Marketplace
This post contains affiliate links. OzBargain might earn commissions when you click through and make purchases. Please see this page for more information.
Had it on my watchlist, best price according to Camel 3x.
Western Digital My Passport USB3.0 External Hard Drive 5TB $141.63 (29% off) + Delivery ($0 with Prime) @ Amazon US via AU
630
angry-redbird on 02/01/2022 - 11:12 amazon.com.au (1768 clicks)
Last edited 02/01/2022 - 11:20 by 1 other user
Last edited 02/01/2022 - 11:20 by 1 other user
Price History at 
CamelCamelCamel.
CamelCamelCamel.Related Stores
closed Comments
*cheaper HDD
Returning to Amazon isn't that bad. If you live in cities (or more so not rural), they will just give you a return label. If you are rural, talk to customer support and they will give you a label and then refund the costs of Australia Post shipping to Sydney (Parcel Point), which handles Amazons international returns
any portable drives that is not SMR and shuckable?
I think there’s very few 2.5” HDDs greater than 1TB that aren’t SMR period, let alone ones being used for portable units be are schuckable. In my search of one to put in my NVR the largest non SMR I could find was a 2TB drive that was sold as the drive alone. I’m not sure anything greater than 2TB currently exists.
Yeah and wouldn't you get a 1-2,TB SSD anyway
still expensive for big size ssd..
@pinkybrain: Yeah guess if Rock bottom price is the only criteria. Cheap enough, got a bx500 for $199, wanted something that didn't require power for raspberry pi, and doesn't really hurt leaving it on (music streamer).
do you know which seagate portables are not rosewood drives?
that is even worst than SMR…it is shame that there is no shuckable ones that are not SMR..
but can only choose seagate since WD soldered their USB onto it..
best price was
$131.91 on camel
How are you making camel work with amazon? For me it only works on the US site and not the AUS site.
which browser do you use?
i don't do anything special other than installing the camel extension.
maybe try making an account or login with google on the site first
I use firefox. I also have an account though not signed up to it with google. I doubt that would cause any issue though.
I use:
https://au.camelcamelcamel.com/
Can't remember if there is a flag icon thingy you click on, but it may be a choice at the bottom of the page.
Where’s the guy that always brags he got a 5TB drive for ~$100 everytime a portable HDD deal gets posted?
And @chickendinner123 has shown up :) We were not disappointed.
Lol think it was an officeworks special that was discontinued/well out of stock after posting/gloating
Don't feed the beast
It's showing up as $174.00 (-12%) for me
Had gone up, but price is back down now.
Thanks!
Still not as good as the 5TB drive for $100 I got a couple of years ago.
yeah for some reason prices arent dropping. i got a 4TB couple of years back (3-4?) for $99, then two years later i thought i found a steal when auspost had 4tbs for $79 only to find out i got the same capacity
4TB can be had for $99-100, 5TB for $140 isn't a great price.
Post a link for a $100 4tb then, thank you
Link
I don't trust WD at all.. I bought a portable 4TB and it failed within a month
I've only had WD in my life and never had a issue! I've had External drives I use daily for movies for 8+ years and not a single issue.
I guess it's luck of the draw.
I guess it's luck of the draw.
Besides models with known common faults that sometimes get released, it very much is luck of the draw.
For safety I would stick with Seagate. WD's are non-shuckable. The connector is soldered onto the case. If the case circuitry fails but the drive is otherwise fine, that's too bad. If this happens on your seagate, you can remove the drive and plug it into your M/B or another enclosure and still recover your data.
It's just an extra unnecessary possible point of failure.
I have a few WDs. They haven't failed on me yet, but the fear for my data is always looming.
Wish I had a dollar for every time someone said "I don't trust X" where X can be:
Seagate
WD
Hitachi
IBM
Quantum
Conner
Rodime
Tandon
Maxtor
FujitsuAnd the only one really worthy to be on the list would be Kalok. They were a steaming pile of… chip.
(Not that most of you would have heard probably half the companies on the list!)Always nice to see someone who has been around a long time (like myself) and can remember when there were a lot more HDD manufacturers in the mix before Seagate and WD bought up most of the brands.
I’ve heard of all of them expect Rodime. Quantum SCSI drives were the gold standard in the Amiga days.
Is there a 0% cashback for both CR and SB?
For giftcards it seems that Shopback has 2% and CR has 1%I've bought many 4TB / 5TB portable drives over the last 5 years. Has hard drive tech reached its limits? We should be at 8TB / 10TB portable drives by now but there's been no further developments.
I feel the same about optical. I would love at least 1TB per optical disc. Rewritable. Half-decent speed. Longer-term archival.
This is an interesting read: https://blocksandfiles.com/2021/05/19/seagate-cements-top-hh…
Seems like this stagnation is here to stay.
My guess is a big chunk of the market went away when laptops transitioned to SSD, which are seeing fairly good price drops.
SSD storage will never match HDD storage in $ per GB. It will never come close. And since your porn stash doesn't require 4GB/s read speed, you're paying more for no measurable gain.
Yeah I think so. Very disappointing.
7 years ago, micro SD card were maxed out 128GB and cost similar to a 4TB HDD.
Now micro SD have increased to 1TB and cost is still similar to a 4TB HDD.
Micro SD have improved 8x for the same price
HDD have improve maybe 1.5x by becoming a little bit cheaper.
Fast enough for PS5?
It's ok as I have the same but with 4TB. Obviously don't expect SSD external hard drive performance speed.
Just a heads up. I bought a HDD from Amazon US awhile back & it came in just a amazon envelope.
I was amazed it worked given the state of the envelope & lack of additional padding. That said this is a good deal & I am sorely tempted, thanks op.
Yeah amazon packaging leaves much to be desired. I find mine come loose in a much larger box
Does 5tb go lower then this these days?
The 4TB My Paasport drives are OK, and I’ve got about 8 of them but I agree with most comments it’s probably SMR and have no doubt the 5TB is SMR. You really need to go to 6TB or even 8TB to get a PMR/CMR drive these days and they will be 3.5”
You just have to read a lot of articles the sub 5TB 2.5 and 3.5TB Seagates are most likely SMR as well so while they might be shuckable, I wouldn’t put one in a NAS.Ideally 1-2TB use flash/SSD, 4TB+ 3.5" CMR
These fall in that 2-5TB range of cheap 2.5" mech drives but would do the job for most basic uses.Depends on your requirements and use, I wanted an SSD for power requirements connected to a Rpi4
It went back to $174 again for me :(
It shows AUD174. Does anyone have same price shown up in Amazon?
Has anyone used this as an external for ps4?
Does someone know why the HDD on Amazon are mostly from UK and USA only? I never buy because a return would be a pain in the 🍑