Was looking for a portable hard drive, came across these on sale at Officeworks (currently cheaper than the 4TB version of the same model drive). Not the cheapest 5TB historically but a decent deal nevertheless.
Make sure to check the full range of colours as stock may vary!
Were you able to find what the model of the drive might be?
OW have a part number which doesn't help, but a few results find a model (which may be the same) which is shuckable.
Most likley a BarraCuda 2.5" Hard Drive 5 TB ST5000LM000
I bought two of these on black Friday last year. One died last week. Got refunded by Amazon (luckily the second drive is a backup of the first). I've had Toshiba Canvio's, Verbatim and WD USB portable drives for years without issue and have sold them on as I've upgraded to more storage. This is not the first Seagate USB drive that has died on me, but it is the last I will ever buy.
Might want to try and read my comment again to get the point I'm making. Your response is irrelevant.
It's hard to determine how objective your assessment is. I have more Seagate HDDs than other HDDs (because they were cheaper) so naturally, I would expect more of them to fail. I have more Samsung SSDs than any other SSDs. Do you care to guess in terms of failed SSDs, how many % of them are Samsung ones?
Also, it is not always about the brand, it depends on the models as well. Seagate bought HDD businesses from Samsung, Maxtor etc… I know some of my older Seagate portable HDDs actually have Samsung HDDs (but obviously rebranded to Seagate). I do agree portable HDDs are more vulnerable and prone to failure (partly because of the way we use it and higher chance of accidental drop) so I don't put 2 backups on same type of storage.
It's more important to backup regularly. Lastly, it kind of depends. While I wasn't happy my Kingston SSD (~ after 3 years) did a sudden death on me, but because that SSD did not have any important data and I received a full refund from MSY, it turned out to be okay. The refund I received is enough for me to now buy Samsung 970 Evo Plus. As the storage devices get older, they have a higher chance to fail.
@dangerdanger: 6 failed: 2 Samsung SSDs, 1 SSD that's not Samsung brand but uses Samsung NAND flash, 1 Kingston, 1 OCZ, 1 Patriot.
SSDs in degraded state: 1 Crucial (it's MLC and the wear level is high), 1 Samsung (same, high wear level), 1 Sandisk (now owned by WD) - many reallocated sectors. All these are out of warranty (so over 5 years). Not sure why the SSD health app I use cares a lot about wear level (including reads). Those SSDs are being used mostly for non-critical or temporary file transfer purposes. Newer SSDs now hide the wear level details.
Warranty experience: Samsung: Need to initiate RMA (Samsung RMA team provided new, replacement SSDs (better models than what I bought)). Kingston, OCZ: warranty through retailer; full refund. Patriot: lost invoice so tossed it into a bin.
@netsurfer: In light of SSD apps now hiding wear level, how do you measure SSD Health now?
I've had my first HDD failure last year and I swear it's not going to happen again so would be keen to see how you can measure wear.
@burningrage: Not much we can do, when any storage device is out of warranty, it is an indication that the failure rate could increase. However, all of my SSDs failed so far all have very little use (majority of them failed with SSD health previously showing 100%).
Also, those apps don't measure HDD health properly either (since no wear level monitoring concept for HDD) and report 100% health level for a lot of old HDDs. Storage devices will fail. HDDs tend to have a better chance that you get some warnings first, but I found with 2.5 inch HDDs, they can also suffer sudden death.
So have backups for important data. It's better to be prepared for storage drives failing.
And your point is purely anecdotal, so it too is irrelevant in a way.
In my anecdotal (and hence, also irrelevant) experience, I've had pretty much the exact opposite happen: I've bought an assortment of WD, Toshiba, and (mostly) Seagate over the years, and the WD and Toshiba are the only ones that gave me issues. So, I'm ONLY going to be buying Seagate from now on, because of that personal experience.
But like I said, that's really all irrelevant. Really, what's more important is 2 things:
@[Deactivated]: Tbh there's entire sites setup for anecdotal evidence (like every product review) and a lot of commons on here. So while it isn't scientific/guaranteed I still will put some weight into it.
Just don't think you gotta dismiss it too much
I don't think Vita85 said he used them for data security, bbut I am curious as to what people use non-SSD portable drives for if not to backup data? If a drive is going to be transported a fair bit, I'd be going with an SSD for expandable storage.
Edit: looks like gaming consoles seems to be a popular use for HDDs.
For portable data use, yes SSD is better (no moving parts, don't need to take care of it as much). However, SSDs can suffer from sudden death much more often. They are also not that great for cold data storage. 50% of my SSD failed drives happened on SSDs which I had not use for a few months.
Most branded portable SSDs are not cost effective. DIY solutions, USB 3.2 gen 2, there is chipset lottery. 3.2 gen 2x2… well, long story. Thunderbolt, expensive and not that common for PCs.
How did you get an Amazon refund from a purchase so long ago?
What do you mean? It comes with a 3 year warranty.
Amazon have refunded two items for me just shy of 12 months. One was a Seagate 16TB drive, the other an ASUS router.
Both died, and contacted their support and they happily sent me a return label and full refund.
Amazon have refunded me multiple things from 2yrs prior.
@Mitch889 you have your drive connected to your router? Interested to understand the purpose behind that.
Goods have to be fit for purpose even after that 1 year warranty has ended
Amazon offers a refund or replacement for warranty items.
I've had a hitachi 3.5" internal die on me after 1yr. But apparently they're the best brand in backblaze's tests.
I've had the same experience but only with Western Digital Blues(small form hdd). WD Blues died in my 2x external usb hdd and my old laptop. WD Green(10+ years), Purple(6 years 24/7) and Black are all great still. No problems thus far with my 2x 1TB, 2x 2TB and 1x 4TB Seagate external drives.
lmao. did u speak to amazon?
or how did u get amzn . asia?
Amazon owned domain. Link was auto generated when selecting the 'share a link' option.
Do you trust shipping for spin-drive HDDs ?
What if those parcels get thrown around ?
What do you mean "if". You can bet they are thrown around
How do you think they get from China to Officeworks?
individually carried by midget elves, on a soft cushion
if they are moving around en masse, in pallets, in slow-moving transport…
the 'jerkiness' is probably better than in an individual packaged satchel
passing all the hands, and then bumping along the back of postie's motorbike
before being squashed into a small letterbox at home !
Anyone shucked one of these and put it in a laptop as an extra data drive. I'm too lazy to delete files.
Unboxing and opening Seagate 5TB One Touch, Backup Plus and Expansion hard drives, shucking, shuck
Beware the drive is thicker than standard and may not suite all 2.5" drive bays. 15.5 mm vs 7.2 mm
As Sebby noted, these are far thicker than a standard 2.5-inch drive so won’t fit in most laptop bays.
$100 for a 4tb usb portable drive is a good price but $149 for 5tb isn't really a bargain.
I am like you. After I paid 99 for a 4tb I can't pay more than 125 for a 5tb. It's ages prices don't go down though
$169 @ my local OW in Brisbane.
I still regret not being fast enough for 97$ deal/price error on this. One of the biggest regrets of my ozb career
Missing out on a pricing error toy (and likely a FOMO buy) is one of your biggest regrets? Wow, you have a good life.
They said “ozbargain career” not life in general
I wouldn’t trust any important data to Seagate
Meh. I've had WD fail on me too.
As always, have anything backed up in multiple locations.
The only drives I've had which never failed were Samsungs, and they sold their HDD business years ago. I had a pair of something like 250GB drives running in RAID 0 for years and they never missed a beat.
I had a samsung 970 pro die after 6 months while i was backing up lost everything.
I’ve had more seagates fail than WD, so I stopped buying them. Maybe they are better now?
I've been running 8x Seagate ST2000LM003 in a low powered NAS.
Clocked 50,737 hours == 2,114 days OR 5.8 years.
None have failed to date. They are in a RAID for backup, with a COLD spare on-hand for imediate replacement. Although these are overdue for a replacement with higher capacity drives.
How does this one touch version compare to "Seagate Expansion Portable HDD 5 TB" I currently have a seagate blue game drive 4tb that i got for like $120 ish and I'm looking to buy one of these 5tb for a friend and probably gonna buy one for storage. The one touch one or normal one is better? I kinda like the look of normal one more
JB has been selling these at this price. OW have just matched JBs price to avoid price match at 5% off.
Really? They seem $169 at the moment?
Yes - my on-line attempt at swapping to a red one showed the Offerworks's price jump from $149 to $169. Doubled back to find the black one was now also $169 :(
JB has increased their price to $169 and OW has followed.
No longer available at $149
No need to negative vote the deal as it was valid at the time.
You can just say it has expired and or the new price.
Cheers
Marked as expired.
Cheers!
Shuckable?
Edit: Computer says Yes