Lowest price ever according to the 3x Camels. You also get 200GB of OneDrive storage thrown in free for 2 years. Enjoy :)
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Same here….
2 Dead this year…. st3000dm001 both run in a low load situation for no more than 900 hours tops.
Yeah I've had 2 die this year as well. Lost a bit of data [3tb] (only movies) but still makes me rage thinking that I bought seagate over WD. READ THE REVIEWS, PAST SELF.
If you know people working in local distributor like Synnex or Ingram Micro. You can find out the RA percentage is about the same between Seagate & WD.
You are right about trying a different brand. But you can only finger cross and hope new drive does not fail.
There are too many factors involved. I personally found logistics is a big cause of DOA or faulty mechanical HDD.
I am skeptical to get traditional HDD delivered. Any additional courier stack more risk on top.
"You can find out the RA percentage" - nope. Go look up Backblaze research.
Which is skewed because they used a lot of one particular model that had a firmware issue
Figures from local distributor is a more consistent baseline for regional DOA and product failure rate. It is because factors are more consistent, e.g. Logistics, consumers, weather, disasters and most importantly sample pool.
It is worth to check global failure/DOA report like the one you mentioned. It gives you some idea, e.g. design flaws, manufacturing defects.
A distributor deals with tens or hundreds of thousands of HDD yearly.
How do research studies and review websites come up their figures? Think about it.
@watwatwat: if you are trying to refer to it as a source of failure rates you probably should care. Every brand has put out dud models of things. Regardless of what brand of HDD you buy you should keep backups of important/irreplaceable data (photos, business records, programming source code)
MY WD green has lots sector failures..and according to hdd sentinel it is in very poor health
Same as mine. Expensive door stop.
I have 7 x 2TB, 1 x 3TB, 1 x 5TB Seagate disks. Running fine for 1-5 years. The 2 TB drives are in dual bay NAS devices. I think it comes down to how much you make it feel appreciated and loved, that determines the longevity.
Can this be opened up to install into my PC?
Yeah you would be able too.
Good price but this was the lowest price ever, a few of us were lucky to snag one. ;)
Ah the memories
It's still sitting here on my desk unopened :/
Yep, mine too still in the plastic wrap!
Yep and it works well, pretty fast.
No problems with mine - the thing's sharp enough on corners AND edges to give you a papercut, and I'm not even joking.
Yeah, waiting for another deal like this..
How many did u guys buy?
Miss out on that one. sad face
i am in need for an internal hdd for my nas, wondering if this is good value per TB. (dont care for those archive drives)
Seems like a pretty good $/TB ratio, however this will most likely contain the 5TB version of the SMR archive drive.
Probably not ideal for use in a NAS, I can recommend WD RED.
Hmm… price is showing up as US$114.99.
That's before adding delivery.
Right. My bad. Thanks.
Quite tempted.
US plug?
Can't see why it wouldn't be.
I believe Seagate ship with multiple power plug attachments.
I have 2 of the older ones, before they rebranded, again. Still has that faceted blue base. Anyway, one was from the US and one was purchased here. The one from the US has a fixed US plug. The one from here came with multiple detachable plugs.
So while it's possible it has multiple plug attachments, I wouldn't count on it.
@TheContact: Looks like I was wrong. My Australian purchased Seagate hard drive came with different power attachments. Found a review on Amazon that says this.
"If You're not in the US You have to make sure that EU AC Adapter is included.
In my order the AC Power unit was US only, I send message to Seagate support and they sent the EU Adapter within 5 days."
Bagged a 5TB WD a couple of weeks ago from jb hifi for 199.
A much better deal IMO
This is a SMR drive though
so what…
If u mainly use it for archiving then it won't make too much difference
I run battlenet games from it, without problems.
Just pointing out this is not a general purpose HDD. Why get so defensive?
I really should have got more than the three I grabbed… No matter how many drives I buy, I'm always running out of space (I'm a video editor)…
Deal from almost a year ago. Very useful.
I'm just gonna casually time-travel back 9 months, buy that HDD and come back.
Posting old/expired deals isn't helpful..
Sorry, disagree. Old/expired deal history is helpful if you are prepared to wait for the item, and want to get an understanding of how much value the latest deal is.
Other than remove it from the case and use it internally, why would you buy this 3.5" 5TB U$123 vs 2.5" 4TB U$129?
I personally prefer 2.5" + no external power cord
Obviously cheaper and 1 TB more. OzBargainers are often willing to sacrifice convenience for more bang-per-buck.
FYI it's $115 vs $130 hence $23 per TB vs $32.5 per TB (41% more expensive per TB).
Plus some of us don't need the portability eg use in NAS or as internal so why pay more for less
You can build nice small form factor disk arrays with 2.5" with mini ITX cases, but yeah difference in price does make it less attractive.
my problem is that i'm running out of powerpoints :(
How do you get $123 usd? It keeps coming up as $128 usd
Tempting but I really can't deal with another Seagate. Might hold out for WD.