Price looks good for local stock, this is a desktop drive and yes, it's AC powered. Average 4 star review at amazon : http://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Expansion-Desktop-External-STB…
If you want to crack the drive inside, the video is the 3TB model but should be the same case : http://youtube.com/watch?v=11obHqzx_bw
yes, it's AC powered
Is this USB powered?
This question will no doubt be asked so might as well get it over and done with early.
Product features
Simply plug in the included power supply and USB cable.
The key word here being 'and'.
if you havent noticed, some people here are really stupid. they probably dont even know what 'and' is
you can bet your left nut that there will never be an external 3.5" drive that is USB powered.
Can I bet my right? I lost my left in an industrial accident but that story is outside the scope of this deal.
Good price. But I still think 3tb or 4tb seagates aren't worth the risk. For some reason they can't seem to manufacture a reliable drive larger than 2tb.
Poke through the amazon reviews (very difficult since they combine 1tb, 2tb, 3tb and 4tb reviews all together) and you'll see what I mean.
It's annoying me. I want some 4tb seagates to clone my 4tb hitachi's to. To spread my risk of file loss across manufacturers. Can't use WD because I guess that WD bought out hitachi so long ago now that WD and hitachi drives are the same.
I have 2 Seagate 3TB GoFlex external drives from 2011 still working fine without an issue. In addition to this, I have 4 Seagate 3TB internal and 4 3TB Hitachi internal drives in a RAID5 array also working fine without an issue for about 1 yr now. Recently also acquired 2 WD 4TB externals which are also running without issues.
From my experience, there's no issues with 3 and 4 TB drives…
Good! - don't loose them….I've found lately that drives are less-er in quality now.
For work we have 30x green WD 2tb's - we absolutely trash them weekly now for almost 2 years - running 24/7 fill up, dump out…fill up again.
Recent purchased models - died within around 9 months.
They all just seem to be cheaper in quality now too.
Is it me or are we seeing local stores offering more and more electronics closer to or better than the price from the USA? This drive is $179 on Amazon as well.
and the au-us dollar just dropped as well
OW dropped the price to $179 as well…
Wow great price, picking up one later.
Anyone confirm what model drive is inside?
Can anyone tell which one would be better, Seagate 4TB Backup Plus Desktop Hard Drive SGCA4000GB or Western Digital 4TB My Book Essential USB 3.0/2.0 External HardDrive WDCW4000BK. There are pretty much same price. Buying one of these as it has Backup Software as well otherwise above deal is good.
$178 @ JB Hifi and $179 @ Officeworks now
3TB option available for $139
Does this drive work with Windows 7 32 bit? Will I see the full 4Tb?
I can answer my own question here.
On Windows 7 32 bit use the Seagate DiscWizard software to get a full 4tb NTFS single partition.
The DiscWizard software will automatically detect and offer to install the appropriate driver for your Windows
OS and hardware (Windows 7, Visa or XP, 64- or 32-bit). The driver will mount the remainder capacity above 2.1TB as a new drive letter, usually D:.
If this drive is to be used with a Win XP 32 bit system, the new drive is also limited to a maximum of 2.1TB as you can not use GPT with Win XP 32 bit, you have to use MBR), so this will be repeated as necessary. A future 6.6TB drive will have three drive letters—C: managed by native Windows drivers; D: and E: drives managed by the DiscWizard driver. That because MBR disks have a limit of 2TB. You need to convert the disk to GPT to go beyond 2TB limit if only using Win 7 32 bit or Win Vista 32 bit.
Note: it appears that with multiple MBR partitions (and running either Win XP 32 bit or Win 7 32 bit, you must install the Seagate Extended Capacity Manager software on each PC to allocate the entire disc space and make it visible for disc management tools.)
The Seagate external drive by default does not store the data in NTFS which means if you take the drive out of the enclosure and install internally via SATA connector you can't see the data on it. You would need to convert/reformat the drive from RAW to GPT before it can be used as an internal drive.
OW still selling it for $189
be quick if you want to price match before the adjust their price