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Seagate One Touch Portable 5TB USB3 External Hard Drive $164 Delivered @ Amazon AU

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Portable 5TB HDD is the largest size portable USB3 drive. Amazon discounted it to $164 (same price as 4TB), which makes it the lowest price according to Camel Camel Camel and possibly the best price ever/TB for a 2.5" portable hard drive. Significantly cheaper than other retailers, so try a price beat at Officeworks to bring it down to $155.80 from their standard $248. Good option for offline backups.

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  • Have too many. What are your thoughts on a nas RAID set up instead. More cost effective? Definitely more time effective than plugging and unplugging usb drives

    • I have a SFF with 4 drives in unraid due to power and as mentioned cost effective. Has been fine really.

  • I paid the same May last year. Decent price.

  • +1

    NAS in RAID is more convenient, but pricier, often hosted in the same location and not an offline backup. For data that is not Linux ISOs (e.g. family photos), I still believe in 3-2-1 backup strategy where you always have three copies of the data stored on two different types of storage media and one copy of the data is sent off site. With current cyber threats and logical errors, offline storage is the best protection, unless the noise of drives in NAS handling cryptolockers is considered and alarm.

  • +5

    Best price ever?

    lol no.

    I have 3 I bought during lockdown for $135 each. Amazon, JB et al were doing them for that price.

  • +1

    Similar drive but was available at amazing price https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/778957

    • Would go with the WD if I had to choose. Had one of these Seagate drives die on me after not a lot of use.

    • Great price. Missed that one, unfortunately.
      Seagates are generally easier to rescue and shuck than WD. These come with a 3 year data recovery service.

  • It's showing me last as $216 for grey 5tb?i cm doing anything wrong

    • Looks like it's out of stock.

  • I'm 90% sure that I paid $99 for the 4TB version a couple years back

  • Major regrets on passing up a Seagate 5TB portable for $97 back when ebay had decent sales. At the time my thought was, "eh, hdd prices go down the longer you wait" and "I don't need one right now".

  • Reliability of these are low unfortunately

    • I almost exclusively buy Seagate drives and haven't had one fail yet (fingers crossed). YMMV

      • Lasted 3 weeks before it died

  • -2

    The lowest for 5TB was $97.00
    https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/565107

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