Posted a deal earlier on with the same price from Austin Computers. Computer Alliance had this price higher earlier on when the PREZZY promo started, but price seems to have dropped again to match the $95.20. Im aware of the price swapping etc going on, but this is still a good deal on a WD Red 2TB, most retailers sell them at this retail price ($119 without the 20% off).
+10 on stock at time of posting.
lol… mac compatible…
lol - I know..hvnt shopped for portable drives for ages..and this one is for the missus so being extra careful..
All “Mac compatible” means is that it has a GPT partition table & has a partition formatted in Mac’s native file system.
It is rather easy to achieve the same outcome with drives formatted with NTFS from OS X in any event.
Don’t pay extra for Mac compatible drives.
Any drive is Mac compatible if it uses USB
Is the lacie 2tb rugged any good?Finding it somewhat expensive FWIW..
no, waste of money.
yeah..thought so..I think I am gona go with https://www.thegoodguys.com.au/seagate-2tb-backup-plus-slim-…
getting it for $119..
that'd be no worse, but if you want to protect yourself a bit more its better to get something that doesn't have an integrated SATA bridge because that's by far the least reliable part of those drives.
also if you can wait for a deal you can normally get drives like that for more like $90.
@diamondd: can you name a couple that doesn't have an integrated SATA bridge for us newbies to the world of ISB's
@sian72: AFAIK unfortunately none of the 2.5" external drives have SATA connections anymore.
they can still be a good pickup @ around $40-45 per TB, but only for the convenience or a bit of extra redundancy - I'd never consider anything on there a serious "backup".
the cheapest way to protect your data is to use naked drives via a USB hard drive dock.
ok sure - what would you recommend mate? I am looking to club it with HN offer of spend 400 and get 100..hv already spent 300…so spending 119 with 25% off and possible gst shud roughly get me to 90ish.
sorry mate, I didn't see this because it was out of the reply chain so no notification.
depends what you need the drive for to be honest. If you need something portable don't let what I've said put you off entirely - just understand that you can't consider one copy of something on ANY one hard drive safe, and especially so on a 2.5" external. Redundancy is the name of the game.
I'd also stick with Western Digital over Seagate 99.95% of the time. If you're going to buy from HN this is about your only option https://www.harveynorman.com.au/wd-my-passport-ultra-2tb-cla…
Mate, any good offers for 2TB portable drive which is mac compatible?