Seagate 5TB Expansion Desktop $195 (Pickup) @ Good Guys eBay

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fishbum on 27/09/2015 - 14:04 ebay.com.au (326 clicks)
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CLICK15

Cheapest bang for backup storage I found at moment. Works out to be $39/TB (about the same as 2TB for $78).

If you can't pickup, cheap postage is only $5 for a unit.

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  nfr on 27/09/2015 - 14:29

  Price is tolerable. Is it one of those SMR or archive drives?

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  panderiz on 27/09/2015 - 15:06

  Had one last less than 12months, ripped it out and put in PC and failed. Had shit reliability with seagate in general, never going to buy again. 3 hdds in 6 months, 4 in 2 years, all seagate.

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    PainToad on 27/09/2015 - 15:39

    Seagate are a POS. Always avoid.

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      XeKToReX on 27/09/2015 - 16:49

      Agreed, 1 Dead WD vs 7 Dead seagates here.

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        DeWalt on 27/09/2015 - 17:03

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        It's all anecdotal, but i've had 1 WD of 4 fail, and no Seagates of about 10.

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        XeKToReX on 27/09/2015 - 17:09

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        @DeWalt:

        https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-reliability-update…

        Edit: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/best-hard-drive/

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  Jabberwocky on 27/09/2015 - 15:34

  Good price OP for 5TB …
  But Seagate & Transcend make the most unreliable HDDs.
  HGST & WD are with least failure rates…..
  Also 4TB is the most reliable , not 3 or 5…sound funny but true….I work for a company where we rate a lot of PC components for Corporate use based on reliability and value for money….
  Seagate & Transcend are a BIG NO NO!!

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  fishbum on 27/09/2015 - 16:54

  Thanks for feedback, and from a bit of research, these use SMR technology.
  I only want extra backup unit, not gonna open case, so hope it is okay for data storage.
  Already have a few 2TB externals, have avoided external WDs since a MyBook failed
  and the hardware encryption inside meant I couldn't do any data recovery on the
  the bare drive.

  Had no issues with my Barracuda internal HDDs. Maybe quality has gone down in recent years.

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  itr on 27/09/2015 - 19:26

  an unrelated question but which brand of hard drive is most reliable?

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    nfr on 28/09/2015 - 13:39

    No hard disk is reliable enough to go without backup.