This WD Elements Portable Hard Drive USB 3.0. It comes in the colour black only.
Cheapest portable 5Tb drive I could find at the moment. Historical prices have been between $5 and $10 lower.
Officeworks $10 cheaper than Amazon.
Western Digital Elements SE Portable 5TB Hard Drive $159 + Delivery ($0 to Metro Areas/ C&C/ in-Store) @ Officeworks
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jeffr on 05/02/2023 - 02:26 officeworks.com.au (1676 clicks)
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The WD Portable drives haven't generally been shuckable in the past, the Seagate ones are though.
I'll confirm this. The 2.5" WDs have the USB port soldered onto the main HDD board and don't use a SATA to USB adapter like any other brand.
You cannot recover data if/when the connector inevitably dies - speaking from bitter experience.
@Switchblade88: Really stupid of WD. At least you could have salvaged the hard disk if it was shuckable.
it's thick drive, probably won't fit?
any 2.5" mechanical drives equal or greater than 3TB is 15-15.5mm thick
most 2.5" drive bays only support 7.5-9.5mmhave a few 2.5" seagate backup plus drives in my desktop pc for less noise and lower power usage, not sure how much better they are but didn't need portable drives anymore so saved me buying desktop drive
good and bad reviews
how is this a bargain?
Yes
They're hiding connectors from the photo/cgi. I assume it's the old weird fat micro usb connector then?
Leaning that myself, they'd advertise C if it had it.
Says mini a in speciation section.
Power & Charging Interface: Mini-A USB
What’s better the elements or the passport?
Passport.
Why is that? Struggling to find a difference aside from the software it comes with (I always reformat anyway).
https://www.partitionwizard.com/clone-disk/wd-my-passport-vs…
Compared with the WD Elements drive, the My Passport drive is smaller and lightweight and has storage capacity: 1TB, 2TB, 4TB, 5TB. This is because the Passport drive measures 4.22" x 2.95" x 0.44" inches, while the Elements comes with 4.35" x 3.23" x 0.59" inches.
Compared with the My Passport drive, the WD Elements drive has more storage capacity options, including 1TB, 2TB, 3TB, 4TB, and 5TB. However, there is no backup and data recovery software as well as data encryption technology provided by this drive.
The biggest difference between WD Elements vs Passport is their security features. WD My Passport provides backup and data recovery software as well as 256-bit AES Encryption, while WD Elements has no security features. That’s the reason why the My Passport is more expensive than the Elements.
Why does the hdd need its own encryption feature when you can just use Windows bitlocker?
It doesn't need it. They just shoved it in there to create a reason to be able to charge more for it.
Passport comes with some useless software for encryption and backup.
Passport is slightly slimmer and looks slicker.
Passport mac version comes with USB c adapter.
Passport is more expensive.
that's a bargain!
Do people not understand the 'end sarcasm' parameters anymore?
Can't believe some idiot tried to post it as a deal too.
At least it's shock and vibration riaiatant
From Amazon, it's showing "Sold by 襄阳市君丽商贸有限公司". The price says it all, it's fake one from China.
good price - probably good as cold storage.
Power & Charging Interface: Mini-A USB
Old technology though.
I had some from about 8 years with old connector which no longer responding (to the original cable or new cables).
(I stored them in a dry cool place)That's why you buy Seagate drives so you can shuck them and still get your data if the USB controller dies.
seagate have a higher failure rate don’t they?
Check BackBlaze stats. I have had a lot of hard disks myself and at work. Hardly any failures under normal use (ie getting dropped etc) across all brands.
Recently had a USB controller fail on a personal Seagate 2TB Portable that's about 6 years old. Tore the case off and all the data is still there and the disk itself is fine. If it was a WD my data and drive are all toast.
shuckable? 🤔