Cheapest so far according to camelcamelcamel - US$179.
Cheaper than previous deal by US$18.
https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/147200
This is not a portable drive. Need to use power supply.
Power supply and USB 3.0 cable included
Officeworks - $299
Useful for those with a lot of stuffs to store.
CamelCamelCamel.
Of course - why wouldn't you be able to?
A lot of these drives are soldered to the enclosure
A lot of these drives are soldered to the enclosure
That almost exclusively applies to 2.5" external hard drives. Most 3.5" externals are thankfully not soldered to their logic boards or enclosures.
Some 2.5inches are native USB, no SATA interface at all.
This is a 3.5 inch
2.5 inch are "portable" and can run using USB power
3.5 are "desktop" and require external (mains) power (and are a lot bigger/thicker etc)
I'd love to see a 2.5" 5TB drive.
will this work for mac? Most hard drives don't because they're not as superior as a mac
ignore that comment, it does work. Bought 17 :D will be making some money on ebay next week
Don't forget import tax Broden
From Amazon
I have moved two drives from their original cases to better ones with only the plug in type connectors inside.
I have not seen any soldered USB connectors to the drive, only as part of the case board.
Slautterback answered on June 20, 2014
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The usb connector just unplugs from the standard SATA drive.
Raymond Van Stockum answered on June 20, 2014
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The USB port is built into the case itself, which is a USB3. The cable that come with it has the USB3 on one end which plugs into the case and the other end can be plugged into a normal USB port. (that is what I do). I hope that answers your question.
Eggs: basket?
You would want to be shucking this and using it in some sort of redundancy setup I reckon.
I agree. 5TB is too big for my liking. I had a 2 TB HDD with back up of personal pictures and videos. Dropped it once and all the data was gone. Read it can be $1000 to repair.
Never gotten around to repairing it.
Anyway per TB it is pretty standard at ~$41.
im getting AUD 212.55, how did you get 204?
Pay in US dollars
Items: USD 179.00
Shipping & handling: USD 12.61
Total before tax: USD 191.61
Estimated tax to be collected: USD 0.00
Order total: USD 191.61
191usd is closer to 212aud than 204aud by my rough calculations…
Oh I see… I think I'll wait for the 3TB to drop down to 99 again.
Would the power pack have the wrong pins i.e need to use a converter from US 2 pin to AU 3 pin? If so this would make it 'bulky' me thinks?
Yes that's a bit of a problem, unless you can buy an Australia suitable power transformer
Just bend the pins with long nose pliers and plug it in. Been doing this for over 10 years with electronics bought from the US (Just make sure theyre 110/240v switchable first - which the power adaptors on these are!)
haha this sounds very dangerous… pics?
@RichardWise: I've never done it myself but it's very common, I don't think there is any danger provided you check the voltage as xyron said. I'll be trying it next time I order something from the US.
Is it suitable safe to use an adaptor? Also does anyone have an example of one that is required and suitable?
Tempting, but I think I'm going to wait for the 4TB portable to come down in price.
I got the 4TB version of this from the recent eBay good guys/DSE 20% off sale for $152 delivered which works out to be cheaper per TB.
Amazon 5Tb Seagate incl postage AUD $212.55 / 5 = AUD $42.51/Tb
Goodguys 4Tb $152 / 4 = AUD $38/ Tb
please post link to the goodguys $152 drive.
As it was posted, it was while there was 20% off.
Ie. no longer $152
I will never buy Seagate again.
Same, unreliable junk. Seen 5 out of 8 disks die in 2 NAS's
You're probably using the entry level models. Which are unreliable in NAS.
Cool story bro
Same here, they used to be good but not anymore really
I've read and heard so many
'Don't buy brandX, they fail. Buy brandY instead'
Then you read somewhere else:
'BrandY are junk, brandX is where it's at'
Results may vary, so I've just bought 50,000 notebooks and 5,000 bics.
I have had many Seagates die but not one wd, so now I always buy wd..
It's worth spending extra on the enterprise versions. Seagate Constellation models are excellent. They also have Barracuda NAS specific models. I wouldn't be using the entry level models if you've got them running 24/7.
Remember that it wasn't long ago when 1Tb was the new max high end storage.
People said then "1Tb in one place - I wouldn't want to drop that etc"
Personally I would rather buy 2 x 3Tb WD Elements for 138 each so 276 for 6GB
for a reliable WD drive than touch this Seagate. Each to their own…
I suppose it's different for everyone. I own many hard drives and the only one that I ever had a problem with was a WD. However that hasn't put me off buying them.
When has that ever been the general rule of thumb for hard drives?
I've got two 4TB Greens in my HTPC. Despite them both being over half full, I can transfer files between them @~120MB/s.
Speed shouldn't be a concern, when buying this drive.
It actually works the other way around. Higher the storage the faster the read/write.
There are more 'bits' compacted so reading the same area would equate to more data.
If anything, the opposite - higher data density means more passes the head on each rotation.
I have had 3 of 4 3tb Seagate drives die (all bought from Amazon as externals) but all companies go through bad patches…
3tb was apparently a very bad patch for Seagate. Early days suggest the 4tb doing a lot better. Here's hoping 5tb is good too
Just an FYI guys looks like it's not really a good idea to pull the drive out…
http://www.newegg.com/global/au/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N8…
Maybe because I'm on my phone but I didn't see anything related to your post on that link. Also someone on Amazon previously said it's ok to take them out.
I'll check on pc tomorrow just in case my phone is not showing things correctly.
2 different newegg reviews say the drive doesn't work properly as an internal drive
That's enough for me to hold off. Thanks for clarifying.
Oh snap, glad I didn't submit my order
Seagate? Moar like Failgate.
Seriously guys, Seagate has one of the highest failure rates of any large hard drive manufacturer. Something like a 79% survival rate after 36 months, versus 93-95% for the other manufacturers.
Which is 250-400% increase in failure rate over other manufacturers.
I'd buy this, except I'm too cheap to buy 2 for mirror to ensure that I don't suffer massive data loss a few years down the track.
our company dealt with some warranty.
we seen WD Green/Red(specially 4TB) came back more than the Seagate…..which also have high failure rate!
these days, none of the companies could claim "quality drive"!
they are pretty much the same!
I'd buy this, except I'm too cheap to buy 2 for mirror to ensure that I don't suffer massive data loss a few years down the track.
I think this gets to the real issue. People focus on brand choice to avoid dealing with their slackness when it comes to what really matters - redundancy and backups.
There's such a conflicting picture about brand reliability that it's hard to rely on. Consider how poorly this data rhymes with the more highly-publicised Backblaze report.
If you want peace of mind, especially for drives running 24/7 -
What do you put on these huge hard drives? I mean people who don't need them professionally.
The only thing I put on them that occupies much space- all my important docs I can put on a 128k flash- are tv series and movies that I've already seen. The odds of my dragging out the hard drives in the future to watch any of them again are very low.
After a period of time we throw the drives away regardless as we figure that after 3 yrs or so the drives are well worn and failure rates increase. So at replacement time it then becomes about bang for buck. This also means we never need to delete anything as we just copy it across to the bigger drive and then add new stuff. Just make sure you mirror them (2 separate external drives) as it ensures next to now loss.
I have 3TB of family photos and videos and it keeps growing.
Ever heard of .mkvs with 15Mbp/s AVC video bitrates and uncompressed DTS-HD audio? About 20GB per movie.
FLAC/APE? About 400MB for a large album.
Then there's all the game images/installation directories I keep off-hand in case I want to reinstall them and don't want to blow all of my monthly quota downloading old Steam games again, for the 10th time.
Some of us don't really care for optical media, have the necessary setups to really bring out every last bit of pixel and aural fidelity and have a file server to handle all of our media-on-demand in the house.
So yes, 5TB is restrictive for me/TL;DR pr0n connoisseur ho ho ho.
I swear, every Seagate deal is like a showcase of OzBargain's concentrated, industrial-strength stupid.
[@Rich2010]
"If you want peace of mind, especially for drives running 24/7 -
1.Buy the enterprise version, particularly as the enterprise versions are tweaked for RAID and running 24/7, the motors are better positioned in the chassis and designed for vibration tolerance and error correction. If not the enterprise versions, then at least the NAS models which implement some but not all of the extra endurance features of the enterprise versions.
2.Keep in a cool environment. Heat reduces the lifespan more than any other single factor…etc,." <
Thanks Rich2010, do you or anyone else have any recommendations on the enterprise versions that are reliable/affordable? Excellent information…sorry on formatting X(
Even cheaper now, should come in around $190 AUD
http://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Backup-Desktop-External-STDT50…
182.85 USD Delivered
Tempted to make a new deal, maybe someone else will. I won't since most people want to use this internally and it's a bit of a swing and miss doing that.
$9 USD less than before.
Yowsa… that's starting to get attractive!
I'd be all over it if the internal experience has gone smoother for others. Upgrading my entire NAS at the moment. Even the 6TB isn't bad (although more per gig than this).
Can you open and use on a desktop/