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Seagate 6TB 3.5" Drive - $207.99 USD from Amazon (~$260 AUD)

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Not my first post so please don't be kind :)

Amazon have the 6TB Seagate 3.5" Drive for $207.99 USD. It's a deal for the next 21 hours. Local prices are around $350 and above for this drive. If anyone have the local price for this drive, let me know and I'll add it. I can mostly only find 4TB prices for the Seagate drive and they're around $220.

This works out to be around $260 or so depending on who is doing your conversion (Amazon or 28 Degrees etc). Like others have pointed out before, if you have an AMEX Card, it works out better to pay with AMEX and get free shipping (since item is above $100) than pay with 28 Degrees.

Shipping: The price in the title includes delivery (free) for AMEX cards. As for everyone else, it should be around or just above 10 bucks ($11 USD to Melbourne).

My bad guys. It's a Seagate 6TB Drive, and not a WD Red (thank you for correcting my mistake KimTaeYeon)

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  • KimTaeyeon on 20/12/2014 - 21:17
    +1

    It links me to a seagate drive..

    • ragflan on 20/12/2014 - 21:20
      +1

      My bad. Fixed this. Sorry guys.

  • Riczter on 20/12/2014 - 21:29

    Hey whats this amex deal with the free shipping?? Could someone link me? I've been living under a rock recently..

  • iridiumstem on 20/12/2014 - 21:37
    +3

    If anybody is interested, this seems to be part of bigger deal

  • Kaboda on 20/12/2014 - 22:28
    +1

    I am hanging out for their 8tn archive drives apparently priced at 260usd

    Though good price for this 6tb

  • msmhw on 20/12/2014 - 23:10
    +1

    wow, thats a lot of data to loss

    • tommy-darko on 20/12/2014 - 23:41
      +1

      Two or more of these in a RAID enclosure and you're pretty safe. Have had 2x 2TB in an Icy Box for about 6 years and not lost one bit of data. Maybe time to upgrade the drives though as I'm running out of space.

      • samfisher5986 on 21/12/2014 - 00:36
        +3

        RAID is not a backup and does a very poor job of making things safe.

        There is a long list of things that can go wrong with RAID.

        RAID is intended to ensure 100% uptime.

        • twocsies on 22/12/2014 - 09:35
          -1

          I disagree with your comment as a blanket statement. RAID does have availability as a goal (uptime) but also reliability. Thus it is by design intended to keep data safe. Your data will be "pretty safe". If a higher margin for reliability than simple disk mirroring is needed, there are schemes such as RAID 6 and 10. But you would not fill your array entirely with this type of drive, you would mix drives from different vendors.

          But you did touch on an important point. RAID is not a backup. Regular backups are important, but are typically done on a daily or weekly basis.

        • muncan on 22/12/2014 - 09:46
          +1

          @twocsies: Backup tests are also important, typically done more frequently after disaster strikes.

    • Miami Mall Alien on 21/12/2014 - 01:21
      -3

      What kind of drop-kick keeps irreplaceable data on one storage medium? And a magnetic-based one at that.

      • [Deactivated] on 21/12/2014 - 09:24

        Agreed

      • nutcase on 22/12/2014 - 10:43
        +1

        The vast majority of people.

  • gunnny on 20/12/2014 - 23:18

    Will wait for $150AUD delivered. Expecting in mid next year.

    • daniel46211 on 20/12/2014 - 23:42
      +1

      maybe a 64tb drive will be out by then ;)

      • gunnny on 22/12/2014 - 10:05

        you will be surprised! Just let these become main stream drives.

    • skinny on 21/12/2014 - 07:32
      +3

      YUP, when 1 A$ will also be = 0.5US$

      • gunnny on 22/12/2014 - 10:04
        -1

        You will be surprised.

  • [Deactivated] on 20/12/2014 - 23:51

    what you guys fill this up with?
    Its huge!

    • Logical on 21/12/2014 - 00:32
      +32

      nice try AFP!

    • tommy-darko on 21/12/2014 - 00:34
      +1

      bittorrent, bro.

    • muncan on 21/12/2014 - 00:48
      -1

      Porn, obviously. Lots'a porn.

    • Miami Mall Alien on 21/12/2014 - 01:30
      +8

      Well unless you're still in 2004 and consider 700 megabyte, blurrier-than-a-Special-Forces-guy's-face DivX streams along with 128Kbps MP3s, as the be-all-end-all of audiovisual fidelity, then you're going to need to make a lot of room for MKVs with 15Mbp/s AVC streams and full 5.1, 24-bit DTS-HD audio which average about 20GB for one film.

      Lossless audio (APE, FLAC, OFR) will be about 300-500MB per album.

      And unless you like going over your monthly quota re-downloading the same Steam/Origin/UPlay games over and over again every time you buy a new boot drive or reinstall Windows, you'll probably back those up, and game installations on the order of 40GB are becoming the norm.

      • iridiumstem on 21/12/2014 - 01:35
        +1

        Or porns, porns and porns. Lots and lots of porns. :)

        OK, seriously though, yeah, music files are extremely large. Master quality FLAC files are around 100mb per file, so yeah. :S

        Also, steam sales does eat through your hard drive.

      • chill on 21/12/2014 - 01:48

        Nah mate. now we make the DivX 1400mb and spilt it over 2x discs.

        Switch discs half way through the movie. 5 seconds cutover so not to miss any important scenes, the very best ways to not need large HDD and still a quality movie backup :)

        BTW in all seriousness I really want to + this deal because it is a great price (- our commodity currency) but it is a Seagate :(

        • Miami Mall Alien on 21/12/2014 - 01:50

          Switch discs half way through the movie. 5 seconds cutover so not to miss any important scenes, the very best ways to not need large HDD and still a quality movie backup :)

          This is a joke, right?

          Thanks for bringing me back to the days of VCDs and CloneDVD. What fun times those were, trying to get 3 hour films to not look like smudgy finger-paintings while still using as few discs as possible, so you didn't have to change through 4 discs or so.

          Just get a NAS, fill it with every available spare HDD you can muster up (crack open those old externals) and stream your stuff to your playback devices. No more Frisbee collections and unbearable delays.

        • chill on 21/12/2014 - 01:54

          @Amar89: No. Nothing worse than when some armature would have 5 seconds missing, would ruin the whole movie.

        • Miami Mall Alien on 21/12/2014 - 01:56
          -3

          @chill: No I meant you actually using optical media on a regular basis to watch films, and splitting streams across multiple discs and swapping them.

          But, alright.

          I can't fathom how it's cheaper to use dozens and dozens of BD-Rs or BD-R DLs over a multiple-terabyte HDD. Or how that could be considered time-saving, fun or efficient.

        • chill on 21/12/2014 - 02:04

          @Amar89: True. The WDTV Live seems to do the trick these days with all the MKV stuff.

        • tommy-darko on 21/12/2014 - 04:03
          +4

          6TB drives - perfect for those digital libraries of Blu-Ray and DVD ISO's, preserve your discs and do a one time rip, also a good way to make use of those free Quickflix subscriptions by ripping as many ISO's as you can in the given time ;)

        • Kanasuke on 21/12/2014 - 05:21

          @tommy-darko:
          the spirit of the physical disc collectors are dying

        • annoynimous on 21/12/2014 - 15:55
          +1

          @Kanasuke: the spirit of TPB lives on

        • Miami Mall Alien on 22/12/2014 - 01:19
          -2

          @Kanasuke:

          the spirit of the physical disc collectors are dying

          Collector =/= Compulsive hoarder of junk.

          How do you show off your collection of inkjet printable BD-Rs/DVD+Rs written on with Sharpies?

          Unless you're the kind of nut who goes all out printing labels on each BD-R with carefully resized and trimmed, authentic covers (which if you are, that's admirable, but you need to get off the dole).

          I collect physical media/boxes as well, but valuable and novel ones, like my 1994 copy of Sim City 2000 Special Edition in the holographic box or the giant Age of Empires III Collector's Edition, or the Blu-Ray Alien Quadrilogy. You know, stuff that looks good on a shelf.

          Not a giant spindle full of identical-looking, white-coated discs.

    • error619 on 21/12/2014 - 17:37

      My Sony Xmas presents :)

  • Mister Plod on 20/12/2014 - 23:54
    +2

    $278 AU delivered with their converter. Lousy dollar, be more better dangit!

  • fatpizza on 21/12/2014 - 00:03

    Nice price, but I'm sticking with my WD Reds. :)

  • Gomo on 21/12/2014 - 01:05

    It's still cheaper to just buy 2x 3TB Drives as they are usually $129 each, even then thats $250 if anything prices of hard drives have still come down even for local stock

  • marquise on 21/12/2014 - 01:13
    +1

    Is the 2TB hybrid drive worthwhile?
    http://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Desktop-7200RPM-SATA-Cache/dp/…

    Hybrid drives worthwhile in general for PC use as a second drive?

  • Phoebus on 21/12/2014 - 01:19

    Where can I get 4K porn to fill up this baby?

  • penyekz on 21/12/2014 - 01:31

    How about the warranty on these drives?

    I read Hitachi bought from US will only have US warranty. Any clues about other brands?

    • Bendo on 22/12/2014 - 13:18

      The thing to remember about these drives and how cheap they are is all dependent on the warranty.
      The same model drives all come off the same production line. They don't have 1 year warranty production lines and 3 year warranty production lines for the same drive model etc… They all come off the same production line.

      However they don't all have the same warranty.
      The drive manufacturers are very, very good at determining the expected life of a particular drive.
      They put them through a barrage of tests and depending on how they go, this sets the warranty.

      So a cheap drive usually has a short warranty like 1 year.
      The same model drive costing more usually has a warranty of 3 years or even 5 years because it went well in the tests.

      A cheap drive with a short warranty does not necessarily mean a good bargain.
      The bargain is a cheap drive with a good warranty.

  • noshopping on 21/12/2014 - 05:00

    Nice price! I will wait for either WD or Hitachi 6TB to drop in price. Seagate drives only run around 5k RPM compared to 7.2k RPM for others (which is nice because it'll run cooler, but copy/access slower), perhaps the biggest issue is they fail more often than WD/Hitachi. This backup company has 27,000+ HDs and they shared their HD failure rates -> https://www.backblaze.com/blog/what-hard-drive-should-i-buy/

    • [Deactivated] on 21/12/2014 - 07:44

      this one is confirmed 5900RPM, the 7200RPM is only the enterprise edition.

  • dtpearson on 21/12/2014 - 08:17
    +2

    I am running six of these in a Promise Pegasus R6 in Raid5 with 30TB of usable space. It is all going well (800MB/sec read 700MB/sec write).

    Individual drives are about 220MB/sec read 200MB/sec write.

    All the questions about what you fill these drives up with. DSLR video is the main thing for me, and i have shot 100GB of photos in a day before (not often tho). I have every photo i have taken since 2005 in RAW format.

    • dtpearson on 21/12/2014 - 10:02

      Oops, sorry that was 210MB/sec read 170MB/sec write.

      Its only 5900RPM, but with this sort of data density 5900RPM is still very, very fast compared to older 7200RPM drives.

  • SLAMMA1102 on 21/12/2014 - 08:17
    -6

    Rip off

  • Piztol on 21/12/2014 - 11:38
    +1

    Seagate is very unreliable, compare to Hitachi and WD.

  • mousie on 21/12/2014 - 11:54

    did drives appear to be falling quicker than the 4tbs did. Awesome deal Op

  • dodoli on 21/12/2014 - 13:05

    http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00JBJ34WC

    This one is 7200 rpm, is the one posted by op better than this? (apart from the size difference)

  • [Deactivated] on 21/12/2014 - 15:01

    Some of my music programs are 300-500gb! Sample cos are 5g normally, easy to fill up 20tb!

    • marquise on 21/12/2014 - 15:54

      What programs are you using?

    • compugrid on 21/12/2014 - 16:31

      Unless it's a game, I haven't seen a music or a video program over 2GB.

      • fishface1 on 21/12/2014 - 16:51

        He may be talking about software such as Native Instruments Komplete which can easily take up more than 100GB.

      • johnno07 on 24/12/2014 - 03:20

        VSTs can be pretty huge.

    • imcold on 21/12/2014 - 18:17

      Yeah alot of instruments note recording are huge 20gigs per instrument.

  • joshchen on 22/12/2014 - 09:52

    the price has gone up to US$ 252.01…

  • Scumbag on 22/12/2014 - 10:12

    Can anyone recommend an eSATA enclosure that doesn't affect the performance? I want the same performance as a native SATA connection, rather than going through dumb electronics that's designed for USB compatibility.

  • [Deactivated] on 22/12/2014 - 10:55

    no one cares about back up but everyone cares about restore.

  • Cap N on 22/12/2014 - 11:08

    Looks like it's already expired.

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