Feeling a little backed up during this quarantine period? Finding you're running out of room stuck at home? Look no further than this 4tb portable drive for $149 at Australia Post. Plenty of expansion for everybody. It's a decent price and cheaper than other places (e.g. Amazon.com.au).
Not me!
I bought 12 boxes of Bran cereal for potential lockdowns!
Ive never pooped so much!
The more bran you eat the more tp you’ll need
I have far too much.
And not because of hoarding, but because 10 years ago when i first moved out, mum bought me a 24 pack and put it in the cupboard without telling me….
This might be a good price for a WD 4TB portable drive, but 4TB portable drives have been cheaper.
Looking at their size/shape, im going to bet its a soldered on connector….
exactly what i came here to find out lol
Just like every external WD 2.5"/portable model.
I'd pay the extra for the WD over the Seagate.
Having said that though I bought the 4Tb Toshiba for $138 in OW yesterday.
https://www.officeworks.com.au/shop/officeworks/p/toshiba-4t…
But the WD was/is $185.
Fair enough, with further search, I found the exact WD product on Amazon for $131: https://www.amazon.com.au/Portable-External-Hard-Drive-USB/d…
Actually no it is 1tb version
Always check the data failure reports from places like backblaze, who use consumer models in lower tiered data storage to keep costs down.
Seagate is a no-go, regardless of price.
How reliable are these for backing up old photos and using for external storage (movies, etc.)?
a single drive is never a reliable backup
That's right, apart from covid never asked about that : )
Just as reliable as other disks, apart from WD disks are soldered to the case, so if eg. the usb connector breaks, you won't be able to move the perfectly fine disk itself to another case. At least it's not as easy as with other brands.
Because of that I prefer other brands.
Thanks for the explanation
Always back up on 2 different ones
If its a backup; perfectly fine.
Remember, a backup implies 2 copies.
JBHifi got shuckable 4TB seagate for $139, any different?
https://www.jbhifi.com.au/products/seagate-expansion-portabl…
WD one might be thinner right?
Great, thank you!
Difference: Seagate is shuckable and cheaper.
edit: Seagate is 2.1 cm, WD is 1.5 cm
Seagate has higher failure rate
I could see source of that. (Genuine request)
@pizzaguy: Its MASSIVELY higher.
Source is backblaze.
Jump into their HDD stats database and look as you wish, you can sort by time between failure, writes, date installed, etc etc.
Basically, hgst>wd>seagate
Seagate have been woeful for Years!
not gonna neg, but hardy a good deal….
This is like the every day price on this.
The puns are strong with this one…