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Seagate 10TB Expansion Desktop Hard Drive $291.96 + Delivery (Free with Prime) @ Amazon US via AU

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Looks like the price for the Seagate Expansion 10TB (STEB10000400) got adjusted today as it was circa $307 when I checked this morning. It's now better than the end of the last deal in June 2020 where it was hovering around $297, but keep in mind that this is fulfilled by Amazon US and hence the price will likely fluctuate on a day to day basis.

At $29.196 per TB for what is potentially a Seagate Barracuda Pro 7200rpm drive which is surprisingly rated as compatible for NAS use by Synology, this could be a great bargain way to fill your NAS! This is substantially cheaper than local bricks and mortar stock pricing which ranges from $375ish (JB Hifi - when I asked for a deal) to $448 (Harvey Norman weren't willing to budge from sticker price).

On a related note, Shopback/Cashrewards appears to still be tracking on Computing category devices so you may get 5% off!

Note this is not the cheapest it has been where it was once $275 but given the current market conditions, I think this is as good as it'll get for the time being. And don't worry you don't need to be kind to me.

EDIT 13/07/2020 - Shopback
Just got my Shopback of $13.27 making this net $278.69. Unfortunately I've already maxed out my monthly Suncorp Benefits discounted Amazon egift cards so couldn't get the further 3% off :(

EDIT 28/07/2020
Price has fallen to $285.55 (maybe combine with the $3 Cashrewards bonus on Amazon for even more cashback goodness?)

And kellyly has received an Seagate Exos X16 10TB 7200 RPM SATA 6Gb/s 3.5-Inch Enterprise Hard Drive (ST10000NM001G) inside their expansion drive.

EDIT 29/07/2020
My drive arrived today and I also got the ST10000NM001G-2MW103 drive. Looks like there is a bit of a lottery going on! And in case anyone is still asking, yes it does come with the AU plug (and interestingly, an AU consumer guarantee slip).

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  • jace88 on 12/07/2020 - 20:38
    +2

    I ordered this and now the big debate over whether I swap it with the 8TB WD white labelled drive in my PC since if it's a Barracuda Pro (ST10000DM0004), it would also make a great desktop PC drive too, and the WD could go into my NAS RAID.

    • maybe a bot on 12/07/2020 - 21:10
      +8

      How's that SMR working out for you?

      That shit ruined my faith in WD.

      • Trance N Dance on 12/07/2020 - 21:25
        +5

        All of the HDD manufacturers submarined SMR drives into their commercial retail lines. It's a problem with all the brands, not just WD. The only difference is WD were the ones brazen enough to submarine SMR drives into their NAS specific lines and got caught with performance issues that didn't line up with the marketing they used to promote that line.

        WD's hand was forced and they were the first brand to publish what tech went into what drive which then forced Seagate and Toshiba to publish theirs. The fact that no-one publishes their data and tried to submarine SMR into their range says they're all as shady as each other, the difference is who's brazen enough to push the limit on where they submarine these drives.

        • maybe a bot on 12/07/2020 - 21:31
          +2

          Of course, because SMR is a mighty fine technology for consumer drives. Consumers are not nearly as demanding on their drives and SMR can deliver similar performance to traditional drives for most uses (especially write-once, read-many like games drives or content storage).

          I'm referencing the WD Red SMR incident, since most of these posts are people wanting shuck drives for NAS or workstation use. SMR is totally unsuitable for ZFS or Synology HybridRAID use, and WD knew that (well, HGST knew that, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2lnMxMUxyc, but WD basically assimilated them a year later), which makes their stupid decision a lot worse in my mind.

          • Trance N Dance on 12/07/2020 - 21:39
            +3

            @maybe a bot: The point is, any of the HDD manufacturers can shaft you at any time. The only reason everyone is hating on WD is because they were the ones who were dumb enough to do it to a line of hard drives that were specifically marketed at NAS use and burned their consumers. This doesn't mean Seagate nor Toshiba won't do something as stupid in the future.

            If anything, how WD handle it from here is where it makes or breaks their trust. They've published their full list of SMR drives, they've agreed to replace SMR red drives with CMR drives for those affected and have now made it clear which drives are SMR and which drives aren't SMR in their consumer line up. As long as the drives don't fail prematurely at a high rate, that's good enough for me to continue buying WD. Because tomorrow all 3 manufactures can still burn you with the next trick they have up their sleeve.

    • Trance N Dance on 12/07/2020 - 23:42
      +1

      You comment has a massive flaw if it's based off backblaze data. There are no WD (blue/red/red pro/black/purple) drives to compare Seagate to.

      • syousef on 13/07/2020 - 00:55
        -4

        The Backblaze data shows that at least at one point the failure rate on Seagate 3 and 4 TB drives was ridiculously high. And this went on for some years from my experience and from their reports. Hardly an endorsement of how well Seagate backs its storage. Sure the WD drives might be bad, but there's no hard evidence they are en mass the way we had with the Seagates. Prove to me that Seagate have changed their handling of failing drives and that their newer drives are better and sure I'll start buying them again. Haven't seen any such evidence.

        • Trance N Dance on 13/07/2020 - 01:14
          +1

          Correct me if I'm wrong but that stint of Seagate failures was 1 or 2 gens ago wasn't it? The latest data from Backblaze is showing a more reasonable failure rate now for the current Seagate drives.
          There's also the fact that Backblaze are using these drives out of spec jamming 60 drives into one box which would be very bad for any regular use drives and induce a higher failure rate than using just the one or two in a normal PC.

          That aside, the point of my original comment is the Backblaze data doesn't provide a point to compare consumer WD and Seagate drives, so the whole comment of WD being better than Seagate is unsubstantiated for current gen consumer drives as we have no data to indicate how reliable the WD drives are.

          • jace88 on 13/07/2020 - 01:19

            @Trance N Dance: Is Backblaze data really comparable with shucked drives? I found an old article about how they used to farm retail stores and shuck drives during the Thailand floods, but as far as I can tell, there isn't much data available on reliability of the so-called "white labelled reds" (or the apparent unicorn of this Seagate Barracuda Pro inside being suitable for 24x7 use?).

            • Trance N Dance on 13/07/2020 - 02:34
              +2

              @jace88: No.
              It'll only give an overview of how reliable a certain line of drives from each manufacturer is as they'd all be using the same or very similar manufacturing techniques and technology (air filled/helium filled, CMR/SMR, platter density, etc). Even then Backblaze's data at the moment realistically only reflects the reliability of enterprise grade drives considering 2/3 of the Seagate drives are Exos and the 6TB DM drive listed isn't even available for retail consumers. As for the HGST drives listed the HMS5C are enterprise grade drives that aren't readily available for retail consumer purchase new, same goes for the ALN604, ALE600 appear to be Ultrastars (maybe related to previous generations of the current HC500 range).
              When they shucked drives in the aftermath of the Thailand floods, it was great for consumers because we could get the same drives that they were publishing statistics for. Now not so much as they seem to be using and moving to using purely enterprise grade drives, with most being available only via commercial channels rather than retail.
              Some people take it as an indicator for each brand as a whole if each drive for each brand all show similar failure rates. And hence why we have a bunch of people swearing up and down that Seagate is worse than WD because Seagate did have a run of relatively high failure rates a couple of years ago. As to whether than still stands true or not, the fact Backblaze uses almost 3 times as many Seagate drives compared to HGST drives might say something about what they perceive Seagate to be. If it's cost related then the failure rate is tolerable and makes good value for money. If it's not because of costs or a distribution contract then that speaks to good performance as Backblaze wouldn't have a reason to not switch manufacturers as consistently higher failure rates would be costing them money in down time.

    • syousef on 13/07/2020 - 00:51
      +1

      Why the negs?

      I use a lot of storage. I do a bunch of photography and video and store astro catalogs, VMs and images so I'm not the typical user. My personal experience has been to lose about 4-5x as many Seagate as WD over the last 5 or 6 years. I use to be a Seagate fan but after that I stopped buying Seagate. The failure rate on their 3.5" 3 and 4 TB drives and their 2.5" drives was unacceptable. I literally have 2 in regular use now vs about 10 WD and I started with all Seagate. It may be anecdotal but when you've had that many drives die from a single brand you have to stop buying that brand.

      The WD drives I've had die have died more gracefully too. I still have one with bad sectors that is serving up non-critical files I have backed up elsewhere and that I'm going to replace as soon as it dies. Thing is it started dying a year ago and refuses to finally completely die. (I've actually never personally seen that before in a drive. Normally with heavy use a drive dies soon after developing bad sectors. I'm certainly not putting anything I care about on the drive.)

      I'm no shill for WD. If their drives start dying I'm going to be looking elsewhere in a heartbeat.

      • syousef on 13/07/2020 - 09:21
        +1

        Anonymous voting on Ozbargain just plain sucks.

      • jace88 on 13/07/2020 - 09:36
        -1

        Honestly I think the negs just come back to the point that 99% of the comments in a Coke vs Pepsi style debate are going to be anecdotal, and even those who reference Backblaze, don't necessarily appreciate the nuances in the dataset as to how they may or may not be relevant in the case of shucked drives. That being said, there's an insightful comment above addressing this: https://www.ozbargain.com.au/comment/8989571/redir

        • syousef on 13/07/2020 - 10:35

          When your annecdote is that you literally started with a dozen Seagate drives bought over a 2-3 year period, 10 of which failed prematurely and you've replaced with another brand that has not failed in a similar amount of time, I think that's worth sharing without it being negged. While not scientific, that's the best you can expect from most actual consumers.

          I also think your comment about "nuances in the dataset" is rather arrogant given you don't know the background of specific Ozbargainers commenting.I don't care to go back through all the datasets now, but I can promise you when I had about $1500 in drives die on me over that 2-3 year period I dug deep through Backblaze reports and looked at which specific models were most affected etc. What struck me most however wasn't the failure rate on a particular model of drive but Seagate's awful response, both to me personally and based on what others were reporting. The entire practice of replacing new with refurbished isn't unique to Seagate but means I effectively think of these drives as having no warranty.

          If I can't even share the annecdote without being negged I certainly have no incentive to wade through the blogs and reports to pull out data that supports what I'm saying. It's only going to get buried with negs such that those that might benefit from seeing it won't.

          I repeat. Anonymous negative voting on Ozbargain just plain sucks.

          • jace88 on 13/07/2020 - 11:44

            @syousef:

            I also think your comment about "nuances in the dataset" is rather arrogant given you don't know the background of specific Ozbargainers commenting.

            This was a sufficiently broad comment because if you look at the history of drive deals on OzBargain (or at least the ones I've posted), you'll always get people who quote the headline stats from Backblaze of how many drives of brand X failed vs. brand Y, without much discussion going a few layers deeper of the specific drive models, manufacturing date, etc… let alone acknowledging the white label drives shucked out of a case may or may not be the same models or built to the same specifications/tolerances/binning (or even firmware locked) as those sold without an external case around them.

            I'm not disputing your personal experiences and everyone is going to have their own history/experience which guides their preferences on the topic - I was simply answering your opening question of why people might be negging the comment.

            ps. For the record, I wasn't the one who negged you and actually gave you a positive vote to bring balance back…

          • Trance N Dance on 13/07/2020 - 13:31
            +1

            @syousef: @syousef

            It's not that anecdotal evidence isn't appreciated but rather how it is presented or more importantly perceived.
            - Just blurting something out without some backstory (or the anecdotal evidence part of anecdotal evidence) isn't constructive.
            - Unfortunately there will always be fanbois who will always attack the brand they're not behind, and there will always be people who for whatever reason get offended for not having their viewpoints repeated to themselves.
            - It doesn't help that the flavour of the months at the moment is to hate on WD because of their SMR fiasco.
            Anonymous negs are annoying, but if there's a disproportionate number of negatives compared to positives, then there might be a reason.

            As for the background of this specific Ozbargainer commenting, I'll give you that I don't have a background in computer science or data storage; but I do have some tertiary education on documenting, interpreting and manipulating statistics and use it on a regular basis to try and identify what is crap and what isn't when it comes to the claims the manufacturers/researchers throw at me.

            Over the years I've had and seen more WD drives fail than Seagate, but that doesn't stop me from buying more WD drives or make me preference Seagate drives. I'm happy to buy whatever that's good value for money at the moment after doing some research (and using anecdotal evidence from a wide range of power users of current drives has to say). My anecdotal evidence from years ago is highly irrelevant now, as they're not the same drives as the ones being sold today.

            • syousef on 13/07/2020 - 15:34
              -1

              @Trance N Dance: Dude you're just gaslighting. I didn't "blurt" anything out. I related my story. I don't need to do it in a specific way to make you feel better and I don't believe for a moment that if the words I used had been chosen to suit your sensibilities (or someone else's) that the neg wouldn't have happened. The anonymous voting encourages bad behaviour as you are demonstrating.

              Over the years I've had and seen more WD drives fail than Seagate, but that doesn't stop me from buying more WD drives or make me preference Seagate drives. I'm happy to buy whatever that's good value for money at the moment

              That's your perogative as it's your money. From my point of you it's asking for trouble when you reward companies that make drives that fail because it guarantees reliablity isn't high on the list of attributes a company will care about.

              The bottom line is people who neg this stuff do it out of brand loyalty, and that is incompatible with getting a good bargain, which is not just about price but also value for money.

              As for the background of this specific Ozbargainer commenting, I'll give you that I don't have a background in computer science or data storage; but I do have some tertiary education on documenting, interpreting and manipulating statistics

              By the way my qualifications are in computing and astronomy. I don't think that's why my opinion counts, which is why they didn't feature in my comment. I do know how to do simple analysis, I know about engineering, I'm aware of the bathtub curve and other concepts related to MTBF etc. but even that isn't needed here because I know to stop buying something if it keeps failing and there's an alternative that doesn't keep failing. From my point of view I'd have to be a complete and utter moron to keep buying drives that fail because they're 5% cheaper given the hassle it causes and the loss of value when the drives die.

  • jcarver1066 on 12/07/2020 - 20:55
    +1

    I bought one of these recently. Great little drive, working fine. Can be a little noisy if not well isolated (vibrates when spinning up).

    • jace88 on 12/07/2020 - 21:05
      +1

      Awesome, which drive was inside? (you can check using Crystal Disk Info)

      Most people seem to indicate the 10TB variant (i.e. this one) has the Barracuda Pro ST10000DM0004 inside which is a bit of a unicorn in terms of being rated for a very high endurance.

      • Yarny-Goat on 12/07/2020 - 22:11
        +1

        I’ll check in the morning.

      • Caped Baldy on 12/07/2020 - 23:00
        +3

        As far as I know, the 10TB are only Barracuda Pros. This was for both the Seagate's 10TB expansion and backup plus drives.

      • Yarny-Goat on 13/07/2020 - 21:39
        +1

        Disk checked, it’s one of these: ST10000DM0004. Barracuda Pro 7200rpm.

    • fifoo on 12/07/2020 - 22:53
      +5

      Ordered from last deal. It’s a Barracuda Pro ST10000DM0004 inside.

      • johnnytran on 13/07/2020 - 08:42
        +1

        Yep had the same drive from last deal. It’s been performing pretty well, much faster than my smaller WD’s, tempted to buy another one

        • Caped Baldy on 13/07/2020 - 09:28

          I'm tempted too but don't want to pay more than the $270 I spent in December.

  • PainToad on 12/07/2020 - 21:08
    +1

    My $129 10TB Wester Digital from Amazon last year has ruined these deals for me.

  • Trance N Dance on 12/07/2020 - 21:26
    +4

    You're guaranteed to not get a Barracuda but at the very least a Barracuda Pro as there's not Barracuda drives bigger than 8TB.

  • superuser on 12/07/2020 - 22:03
    +11

    i bought one in june and just tear it down for you guys, it is a 10tb barracuda pro.
    https://ibb.co/BNSnTKS

    • Hybroid on 13/07/2020 - 01:11
      +4

      You should block out your serial number. Just as a precaution in case someone claims RMA with it and affects you in future.

  • zooter on 12/07/2020 - 22:44

    what do you do with these drives? Is online storage much cheaper (albeit slower)?

    • Caped Baldy on 12/07/2020 - 23:06
      +1

      Linux distros!

      Photos, videos, media projects, steam and game library.

      Online storage is usually an ongoing subscription. It might work for some people but not those with large media libraries and/or crappy internet.

    • dexx on 12/07/2020 - 23:16

      Bluray backups. Discs get scratched

      • mckayver on 12/07/2020 - 23:42
        -2

        back them up from the internet with utorrent. Lol

        • storageguy on 12/07/2020 - 23:43
          +2

          That doesnt usually last long when all the seeders are gone after a year or 2.

      • jace88 on 12/07/2020 - 23:45

        That's my goal too - even bought a USB bluray drive. Now I just need to get a decent workflow going for ripping, converting and cataloguing them into Synology Video Station.

    • [Deactivated] on 12/07/2020 - 23:37
      +1

      Online storage is a not a viable option for me due to the crippled upload speeds on most residential broadband plans.

      On my current Telstra Cable plan (100/5) it would take me nearly 7 months of 24/7 uploading to backup 10TB to the cloud. Even when I boost my upload speed to 25 Mbps when I switch to the NBN soon it'd take me over a month to upload that amount.

      • jace88 on 12/07/2020 - 23:39
        +1

        If you're eligible for Telstra Air, you could always try using one of their good public hotspots (typically Telstra stores). I tried it in Bondi Junction a while back and got 200+ uploads.

        Whirlpool even has a listing (but it's probably a bit out of date): https://whirlpool.net.au/wiki/telstra_air

        • [Deactivated] on 12/07/2020 - 23:46
          +1

          Thanks for the suggestion! It's definitely something I'll look into. (I'm imagining myself sitting outside a Telstra store with my laptop and a few hard drives. Hah.) I did manage to backup about 1TB of the most important stuff to the cloud last year using a ridiculously fast hotel internet connection in Norway. :)

          • jace88 on 13/07/2020 - 00:51
            +1

            @[Deactivated]: Haha I did a similar thing when I was travelling in Taiwan and was shocked at how fast the in-room internet speed was (with both wifi and a cable).

    • Smigit on 13/07/2020 - 00:21
      +2

      Online storage costs way more generally, especially after you pass the 1TB mark. Also clouds good for mass storage scenarios where performance isn’t important, but many scenarios need local drives such as storing games for a console or PC.

      When you start looking at cloud storage options that support 10TB or more, along with the cost to store the data you begin to find many services also charge either for the upload or the retrieval of the data. You’ll generally be in the realm of business plans at this point.

      Up to 1TB or so there’s a fair few consumer friendly options however. I’m sure there’s some above that, but it drops off quickly.

      • jace88 on 13/07/2020 - 00:51
        +2

        Depending on how much effort you're willing to go into and what you actually want to use it for, and an idea which I did toy with, is the Office 365 Home plans for 5 people (the ones usually found on OzBargain for around $80-$90 for one year subscription) could in theory be used to create 5x 1TB OneDrive accounts, and whilst Windows doesn't have an easy way to manage multiple personal OneDrive accounts in an integrated manner, you might be able to use a third party tool/sync program (eg GoodSync) to do the same.

        • realist123 on 13/07/2020 - 09:37

          this is what I'm doing and you actually get 6x1TB accounts. Then filezilla pro to directly FTP into each of them.

        • Smigit on 13/07/2020 - 09:56

          Apparently one of the Google Drive options under a GSuite account on paper has a limit but in practice they don’t restrict or police that. I wouldn’t want to rely on that for anything other than backups though in case they start policing it.

          • dualcore on 13/07/2020 - 10:33
            +1

            @Smigit: I have 117 TB and run Plex off it.

            • Smigit on 13/07/2020 - 11:05

              @dualcore: Yep. Sure it works. I just wouldn't go that route for anything you cant live without in case Google was to clamp down. Realistically if they did they'd likely make it read only so you could still get data off.

              At that sort of volume you're saving so much and deriving that much value that I think it'd be easy to justify $5 or so a month for another service to backup important files (documents and photos) separate to multimedia, assuming you can just throw those files on a free service.

              (Thats one hell of a Plex collection)

              • jwilthethrill on 13/07/2020 - 23:00

                @Smigit: This is exactly what I'm doing. Backblaze (~$9AUD/month) for some media files but mostly important files and backups + GSuite (~$17AUD/month) for basically everything.

  • nadan on 12/07/2020 - 22:51

    This or the 12TB WD? apart from the 2TB capacity difference?

    • Caped Baldy on 12/07/2020 - 23:04
      +3

      You'd get better performance - 7200rpm vs 5400rpm.
      Both helium filled too.
      You might also run into the 3.3V pin issue with the WD drive.

      • nadan on 12/07/2020 - 23:07
        +1

        Is the WD 5400rpm? I thought they are both 7200rpm, glad I asked then.
        Thanks

        • Caped Baldy on 12/07/2020 - 23:12
          +1

          Fairly sure it is a white labelled red drive which is WD's NAS range. Happy for someone to correct me if I'm wrong.
          Can't go wrong either way to be fair.

          I went with the Seagate back in December as I've had good experiences (avoided the 3TB which had large failure rates).

          • nadan on 12/07/2020 - 23:41

            @Caped Baldy: Ordered one of this.

            • jace88 on 12/07/2020 - 23:52
              +1

              @nadan: Depends on what you plan to use it for. If you're planning to use it in a NAS, just remember you may not necessarily want 7200rpm, and whether it's a 5400rpm or 7200rpm drive may not actually matter when it comes to your NAS speeds/network capacity.

              For desktop use though, doesn't get much better than the Barracuda Pro 10TB according to various reviews.

              • nadan on 13/07/2020 - 00:08
                +1

                @jace88: I'm in two minds actually, whether or not to use in my desktop. I might use it as is external and chug my WD 4TB.

    • jace88 on 12/07/2020 - 23:42
      +1

      I've been wondering the same for the past month!

      I bought a couple of the 12TB WDs for my Synology NAS, and then for my third drive am debating between using an old WD80EZAZ (shucked from an 8TB MyBook) or using the Barracuda Pro 10TB from this.

      Barracuda Pro 10TB seems to have especially good reviews, and is rated as being compatible by Synology (it's the only desktop class HDD they've listed). It appears to have really high endurance ratings for a consumer drive, and it's also been reviewed very positively for both speeds and power consumption.

      My dilemma is I use the WD80EZAZ as a Steam drive in my PC and every now and then it's a little slow to spin up being a 5400rpm drive.

      Once my Seagate drive arrives, I'll do my usual Hard Drive Sentintel tests but then need to decide which one goes into the NAS vs which one in my desktop!

  • DJ-89 on 13/07/2020 - 01:38
    +7

    'wHaT wILL yOU eVen Use THESE FOR'

    I see comments like this on every such deal. My movie collection is over 40TB alone. And yes, I also store these on an unlimited Gsuite drive online. However, nothing beats having copies of your media stored locally. Especially when you're playing high quality files (remux 4k, etc), you don't want to worry about buffering or any other issues that may arise when trying to plex media stored on remote servers. Local storage is best. And you're also in control, you're not relying on remote provider.

    Also, just to confirm from the four of these I've bought that they were all 'Barracuda Pro ST10000DM0004'. Great quality drives. I run 3 in the array, and the fourth is the parity drive. They run along side a bunch of Red NAS (CMR) 3TB, and some others, on my UnRaid server.

  • RefusdClassification on 13/07/2020 - 04:51
    +1

    Recently I have steered away from Seagate because the shucked 4TB and 8TB drives I purchased were SMR, and instead gone with Western Digital. Thanks to others for pointing out that the 10TB drive is a premium PMR drive.

    If you just want to archive a movie collection, shingled SMR is fine, but if you move data around regularly you want PMR. SMR has abysmal re-write speeds compared to PMR.

  • VAA on 13/07/2020 - 06:58

    can I use this with Synology DS918+ NAS. The NAS already has 2x8TB WD Red drives in RAID mode. The other 2 slots are empty.

    • jace88 on 13/07/2020 - 08:07

      Should be able to… assuming the drive inside which you need to shuck is the Seagate Barracuda Pro 10TB ST10000DM0004. Usually any drive should work but this one is explicitly listed on the Synology compatibility charts.

      • VAA on 13/07/2020 - 08:37

        Thank you

  • DATApush3r on 13/07/2020 - 09:45

    Can confirm that the following is inside as I bought two of these on the last deal:
    Seagate 10TB Barracuda Pro 7200RPM SATA 6GB/s 256MB Cache 3.5-Inch Internal Hard Drive (ST10000DM0004)
    https://www.amazon.com.au/Seagate-Barracuda-3-5-Inch-Interna…

  • autolux on 13/07/2020 - 10:47

    if you shuck these, they're ready to go right? you don't need to do anything crazy like soldering joints etc?

    • jwilthethrill on 13/07/2020 - 10:53

      Nothing crazy like that. I found that shucking these drives isn't as easy as WD ones and the Seagate Backup Plus though.
      Here's the video I used https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0DevtBXP6A

      • jace88 on 13/07/2020 - 11:32

        Haven't got mine yet but in all fairness, the WD Elements drives are so ridiculously easy to shuck compared to various other enclosures that it'll be hard to beat that level of one old plastic card can do it all.

        • jwilthethrill on 13/07/2020 - 18:32
          +1

          I guess that's true. When I first tried to open one of these I was just caught off guard by how difficult it was compared to WD. I'm usually terrified of damaging the drive as well so it was a tedious process for me. It's not that bad once you get used to it though.

  • JPerez on 13/07/2020 - 11:43
    +3

    OK. Someone explain this lol https://imgur.com/a/jo0tDVL

    • jace88 on 13/07/2020 - 11:48
      +1

      LOL saw someone share this on Facebook (and that's how I figure out which of my friends follow OzBargain).

      • JPerez on 13/07/2020 - 12:22

        such a weird combo haha

        • jace88 on 13/07/2020 - 14:20
          +4

          I'd say it depends what content you are planning to be storing on 10TB…. ;)

  • zekedot on 13/07/2020 - 11:52

    How hard are these to shuck for someone that is pretty average at best when it comes to computers?

    I've never shucked a HDD before, and I only have basic knowledge of computer stuff

    • JoelyMoley on 13/07/2020 - 12:28
      +1

      easy mate, if you have no value in the case it takes all of 5 minutes, i recommend using a old membership card to loosen the clips :)

      • ONEMariachi on 13/07/2020 - 12:54

        So it just has your standard sata connection? No need to mod it like the WD's?

        • JoelyMoley on 15/07/2020 - 09:17

          standard drive inside :)

  • ONEMariachi on 13/07/2020 - 12:53

    How do these compare to the Ironwolf range?

    • jace88 on 13/07/2020 - 16:06
      +2

      In general, Ironwolf is the NAS range designed for use in RAID arrays, 24x7 usage/high endurance, etc. with specific features (eg anti vibration sensors) and firmware features…. the usual spiel of NAS drives vs desktop/consumer drives.

      It just so happens, Tom's Hardware did a review and compared the two drives. Refer to: https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/seagate-barracuda-pro-1…

      Some relevant extracts but taken without the context of the corresponding graphs in the above article:

      We chose other high-capacity 7,200-RPM products for comparison. The Seagate IronWolf is very similar to the BarraCuda Pro, but it implements technologies designed to enhance performance in servers and NAS that experience higher levels of vibration than a normal desktop PC.

      Seagate's own marketing material claims the BarraCuda Pro is the fastest consumer HDD on the market. The sequential read test shows almost that. The Seagate IronWolf and IronWolf Pro came to market shortly after the BarraCuda and BarraCuda Pro. In some of our tests, the IronWolf (non-Pro) outperforms the BarraCuda Pro.

      We noticed the IronWolf has consistent performance but the BarraCuda Pro exhibits much more variation. The inconsistent sequential write performance appears to come from the advanced cache system that flushes data to the platters. Seagate designed the BarraCuda Pro for consumer use, and those workloads tend to be bursty in nature. Multi-tier cache is great for burst performance, but sustained workloads expose a slight weakness.

      • ONEMariachi on 13/07/2020 - 16:44

        Ahh sweet. Thanks mate. I figured it may not be as good for my use case (Plex server with pretty much non stop usage on it). Cheers for the info. i'll wait for another Ironwolf deal!

  • KenDiaMoi on 13/07/2020 - 14:01
    +2

    Last international Seagate external HDD I got from Amazon came with all the adapters for the power points so I could just use the aus one without a converter.

    • phynicle on 13/07/2020 - 19:22

      Same mine did too, about 4 or 5

  • creesy on 13/07/2020 - 16:11

    What’s the lowest price these have gone for historically

    • jace88 on 13/07/2020 - 16:16
      +1

      Circa $260 last year according to Price Camel (click on the "CamelCamelCamel" camel icon below the deal at the top).

      Or if you're looking for OzBargain posts, click on the related products link in the top right (next to the deal itself) and in recent times, I could find $265 > https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/519514

  • DamiPass on 13/07/2020 - 16:23

    Does anyone know if you can get an AU power adapter from Seagate for this like you can with WD external desktop drives?

  • Huntakillaz on 16/07/2020 - 13:08

    Does Shopback work with the Amazon usa store?

    If so someone pm me a shopback referral for signup

    • jace88 on 17/07/2020 - 11:29

      It'll work with Amazon US via AU (like this deal), but I don't think it works with amazon.com directly anymore. It used to!

      • Huntakillaz on 18/07/2020 - 07:28

        yeah neither cashback does with .com,
        sucks coz amazon AU doesn't deliver to NZ lol

        • jace88 on 18/07/2020 - 20:38

          yeah that's tough. I was stationed in NZ for work and noted that tech & gaming prices there are quite a bit dearer than Australia I felt.

          • Huntakillaz on 19/07/2020 - 03:41

            @jace88: Yeah most definitely and with Covid shipping prices have gone up more :(

  • jace88 on 18/07/2020 - 20:37

    Mine finally shipped today on 18/7 (after ordering on 12/7) with an ETA of 8/8/2020.

    I was feeling optimistic but then saw it's being delivered by Fastway… fingers crossed. My last two hard drive orders from Amazon US were delivered by FedEx.

  • Huntakillaz on 22/07/2020 - 22:50

    Anyone else still waiting for their order to be charged to their CC/Account? mines still in ordered limbo, feel like the gonna cancel the order :'(

    • jace88 on 22/07/2020 - 23:05

      Mine is en route so they've already charged me.

  • kellyly on 28/07/2020 - 14:54
    +2

    I ordered on the 19/7 and just received mine.
    HD Sentinel is reporting that the drive is a ST10000NM001G

    • jace88 on 28/07/2020 - 14:55
      +1

      Isn't that the Seagate Exos X16 10TB 7200 RPM SATA 6Gb/s 3.5-Inch Enterprise Hard Drive (ST10000NM001G)? If so, winning.

      • kellyly on 28/07/2020 - 14:57
        +1

        Yup :)
        It's going into a server to replace my aging 8TB SMR HDD for backup.
        I actually ordered it on the 13/7 so one day later than you.

        • jace88 on 28/07/2020 - 15:00

          I just checked my order history before reading your comment wondering how'd yours get there so quickly… mine was ordered 12/7 but it's still en route. Thanks Fastway.

          • kellyly on 28/07/2020 - 16:57
            +2

            @jace88: I just opened it up and it's got the EXOS Enterprise label on it so defo a win lol

  • kyon on 28/07/2020 - 17:54
    +2

    Just received mine today (ordered on the 13/07). Drive is a ST10000DM0004.

  • jace88 on 29/07/2020 - 10:54
    +1

    I received mine today 29/7 and it has the ST10000NM001G-2MW103 drive as well! Yay.

    CrystalDiskInfo: https://ibb.co/QPYZjmf

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