138:
      Thanks, can you please recommend better "piece of junk" for same price and with the same capacity and size?
      Edit: Responded to myself - There is still the Seagate one for $129 https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00ZTRXFBA
      However I still don't think the WD deserves a title "piece of junk"
    - typhoonadventure on 10/10/2016 - 20:17
      
      @tm001: Just about all the seagates are looking better to be honest.
      
      You guys seem to be getting really offended by comments based on the fact of hard soldering a usb connector to the hard drive.
      
      This is a silly move to me and relegates it to a useless category as :
      
      A) this means it can't be transplanted into other devices limiting it's use
      B) hampers repair operations, this means even with damage to the drive parts such as the boards can't be transplanted to recover data.
      C) you can encrypt any device pretty easily, I fail to see that as a selling point of this.
      D) i've used a few of these in the past and been burned, yes many are going to stand up for them, western digital make great devices but hard wiring the connector to the drive itself has lead to many device stability issues, many due to normal wear and tear, and as mentioned above, break the connector on it, you literally have to send it back to WD for any repair which many times they've refused to do much.
      
      If you buy their sata drives they're awesome, but theres really no excuse to remove the sata port and hardwire a USB interface on other than for cost cutting and device restriction.
    - gruffogre on 18/10/2016 - 20:35
      
      -1
      
      @acex1138:
      
      If you are even considering Seagate drives then you are basically guaranteeing data loss at some point in your future. Source: I raise service calls for bad Seagate drives in the enterprise weekly. Caveat emptor.
    - typhoonadventure on 18/10/2016 - 20:50
      
      @gruffogre: happens with all hard drive manufacturers.
    - gruffogre on 19/10/2016 - 16:06
      
      -1
      
      @acex1138: Yes but is that same as comparing Qantas and Malaysian and saying all planes crash.
    - typhoonadventure on 19/10/2016 - 20:32
      
      +1
      
      @gruffogre: not really.
      
      Seagate and WD are the two market leaders, everyone is going to have a different experience and good and bad series.
      
      I've actually had more WD's fail on me in the last 10 years than seagates, only reason why i'd choose seagate over western digital at the moment is WD soldering usb connectors onto the drives to restrict their use.
      
      Segates had a dud with the 3tb 3.5", wd's had issues with the 2tb sshd 2.5" drives.
      
      Many will have had both and had no issue.
Ruriko on 09/10/2016 - 23:52

mine turned out to be $200.22. Dunno how you got $193
- endotherm on 10/10/2016 - 01:34
  
  +1
  
  Looks like the one in the case is cheaper than the options with the coloured grips, by about $8.
wisie on 10/10/2016 - 09:02

Ordered, thanks OP! Also picked up one of these carry cases https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002R9CQYK/ which was a pretty good deal. Just need to pick up an additional cable.
Jason88 on 10/10/2016 - 09:16

+3

Not that great of a deal.

I prefer this hard drive… its a seagate so you know you're getting quality, and its a 2.5" portable hard drive like this one.

4TB Seagate Portable Hard Drive

116.95 USD + 12.26 USD shipping

= 170.00 AUD!!!!

https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1197425-REG/seagate_s…
- simulacrum on 10/10/2016 - 15:28
  
  "its a seagate so you know you're getting quality"
  
  I know seagate and WD are probly the two market leaders in hard drives, is there a significant difference in reliability between the two?
  - Storm on 10/10/2016 - 16:30
    
    +3
    
    It all depends on the model. Some Seagates are shit. Some WD's are shit. Others are brilliant. Unfortunately, you have to do your research on every single model that comes out, for reliability (which of course, takes months to get the date post release).
    
    This is a good unbiased resource:
    https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-reliability-stats-…
    - typhoonadventure on 10/10/2016 - 20:19
      
      Whole reason why I am in the market at the moment is due to a 3tb seagate failing, again I can't really use that as a negative against them, i've had good and bad sg's and wd's.
      
      Maxtors on the otherhands i've never had one survive more than a year, samsung / hgst never had one fail yet.
      
      Thats not to say it won't happen and others won't have the same issue, i've always found it better to use the toyota method.
      
      Buy the most common model, then any issues, replacements arent that hard and sometimes you can even transplant parts to recover files.
      If there end up being any big issues with the series you generally hear about it before it affects you and you can prepare for it.
    - endotherm on 10/10/2016 - 21:38
      
      +1
      
      @acex1138: 3TB Seagates were a stinker, and I'm a fan!
    - typhoonadventure on 10/10/2016 - 21:42
      
      @endotherm: yup, had mine die on me friday night with all my ps4 data on it including P.T.
- surethang on 10/10/2016 - 16:37
  
  its a seagate so you know you're getting quality
  
  Actually, Seagate tends to have above industry average failures, but they are getting better.
  
  https://lifehacker.com/the-most-and-least-reliable-hard-driv…
  
  https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-reliability-stats-…
  
  Ultimately, any drive can fail at any time, so whatever you buy, back it up.
  
  (Edit: Ahhh, Storm just linked to same article while I was pulling this together)
  - Storm on 11/10/2016 - 13:21
    
    I used to swear by Seagates, especially the Barracuda series. Brilliant. Then something happened at Seagate and they all went to unreliable crap, so I switched to WD. Then Seagate fixed up their stuff after a few years and I've been using them again. I just wish I could backup onto multiple terabyte optical discs… so maybe I should look into BD Writers again (last time I looked the blank discs were a huge rip-off).
    - O O on 11/10/2016 - 13:41
      
      You must have a large archive of movies. 😲
    - Storm on 11/10/2016 - 15:38
      
      +2
      
      @O O:
      
      yeah, but I'm not too worried about losing the downloaded stuff… it's more the 3TB of family photo's/video's etc.
- typhoonadventure on 10/10/2016 - 20:53
  
  Perfect solution Jason88, just ordered one of the seagates bro, cheers!
- gruffogre on 18/10/2016 - 20:37
  
  Seagate. Good luck with that. Please report back once it fails without warning.
  
  TIA
Ruriko on 17/10/2016 - 22:51

I just had another look and noticed they dropped the price even further! price now $177.51 AUD
asmcar on 27/10/2016 - 20:40

Dropped again to $136.23 USD delivered and instock for blue or black

This was posted 8 years 3 months 15 days ago, and might be an out-dated deal.

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