$348.80 when using voucher, plus free shipping.
Less than $350 for a 7200rpm NAS 8TB drive, great deal!
Just bought two to put in NAS, cheapest on staticice is around $400 plus shipping. WD REDS are $460 plus
Can also get the 10TB for $465
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Seagate-ST10000VN0004-10TB-IronWo…
What would you house this in for backup?
Cheap external case or NAS.
What NAS to ozbargainers use these days?
Load xpenology on whatever hardware you have lying around, preferably one of the $199 Microservers https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/48713
I prefer unRAID due to it letting you treat multiple different drives as a single storage point.
That's an extremely tight price, nice, thanks OP!!
If I hadn't already purchased 16TB I'd jump on it.
Amateur question. Would this work in a regular PC?
Yes. They are a standard SATA connector.
I'd buy them except I was burnt by Seagate recently. 3 of 3, 3TB Greens that I bought for my NAS have failed, within 18 months from first to last. I've replaced 2 with HGST and still have my 3TB WD that I bought before any of the Seagates, and before building a NAS was on the cards.
I just purchased 2 x HGST on eBay with 15% off yesterday. Seller now tells me he has no stock.
What to do.
Have also been burnt by Seagate with their barracudas failing. IronWolf is their last chance. They've put everything into these drives to try and win some market back from WD. So I'm giving them a chance.
I'm spewing I missed out on the HGST and WD deals earlier this year :(
I think those issues are long gone now, and they were fairly specific to the 3TB when they were new and pushing the limits of storage.
These days 3TB drives are more than likely 4TB units with a head missing or degraded in firmware.
In the last couple of months I have had my primary 2TB Seagate drive die, but at least that was after 3.5 years and two USB drives getting much lower use. None of my Seagate drives in enclosures bought over the last few years have survived. I think 2TB and under were okayish but 3 and up I have had no luck with.
I still have a handful that are backup drives that almost never get powered on (Less than a dozen times).
I won't touch Seagate anymore. It just isn't worth the time. WD all the way for now.
It's pretty easy to destroy a portable drive if you're not careful with it.
Apparently only if it's a Seagate. I literally have 8 WD drives sitting on my desk by the computer at the moment. When I'm copying large amounts of data I typically turn the fan on. The Seagates still die. The WDs never have.
Moral of all of these stories … raid and backup if you want to keep data! I've had WD, Toshiba and Seagate all die at one time or another.
You bought three drives of the worst size. Seriously, 3TB on every single manufacturer has failure rates much higher than every other capacity drive, sometimes by as much as 4x.
Yes, I know that now. When I bought them, 4TB was the biggest and nearly double the price of I recall correctly, and I didn't know any historical data. Decisions are always made better with hindsight.
What NAS setups are people putting these in? I have a Synology DS413J and I think the maximum size I can use in that is a 4tb.
I'll upgrade if need be.
Thanks.
HP Gen8 all the way 😀
![Seagate IronWolf 8TB [ST8000VN0022] 3.5in 7200rpm SATA 256MB 3yr - $348.80 Delivered @ Warehouse1 eBay](https://files.ozbargain.com.au/n/88/315288.jpg?h=3c9f8021)
Actually very good price for local stock, My WD red 8tbs were about this but bought from amazon and removed from an enclosure.