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Seagate IronWolf NAS Drive ST4000VN008 4TB 3.5 $146.44 Delivered @ Warehouse 1 eBay
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AssociatedPKorban Dallas @ Warehouse1 on 07/01/2018 - 23:06 ebay.com.au (1298 clicks)
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they make archive drives, green desktop drives, NAS drives etc, each optimisides for a different application, using the wrong one will result in short drive life.
was the same with WD green drives being used for surveillance and NAS drives short life as greens park head quicker to save power , so choose the right drive for the application not just $ per GB.
Get a IronWolf Pro and comes with data recovery included.
But yes WD vs Seagate hasn't been a thing for a few years now.
Standards much higher because the competition is thinned out now.Seagate warranty is so much more convenient in Australia (Sydney address) compared to WD (drives need to be sent to Thailand for RMA). Performance / reliability depends on the type of drive purchased for use. When I've needed to RMA a Seagte drive within the last couple of years, turnaround has been 7-8 days, vs 3-4 weeks for drives sent back via a shop/supplier, or ~2 weeks and additional cost/expense of sending WD drives back to Thailand.
Personally I prefer to pay a little more or shop around till I find decent deals on WD Black, or Seagate Constellation ES.3 drives.
Just before Christmas I managed to pickup 3 new/sealed 4TB Seagate (ST4000NM0033) drives from Ebay for $150 each. All had 0 hours on the clock and are covered by Seagate Australia warranty till mid 2022. ~ a week after the Seagate's I managed to pickup a new/sealed 4TB WD Gold for $178, which is also an excellent drive. All 4 drives are covered by the respective manufacturer's 5 year warranty.
I managed to pickup a new/sealed 4TB WD Gold for $178, which is also an excellent drive.
Where from?
Same Ebay seller I bought the Seagate ES3's from. He sold a few of them for $150 each.
sounds like a good deal. can't seem to find any prices that good on ebay. do they have larger drives like 6TB or 8TB maybe can PM the seller?
I only trust WD
You should never trust a single drive regardless who made them. its just a matter of luck and time your before your single disk fail.
You better off getting smaller size SSD for your main drive and mirror 2 drives for your data.
WD portable can go suck ass but seagate is know to have generally more issues, not because more are used but quality is less.
WD Gold Enterprise-Class HDD is a really good option if you want reliability and high perfomance imo.
Just gotta learn to love again, one bad apple can spoil the bunch so just wait for a new batch, I think 10+yrs might do it…
Be careful with these guys. the drive with be wrapped in paperthin bubble wrap shipped inside an auspost satchel. Do a ozbargain search and there are some horror stories.
Thanks. They better be careful with me as I got quite large social networking sites. :)
mine came in bubble wrap … was much thicker than paper …. bubble was double layered.
Ordered three of those from the same place during the Christmas break.
All three have bad sectors.
Came in a satchel with a bubble wrapping.Sending back.
yup, my last expansion drive was shipped in its retail packaging wrapped in thin layer of black cling film. no protection whatsoever. had issues within 4 months and less than 40 hours usuage.
Can confirm
Don't buy hard drives from these guys
Cant seem to use the Code anymore
If you are checking out with PayPal it must be linked to eBay.
Also need to make sure you haven't used this code 3 times already, as it's limited to 3 uses per account according to the terms.
Limit 3 transactions per person during the Offer Period.
You may need to make a new account.
That might be the case
Wish there is a deal with Synology before pursuing this one
I got myself a Qnap.
I switched from Synology to Qnap. I want to go back to Synology.
Im looking for a cheap NAS with good software (automation etc) ~$300 4/6 bay that will do the job, maybe even dual ethernet? any ideas?
Can this drive be used on surveillance recording?
Any hard drive can….
WD uses Red drives for NAS and Purple for surveillance.
The last two I ordered all past extensive preclear routines, in my UnRaid NAS server now. Just ordered another two!!!
I am going to use RAID1 sick and tired of losing data.
I currently have a portable HDD plugged into my Router. What benefit would this drive have over my existing setup?
Ordered one, thanks!
Careful with this seller, please read the negative feedback on ebay as well as the feedback on whirlpool as I had pretty much the same bad experience with them just before Christmas. They list items that they don't actually have in stock, and caused me to miss out on the POWERUP promotion on a 1080 graphics card. There was also no response to my communications for 12 days after order was placed.
Be careful, dodgy seller. I don't know why they keep posting offers on ozbargain when so many people have bad review
I ordered this morning and just received the despatched notice.
Or maybe you mean they sell faulty products and are lousy on remediation? If so, let's remember what happened to MSY (https://www.accc.gov.au/media-release/msy-technology-ordered…) when customers finally had enough ;-)
Ordered one, so thanks. Needed to replace a drive on an LVM.
Bought 3 Ironwolfs for a Synology also from them. 2 of the drives have thousands of bad sectors. The other one has crazy SMART temperature readings. RMA-ed the drives.
End up getting other branded drives.
Now you tell me…. ;)
No matter. Let's see what happens….
Looks like these guys have a new shop at Docklands in Melbourne. Reckon there's a chance of pickup instead of mail? Potentially avoid the suspect packaging efforts…
Hello All,
We send out many thousands of hard drives a year, we have not seen a big spike in returns of these drives for us to consider anything to be abnormal in regards to the way we send them, but hard drives do have high failure rate relative to other IT products, so it is difficult to gauge such a figure.
Either way we hear your concern and any new orders in future for internal hard drives, will now travel inside boxes for any orders, including extra bubble wrap and etc inside.
This will be a permanent change.
Thanks for the feedback :)
Warehouse1
Good stuff
Given some of the comments here and elsewhere in regard to Warehouse1 and Seagate HDDs, I thought I might list my experience & observation; I ordered on the 8th and received the package by AU post today. This is some sort of record for Australia Post where I live.
The HDD was well wrapped in bubble wrap and tightly packaged.
The HDD is intended as a replacement in a LVM2 array on a linux file server. Some people mentioned that new Seagates are prone to fail SMART and other tests, so I ran some. Tests, that is.
The HDD passed with flying colours (as least for now). It's now been added to the array.
So, Warehouse1 is OK by me. Seagate drives have never really given me any grief so I'm content to see what happens.
I ordered mine on the 7th. Still haven't got it and I didn't get a tracking number….
My drive came dead on arrival. Not happy. I/O device error in Windows. Minitool Partition Manager says Bad Disk. Could not format in Mac OS X. Unable to write to the last block of the device.
Don't Seagate check these or just ship them out and see what happens?
Only good thing was the packaging from Warehouse 1. Haven't contacted them yet but will. Guess I'll have to ship it back so not really a bargain so to speak. Hope others don`t have the same problem as me since I did post this.
@Warehouse1
I was burned by Seagate well over a decade ago, I only trust WD.
Has Seagate now improved where they are very much a worthy contender? I need a new high performance 1TB desktop drive, hence the question