Good price for a pro version
next lowest price at the moment is $185 @Umart
Seagate ST2000NE0025 2TB IronWolf Pro 3.5" SATA3 NAS Hard Drive
Interface: SATA 6Gb/s
128MB Cache
Spindle Speed: 7200 RPM
Max Sustained Transfer Rate: 195 MB/s
5 Years Limited Warranty
Would these be any good as an external hard drive for my Nvidia Shield?
These are better suited for 24/7 used in a NAS/server, so you're better off just getting a proper external hard drive.
In what sense? Wouldn't this last me longer from constant watching of videos?
Well, it's a 7,200 RPM hard drive which is hotter and louder, but if you can live with that then I don't see why not.
Cool, I'll get in my time machine and go back 10 years to when this would have been a large sized drive.
Did anyone say as such?
Got an older NAS - get this or a WD Blue with 5400RPM instead? I'd think the 5400RPM will run cooler and last longer? But this is more warranty.. hmm
Generally you'd want to put higher quality drives in, but between RAID and your backups it comes down to price for most people. $100 for 2TB with data recovery and a 5 year warranty is pretty sweet though, if 2TB is dense enough for you. Know i'm super late, but thought I'd answer anyway
Yeah.. I was going to pull the trigger when they had it at this price last night but didn't because was a bit of dilemma on the rotation speed. Noticed that almost all the drives now including the NAS or appliance ones are all 7200rpm except the WD Blues. My NAS is old (Netgear Stora) can only take 2TBs and one of the drives died. Didn't want to replace the entire unit ($500+ with 2x2TB) so this was most economical.
Back at full price $223.98
And out of stock too so oh well.
If you missed out on this, you can get it for $185 (including delivery) from the computer alliance eBay store found here. Be sure to use the coupon PUSH5 to bring it down to $185 at checkout.
Thanks! Have been meaning to replace hard drives for my media server.