Worth Buying: Seagate Portable 5TB — Cheaper Per TB, Two-Year Warranty! $309.99 CAD

Amazon.ca currently has the Seagate Portable 5TB external hard drive (STGX5000400) at $309.99 CAD, also with no discount right now. Prime members ship free; otherwise free shipping on orders over $35.

It's $40 more than the 4TB and you get one more terabyte. Per TB that works out to about $62 versus $67.50 — bigger drives always cost less per gigabyte, and that's the entire argument for this one. If you know you need 5TB, buy this; if 3TB would do, don't spend the extra $40.

Same USB 3.0 plug-and-play, Windows and Mac, 260 g, 2.5-inch drive inside. The 5TB carries a two-year limited warranty instead of the 4TB's one year, and both come with a year of Rescue Data Recovery.

It shares a listing with the rest of the line, so the 267,000+ ratings and 4.6 stars are pooled, and it's #1 in external hard drives. PS4 and Xbox read it directly as a game vault; a PS5's external port only takes PS4 games, same as above.

120 MB/s is mechanical speed — right for a vault, wrong for a boot drive or a scratch disk. Prices in this segment have been trending up for two years, so if you need it, don't wait; if you don't, that spare terabyte isn't worth $40.

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