Free standard shipping - 4-7 business days (limited offer), this is slightly cheaper than the previous deal due to the Australian dollar
HGST Deskstar NAS H3IKNAS600012872SN (0S03839) 6TB 7200 RPM 128MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" High-Performance Hard Drive Retail Kit
• 7200 RPM, 6Gb/s SATA Interface, 6TB
• Outstanding Reliability: 1 million hours MTBF, Rotational Vibration Sensor, 24/7 availability
• No additional hardware required
Just warranty through HGST.
Return address is in Sydney.
Gotta agree with this. Even if you buy from a local PC store they probably won't handle warranty claims for you. Gotta RMA it yourself.
then your definitely shopping at the wrong place locally!
You should never have to send anything to the manufacturer directly. Defeats the purpose of having retailers.
I bought a couple of these drives recently and had nothing but problems. Spent several months being stuffed around by Hitachi tech support on when a fix would come out for the reliability issues with NTFS compression. After it became clear they had no idea and could not give a rats, I walked back into the LOCAL Melbourne store and had them swapped to WD's no problems on the spot.
I won't buy hard drives (which typically have 2-5 year warranties) from someone with a half ass warranty process unless the discount was so cheap it was worth the risk.
In case anyone is also interested in the 4tb enterprise coolspin. It dropped a few dollars this week and is now US $129.84 at amazon . I have no idea if the vendor is OK but here's the link
http://www.amazon.com/HGST-MegaScale-3-5-Inch-Enterprise-0F2…
Is this 7200rpm or does it suffer performance losses over the desk star/nas model?
this 7200 vs 5400 rpm thing for a nas ….. thought people would trade off speed to lower power ?
Depends on how fast you want your write speeds when moving large volumes of data.
The cool spin in name means it's the low model
Anyone know what is the quality of Hitachi drives is?
I always use WD now since I dont have confidence in Seagate brand anymore.
Thanks
Found only old article from 2014,
http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/01/puttin…
Nevertheless to say Hitachi is a very good drive
They are indeed good drives.
I just wish they would retire the Deskstar name.
I can't see it without having a post-traumatic flashbacks about the "Deathstar" 75GXP.
My personal experience
I purchased 16* 4TB Deskstar (for use in 2 servers, running 24/7) just over three years ago.
Have RMA'd six of the drives since.
But have also had problems with Seagate and WD as well:
* Of eight WD Red 3TB drives (in Synology NAS, 24/7), two have been RMA'd (about 2.5yrs old).
* Of five WD Black 1TB drives (also in Synology NAS, 24/7), one has been RMA'd just last week (about 2yrs old).
* Of two 3TB Seagate (running in HTPC, approx 12/7), one has been RMA'd (about 2yrs old).
All brands have failures, it's luck of the draw. I genuinely don't think you can draw any accurate failure information without having insight from the manufacturers themselves.
The sheer volumes of drives that are sold, makes accurate data very difficult.
I think this is now expired. Not just because the price changed but also free delivery is no longer available.
I should bought it when I saw this…. awwwww
Has anyone ever dealt with Newegg's Warranty and gone thru RMA procedures? Curious as to how they would want you to ship back an item and whether return post is covered.