One of those group buys on mwave, the lowest on statice is 89.
Preformatted for Mac, can be formatted for windows.
Hope helpful. :)
Shipping is $5 or you can pickup.
$49 for WD My Passport USB 3.0 500GB for Mac at Mwave (Group Buy Active Now 70+ Left)
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I chose to pickup, had to pay for cc fee, tho. :(
Great, ordered 1.
Cannot get to pay by paypal. Amex is 3.6% and visa/mastercard is additional 2%.
Just pay it with your credit card and it will only attracts about $1. This item is $90US before shipping at Amazon. By the time you are contemplating over this small extra cost it will be all sold out.
Bought one. Thanks OP.
was waiting for a good deal like this. thanks OP
anyone know what drives are in these and are they removable ?
ordered one! :) good deal!!!
Sorry to be a n00b, but when they say 'For Mac', why is that? Just marketing? I thought Macs could use NTFS now.
Does this come formatted as FAT32?
They can read NTFS but can't write to it without 3rd party drivers. Although this is nothing new, so nothing has recently changed.
False. OS X ML can write to NTFS drives natively now, but for some reason it requires some terminal work to get it enabled. It's like it was half implemented… I
This being said, why can't you just buy the normally cheaper "windows" drives and format them yourself to osx journaled or whatever you want it to be…Well, there you go. That would have been nice to know after installing the 3rd party drivers.
Oh well.And they do that to prey on the people that buy macs in the first place I think.
Nah, you're not missing much, i installed third party drivers too, (dual boot windows and os x ml) so i needed proper ntfs support. The inbuilt support works, but its pretty dodgy…
Wow, that's a really good looking portable HDD
be wary the my passport range of HDD has no SATA port
the USB port is soldered onto the internal HDD itself, a big punishment on those who get hdd problems later and want to do some data recovery
only WD does this, seagate hasn't
gl all!
I am a bit daft but is that a normal plug/connector?
what's normal?
I don't find this a good deal at all.
500GB drives are too small unless they are dirt cheap, even then you have to weigh out what you get for the money.
Why pay over $50.00 for 500GB when you can get a 1TB drive for $80.00
Buying low storage drives you end up with a stack of them.
Give it a couple of months and they can be had for less than $40.
it's a mactard special, they get additional tax for being mac
Couldn't resist this. I've not done my research but I'm assuming these can be reformatted? Want to use it for media and hook it up to my Blu-ray player.
EDIT: Yes, it can be.
http://www.storagereview.com/wd_my_passport_edge_for_mac_rev…So this is just a hard drive with USB 3.0. The only difference is it is formatted for Mac which can be achived by anyone using a normal hard drive.
I don't think this is a good price.
true, but apple users are willing to pay for convenience
true, apple users are willing to pay for ignorance.
For an extra $500 we will put our own logo on it and let youchange the drive name to your choice!
Toshiba, lol, get ready to tosh in the bin after a year.
Bigger drives are definitely better value, like a 1TB or 2TB version. You are paying because this is slim and it's for Mac (in theory). 500GB isn't a very big drive in this HD age. Maybe five years ago, but not now.
Looks like sold out… If someone can please mark as expired….Back to $127 price online
Sold out
Personally 500GB on a portable HD is about the right size for me as I treat it strictly as a temporary storage, such as a redundancy backup for photos when I travel.
In my opinion, portable HDs are easier to fail compared to internal HDs on desktops / NAS / micro server, so I normally get a new portable HD every 2~3 years and install the old one into micro server for download / seeding or transferring files occasionally.
So for me, 500GB portable HD is the right size and saving 20 bucks is a plus. :)
P.S. I lost 5 year worth of photos because of a failed 3-year old protable HD, that was a lesson learnt hard, don't trust portable HD for permernant storage.
Don't trust ANY HDD for permanent storage!
Yeah, I have 2 backup NAS on mirror raid ie I have 4 copies of important files but even so this is not 100% fail proof.
WD usb powered drives are higher risk since there's no sata connection, a big headache for those who want to do some self recovery if bad luck happens
Just received my order! Anyone want to get it? my sis already got the new WD so it is redundant now! :)
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