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Seagate 4TB Backup Plus Portable (Black) $115.04 USD (~ $155 AUD) Delivered @ Amazon

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Amazon drops the price on Seagate Backup Plus Portable hard drives.

Backup Plus Portable 4TB (Black)
$109.85 + $5.19 USD delivery to pickup point
$109.85 + $6.19 USD delivery to home

Bonus 200GB OneDrive Cloud Storage

200GB of free OneDrive storage for 2 years is included when you purchase a Backup Plus Portable Drive. Makes sharing your favorite files easy and practical.

Must be activated by June 30, 2017. May not be available in all countries.

After registering your drive on Seagate website, a link will be provided to add 200GB to any new or existing OneDrive account.

Cheapest price on staticICE is $199 pick-up.

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  • Skinnerr on 15/10/2016 - 17:36
    +4

    Potentially prepare for this and other amazon faveourites to be discounted this coming black friday.

    • easternculture on 15/10/2016 - 17:50
      +5

      hopefully this will go down to $99

      • Skinnerr on 15/10/2016 - 17:53
        +1

        Or more! Black friday has been the day of a few historical lows!

        • uder on 16/10/2016 - 10:48

          Seriously bring on Black Friday/Cyber Monday. There is a bunch of stuff I need from the US that I have been waiting for.

  • DeWalt on 15/10/2016 - 17:58
    +1

    My 8TB external Seagate HDD only came with 1 year warranty. The box had a sticker saying 1 year and the Seagate website confirmed my unit had a little over 1 year warranty. Can anyone else confirm warranty on their external Seagate drive purchased recently?

    • easternculture on 15/10/2016 - 18:21

      that's a worry if the seagate drives from the US come only with 1 year warranty

      As far as im aware, its 3 years in the APAC

    • rakkie on 15/10/2016 - 21:06
      +2

      I bought one from Amazon last month.

      It says two year limited warranty on the box and the serial number lookup states the same thing:
      In Warranty, Expiration 03-Sep-2018

  • easternculture on 15/10/2016 - 18:30

    its a dupe BTW https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/269928

    • O O on 15/10/2016 - 18:32

      Yep, that's one is expired.

      • easternculture on 15/10/2016 - 18:33
        +1

        Duplicates

        Exceptions:

        The original deal is older than one month, and was expired or sold out between then and now.

        So still a dupe. You would have to remove expiry from old deal

        And another dupe too https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/269249

  • lostn on 15/10/2016 - 20:41

    Is it as thin as in the thumbnail?

    Or is this the thickness? https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/G/01/aplusautomation/vendorimages/062b8a67-100c-4858-9d51-4edc250a62db.jpg.CB316899453.jpg

    • Kangal on 15/10/2016 - 21:29
      +1

      I believe the hard-drive itself is ~15mm in thickness. And the outer-casing is about 21mm thickness.

      If you're thinking about using it for a PS4 or a laptop; you're out of luck.
      You need a 9.5mm thick (or less) hard-drive for those compact devices.
      And such devices can only house 2TB spinning-drives for now.

      The market for spinning hard-drives is getting much thinner; the flash market is taking over.
      SSD's are getting so much cheaper, that its becoming non-sensical for HDD.

      And if you need more than 2TB at 9.5mm thin (or less)… than SSD's are the way to go.
      They won't be cheap… but SSD's don't need large moving units, and can fill more chips into the package.

      • lostn on 16/10/2016 - 00:28
        +2

        The cost per GB of SSD is still nowhere comparable.

        I think spinning HDDs will have a place for a few more years yet. Until SSD can be the same price per GB as today's magnetic HDDs, they are here to stay.

        I was more curious if they managed to squeeze 4TB into the thinness of the thumbnail image. I guess that image is inaccurate.

        • Kangal on 16/10/2016 - 07:24

          Yeah… what I meant is that HDD will almost completely vanish from the consumer devices.

          But they will still be available as cheap, high capacity external drives.
          And more importantly, they will be added to cloud/servers as the world becomes more digital.

          The thumbnail image is wrong.
          The image in the Amazon ad is correct though.

        • lostn on 16/10/2016 - 09:26
          +1

          @Kangal: I'm still going to have an HDD in my desktop to store downloaded apps and media that don't require fast access speed. I can't afford to have those in SSD, and it's more convenient to always be accessible than a portable drive.

          Until they discontinue making magnetic HDDs, I don't see myself switching to SSD exclusively because even when SSD is as cheap as a 2TB HDD now, the HDDs would be higher in capacity for the same price… unless they agree to phase out the tech and stop making them. I'm not so sure if WD and Seagate are willing to give up that market though.

        • Kangal on 16/10/2016 - 17:30

          @lostn:
          I think you're unfairly optimistic about the future of HDDs.
          There's less and less companies trying to innovate/improve the technology.
          But there is plenty of companies making/improving SSDs… the biggest hurdle to SSD's are price.
          And the price to manufacture the machines that make flash storage is crashing.
          So the price of flash storage is getting lower and lower.

          The problem is that HDDs are large platers with plenty of internal/moving parts.
          So a HDD can't really get much smaller. And it can't really increase its capacity too dramatically
          (the usual formula has been to slowly improve individual platter capacity, then later double/triple up on platers).

          SSD's don't have those limitations… so they will surpass in HDDs in terms of physical size, capacity, and even specific price points. In fact they estimate the price difference between a 500GB and a 2TB HDD to become insignificant.
          Whereas the price of a 512GB SSD is going to match the price of a 1TB HDD after about 12 months.

          I would say HDDs will be very ancient by 2020… where there will be "cheap" SSDs to supplement HDDs, and a new-grade of SSDs for the mid-range and high-end models. Seagate is owned by Samsung, which has given up the HDD market and gone all-in with flash-storage. WD has just recently caved, and are in the SSD race too.

        • lostn on 16/10/2016 - 19:09
          +1

          @Kangal:

          There's less and less companies trying to innovate/improve the technology.

          I don't need innovation, I just want GBs for cheap, which is what they provide. If SSDs are the same price today as HDDs, I'm dropping HDDs permanently.

          But there is plenty of companies making/improving SSDs… the biggest hurdle to SSD's are price.

          I agree. And I don't see them catching up to HDDs in value for years to come. The only thing that can force people off HDDs is to discontinue making them. But since WD and Seagate have a huge stake in HDDs but not a huge stake in SSDs, I don't see them bowing out of the HDD industry.

          And the price to manufacture the machines that make flash storage is crashing. So the price of flash storage is getting lower and lower.

          That's a very good thing. There's just a long way to go before they catch up.

          I just looked at MSY prices.

          Samsung 850 EVO 2TB - $869
          Seagate 3.5" 2TB HDD - $97

          When they can get the price of SSD down by 90%, I will adopt SSDs as my storage drive for movies and music.

          Believe me, I have no love for HDDs as a technology. But right now, for storing large amounts of data, they're the only viable option.

          The problem is that HDDs are large platers with plenty of internal/moving parts.
          So a HDD can't really get much smaller.

          They can't, but their highest capacity at the moment is a few times bigger than the highest capacity SSDs. And I don't even want to imagine how much an 8TB SSD will cost when a 2TB is $869. For that money I'd rather buy a GTX1080.

          SSD's don't have those limitations… so they will surpass in HDDs in terms of physical size, capacity, and even specific price points. In fact they estimate the price difference between a 500GB and a 2TB HDD to become insignificant.

          They will eventually, just not now or any time soon. When do you think a 2TB SSD will be available for under $100? Give an estimate in years.

          The highest capacity HDD I can see right now is 8TB which is plenty for now even if they can't increase it. Seagate 8TB SSHD is $365. When do you think you will be able to get an 8TB SSD for that price?

          I welcome the day SSD replaces HDD. But I'm not prepared to help accelerate this date by dumping HDD and going all-SSD.

          SSD's don't have the size limitations HDDs have, but they are nowhere close to hitting that ceiling, so right now that limit is an irrelevancy.

          Whereas the price of a 512GB SSD is going to match the price of a 1TB HDD after about 12 months.

          That may or may not happen, but what you don't seem to be understanding is why I don't go all-SSD. So I might have 2TB worth of photos, movies, and music, as well as backups of critical files. SSD's draw is it's much faster access time and transfer rates. Watching these movies or listening to this music, your experience is not going to be improved by the fast speed. They will still play at the same frame rate as they would be on an HDD. So storing all this media on fast SSD is overkill. You're paying extra for no measurable gain. It's faster to transfer from drive to drive, but you can't download movies faster on SSD than you can on HDD, because the bottle neck is your internet connection.

          I would say HDDs will be very ancient by 2020

          They're already ancient now. The tech has been around since the 80s. Doesn't mean I'll stop using them unless the better tech is available for the same price, because at the end of the day, for some uses, SSD is overkill, and you're paying more for nothing. The only way I see SSD catching up to HDD in price per GB is if all HDD manufacturers agree to discontinue making them.

          Seagate is owned by Samsung, which has given up the HDD market and gone all-in with flash-storage. WD has just recently caved, and are in the SSD race too.

          They're still making and selling HDDs. When they close up those plants, we'll finally see the tech get phased out. But right now, they realize there's still too big of a market to close up shop. If they just stop making HDDs now, there will be a big void in the market for storage that is $50 per TB. A 960GB Sandisk Ultra II SSD is $345, so 7x the price. When HDDs are gone from store shelves and SSDs are the price of HDDs, HDD is done. Until then, there's no point paying 7X the price for no performance gain when storing your large media.

          I use an SSD for the OS and installed apps. Those benefit from faster access. The things that don't (media) go on a second drive (HDD). It's just too expensive to buy a 2TB or 4TB SSD right now.

        • Kangal on 16/10/2016 - 20:01

          @lostn:
          I agree with you on all accounts.

          Samsung's recent Global Summit they announced that HDDs will actually increase slightly in price (less manufacturing, and slim profits). Whereas SSD's prices will begin to crash.

          The most expensive HDDs are ones with low-capacity, and one with high-capacity.
          You might be able to buy a 2TB HDD for $100.
          But if you go looking to buy a 200GB HDD for $10, you won't find it.
          And if you go looking to buy a 10TB HDD for $500, you might be hard pressed.
          …the middle capacities is where the most competition, and best prices are to be had.

          This concept also extends to SSDs low, mid, and high capacities.
          You can find 256GB SSDs for $100.
          But if you go looking to buy a 64GB SSD for $25, you won't find it.
          And if you go looking to buy a 4TB SSD for $800, you will be hard pressed.

          Why do I bring this up?
          It's because both HDDs and SSDs currently have different "middle capacities".
          So SSDs will match HDDs in terms of price/GB sooner than later… but they won't match at the same capacity.

          Thus, you'll have to wait quite a few more years to see 2TB SSDs for $100.
          But they will be very affordable at lower capacities sooner than you think.

        • lostn on 18/10/2016 - 21:41

          @Kangal:

          Samsung's recent Global Summit they announced that HDDs will actually increase slightly in price (less manufacturing, and slim profits). Whereas SSD's prices will begin to crash.

          Yeah you're right. Margins are not that worthwhile for them any more on HDDs. SSDs make more money. This is maybe their first move towards a no-HDD future. But old technologies have a stubborn time getting phased out. DVDs for example are here to stay despite their SD resolution. Bluray still hasn't been able to outsell DVD on a per-movie basis.

          You might be able to buy a 2TB HDD for $100.
          But if you go looking to buy a 200GB HDD for $10, you won't find it.
          And if you go looking to buy a 10TB HDD for $500, you might be hard pressed.

          You can't buy those quantities for those prices, but they don't make them in those quantities either. Your point remains though, the cost per GB is not constant for every capacity. The higher capacity HDDs tend to be cheaper per GB. I remember a time when going up to a higher capacity was a jump of $5 each step.

          This concept also extends to SSDs low, mid, and high capacities.
          You can find 256GB SSDs for $100.
          But if you go looking to buy a 64GB SSD for $25, you won't find it.
          And if you go looking to buy a 4TB SSD for $800, you will be hard pressed.

          Yeah they don't make 64GB or 4TB either. SSDs have a clear sweet spot and it's not necessarily at the high end. Even if it was, I can't justify buying the highest capacity. I think 500GB is a perfect balance for me… for the time being. M.2 SSD (950 Pro) is still significantly more expensive than SATA unfortunately. And Intel have something better coming soon.

          So SSDs will match HDDs in terms of price/GB sooner than later… but they won't match at the same capacity.
          Thus, you'll have to wait quite a few more years to see 2TB SSDs for $100.
          But they will be very affordable at lower capacities sooner than you think.

          I get your point. And it's a fair point. But I do need them to match those capacities so I can store TBs worth of media if the industries intention is to phase out the HDD. Otherwise, as ancient as HDD is, if I want 4TB+, they are still the one to beat. In a few years maybe 2TB SSD will cost $200. But with PC games taking up in excess of 50GB now (I heard Gears of War 4 or some other recent game takes up 75GB), maybe even 2TB won't be enough. I'll also have accumuluated a fair amount more data to store on a storage drive.

          I really hope for a new tech (not SSD) to come around to replace the HDD. This new tech would ideally not be as expensive or fast as SSD, but it won't be mechanical either. Its sole purpose would be the most affordable option as a storage drive, and not intended to replace the SSD as the OS drive.

        • Kangal on 18/10/2016 - 22:47

          @lostn:
          We could have decent mid-step offerings.
          However, the industry does not want that. They want cheap HDDs, or SSDs.
          Almost no middle-ground.

          We could have something like:
          High capacity hard drive (9mm 8TB)
          Double-platter (supposedly faster than triple platters, and single platters)
          Innovative Dual-Head design (x2.5 read speeds)
          Built-in fast flash-cache (random speed increase)
          Large hybrid system (64GB nand rather than puny 8GB nand)
          ^^That solution could work.

          But people rather just grab a 128GB SSD install the OS, then plug a 4TB HDD for storage and call it a day.
          And honestly… I don't see a problem with that logic.

          (PS… Samsung's new UFS standard is MUCH Much faster than a Hard drive, much faster than a microSD card, and a bit slower than a full-blown SSD).

  • abhayks on 16/10/2016 - 08:17

    Will this be usable as an external hard disk for Xbox one? My current capacity is almost full and I need to uninstall old games to install new once.

    • Smigit on 16/10/2016 - 10:02

      According to some of the questions and answers, it should work fine. I use a different 2.5" portable drive on mine without issue.

    • DanielR on 16/10/2016 - 10:29

      I use the 4TB fast version of this for Xbox one, btw the fast version has 2x 2TB drives in it setup as Raid 0, this I believe is just 1x 4TB drive

      • lostn on 16/10/2016 - 12:49

        If one of those Raid0 drives fail, they both fail. Kinda risky. But for a console it's no big deal I guess as long as your saves are backed up to the cloud.

  • iamkuza on 16/10/2016 - 20:49
    +1

    Thanks op

    Purchase one to store all my GoPro footage and raw files

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