Seagate Expansion Desktop 8TB USB 3.0 - US $162.46 (~AU $216.58) Shipped @ Amazon US

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taimou on 09/12/2017 - 22:31 amazon.com (390 clicks)
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Re-posting this drive, a little cheaper than last time (even with AUD going the wrong way)
Old post: https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/331849

Very cheap way to populate a NAS, @ less than half the cost of a bare drive sourced from MSY

Not quite the cheapest this drive has ever been (https://camelcamelcamel.com/Seagate-Expansion-Desktop-Extern…)

But pretty close

To get AUD $216.58 the I selected USD currency paying with CBA MasterCard for exchange rare 1 USD = 1.332785 AUD

You can find the MasterCard Currency converter here (https://www.mastercard.us/en-us/consumers/get-support/conver…)

Amazon offered $1.37 to bill directly in AUD, avoid this if you can

I have ordered one of these previously and shucked it to recover a Seagate Barracuda Pro ST8000DM004 - hard drive - 8 TB - SATA 6Gb/s

https://www.seagate.com/au/en/internal-hard-drives/hdd/barra…

Last time I was able to plug it straight in to a PC SATA port and then Synology immediately recognised @ full capacity

Your mileage may vary, I will update this thread when I get my new one and open it

Price History at CamelCamelCamel.

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  Kegsta on 09/12/2017 - 23:04

  I have ordered one of these previously and shucked it to recover a Seagate Barracuda Pro ST8000DM004 - hard drive - 8 TB - SATA 6Gb/s.

  These are not Baraccuda Pro. They are Barracuda Compute (Archive v 2.0)
  Barracuda Pro is ST8000DM0004 (note the extra 0)

  The first one I had made loud noises and died within about 2 hours, luckily amazon paid for return postage and refunded me, second one seems fine so far, much like my old archive drives.

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    taimou on 09/12/2017 - 23:09

    Thx for the correction, also for the heads up on the noisy drive refund

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    buneyha on 09/12/2017 - 23:29

    so they don't have any issues with you open and putting it back?
    I find seagate clips breaks so easily.

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      Kegsta on 10/12/2017 - 00:12

      There's no way you could tell from the outside, looks as new.

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  Vladdo on 10/12/2017 - 00:14

  My 3x Seagate expansion drives turned up today. I just cracked them open and they were all Seagate Compute drives. Unfortunately I cracked most of the tabs unshucking them.

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    KennyPowers on 10/12/2017 - 08:15

    Try something like this in future. Wont leave marks on the plastic and may help remove them without breaking the tabs:
    https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Plastic-Clip-Audio-Door-Installa…

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      Vladdo on 10/12/2017 - 09:07

      I used a guitar pick , which is a very small thin piece of plastic.. works great for everything besides seagate clips, as they break so easy. I'd be surprised if anyone managed to unshuck one without breaking at least a few tabs..

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        KennyPowers on 10/12/2017 - 09:20

        I managed to unshuck a WD without damaging the tabs. Required 4 peices wedged in at a time. Think of it legato Satriani style:p gotta be smooth, clean and even pressure.

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        Vladdo on 10/12/2017 - 09:24

        @KennyPowers: Yeah.. No probs with the WDs.. those are easy in comparison.

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    wisc on 15/12/2017 - 09:41

    what type of drives, model number?

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      Vladdo on 15/12/2017 - 10:46

      +1

      ST8000DM004-2CX188

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  B3 on 08/01/2018 - 11:47

  Just did a search and this looks to be about the 15th time this drive has been listed as a bargain at Amazon.

  https://www.ozbargain.com.au/search/node/8TB%20expansion%20d…

  It is a good deal which is why it gets posted so often. I got 2 delivered last week and they are the compute / archive drives as mentioned above. Working fine so far.

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    B3 on 08/01/2018 - 13:14

    Whoops this was meant to be in another listing for these drives. Ignore sorry!