Seagate 4TB Backup Plus Portable hard - lowest its been! The blue ones were the same price a couple of weeks ago.
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Weird, my screen show Black one is $99.99 and blue one is $114.81….
I means a couple of weeks ago, it's around $15 difference at the moment.
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Thanks! Just bought one
Personally, I would spend another US $35 and get a HGST.
They are much more reliable. According to BackBlaze, you have a 1 in 6 chance of Seagate 4TB failing per year, with 1 in 100 for an HGST.
Can you recommend a USB case you would use with this drive.
and a power supply to use with this drive. 😉
and a shrinkage machine
Why would you compare a portable with an internal drive? Am I missing something?
No, they're just an idiot.
I assume if you get a cheap enclosure to go with it.
Yep. You can't generalise. Some Seagate drives have lower failure rates than HGST drives.
And yep, it was only one model of Seagate drive (ST4000DX000) that had higher than average failure rates; not all 4TB Seagate drives.
2016 figures: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-benchmark-stats-20…
You're equating standard desktop hard drives that BackBlaze reports on with these 2.5 inch portable drives. Failure rates for these may be completely different.
At the end of the day we don't have the data on these drives to compare. Even for the ones BackBlaze does measure, there is a delay of several years before failure rates become apparent.
It's definitely prudent to consider that Hitachi has a good track record and Seagate had a defective batch of desktop drives a while back but you shouldn't draw too broad of a conclusion.
I hope you're right, unfortunately the reality is far beyond what you read, beside don't treat that as a reliable source, as of there are so many questions of why / what / how that they don't bother answering it.
That's a nice price!
Awesome! Been tracking it on Amazon for a while now. Great price. Just ordered one.
Tempted to get one for the Xbone.
With Seagate I always recommend a backup within a backup on another more reliable branded hard drive. Their failure rates are horrible!
wouldn't it be cheaper to just skip the unreliable backup?
Any drive can fail at any time.
Like all manufacturers, Seagate has some great drives with very low failure rates, and some models that have higher than average failure rates. Generalising is pointless when you're buying a specific drive.
Seagate's overall failure rate is around average, and not the worst for the industry depending on how you measure it.
eg., https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-failure-rates-q1-2…
Ive just had a Corsair Force GT 120gb SSD fail me in under 3.5 years…. I've got a mix of seagate barracuda and WD blue mechanical drives in my pc which are still all going strong 6+ years on… Ive never found one brand to be noticeably better or worse… Just shows hard drives break and you cant predict it.
Except if you'd actually checked the stats recently and stopped spewing that bullshit you'd know how wrong you are.
I'm assuming no warranty? Seagate comes with 3 year local warranty in Aus, but only 1 year in the US
Can I crack the case and install the drive into my laptop? my 1Tb is running out of storage.
The drive inside does have a SATA interface, but is thicker (15mm) than regular 2.5" drives so may not fit inside your laptop.
https://www.servethehome.com/seagate-4tb-2-5-sata-hdd-124-ge…
OP link shows USD$114.69 sold by Skytech and "this item does not ship to Australia".
Am I too late?
sorry guys, I'm new to shopping on Amazon but this deals says won't send to Australia address… am I missing something?
Try again - says available to me. Maybe it was just out of stock when you tried.
They look to be back in stock again, the black one at least anyway.
Blue available for the same price now.
Shipping for the blue version is USD$19 though for some reason
Good deal!
With ParcelPoint delivery it works out to $106.07 USD for me = roughly $140 AUD. Damn good deal, thanks OP!
How Can I change to pick up at parcelpoint? I could not find it how.
Checked my 28 degrees credit card, charged $139.64, I'm stoked! ParcelPoint is great, so many places to pickup from. Only negative is delivery date, 25th July.
It's 10:05AM AEST, and I'm still able to order the black one for USD99. Chose ParcelPoint pickup and worked out to be AUD145.
The blue ones were a couple of dollars cheaper. 😉