The price on the 4TB HDD has dropped again, same price as last deal posted a few months ago: https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/342141
A great deal for a large storage portable hard drive so get in quick, the price doesn't last long.
CamelCamelCamel.
Probably not too fair to compare pricing on portable drives in that manner, compared to say internals.
I'm talking about a portable external hard drive - my wireless 500gb one is great but the wireless is annoying sometimes.
Looking for a 500gb or 1TB hard drive. 500gb would be absolutely minimum, it would mean deleting stuff off once I no longer need it.
I know, but comparing $1 per TB with externals isn't as fitting as it is with internal drives. Externals each need their own enclosure, usb interface, cable…
At this price, I'd just buy the bigger capacity, they are great units. Wireless would be painfully slow.
@scuderiarmani: it's not the fact that it's painfully slow that's the problem, it's the fact that I have to turn it on and wait everytime I want to use it.
Also - this is an external 4TB yeah? I'm after an external 1TB. Where did the internal one come from??
@pennypincher98: He's saying that it's not a fair comparison looking at $ per GB/TB for external drives. It makes more sense when you're comparing internal drives.
This badboy is a little bit cheaper https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B017KE8OG0/ref=oh_aui_deta… for those who sit either side of the WD / Seagate fence
Shipping costs don't make it worthwhile unless I'm doing something wrong?
The one I listed is $106.95 USD - the OP's is $107.16 USD… I'd say you're doing something wrong ;)
Can the drive be removed in either of them?
CamelCamelCamel notified me of this drive hitting $99 over the weekend. Too fricking late, I say as bought two Seagate drives on Amazon last week.
Any special bracket needed if i remove this and mount inside the cpu?
Yeah, you'll need to purchase a flux capacitor reverse bracket if you want to mount inside your CPU. While this should give enough bandwidth to finish a transfer before you start it. ;)
From reading the feedback on Amazon, looks like this model has the USB interface on the board itself, so no SATA. That said, you could always connect it to an internal USB3 header. Transfer speeds wouldn't be noticably different for a mechanical drive anyway.
That's a bad idea btw.
Piggybacking here, using the internal interface as a direct USB-header setup is a bad idea, it seldom works for long if you get it working at all.
Tried to make a data-farm with super cheap externals doing this a few years back - expensive lesson.
Is this the one that is being used by iron man?
This or the passport? The drive in passport is faster?
Brought! .. I think I need to create some sort of metal frame for the 6 x 4TB portable WD drives I have now.
Holy moly what do you need 24TB of storage for?
Well in the case they have unlimited data, they'll be able to download almost the whole web just in case it ever goes down :D
You severely underestimate the size of the internet.
@dfaktz: lol I think your sarcasm detector is broken. I'm not actually being serious, there is a thing called a joke…
@pennypincher98: Oh.. Well.. The only joke I see is you intentionally adding more data to the internet in the form of comments while I'm trying to back it up.
@dfaktz: Lol intentionally adding more data to the Internet is the opposite of what I would want to do if I was serious…
Porn.
This 24TB is specifically for hot-swappable/portable storage for LAN events (don't want to go into specifics for legality reasons) (Somewhere along the lines of, no ethernet option avail, someone can just borrow the harddrive and copy whats needed) Though, when not being used for that reason, they are usually reconfigured abit and become a part of my backups (rule of 3) keeping images for all devices at home, my entire google accounts archive (where things like wikileaks and wikipedia are fully archived too) and some other things of course.
I realize now how confusing this is without knowing my actual setup or the fact my main server has 70TB storage. Ugh, I would delete it but I just spent too much time writing it, rofl.
TL;DR - I'm in the IT industry, I also help run alot of LANs, I backup alot and I'm a data hoarder.
Real TL;DR Porn.
if no ethernet at LAN events how the (profanity) do you play?
it's called a NAS.. duh!
Will Amazon AU do a price match? :)
Is AUpost handling the delivery?
I'm worried the hard drive may get damaged buy them
0 trust to Aupost
Got mine delivered. It's NOT actually 4 but just 3.63tbs.
$34/TB.
Why aren't 1TB drives ever this cheap??? Haha there's always great deals for massive hard drives I don't need…