Seems like a pretty decent price for this drive, at ~$28.5/tb.
Not the lowest price historically though (based on CamelCamelCamel stats for Amazon US).
Ships from Amazon US. Comes with a power adaptor (im guessing a US plug?).
CamelCamelCamel.
Geesus the Amazon reviews people complaining about $5 adapter plug, instead on asking how the warranty will be. Crazy
Says 3 year limited warranty for Asia Pacific region in the specifications sheet download. If its based on UPC code (doesnt have one on the listing, but ill assume its a USA product code), then its a 1 year limited warranty for Americas:
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/712GjdL-jzS…
Should be covered by Australian consumer law, no?
The 8tb is $26.75 per TB.
It sure is. But thats not an 'apples for apples' comparison.
The general 'deal' trend is that the higher the TB capacity, the lower the $/TB. Its not the case always, but its the case in most instances.
Edit: it seems to plateau by the 8tb mark.
It actually increases usually. 16TB Ironwolf is around $1100. WD 14TB has just had a big price drop finally to $680. It's because they are the latest hard drives with the new tech and can transfer at over 250mb/s. Helium drives, more platters, huge reliability specs, enterprise rated, etc.
I got 4 of these from JB hifi for around the same price 2 weeks ago ($185 each for 3 then went back and got another for $172).
They are 5400/5900 (can’t remember which) barracuda compute drives.
I’d rather get this instead…
5TB Portable for $157.
https://www.amazon.com.au/Seagate-Backup-Portable-External-S…
My one came with a whole bunch of adapters, including the aus one
Usual 3 questions:
What's the disk inside
Can we take it out
What's the warranty like