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Seagate Backup Plus 5TB Portable Hard Drive $146.07 USD (~$200 AUD) Delivered @ Amazon

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Amazon lowers the price of Seagate Backup Plus 5TB portable hard drive (blue / red / silver) at the moment.

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$139.99 + $6.08 USD delivery to ParcelPoint
$139.99 + $7.08 USD delivery to home
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  • That is cheap but I have no use for it now. They also do a RAID 0 stripe version that is much faster and of course dearer.

  • Still expensive compared to 4tb version

  • +1

    Would love to see a deal on the 4tb western dig, missed the last one..

    • +2

      It just dropped to 115.96 today. Still not the greatest price but lowest it's been in last week.

      • Thankyou mate

        • +1

          No worries. I've been watching it daily for the last couple of weeks waiting for it get to $110 again hopefully. Almost pulled the trigger but not convinced it isn't going to go lower yet.

        • Will go lower for sure, I would bet within the next fortnight. I need this soon though so will grab one at that price. Thanks again for the heads up :)

      • Do you have a link to that by any chance? Thank you in advance

    • Just dropped another 5c. Not quite at my buy price yet but getting there.

    • is the consensus that WD is better than Seagate?

      • Given the choice, and my personal track record with both brands, I'd personally go WD. All HDD's have potential to fail though, especially if not taken care of.

        Saying that, I've had a couple Seagates last several years and still working fine. It might really be a luck of the draw kind of thing?

        It's very possible Seagate have improved, the couple SG's I had that failed were desktop type externals purchased in 2011 and 2012.

        But still yeah, from my experience, I'm sticking with WD. (No experience with any other brand btw)

      • I use a lot of hard drives. I've only had 1 WD fail in the last few years, and at least 6 Seagate. The external ones I had ran hot even with a desk fan blowing over them, which is what I think killed them. Won't touch them anymore. Not worth the hassle.

      • I have never had any problem with Seagate. I've had three failed hard drives in the past and they were Verbatim, Hitachi and WD

  • +3

    5TB Portable Hard Drive (Red) $156.07

    Thank you comrade…

  • 5TB been a lot cheaper $180 AU a few weeks back

    • +2

      This is a portable one, mate. 😏

      • Any difference in performance?

  • +2

    Waiting for the WD 16TB to go on sale again. Pron city!!!

    • Portable?

      • +1

        Portable pron???

    • $720 each when I purchased last week. Bought 2 of them too.

  • +1

    Amazing, 5TB portable

    • +1

      I agree, amazing.

      Also 4.2 cents a gig!

  • What are the dimensions of this compared to the 4tb?

    • Seagate Backup Plus Portable 4TB & 5TB are the same dimensions, 114.5 (L) x 76 (W) x 20.35 (H) mm.

      • Oops sorry I meant compared to the WD 4TB
        It's (LWH):
        Seagate (Backup Plus - 5TB): 114.5 x 76 x 20.35 mm
        WD (My Passport - 4TB): 110 x 81.5 x 21.5 mm (250g)

  • +3

    Wish the 10tb HDDs would start coming down in price. :(

  • Am I missing something or is this cheaper? https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00TKFEEBW/ref=ox_sc_sfl_t…

    • +1

      This is the portable one, much smaller and USB powered.

      • Thanks for clarifying..Amazon description wasn't entirely clear (not helped by the painkillers I'm taking). Have since found out it's definitely a 3.5" powered unit…a thousand apologies…

    • yeah, it needs a separate power supply

    • Portable vs Desktop

  • Wouldn't trust Seagate.

    • Their 3TB internal drives were pretty bad a few years ago, but lately I have ordered about 6 Seagate drives, mostly the 4TB and 8TB variety, and none of them have failed.

      • I had a 4TB fail last week. I'm slowly replacing all my Seagate with WD.

  • Curious, would you put so much content on one drive as backup?

    What if the drive fails, then everything is gone?

    • +2

      This is supposed to be the backup drive, a copy of your other drive(s). If the backup fails you should still have your other drive(s). Unless you're hit by a nuke.

  • Every time I've had a Seagate HD, it's crashed… I don't know if I want to risk it anymore.

  • Is it simply a matter that the portable drives are better value and better than the 3.5" sized drives because they lack the seperate power brick? Do the usb devices and ports not fight for enough power to mount the drive and allow transfers at full speed if you have multiple drives plugged in at the same time?

    • It's a 3.5" drive in a case with a Powerbrick and presumably a fan.
      It's more valuable than an internal drive because it comes with the enclosure/USB controller.
      You could buy an enclosure and put an existing drive in it to get the same effect.

      • I mean the 2.5" external vs the 3.5" externals. The 2.5" size seem to pop up in deals on here far more than their larger counterpart. I would agree with you that I would have thought the 3.5" would be more valuable and popular. Perhaps there are simply just more deals on the smaller ones.

  • Wow, didn't realise portable drives are up to 5TBs now.

    Good find OP, JBHIFI has these at a premium 309!!!! This is a huge saving

  • Are these 2.5" hard drives inside?

    • +2

      Yes, they are.

      • Normal SATA connection? How to squash one into my NUC… Maybe 3D-print a new lid?

  • A bit off topic, can someone recommend me a desktop raid machine that runs off thunderbolt, and good fast drives for 4K video editing?

    • +1

      LaCie 2big Thunderbolt™ 2 should fit your requirement.

    • +1

      As o_o posted, the lacie product is good but it just depends on how fast you actually need. You can also find some good alternatives with the OWC products. (google for OWC thunderbolt).

      If you could afford it then a single SSD would be faster than any RAID setup and the SSD capacity is getting larger all the time (8T/16T units should be more common in 2017 - have already been shipping in the enterprise space for a while now)

  • Hi,

    this is super deal! I would like to buy - but anyone please advise me how to ship from Amazon to Sydney? I've never bought anything from Amazon! Thanks all for your advice!

    Regards,
    Mike

    • shipping is done thru amazon, sign up and order directly to your house.

  • Hi,

    I'm unable to ship this to Australia. Any clue why?

  • Thanks OP, I also managed to get free shipping.

    • How do you get a free shipping?

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