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Seagate Expansion Desktop Hard Drive 4TB $99 + Delivery ($0 C&C) @ JB Hi-Fi

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Seagate Expansion Desktop Hard Drive 4TB $99 + Delivery ($0 C&C) @ JB Hi-Fi
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stevtom27 on 03/04/2021 - 02:22 jbhifi.com.au (981 clicks)
Last edited 03/04/2021 - 07:28 by 1 other user

4tb external hard drive for $99. Not overly cheap but is on sale compared to normal price. Easily shuckable, can someone confirm in comments if drive is SMR. Same price at officeworks

Computing 4TB Computer Component Computer Peripheral External Hard Drive Hard Drive Seagate

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  • Mortin on 03/04/2021 - 06:02
    +2

    Even at $72 I did not purchase it after reading numerous terrible reviews.

    • blackfrancis75 on 03/04/2021 - 09:49
      +1

      what were the main complaints? Speed / noise?

      • Hybroid on 03/04/2021 - 15:02
        +2

        They're slow. Very slow. Beyond that, rock solid and cheap archive storage. Have half a dozen on 24/7 for years with no issues.

      • Mortin on 03/04/2021 - 15:32

        They fail and the data is gone. However, they will send you a new one ahahahahh.

  • Ozbargainerd1 on 03/04/2021 - 08:11
    +3

    SMR drive.

    Can confirm if you're writing large files or filling it up in one go, write speed is atrocious!

    Read speeds are good. So if you're writing once and then reading only, it's fine. In reality, your usage will likely vary so sometimes you'll be frustrated, ok at other times :).

    My $0.02, I'd rather find a used CMR drive than buy this.
    Particularly seeing it's not really very good value at that price either.

  • RogueWolf on 03/04/2021 - 08:34
    +4

    92JBFIVEOFFAPR 5% off = $94.05

    or eBay follow this old deal $90 delivered update code to PSSAVER

  • BargainBuddy on 03/04/2021 - 10:29
    +1

    I believe this is usual price. I've seen this before multiple times in Officeworks, JB hifi and in other places which i can't remember.

  • hollykryten on 03/04/2021 - 10:58
    +1

    This is how much these were going for in 2019. The price hadn't budged since. It must be the stock shortage of certain computer items.

    And yeah it has the SMR hard drive ST4000DM001 3.5" HDD model inside of the enclosure which can be shucked. I shucked a few of them already. It is only a 5900 rpm HDD so it's probably no good for any thing other than storage. Than again that's all an SMR HDD is good for.

    • beebul on 14/04/2021 - 15:44

      Could it stream 4k movies to Kodi for example? If it's plugged into a MiBox?

      • hollykryten on 15/04/2021 - 13:43
        +1

        Yeah it could. It's what these drives are good for. Data which only needs to be stored once and read many times such as 1080p and 4K movies.

        • beebul on 15/04/2021 - 15:07

          Cool, I just got one from officeworks :)

          Thanks 👍

    • Diji1 on 10/05/2021 - 10:14

      It must be the stock shortage of certain computer items.

      No, it's because they're charging what the market can bear. It has nothing to do with supply or production cost. If it had anything to do with those the price would vary over time.

  • Cribey on 15/05/2021 - 16:47

    Apparently only actually 3.6TB, not 4TB?

    Also, looking to store data for long periods of time on these, and then retrieve data intermittently. Will this drive be ok for that?

    Thanks

  • Breno785au on 09/11/2021 - 16:21

    Do these have that custom connector or sata?

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