OW has it for $189, so you can price beat and get a further 5% off. Bringing it down to about $156.75.
Could also price match at JB and use the current Ultimate Gift Card 20x flybuys points deal and get approx $15 back as flybuys dollars. There is a JB perks coupon at the moment also, spend $300 get $30 off. I was buying 2 hard drives, so I used this along with the Ultimate Gift Card deal.
Yeah it's not shuckable. I had my reasons to buy it, but yeah there is probably cheaper per TB options, especially if you wait til BF.
I paid $189 for the 5tb version back in May (end of tax time deal) where JB Hifi sells that one for $214. Not too sure how reliable the 4tb variants of these drives are these days. Four years ago I read that quite a few of those drives had a high failure rate (right around the time I purchased one as well lol. But it still works today). On an unrelated WD HD anecdote - I purchased a WD Black 2TB game drive some years ago, still works as a drive that I use to play videos off of (via the Nvidia shield or directly through my tv's usb port). When I connect it to laptops and pcs to copy from - all but one still reads/writes to it normally… but one (my latest W11 laptop) rejects it. Google says it's a sign of immenient HDD failure….. and it may well be, but I've still been reading/writing to it on the other systems for months now.
4TB (not 5TB), SMR, mechanical drive, fixed USB micro-B connector (not type C), likely glass-substrate platter (most 2.5" drives have glass platters that shatter on heavy impact).
At this price you can definitely get 1TB portable SSDs, or 2TB ones if there are deals. Though HDDs are still beneficial if you need long-term storage (NANDs could lose charge over a few years of time).
Seems to be quite expensive. I would expect to get a 5TB portable HDD for this price.
(Also for those that may ask, I don't think this is shuckable - which doesn't matter to me except if it crashes to assist with data recover).