Got notified from CamelCamelCamel of yet another price drop for this, making it one of the cheaper, if not the cheapest 2TB hard drive so far. Enjoy!
CamelCamelCamel.
"one of"
… if not the cheapest so far
You're right, but if you want one now, this looks like current cheapest. I'm a Seagate man myself though.
I clicked on that link but the Seagate was $1.29 cheaper at one point but that offer has expired.
It's probably not worth waiting however long for another Seagate deal to better this current WD deal?
SATA to USB or Soldered USB?
I have a few of these drives from over the years and they are all soldered USB.
Would be nice if that has changed so happy if somebody wishes to correct me if they have changed.
I've had the same experience with WD drives. I know it saves a small amount of space and cost - but I'd much prefer a sata drive with a converter.
Definitely, I recently lost a WD 1TB drive and it seems to be an issue with the USB circuit, there is no easy way to recover. Hence, Now I am looking for a hdd with a separate sata to usb circuit
Just FYI, a 3tb Seagate is 99 bucks at Office works.
https://www.officeworks.com.au/shop/officeworks/p/seagate-3t…
You may point out:
It's a different model.
It's a different manufacturer.
it's more expensive.
it's not delivered.
I won't care, it's a slightly better deal, for a Shuckable drive, if you live near OW.
I have one of these and the image at the OW site make it looks quite a bit slimmer than it actually is, I don't believe that image is from the same drive. The case is 20.9mm thick which likely means the internal drive is also quite thick and may make it difficult to shoehorn into some devices if you decide to shuck it. That being said, cheap as chips per TB.
To add to your list
I will also point out:
There's not much stock around
“USB 3.0” aka “USB 3.1 Gen 1” aka “USB 3.2 Gen 1x1 Superspeed ”…..
Until USB4 comes out.
Umm it’s USB 3.0. That’s it.
There’s a renaming for all USB 3.0 and 3.1 to USB 3.2
https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2019/2/27/18243425/u…
Wtf.
I don't know about the 2tb version, but I had four of the 1tb ones and they all failed within 2 or 3 years, after very light usage. Managed to get one replaced under (manufacturer's) warranty. One of the four died just out of warranty and had been used exactly once.
I had a WD 2tb ultra fail me after first use, was healthy & never dropped but its always a gamble regardless of brand.
I've got two dead 1tbs and one 2tb that only works in USB2 sockets (will disconnect at USB3 no matter which PC or OS I try it on)
interesting… i always thought hdd's to be so reliable… even the portable ones..
go ape shit aswell realising all the data i'd of lost…
That begs the question, are their more premium hard drives more reliable?
Just a warning for anyone that cares, I bought two of these and one's 0.5cm thicker than the other. Doesn't bother me as I wasn't buying for the portability anyway. Not sure if this changes if the drive can be shucked or not.
Same model/part number, same capacity. One manufactured in Thailand, one Malaysia.
The thicker one also benchmarks worse across the board, particularly when it comes to random writes (~1.4 vs ~9.9 in 4KiB random write)
The benchmark is currently $33/TB, so this isn't the cheapest 2TB portable drive. Click the "2TB" tag or this link and see for yourself. Seagate 2TB is consistently cheaper than Western Digital.