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Seagate Expansion Desktop 4TB $99 @ Australia Post (In Store - Limited Stock)

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Seagate Expansion Desktop 4TB $99 @ Australia Post (In Store - Limited Stock)
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LTimWn on 14/01/2016 - 09:37 files.ozbargain.com.au (4867 clicks)
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Not sure if it is good deal. Bought last one @Seven hills on Tuesday. Scanned at $99, assume it is for all stores.

Also 10-30 x 50 zoom binoculars, half price $25

Mod 15/1 6PM (Some 30 hours since deal was posted - stock is now almost non existent. Reports that all of NSW & SA are sold out; most probably VIC too), possible stock availability from comments:

ACT
Gungahlin No stock
Kaleen No stock
Woden No stock
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Coffs Harbour Now out of stock
Richmond Now out of stock
St Marys Now out of stock
West Ryde Now out of stock
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Blacktown Now out of stock
Bondi & Bondi Beach No stock
Campsie Now out of stock
Coogee Now out of stock
Gladesville No stock
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Kogarah Now out of stock
Lidcombe No stock
Minto Now out of stock
Miranda Now out of stock
Mortdale Now out of stock
North Sydney Now out of stock
Rhodes Now out of stock
Strawberry Hills Now out of stock
All Sydney CBD stores Now out of stock
Terrigal Now out of stock
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Beaudesert No stock
Brisbane GPO No stock
Clifford Gardens Now out of stock
Garden City No stock
Loganholme Now out of stock
Robina Town No stock
Toowoomba Stenner St No stock
MT Ommaney Now out of stock
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Adelaide GPO King William St No stock
Blackwood Now out of stock
Other Southern Suburb stores No Stock
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Prospect Now out of stock
Salisbury - Now out of stock
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VIC
Berwick - 1 Left
Belmont - 2 Left
Dandenong South - 1 Left
Bendigo No stock
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Carnegie No stock
Croydon Now out of stock
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The Hill No stock
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Bunbury Now out of stock
Cannington Now out of stock
Clarkson Now out of stock
Dianella Now out of stock
Morley No stock
Perth GPO No Stock
Southland No stock
Subiaco Now out of stock
West Perth Now out of stock

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  • ronnknee on 14/01/2016 - 09:41

    Which model is this? Is it the old USB 2.0 model? Can you take a photo of it?

    • CVonC on 14/01/2016 - 09:51
      +1

      Expansion Desktop USB 3.0 STBV4000300

      OP, it is a good deal! I bought this last week from Blacktown and Seven Hills too. Didn't post it as a deal cos of insufficient quantity though.

      • ronnknee on 14/01/2016 - 10:49

        If it is, then that's heaps cheap!

    • TimWn on 14/01/2016 - 09:51

      I think it is not the newest model from seagate website. but it's got USB 3.0.

    • CVonC on 14/01/2016 - 09:52
      +15

      it's in store mate

        • brazen00 on 14/01/2016 - 10:43
          +28

          they look more like guidelines

    • TimWn on 14/01/2016 - 09:52
      +1

      Can not find any web links for this. But I will try upload my receipt

      • Gavman on 14/01/2016 - 10:05
        +1

        Even if we show a copy of a receipt I don't think Aus post would have to honour it if it scanned up higher than 99$

        • Clear on 14/01/2016 - 10:11
          +1

          Depends if it's an IPO or not.

        • CVonC on 14/01/2016 - 10:49
          +1

          it should be nationwide as I bought 2 from 2 different PO

  • randmness on 14/01/2016 - 09:48
    +4

    Can confirm,got one from York St branch. It is a 4tb usb3 model stbv4000300. Thanks op!

    • timmypete on 14/01/2016 - 12:07
      +1

      Any left?

  • kazispeed on 14/01/2016 - 09:48
    +1

    Can you post receipt please ?

  • 99altezza on 14/01/2016 - 09:56
    +2

    Does anyone know what HDD is used inside?

  • Raged on 14/01/2016 - 09:58
    +1

    It's a seagate/failgate… Dont put anything important/archive on these drives if it's the standard desktop ST4000DM000 in these things.

    • twocsies on 14/01/2016 - 10:08
      +4

      Luckily it's not the 3TB ST3000DM001, which BackBlaze found had >40% failure rate. They saw a more modest ~3.2% for the 4TB drive. https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-reliability-q3-201…

      • JoelT on 14/01/2016 - 10:18
        +2

        Yep my 3TB Seagate Barracuda died within 2 years too. Pretty annoyed about that.

        • tarken on 14/01/2016 - 10:20
          +1

          Same here

        • attfiecz2 on 14/01/2016 - 10:22
          +2

          @tarken: we should start a club, I lost 2.

        • tarken on 14/01/2016 - 10:25
          +2

          @attfiecz2:
          I've lost 2 too.. Last one running in my hp40nl.. Matter of time.

        • nafe on 14/01/2016 - 10:31
          +1

          @tarken:
          I've had WD Greens die on me too, with very low usage (but out of warranty). Sometimes shit happens.

        • Raged on 14/01/2016 - 10:53

          The only brand you can sort of rely on for quality is Hitachi/Toshiba. They either die within 2 weeks (DOA) of use or live for 5+years (or 3+ years in 24/7 operation). Only the bigger shops like scorptec sell them though, so its a bit of a premium… but then again… paying an extra $15 vs losing your HDD…

        • edfoo on 14/01/2016 - 11:04
          +2

          @nafe: I recently have one of my 1TB WD Greens died on me too, but that was because it was installed in my NAS which has the known problem of the WD Greens hard drive's head constantly parking and unparking, it did that over 800,000 times over the last few years (when the manufacturer rated it at 300,000 times). No wonder it died.

        • nafe on 14/01/2016 - 11:12
          +1

          @edfoo:

          Mine wasn't even a NAS. I suspect that lack of use killed it, ironically.
          I've had all brands die over the last 20-something years, so I just rotate them out of active service ever 2 years or so unless they are doing something unimportant (Torrents for example) in which case I just thrash them til they die. 2 years or so gives me a good window to grab wahetevr the new best value price point is.

        • Maverick-au on 14/01/2016 - 11:47
          +4

          @Raged:

          The only brand you can sort of rely on for quality is Hitachi/Toshiba. They either die within 2 weeks (DOA) of use or live for 5+years (or 3+ years in 24/7 operation). Only the bigger shops like scorptec sell them though, so its a bit of a premium… but then again… paying an extra $15 vs losing your HDD…

          All hard drives fail at some point so unless you backup your data you will lose it at some point.

          Your claims about Hitachi and Toshiba are not backed up by the statistics on drive longevity.

        • ryolo on 14/01/2016 - 11:58
          +3

          @Raged:

          I've returned 6x 3TB Toshiba for RMA over the past year due to excessive Bad sectors. They're not the silver bullet that you paint them out to be. They do fail too like everything else.

        • dlovep on 14/01/2016 - 13:03
          +1

          @nafe: Some time it could be just the enclosure. I still have my Quantum fireball running.

        • nafe on 14/01/2016 - 13:30

          @dlovep:

          Maybe, it was very random as it was 2 different PCs at the time and the other drives are fine. Just bad luck sometimes. I have some WD Blue and Seagates running in a NAS now and all good.

        • matt_will_fix_it on 14/01/2016 - 15:24
          +2

          @tarken:

          Yep I lost my drives too. One down the back of the sofa. Another at the shops.

        • aussieprepper on 14/01/2016 - 15:42

          @Raged: I have a old segate barracuda 80gigs more then 10 years old.still booted up fine. Its been about 5 years since its been inside a pc.

        • deanylev on 14/01/2016 - 18:35

          @tarken: Same here :(

        • serpserpserp on 14/01/2016 - 18:49

          @Raged:

          I have a Seagate 1gig expansion model that has been alive for 5 years. Constant use.

        • jrad1337 on 14/01/2016 - 20:17

          I made the mistake of running 5 of these in a NAS, all dead within a year, RMA'd and replacements lasted 14 months.
          I just assumed a bad batch, as the replacement drives had a MFG date within a week or so of the originals.
          3 years on, I'm still miffed at that purchase though.

          I have a mate of mine in WA with 8 of these still in service though. Hit and Miss.

          Switched with Toshy 3TB.
          I have 7x 5-6yr old 1TB WD Blacks still rotating, had a 6yr old 750GB Black die recently.
          I've had a RAID0 array containing SG 320's last…. god knows how long.

          Everything fails eventually.

        • garage sale on 16/01/2016 - 07:45

          my wd green failed …… ran the diagnostics and it turned out that green drives park the heads quickly to save power and I had exceeded the life expectancy of the heads mechanism, not the spindle or other parts of the drive or the warranty period…… so if you are running slow downloads it hammers the head and they die early. Hence use a NAS drive for that application if you have frequent writes of small amounts of data, which waits longer before parking the heads. I now have an SSD to cache slow writes (no movie parts)

          Different drives are made for different applications so it's not just $ per TB.

        • megadeth on 24/01/2016 - 15:39

          Was using DM001 in a GoFlex home… runs extremely hot… Made a mistake of putting the master copy of my family photos folder which just vanished one day… Lucky to have been able to recover these… Have replaced the 3TB GoFlex with 3TB WD MyCloud, a year or two ago.

          Thinking of using the unreliable DM001 for low value, less mission critical stuff (video streaming etc.)… DM001 undoubtedly is one of Seagate's biggest fails during 2010s… They've lost a big market share to HGST & WD.

      • redhotchilli on 14/01/2016 - 10:51

        Lost 2 x 3TB ST3000DM001 in my NAS late last year too, changed to Hitachi 2 x 4TB Deskstar, WD Green 3TB still going strong (turned off head parking recently after it hit 400k parks)

        • shroomish on 14/01/2016 - 15:20

          i read a study which did tested hard drives and 80% (or something high) of any brand 3TB had failed within the first 2 years….

      • [Deactivated] on 14/01/2016 - 13:46

        That's under heavy load conditions which majority of consumers would most likely never put a HDD under, somewhat unreliable. To be fair I've had WD and Seagate drives fail on me for 5+ years, some drives were put for home server use others only for archives and most for clients. I only buy whichever has the best price to storage ratio.

        "All the hard drives in this review are used in the production systems in our datacenter."

    • Maverick-au on 14/01/2016 - 10:34
      +8

      It's a seagate/failgate… Dont put anything important/archive on these drives if it's the standard desktop ST4000DM000 in these things.

      What a pointless comment to make. They had issues with the 3TB drives but this has nothing to do with the 4TB drives which have similar failure rates as other brands. But by all means try and make a claim that cannot be backed up (like the data on your 3TB drive that I assumed started your vendetta).

      • WhyAmICommenting on 14/01/2016 - 10:51

        Each to their own. I've never had anything other than a Seagate fail, from memory. Won't touch them these days.

        • Maverick-au on 14/01/2016 - 11:44

          Each to their own. I've never had anything other than a Seagate fail, from memory. Won't touch them these days.

          Plenty of people have had only western digital fail so does this mean western digital are a brand to be avoided or does it mean that hard drive life is often luck of the draw?

          Instead of relying on the absurd logic that people apply to products look at the real world failure percentages and make an informed decision from that.

        • boomramada on 15/01/2016 - 11:30
          -1

          @Maverick-au:

          Every brand of HD has its bad day, but following stats tell us a different story;
          http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2014/01/the-most-and-least-reliabl…

        • Maverick-au on 15/01/2016 - 13:57

          @boomramada:

          Every brand of HD has its bad day, but following stats tell us a different story;

          That tells us nothing at all. This is the reliability of a tiny subset of the drives available in a specific use in one specific application over a specific time period. The seagate figure is skewed by 1.5 and 3TB drives.

          If you look at long term statistics all manufacturers have had their bad drives.

    • yanman on 14/01/2016 - 18:45

      Don't put anything important on ANY single drive. If it's important, use RAID+Backup or Cloud

  • tianyujojo on 14/01/2016 - 09:58
    +3

    $25/TB is definitely a good deal.

    • brokenglish on 14/01/2016 - 10:15
      +19

      It's $24.75
      Every cent counts mate

    • sween64 on 14/01/2016 - 10:55
      +1

      It is! $50/TB is closer to the norm.

  • mily on 14/01/2016 - 10:04

    Seagate can be striped for internal HDD right?

    • tianyujojo on 14/01/2016 - 10:08
      +1

      Yes.

      • 99altezza on 14/01/2016 - 10:10

        What about using it for NAS?

        • doze on 14/01/2016 - 10:43

          Got 2 of these drives in a Netgear READYNAS RN102 in a RAID 1 array for the last year or so. No dramas at all.

    • mathew42 on 14/01/2016 - 11:33
      +1

      I hope you have good backups. RAID0 doubles your risk of failure.

  • golferpat on 14/01/2016 - 10:07
    +1

    Damn thought OPs name was TimWin

  • cat4u on 14/01/2016 - 10:09

    can someone please help me. would this have time machine option like the portable seagate har drives? the easy way to back up apple laptops/pc's. im not tech savvy! thank you

    • nafe on 14/01/2016 - 10:13
      +1

      Can't you can use any external for a Time Machine?

    • brokenglish on 14/01/2016 - 10:14
      +2

      Yes, any hard drives will do what you want

    • maxwellian on 14/01/2016 - 11:10

      Yes it will backup, but make sure you make another one on a reliable hard drive.

  • D6C1 on 14/01/2016 - 10:10
    -1

    How can I find out which auspost outlet has them in stock? I'm keen!

    • Mr BoMBAStiG on 14/01/2016 - 10:17
      +6

      Keen enough to use your legs and go and check yourself?

    • sween64 on 14/01/2016 - 10:55

      Call Aus Post.

      • D6C1 on 14/01/2016 - 11:21

        Nope. 15 minutes later on hold i gave up. I'll check in person later.

        • lgacb08 on 14/01/2016 - 12:00

          That's nothing, I was on hold for 45min on Monday and had to hang up

  • nafe on 14/01/2016 - 10:12
    +8

    FYI - No stock left at York St Sydney CBD, I just braved the heat to try and nab one lol

    • tarken on 14/01/2016 - 10:21
      +1

      Cool thanks for the heads up

      • nafe on 14/01/2016 - 10:22

        If you're around Wynyard, maybe try the one on Pitt St (up the escalator). I used to find hardly any queues there when I went to post stuff, might be worth a shot.

        • tarken on 14/01/2016 - 10:23

          I'm near town hall. What about the one at Martin place?

      • [Deactivated] on 14/01/2016 - 10:22
        +3

        Cool

        No pun intended?

        • tarken on 14/01/2016 - 10:24

          Lol not intentionally

    • r0xz on 14/01/2016 - 10:24
      +4

      No stock in around CBD. Went to all of them :(

      • tarken on 14/01/2016 - 10:24

        That's a shame..

      • vchan on 14/01/2016 - 10:34

        sucks

      • samlor on 14/01/2016 - 10:55

        Wow, that's keen, thanks for reporting :-( Which ones in/around the Sydney CBD?
        QVB, Sydney South, World Square, GPO (Martin pl.), Darlinghurst, Parliament House?

        • r0xz on 14/01/2016 - 11:03
          +1

          all.
          went to the one in Market st. and they still have like 6 of the product card on display but lady on the counter said there are no more stock.

        • [Deactivated] on 14/01/2016 - 11:07
          +6

          they still have like 6 of the product card on display but lady on the counter said there are no more stock

          So this means we know where Dick Smith staff are starting to take up new employment?

  • brick007123 on 14/01/2016 - 10:15

    No stock at Carlingford either.

  • Hiphopopotamus on 14/01/2016 - 10:24

    crazy price, if i wasn't so smitten with my new 2tb portable i would be regretting it!

  • howdee on 14/01/2016 - 10:37
    +1

    Got the last one at Rhodes (NSW)

  • boomramada on 14/01/2016 - 10:39
    +2

    60+ votes but anyone other than op bought this product?:)

      • boomramada on 14/01/2016 - 10:58

        ok, two, maybe three, but 60+ people running around like head less chook try to grab a bargain :)
        People should up vote if they got the bargain.

        • ilikeradiohead on 14/01/2016 - 11:53
          +3

          I like the thrill of the chase haha

        • brazen00 on 14/01/2016 - 12:43

          I popped into my post office as I was passing and picked one up.

        • lonewolf on 14/01/2016 - 13:19

          I was thinking the same thing, I am not a fan of positive votes on items that havent been purchased yet or no clue if they can be purchased…..It basically creates a false sense of availability and / or implies its a great bargain to be had by everyone when it may only be in a select few places.

  • RocketSwitch on 14/01/2016 - 10:40

    Wicked price!

  • stellaaddicted on 14/01/2016 - 10:46
    +1

    Confirmed with staff that Melbourne has like 3 in stock across all stores in CBD. Another couple in st Kilda and that is it. Not sure if it meets the 10 units minimum. I am with boomramada on this one.

    • Matt88 on 14/01/2016 - 10:50

      Which stores?

  • malouphix on 14/01/2016 - 10:54

    Got one from Loganholme, QLD. None left.

  • chamzoo on 14/01/2016 - 10:54

    No stock at Noble Park :(

  • dragonfly090 on 14/01/2016 - 10:58

    Can we use this as internal HDD? I need this for the CCTV system.

    • malouphix on 14/01/2016 - 11:04

      Yes, rip out the internal drive.

    • vger74656 on 14/01/2016 - 11:26

      Careful when using these drives for always on applications, as they are usually Green drives and not designed for that purpose (will most likely fail not long after implementing)

  • g12345567 on 14/01/2016 - 11:04

    Can the firmware on these externals be updated to the latest?

    • dlovep on 14/01/2016 - 13:14

      I guess you mean the HD inside, since there is no way to update the disk enclosure and firmware update you might try your luck in Seagate website, but the last one I ever updates was those Samsung HDs that they acquire the bug'siness. I have 8 dead after 1.5 years.

    • garage sale on 16/01/2016 - 07:49

      WD stopped that when people were refreshing the green drives with NAS firmware ….. not sure what seagate has in the way of firmware and flashing tools.

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