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Seagate Backup Plus 4TB Portable USB 3.0 Ext HDD Silver + 2mo Adobe CC Photography US $105.34 Shipped (~AU $136.85) @ Amazon US

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Seagate Backup Plus 4TB Portable External Hard Drive USB 3.0, Silver + 2mo Adobe CC Photography (STDR4000900) $ US 105.34 shipped = $ AU 136.85 from Amazon US. Use low fee cards to keep the price low. Great price for a good hard drive. Been using this for a while and have no problems so far.

Includes 2-month complimentary membership to Adobe Creative Cloud Photography Plan. Must redeem by January 31, 2020.

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  • PlushToys on 26/03/2018 - 14:30
    +2

    The 5TB version drops to $US119.99 every so often. Works out to be a better GB per dollar ratio for those who don't mind waiting.

    • CVonC on 26/03/2018 - 14:54
      +1

      The blue one is $122.33 + $7.08 Shipping atm

      • Homr on 26/03/2018 - 15:12

        wow, is that $122.33 AUD?

        I bought a 3TB HD from JB HIfi for $119 not too long ago.

        • Jetkuma on 26/03/2018 - 15:17

          just checked that's USD

        • Homr on 26/03/2018 - 15:19

          @Jetkuma: Doh!

  • sonicentropy on 26/03/2018 - 15:24

    These are SMR drives - Hard Pass

    • pizzaguy on 26/03/2018 - 15:55
      -2

      Thanks, captain, and please let us know as soon as you find 4TB SSD in a similar price.

      • wellzi on 26/03/2018 - 15:59
        +4

        I believe the comparison was between PMR and SMR, not HDD and SSD…

        • pizzaguy on 26/03/2018 - 16:11
          +1

          I'm ready for negs then.

        • wellzi on 26/03/2018 - 16:12
          +1

          LOL.. if they come, I promise they weren't me!

        • garage sale on 26/03/2018 - 17:03

          pmr vs smr, just a speed thing isn't it during write cycle ?

          was going to use for Xbox, which is mainly read, and write when an update (patch) is available.

          Are the older versions of these drives also SMR, I though they added platers, hence the 15mm height instead of 9mm for 2TB drives ?

        • wellzi on 29/03/2018 - 15:27
          +1

          @garage sale: you might find more value in googling the answer to that question rather than asking a pleb like me! ;) .. SMR is a different technology to the standard PMR type drives. The technology enables a vast improvement on the amount of data that you can store on a plate of the same size, but it introduces performance problems. My understanding is that the drive will only handle sequential writes. It's therefore only good for an archive type situation. Once you introduce a high I/O is when you really, really suffer.

          Someone tell me to stfu and slap myself if I'm wrong. :)

    • havebeerbelywillsumo on 26/03/2018 - 16:00
      +1

      (sonicentropy) Dunno why you were negged but can't reverse that for some reason…it may have been that SMR is not recommended for a main drive but fine for a backup which this one is so no need to avoid it on that score…if it was an Archive drive then that would be a valid reason to avoid.

    • c0balt on 26/03/2018 - 16:00
      -1

      Who shucks portable HDDs these days?

      I could understand if it was a 3.5" internal drive that you planned on putting in a NAS or using as a Steam drive - but what other reason could there be that an SMR drive isn't actually a better choice for those looking to get the cheapest GB/$ on an external drive?

      • CVonC on 26/03/2018 - 16:10

        When did this "shucks" term come about anyway??

        • c0balt on 26/03/2018 - 16:11

          Shucking clams. If you have ever shucked a clam and a hard drive you'd know they are pretty much the same job lol!

        • CVonC on 26/03/2018 - 16:14

          @c0balt:

          Lol ah yeah those damn clips.. But yeah I don't do crustaceans so I had never heard of this term up until the last couple of weeks. Wonder why people are saying that now instead of "disassembly" or "tear down" though. Must be the cool kids ^^

        • c0balt on 26/03/2018 - 16:20
          +2

          @CVonC:

          I think it became popularised once manufactures shifted from using shells that could be easily screwed apart to using ones that are held together with plastic tabs that can very easily break when trying to get the drive out.

          For a lot of external drives the only way to get inside is to use force with a prying tool - IMO resembles brute force shucking more than a traditional tear down/disassembly.

      • abb on 26/03/2018 - 16:47

        I shucked a couple of 8GB drives recently, feels a bit wasteful but the cost was cheaper (and the HDD gods saw fit to bestow upon me a bounty of non-shingled drives).

        SMR is fine for many NAS applications anyway, they work perfectly with large files that are never changed…

      • garage sale on 26/03/2018 - 17:06

        sucking comes in handy if the USB board fails (either electronically or physically, the connector).
        I've sucked a few drives and transferred them from the factory USB2 cases to new USB3 cases.
        As to a way to get a cheap drive, the big ones (4tb) are thicker than 9mm, so won't fit into some laptops anyway.

        • CVonC on 26/03/2018 - 17:45

          Did you use this?

      • Agret on 30/03/2018 - 01:17

        I "shuck" them to put them into gaming consoles and laptops (you can get a 2.5" drive adapter to replace the dvd drive in them)

  • TigerWoops on 26/03/2018 - 15:40
    -4

    2 of 2TB hdd is better than one 4TB hdd I think cos if something is wrong with 4TB hdd you loose all in it.

    • c0balt on 26/03/2018 - 15:51

      If something goes wrong then you should have a backup. I'd trust having 4TB on a single drive that is backed up a lot more than I would using 2x2TB drives that are not.

      If you have a lot of data, then single drives are always easier to backup and keep track of than smaller capacity drives.

      The whole reason to get a portable drive is to reduce size/weight, not to carry around extra drives.

      Then there's the biggest issue which is cost per GB. To get cheaper than this means you will need to find a portable 2TB HDD for $68 - which just isn't going to happen. 2TB portable drives usually cost ~$80 on sale which means you will be paying an extra $20+ for the privilege of carrying around extra drives that you don't need to.

    • havebeerbelywillsumo on 26/03/2018 - 16:14

      I'd neg just on the loose usage of "loose" :)

      2x2TB duplicated may be more secure than a single 4TB but in turn your storage capacity is halved so I think "better" is very subjective here.

      As c0balt has rightly inferred any single or indeed double backup has inherent danger. Better IMHO for absolute "must not lose" data to have a cloud backup or even a third drive stored elsewhere. For normal data I think the risk in having only one duplicate is bearable, you'd be unlucky to have 2 drives, as long as they are not same model/same batch, to fail simultaneously…note I add this caveat as this situation has happened to me - within a week 2 drives bought at the same time failed. An extension to that caveat - get a monitoring prog like HD Sentinel, not foolproof but in the instance I mentioned I was forewarned of both fails & so had time to move the data.

    • NobalaKoba on 27/03/2018 - 05:14

      By that logic:

      4 of 1TB hdd is better than two 2TB hdd I think cos if something is wrong with 2TB hdd you loose all in it.

      Just back everything up, you should always do that anyway.

  • Procyon on 26/03/2018 - 15:47
    +2

    If only these had Aussie warranty… or if Amazon AU had prices like these!

    • garage sale on 29/03/2018 - 23:40

      TGG has them , 4tb, down to $138 with ebay discount a few weeks ago, i grabbed 2.

      but yeah amazon deals seem to come up more often.

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