Lowest price ever on Amazon
Seagate Backup Plus 5TB Desktop External Hard Drive with 200GB of Cloud Storage & Mobile Device Backup USB 3.0 (STDT5000100)
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Not as good as this one when you take into account the exchange rate.
I'm well aware of the previous deal, that was posted 4 months ago and is now expired.
I might wait for a better deal then?
It might be quite a wait - not only for another pricing error, but a business prepared to honour that price error as best they can.
@Thrift: Eventually all hard drives get bigger capacity and cheaper. Sorry, couldn't resist the post as I got onto one of these. One of the first things that the site tipped me off to.
Plus i'm pretty sure it was a pricing error
I got a couple from that deal. Disassembled one to use the drive in a computer and performance is very poor. I presume due to SMR. I haven't yet looked into it further but if anyone knows more feel free to please share a link on why/whether they can be tuned to improve performance, thanks.
My has been constantly plugged into my router. Has performed flawlessly as a backup drive.
SMR drives are supposed to have poor sustained write speeds but good speeds otherwise. Is that what you experienced?
Yes, roughly. Writing lots of data to fill it up starts out fast but speed appears to soon drop to a crawl from which it does not seem to recover. So as an archive drive, cheap and large capacity but very slow to write. Sorry, I haven't yet spent much time gauging it.
This would also make a very cheap 5TB internal drive :)
The 5Tb WD External was only $198 at JB a week ago was a much better deal ,local bricks and mortar shop warranty and WD seem to have a longer life than Seagates
what if you buying 4 units? you still think saving $25 each drive is not a good deal? :P
its really like 4.5 TB formatted,
not being tight arse or anything lol, but it annoys me sometimes, the bigger the drive the more you lose
Probably annoyed for no reason. Your OS is most likely reporting mebibytes not megabytes. 5 Terabytes = 4.5 Tebibytes
sorry but it's not the OS reporting drive size as less.
its actually drive formatting that takes up a bit of space.
Actual Space:
1TB Drive = 931GB = 0.91 TiB (tebibyte)
1.5TB Drive = 1397GB = 1.36 TiB
2TB Drive = 1863GB = 1.82 TiB
3TB Drive = 2794GB = 2.73 TiB
4TB Drive = 3725GB = 3.64 TiB
5TB Drive = 4657GB = 4.55 TiB
6TB Drive = 5588GB = 5.46 TiB
so in reality if u want a 5TB drive you need to buy a 6TB drive, sooo annoying
/Facepalm
Great price. Got 2 last December: AU $332.88 or $279.76 US dollar for both.
So the price is down around $6.70 US, but up AU $25 in a year.