BUFFALO DriveStation 4TB 3.5" External Hard Drive USB 3.0 $179 (400 in stock) Free Shipping Aus

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  AJW on 21/05/2013 - 11:01

  +1

  Value: $326.36
  Discount: 45%
  Price: $147

  Did you mean Savings of $147? might want to edit that bit :)

  $179 seems the magical price for the 4tb's

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  IJustKnowStuff on 21/05/2013 - 11:04

  +1

  $326.36 if you plan to buy it from a store that does massive markup.

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    Frantic on 21/05/2013 - 11:28

    Would have to be damn massive markup.. Scorptec which is a boutique reseller has em for $209 and you can pickup

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  Riczter on 21/05/2013 - 11:04

  3 x $179 4TB HD deals in one day! Ozbargaineers are going to be broke for the next couple of months I think :/

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  b3no on 21/05/2013 - 11:09

  My question is, which one is better, the Seagate or this one, can anyone help?

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    WV1 on 21/05/2013 - 11:38

    +1

    The seagate is 5900 this is 7200 so if planning to remove drive from enclosure this is better.

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      b3no on 21/05/2013 - 11:45

      Thanks for the reply, ill be using it as an external hardrive to run Plex off (media server).

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      lhxxznr on 21/05/2013 - 13:03

      This 5900rpm seagate is a magic driver. Some tests show that its performance is not worse than the the normal 7200rpm driver. Less power dissipation and not bad performance, so I recommend seagate.

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  Frantic on 21/05/2013 - 11:15

  Any idea which drive is in this? I'm in need of a decent 3+ TB drive so this will do nicely, not fussed about warranty

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  Crushader on 21/05/2013 - 11:21

  +5

  For those are interested of what hard drive is inside, it's a Hitachi 7200rpm model

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  darian on 21/05/2013 - 11:30

  I recently purchased the 2TB version, but returned it because it hummed loudly through vibration on my desk. Buffalo doesn't seem to use decent rubber feet and appears to have skimped in this area, at least with the 2TB model. I'm not sure if it is improved with the 4TB version.

  I replaced it with a Seagate 2TB from Officeworks and it doesn't have the hum because it uses decent rubber feet at each corner.

  The advantage of the Buffalo is that it can be mounted horizontally or vertically, whereas the Seagate is only horizontal.

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  Frantic on 21/05/2013 - 11:54

  Anyone here bought one? Nearly reached the halfway mark according to eBay :-)

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  razorammo on 21/05/2013 - 12:01

  I'm thinking of getting one, but I'm not having much like finding reviews?

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    Frantic on 21/05/2013 - 12:59

    check youtube.. incidentally most reviews on there show WD drives?

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  deek on 21/05/2013 - 13:45

  +1

  Bought! Just what I needed. From what I can tell, the Buffalo is faster than then Seagate. Various reviews have them at over 100MB/s write speed average transfer (albeit these weren't the 4TB version). The Seagate seems to be around 60/70MB/s .

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  mshanann on 21/05/2013 - 15:05

  +1

  I had the buffalo 3tb drive station. It bundled a Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 (AF) ST3000DM001-9YN166.

  The buffalo enclosure at least on the 3tb is plastic garbage. There was no included fan (even though there exists a spot for one). The drive ran very hot and failed smart after a few weeks …

  ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
  190 Airflow_Temperature_Cel 0x0022 047 038 045 Old_age Always In_the_past 53 (0 5 62 43)

  47 = 53c
  38 = 62c
  45 = 55c

  So the drive hit 62 degrees Celsius, and has a smart warning threshold of 55 degrees Celsius.

  The other thing I disliked about the enclosure, is the controller itself. The drive would not spin down from Linux using udisk-glue or hd-idle. This controller is ordinary at best. The enclosure is plastic. You get what you pay for.

  As someone mentioned above as well, there was bad vibration. I ended up placing it on a foam pad.

  I have since removed the drive from the enclosure, and plan to buy something decent with a decent controller - like the ASM1053/e. I'm concerned now about using this drive for anything now other than a backup of a backup due to the smart failure.

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    Frantic on 21/05/2013 - 15:25

    Thanks, I'll pass..

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    etchomojay on 22/05/2013 - 12:51

    Just got a shipping notification so I'll see soon enough whether it has any similar issues.

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    deek on 23/05/2013 - 14:34

    +1

    Well, it's a bit late for this bargain, but thought I'd report on how it's gone.

    The drive is nice and fast. I averaged around 125-130MiB/s. Very satisfied with the performance.

    The enclosure is as mshannon says: plastic, no included fan though there's a spot for it. It does have a row of slots on one side, which could help with ambient cooling. Looks nice enough, but I agree, it's probably a bit cheap. I only need it for backups, so I'm fine with it.

    The fan placeholder can be removed, and there is a connector for an actual fan there. I am assuming you can buy a fan to put in here if needed.

    I ran the drive for over an hour, writing continually to the drive. After that, it was comfortably warm to the touch.

    I was able to spin the drive down in Linux, using "sdparm -C stop /dev/sg2".

    Vibration is still there, but it's not bad. Background hum level; would be drowned out by a desktop pc fan, but would be clearly heard with a silent PC design. I opened the case, and the drive is held in place with small rubber feet. The external case has a rubber pad on the front, but none on the back. Sitting the case on a paper pad helped cut the hum to very low levels.

    Drive is a Hitachi HDS724040ALE640, if anyone is interested.

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  etchomojay on 23/05/2013 - 15:37

  Thanks for the info deek. Mine arrived today at work so I'll run some tests myself this evening. Should be fine as a backup drive by the sounds of it.