As part of Amazon's Today's Deal. This is the portable, not desktop version.
Normal price locally is $400+.
Ends today at 5pm AEST.
CamelCamelCamel.
This 4TB drive is actually 2x2TB 2.5inch hard drive packed in one box and share one usb connection.
Damn, would've made a Monster PS4 drive
Incorrect, these are the first of the SMR (Shingled Magnetic Recording) 2.5" USB drives
They are a single drive
Yes. I was wrong. This model is single HDD but much thicker. Thanks for pointing out!
According to Anandtech:
http://www.anandtech.com/show/9489/seagate-backup-plus-porta…
Its not SMR - but the conventional Perpendicular drive (PMR). Hence why it is a 15mm thick instead of the conventional 7.5/9.5/12.5. Hence the form factor. Probably carries about 6 platters compared with the 2-3 on the normal ones. Not quite "2x2TB drives" but one drive with twice the platters.
Not sure why its called "Slim" in this case unless you are comparing it to the 3.5" drives out there. If it was SMR, the capacity would be more like a 6 or even 8 TB drive in this size and amount of platters.
I have one of these. It does not work on my Series 6 Samsung TV. I assume this is because the TV cannot load/support the drives required to make the RAID work.
Great drive, though. I've had mine for about one year.
EDIT: I just went and double checked to make sure I wasn't telling you a load of crap and it turns out I was.
This drive DOES work on my TV (Series 6 Samsung, as stated).
Sorry about that, I'm sure I tried it previously and it didn't work.
now thats great!! 2TB working as a Time Machine on on my 3TB iMac wouldn't work well, this would be great, if only I had the spare $$
Pass. EBay already have all my spare money through all the sales these few months.
Cool story
eh I've heard better
Needed more dragons.
Can you also tell us what you had for breakfast?
Ketosis. Can't afford food either.
Is this available for delivery to Australia? I get this when trying to order. Don't think I'm doing anything wrong.
Definitely works.
Order Summary
Items: AUD 228.60
Shipping & handling: AUD 12.27
Promotion Applied: -AUD 7.14
Total before tax: AUD 233.73
Estimated tax to be collected: AUD 0.00
Order total: AUD 233.73
The promotion listed is a $5 voucher I haven't used yet. The product page says it ships and I had no issue getting to the final point before ordering. The usual reason people run into problems is when trying to ship to a PO Box but if you're not doing that then I can't think of any other reason it'd not work.
No idea what's going on with my account then. I'll see if Amazon chat can sort it out for me. Thanks guys.
Billing address may be?
I also got that message when estimating the shipping cost in cart. But it works if I continue to the checkout page.
Yep, all good! Chat team got me through to checkout. Incredible deal. Thanks OP!
No worries. Glad it worked!
i'll wait until they can fit a 4tb into a single drive, though it seems it's been stuck at 2tb for ages now… is there like a 2.5tb 12mm drive hiding somewhere?
Looks like this is a single drive, at 3TB.
I would much rather the drive in this deal, though. Significantly cheaper, larger, faster.
nice!
i'm in no rush so i can wait patiently for the prices to get better, just knowing that they have bigger drives now is great news to me. i'm still using a desktop 2tb, i would like to go portable and would much prefer 3-4tb.
I have posted elsewhere, people are confusing these with the older drives that put 2 in a case
These are brand new, and are a single drive. They're the first SMR drives in a 2.5" form factor.
more good news!
looking at the photo i just assumed, is it a 12mm hdd? it's seems rather thick, or is the photo out of date?
Well I'm certainly confused. I thought it was the same as what I bought last year (2*2TB).
Had no idea a 2.5" 4TB was released.
Guess this won't have the speed advantage, then.
I wish the USD was cheaper :(
Seeing the AUD conversion in the title makes me sad, seems like it wasn't that long ago when we were at parity :(
I remember when we hit parity. Had an extra jump in my step that day. I read somewhere that was one of the most common "best of" moments in the year or something rather.
I know :(
And when that import duty tax for anything over $20 hits, it'll be exactly what Gerry Harvey wants.
I say import duty because it's not just going to be 10%, obviously.
Im on this …
fark can finally retire 2 drives I use for work!
Is the SMR tech in these the same as the 8tb Archive drives?
4TB Portable is crazy! Does the greater capacity over a 1/2TB drive require more power? Curious as to whether this would work when plugged into a TV USB port. Good price none the less.