Get this 5TB WD My Passport Ultra Recertified HDD for a bargain price from Western Digital

I’ve been a long-time user of Western Digital hard drives since I first bought one as an expansion drive for my Xbox One around ten years ago, and since then I’ve amassed a stack of discounted drives to store media and important files on. In my experience, they’ve been completely reliable and have worked flawlessly. You too can add a larger hard drive to store all sorts of things on with this deal on a newly certified My Passport Ultra drive for Mac. This is a 5TB option that’s currently discounted to £80 direct from WD, giving you a handy saving on the list price of £165.

Before I go any further, I should say that this is a drive certified to WD standards. According to them, that means it’s a drive that can potentially be returned and repaired by the customer. They’ve all been tested to meet Western Digital’s quality standards, but may show slight signs of use. From my personal experience, I know that the hard drives I’ve purchased in the past as certified Western Digital hard drives have all been practically new, so I’ve been recommending them as a place to buy from for quite some time.

The fact is, you get five terabytes of storage here, which is plenty for cold-storing lots of media and even a full Steam library, although you’re better off moving games to an internal SSD for faster performance. You can also use this drive to cold-store current-gen console games, although this drive is nowhere near fast enough to play the games. Even then, it’s wonderful to have that much usable storage when games are constantly getting bigger to accommodate more.

What’s interesting about this drive is its USB-C port, as it was traditionally designed to be used with a Mac, as Apple no longer puts USB-A ports on MacBooks, for example. It also comes with a USB-C to USB-A adapter in the box in case you’re using it with a device that may not have a USB-C port. However, there doesn’t seem to be any performance benefits to using USB-C, as it’s just for greater compatibility. That’s not a bad thing, I guess.

If you’re looking to grab a lot of hard drive storage at a discounted price, this deal on a newly certified WD My Passport Ultra 5TB hard drive is a steal.