camelcamelcamel show that the WD 4TB Black My Passport WDBYFT0040BBK is at an all time low of $94.99USD which converts to approx $136AUD delivered. The price is only for the Black colour, but other colours are rughly $10USD more.
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Wow that's terrible
This has been a concern with Passports for years.
Just saying so you know other WD portable disks are the same.
No SATA?
Is it IDE? or soldered…
oh there's a video… yep soldered… o.O
Shame, I'm after an IDE drive… yes I know there is no 4TB IDE drives…
ah cheers, that might just work… maybe, need it for PS2 network/harddrive thingy…
I have a 1tb SATA drive ready to go in, network adaptor is IDE :-/
Not much room in the bay once it's all put together o.O
@Davious: the PS2 network adapter is for 3.5" hard drives so if you use a 2.5" 500gb/1tb you will have plenty of room for the adapter
USB 3 connection straight on the drive PCB.
For anyone who doesn't want to sit through blabbering, he finally opens it up at 3:13
Not all heroes wear capes.
Like most portable HDD, this one is likely using SMR (Shingled Magnetic Recording) as well.
What is the performance hit of using SMR?
Don't have WD SMR drive. I do have couple of the 4TB Seagate backup plus SMR drives. Still get pretty good performance. About 98MB/s transfer. Probably about 5-10% slower than non SMR.
Not sure that’s true, even 8 and 10tb don’t use SMR anymore IIRC.
Only if you get NAS ones or ones with helium. Also, most of the 8TB and 10TB ones are desktop HDDs. And, sorry to disappoint you, there is one 8TB with SMR:
http://www.storagereview.com/seagate_archive_hdd_review_8tb
Portable HDD (without needing power adapter), 8TB without SMR —> that would be great. As much as I wish/want 4TB portable HDDs to be non-SMR, at this price point, it is wishful thinking.
Don't know about WD, but all of my cheap 4/5TB Seagate portables (2.5") are PMR.
Edit: Seems my 5TB are SMR after all, but the older 4TB are PMR.
If you don't need portability, the equivalent 4TB My Book is cheaper ($88.82 US): https://www.amazon.com/Book-Desktop-External-Drive-WDBBGB004…
but the difference is only 6 USD, would chose portable over desktop version
It gets tricky, if the 4TB My Book desktop based HDD is a proper SATA HDD and standard PMR (rather than SMR). As much as I really want another 4TB portable HDD, I really don't want yet another SMR with only USB (i.e. it is not a SATA interface drive inside, it only has USB 3).
I am looking for a portable drive to save photos and videos. Is this reliable whats that No sata phobia?
If it were SATA then it means if the case dies (or you don't want to use it as a portable disk anymore) but the drive is fine you can just plug it into a desktop internally. No SATA means it has to use the case.
A few sites have suggested these would be great for PS4's.. looking at external storage options to save the free monthly games on and other games I have.
What are people's opinions on this drive being used for game storage on a PS4?
As an internal drive, no. As external, I'll defer to someone else.
Sorry should clarify - as external.
I have one for this purpose and it works fine, no noticeable difference to the internal drive.
Only worry would be if it dies with all of the data on it given it's not shuckable, but here's hoping that doesn't happen.
Batteries 1 Lithium Polymer batteries required.
Wha?
Gee that's funny. A spec listed for a USB 3.0 portable hard drive saying it requires a battery. Is clearly an error by Amazon. Unless there's some sort of battery powered backup that i don't know about.
Can anyone let me know if this can be used with Xbox one s?
of course
What will be the warranty on this? Just Amazon warranty?
You might get WD warranty, but my experience with WD warranty was poor. They gave me a refurbished hard drive as a replacement. It was noisy, but not crazy noisy and nothing was wrong with it at first. About 1 month after the warranty expires (the refurbished hard drive simply continued the remaining warranty, no extension given for lost of time due to the RMA process), the refurbished hard drive died completely. It was not possible to RMA the drive since it is out of warranty. Basically, they gave me a dodgy drive that was good enough for 5 months.
Seems like a good price. What's the reliability of these like?