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Decent price for an 4TB portable drive. Only available in blue at that price.
Seagate Backup Plus 4TB Portable External Hard Drive US $105.95 (~AU $142) Delivered @ Amazon
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What's the RPM on these things? Can I open it up and stick it into my PC?
it's a portable and likely 5400 .. you may want to try to jam it into a laptop but not really meant for pc.
Why, if you don't mind me asking?
Too slow for general use (OS/apps/games)
Would be fine for storage/archiving and streaming movies i.e. secondary drive
I don't know if I agree with that.
I bought one of those previously and inserted it into my PC. For media purposes, the speed is more than sufficient.
I also have some of my steam games installed on it. The speed difference between this drive and my SSD isn't too big.
I genuinely don't believe games take full advantage of SSDs.
@sax:
Maybe you're playing games that don't make the most of the SSD. Lots of games might save a second or two when loading so it wouldn't be noticeable but some games e.g.
- witcher 3 goes from 15 seconds to so short you can't even read the hints on the loading screen
- battlefield games go from 1min+ to 15-20 seconds
- GTA5 from 45 seconds to 15 seconds
- Skyrim from 15 seconds to 5 seconds (with the gap even more pronounced when you have lots of mods installed).
Above times I've tried with a 7200rpm drive. 5400rpm would be even worse I'd imagine.Or you're not sensitive to loading times. If this is the case then that's good for you; wish I could say the same!
Either way, there's a definitely a good reason they call SSDs the single biggest upgrade you can make to your PC.
It has 15mm drive in it. Too fat for laptops.
Fine for a desktop PC. I have 4x 2TB portable seagates in RAID10 in my desktop and was looking to replace them with 4x 4tb like these as they are silent. Not a fan of 3.5inch desktop drives as they make a lot of noise.
Surely that's due to the RPM, rather than the physical size. If space is not an issue, couldn't you just go with 3.5" 5400RPM drives (i.e. WD Blues)?
Not RPM, 3.5inch make way more noise. I like silent PC's and have Intel750PCIe SSD OS, 2x Samsung SSD RAID1 as scratch drive & 4x 2tb Seagate in RAID10 for storage. Tried in the past 3.5inch WD/Seagate all noisy, 2.5inch HDD hardly audible.
Good Price!
Good for PS4 and XONE
I bought the 5TB silver version just to match my macbook pro (kidding). I am working with lots of high-resolution photo and videos and the disk space ran out very fast. 4TB one has the best value of all.
Does anyone have this drive and confirm it's working ok for the XBox 1? I have the Seagate 3TB Expansion portable drive and it stutters during cut-scenes but it's fine for game play. I don't want to get burn twice.
I have their "official" xbox one, but it's just the same as a normal hard drive. I actually bought it originally because it was green, but then I ended up using it for my xbox anyway. The xbox will just format it for you and it's good to go. I've had no issues.
As for the stuttering, it could be a streamed cut scene. I believe Quantum Break does that. Otherwise the fault is probably with the hard drive / the usb port. There shouldn't be any difference in loading speeds between usb3 and sata hard drives
yes, I agree there shouldn't be any difference. But there seems to be an issue with cut scenes on this Seagate portable drive. Some one else posted the same issue as me here - https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/286718
I just like to confirm before buying another dud.
Another person confirm this could be an issue.
http://www.xboxoneforums.net/forum/7-xbox-one-hardware-acces…
its been on that price for sometime.
its been on that price for sometime.
No it hasn't, this is the lowest it's been and the price just dropped.
Are these the same physical size as the Seagate Xbox branded drives? I want to switch one of these into one of those green cases.
no, these 4tb models are much thicker than the slimline green xbox branded ones
its on Amazon US. will they charge for posting to Australia? whats generally the delivery time?
Is there an extra charge if my australian credit card is used ?Yes postage is charged, price in title already includes delivery charge though. Delivery time is usually around 1-2 weeks. Yeah credit cards usually charge a conversion fee if you pay in USD directly, though many ozbargainers use a fee free card like 28 Degrees or Bankwest Zero which have 0% conversion fees.
Cheers lyl, been wanting to upgrade the PS4 storage for a while now.
For anyone still wondering the new 4.50 firmware supports installing games direct to an external USB drive plus this guy managed to cram one in his PS4 (Star Wars revision 1200)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tj5s6vbYxhcDropped even further - now US$98.99
Shipping price included in the OP.
Bought the black on of these last night ($110 US), must have been only a few hours before the price drop. -_-
Blue colour is cheaper
Yes, it is now. Hence my grievance…
price is now coming as AUD 147.79
Edit - need to select USD as payment option to get $142 price (used bankwest no foreign transaction fee charge)
Might grab one for local backup of my linux isos
Can never have too many backups
How about warranty?
US or International?i bought a 2tb seagate portable in canada from best buy, no issues sending in for warrantee when i got back to oz
Anyone else have issues having this posted to Aus?
Your Amazon.com order of "Seagate Backup Plus 4TB…" has shipped!
Waiting for mine to be shipped…
Thanks, Just bought 2. Price has gone back up to USD109.99
Still a good price though!Mine shipped and estimated delivery - 15th June
https://youtu.be/68ugkg9RePc