Lowest price according to camelcamelcamel. Unsure as to what drive is inside. Works out to be $179.74AUD for me without 28degrees.
CamelCamelCamel.
Did you pop it out and use it as an internal?
I didn't, I use it over USB3 with my NUC.
yes,
how good is it as an internal?
any issues?
I don't use it as an internal drive but no issues otherwise as an external.
If you scrolled a few posts down it seems to be only one person having this issue.
Interesting, but the thread doesn't seem to have any kind of evidence. There is a few posts that agree and a few posts that disagree. CC41 probably had issues that seem to have been fixed as of CC44?
Another heads up. The unit I bought from last sale has only 1 year warranty and only US power plug.
its USA stock…. US power plug would be expected!
But does it support 240V with a simple plug adapter?
It does - I bent the pins and use it without issue.
good price, I am looking for hard drive +4tb but I have bad experience with Seagate
$129.99 now
plus $12.61 for the shipping = $142.60 as op said
$182.50 for 1
$180 for 2
$178.50 for 3
looks like Aussie dollars just got worse today…
I bought this drive last year when the Good Guys had their 20% off ebay sale (AU$185). I use it to store all my video files. I'm using it as an internal drive and have had no problems. It gets used everyday.
YMMV.
:)
That's a lot of data to lose if (when?) it blows up. That's my only problem with these mega TB drives; if you're going to buy one you really need to buy another to back it up.
Neg'd for advocating backups? Okay.
What you said can be applied to every large TB drive that came out..
e.g. 1TB, 2TB, 3TB, 4TB,
At the time when it came out, those were considered large….
I feel like we've abnormally been stuck with 1-2tb as a norm for at last 4-5 years, so 5tb seems like a lot more. Mainly because of the growing preponderance of portable drives.
Sorry, I want to + it but clicked - and now I can't change it.
Got this from Officeworks via price match , $178.69 I ended up paying (SGEX500GB) <Model number I got
How do you get office works to price match it? Did you do it in store or on the phone? The last time I tried to price match via phone, the lady on the phone wouldn't even price match some Australian sites.
I just called em asked if they price matched online website, they said yes but it has to include shipping also,
which store? I know my local wouldn't have a bar of it (but they were very polite about it)
Post receipt please
Look at previous 5tb deal its on there
Well this sucks…. I ordered a 6TB Seagate drive from amazon only a few days ago for $280aud delivered… ouch that extra 1TB cost me $100! :(
Need to consider TCO. If you put it into a 4 bay nas that costs you a grand. The extra paid is worth it.
It has a good drive in it.
so these can be used as internal only?
I have four of these in a OWC ThunderBay 4 RAID in a Raid 5 setup. Its a very cheap way to get 15TB of raided storage. It is not perfect, and read speed is lower than expected (weird hey!) but it reads at about 300MB/sec and writes at about 450MB/s
Price matched at Officeworks, Strathpine. Got it for $171 (Australian). Well pleased. Thanks OP. Will post photo of receipt if anyone wants.
yes please
does officeworks pricematch their own store?
I think they would reject this…
item place in AUD on Amazon
Items: AUD 173.64
Shipping & handling: AUD 16.85
Total before tax: AUD 190.49
Master Card conversion = 1.297017 (today's rate)
total = $184
bought it just now.
got a good price $142.60 including shipping.
USD or AUD?
I picked this up when the AUD was a little stronger with the AMEX deal - superb drive and very quiet. If anyone needs to know the internal drive I'll post it later.