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10 x 4TB = 40TB 2.5in USB-C LaCie Drives with $50 Gift Card $773 + Delivery @ i-Tech

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10 x 4TB = 40TB 2.5in USB-C LaCie Drives with $50 Gift Card $773 + Delivery @ i-Tech
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Korban Dallas on 18/01/2018 - 21:33 i-tech.com.au (1001 clicks)
Last edited 18/01/2018 - 21:34

Need 40TB of storage? I have you covered. Works out really good per TB. Enjoy.

I stumbled across this, price seems a bit too good to be true. Estimated delivery for me was $14.

Not sure if that gift card is a LaCie thing x10 or with the store x1.

Don't forget Cashrewards 1.35%

LACIE BY 10 X LACIE PORSCHE DESIGN PORTABLE 2.5" 4TB USB-C 2YR GET $50 GIFT CARD STFD4000400-50
SKU: 251782

Brand: LACIE

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MPN: STFD4000400-50

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Warranty: 1 Year Manufacturer's return to base

Availability: In stock

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  • silviodante on 18/01/2018 - 21:36
    +4

    P-p-p-price error!

  • kirbuza on 18/01/2018 - 21:37
    +1

    anyone up to groupon this (mod edit: deal) ?

  • Clear on 18/01/2018 - 21:37

    If only they were SAS drives. I'd buy them up in no time!

    • Korban Dallas on 18/01/2018 - 21:38
      +8

      Mate that's for one. This is for 10.

  • asa79 on 18/01/2018 - 21:39

    why would you want 10x 4tb usb drives

    • Korban Dallas on 18/01/2018 - 21:40

      Sell them on ebay for a profit? Make a RAID.

      • asa79 on 18/01/2018 - 21:42

        these drives usually have hard wired usb connectors, so would have to be a usb raid which is poointless

        • Maverick-au on 18/01/2018 - 22:13
          +1

          these drives usually have hard wired usb connectors, so would have to be a usb raid which is poointless

          Some drives have a USB connector onboard, these likely won't as they use drives from various manufacturers and in the major players Western Digital have some drives with USB on board but not Seagate.

          BTW I have over 25 external 4TB and 5TB external drives and over 15 external 1TB and 2TB drives so there is nothing unusual about buying ten plus.

        • Wystri Warrick on 19/01/2018 - 03:57
          +4

          @Maverick-au:

          BTW I have over 25 external 4TB and 5TB external drives and over 15 external 1TB and 2TB drives so there is nothing unusual about buying ten plus.

          You have a very big porn collection.

        • Nugs on 19/01/2018 - 06:28
          +3

          @Wystri Warrick:

          gotta back it up.

          .

    • cryptos on 18/01/2018 - 21:46

      Why wouldn’t you?

      • Korban Dallas on 18/01/2018 - 21:49
        +2

        I make enough money as it is. Used to dropship in my early uni days. I did it for fun and I was jobless.

  • ccsvchost on 18/01/2018 - 21:40

    Definitely a price error, doubt they'll honour this price considering these are the more expensive Porsche design variety.

    • Diji1 on 18/01/2018 - 21:44

      Porsche designed a box.

      • ccsvchost on 18/01/2018 - 21:45

        Yea I dunno how they get away with that lol

        • RedSky on 18/01/2018 - 21:57

          My hard drive goes "VROOM VROOM".

        • asa79 on 18/01/2018 - 22:05

          @RedSky: and then Grind Grind

  • scrimshaw on 18/01/2018 - 21:40

    Odd. Do they ship you a RAID system with drives installed or a box of 10 portable drives?

    • Clear on 18/01/2018 - 21:44

      Literally 10 External HDDs. RAID card would be unusual and far too generous.

  • Krazyy on 18/01/2018 - 21:43
    -2

    Is it SSD or 5400 mechanical drives?

    • ccsvchost on 18/01/2018 - 21:46
      +1

      mechanical

    • Yuri Lowell on 18/01/2018 - 23:51

      40TB of SSD for $773…

      • Krazyy on 19/01/2018 - 00:26

        either way, it was a pricing error…

  • Tigerhacker on 18/01/2018 - 21:46

    I was going to say "10 x" might mean something else/copy paste error but it looks like they genuinely sell 10 of these at a time, there a few other 10x listings at more 'normal' prices.

    Not sure who buys it 10 at a time, maybe some sorta media firm, although I would think the rugged ones make more sense?

    I wonder if these are shuckable (if they even honor the price)

  • stellaaddicted on 18/01/2018 - 21:51

    Sold out?price error? Link takes to error message now!

  • King Steuart on 18/01/2018 - 21:55
    +8

    40tb

    too good to be true

    Can't wait to look back on this thread in 2023 and laugh, having just bought a 100tb micro sd.

  • p1 ama on 18/01/2018 - 21:56

    Probably an error, because it's been removed. To be honest, I doubt this would have been too useful apart from parting them out and selling them on eBay for profit. The USB controller card is hard wired to the hard drive, so you can't even crack the thing open and use it in a server.

    • Korban Dallas on 18/01/2018 - 21:56

      Would like to see one of these open.

    • mathew42 on 18/01/2018 - 21:58

      Tempting for personal offsite rotating backup. Our family photo collection is approaching 2.5TB and that doesn't include video.

      • p1 ama on 18/01/2018 - 22:54

        Fair enough, but 40TB is still plenty far away from 2.5TB!

        Not sure about your backup strategy, but I've just found that having a manual offsite backup is just too much of a hassle (i.e. I never use it!), so I've switched over to OneDrive (https://onedrive.live.com/about/en-AU/plans/) which is $129 per year with 5TB storage and also comes with MS Office. Given I was buying hard drives all the time for my server and worrying about RAID and manual backups…etc. I've just found this to be a lot easier.

        These days, just have a server with two 4TB drives, around 2TB of really important stuff backed up to OneDrive, few TB of stuff I can re-download if I lose so I couldn't care less. It works well.

        • [Deactivated] on 18/01/2018 - 23:35

          One of the problems with using the online 'drive' services as a backup is most of them don't have versioning, so you delete your file locally, and it automatically syncs that file deletion permanently to the cloud…. Which is not much of a backup, especially if you get hit by cryptolocker etc.

          Not being on the NBN I also have a 0.15 MB/s upload speed so just 1 TB takes MONTHS in all practicality.

          But yeah, online drive services are a great supplement to an actual backup strategy. I've used actual online backup like Mozy / Crashplan as well, although having to go through a restore it was PAINFULLY slow on my 8 Mbit/s connection (that's what I get for living in one of the most urbanised areas in a big city apparently…) . :\

        • Solid State Fetish on 18/01/2018 - 23:50
          +2

          @Bargs: Have been using Dropbox for years now and the version history option of it definitely comes in handy sometimes. I don't need it often, but those few times I have needed it I've been super-glad that it's there.

        • p1 ama on 19/01/2018 - 00:09

          @Bargs: I'm not sure of the specifics, but I have versioning on my cloud storage services.

          Regarding being hit by cryptolocker…etc., a strategy would be to turn off live sync and only use sync-on-demand. Then you would only sync when you have a large number of updates to go through, of course by which time you would already be sure that you don't have cryptolocker.

          I put my drives in an enclosure, took them to work and used their direct fibre lines to upload. Left it there for a few days and it was done. Luckily enough, the cloud services were smart enough to just simply check the files were there and not re-download when I put the drives back in at home.

  • haha on 18/01/2018 - 22:00

    Great for backups!

  • abc on 18/01/2018 - 22:01

    Did anyone get this ordered successfully?

  • t25 on 18/01/2018 - 23:36
    +1

    Bugger! I missed out on this!

    Would have shared with a few mates.

  • videoman on 20/01/2018 - 07:28

    So did anyone actually get this deal?

  • shungyiu on 20/01/2018 - 15:18

    Received full refund via PayPal already without any communication other than the initial automated order confirmation email.

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