A great price on the 4TB Seagate Backup Plus 2.5" External HDD.
Seagate Backup Plus 4TB USB 3.0 Portable 2.5" External Hard Drive (Light Blue) $99 + Delivery ($0 NSW C&C) @ Mwave
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Cheaper to send it to NZ. $13.95 international.
delivery costs seems unreasonable indeed
But you get $20 off the overinflated shipping if you buy their $89 per year membership!
The $97 + ~ $6 delivery from jb hi fi was a good deal. This is good besides as everyone says, the shipping.
Same to NSW… Same state? nice. still $10 cheaper than buying from JB HI FIs 4TB portable HDD.
Can confirm shuckable.
is this suitable to use for a ps4 to store games?
Yes, works great.
YMMV. I find the SMR drives very slow to load textures. Could notice texture load lag in game play and slightly longer load times.
"load textures"
Huh?
@[Deactivated]: Games still use high res images to add texture to stuff in games, they tend to be pretty big and take a while to load to memory but are much faster in game than trying to render texture on everything on the fly.
Moving to a fast drive really speeds things up. I've been playing The Ascent, the game files were on an external drive and I moved them to an nvme drive. The load time change is ridiculous.
Cannot be used as an internal drive, so you will have to use it only as an external one. Apparently these 4tb ones are a little bit higher than the ones the ps4 will take
Can i remove the HDD and use it as an internal HDD? Does it have the SATA and power slots?
Yes, if you are planning on using it in a laptop make sure there is room in there for a higher than normal drive though as these 4TB drives have more height on them to fit the extra platter.
Planning on using it in a desktop PC. Are these two the same HDDs?
https://www.mwave.com.au/product/seagate-st8000dm004-8tb-bar…
No, the one in this deal is a 2.5" laptop size drive. Will be slower than the 3.5" drive you linked.
SMR?
They are definitely all SMR
Here's a little video on how to shuck them.
Will this fit into a PS4 as a replacement drive?
No, this on is bigger that what the ps4 can take, they are a little bit taller than the 2tb ones, you will have to use it as an external one
A little bit? 2TB 2.5" Seagate are 7.5mm and these are 15mm thick. Standard laptop 2.5" is 9mm.
thanks for the info, had no time to actually look for the exact dimensions.
Regardless of exact measurements, they were correct.
Thanks @gonzule.
PS4 compatibility?
as an external hard drive, not replacement
How long are they taking good c&C??
Any chance I'll be able to grab it by Friday? Website says up to a week???Is this good to use in a NAS server running TrueNAS?
No, it's SMR. It's also a 2.5" drive. Stick to WD Red / Seagate Ironwolf.
Can this be shucked and used on Asustor NAS?
Yes, it can be. You will need to get a 2.5" to 3.5" conversion enclosure to fit into the drive bay though. The drive is SMR so not recommended for NAS use.
Something like this https://www.amazon.com.au/General-Drive-HDD-Adapter-Caddy/dp…
Can I store my japanese YouTube videos on it?
Any way to see postage to Gold Coast without setting up an account first?
Just add to cart, click on view cart and under your cart info, there is a box where you can type in your post code to get the shipping amount. GC is showing $14.95 same as VIC, which is pretty lame.
Yes, this site lets you see the freight charge up front. I hate those sites that make you go through the whole process, and then usually have some massive unjustified freight charge.
I have always assumed that those sites know about it and just do it like that to get the personal information of the user even if they don't commit to a purchase. I often just put in all fake info except for suburb and post code when sites do this.
Mdogxx Thanks for that tip.
Postage is too much
4T SSD HDD is cheaper? Only $49 with free shipping on ebay and even $10 off with promo code. Is it true?
4TB SSD will be about $500.
@TigerWoops: they didn't even try. usually ebay scammer sell some crap to get fake feedback points, this only has 15.
The 4TB SSD for $49 is scam on Ebay. I nearly click to buy. Sorry.
It seems a good deal but I'm worried it may slow to load games.
Looking to buy HDD to backup my data, need at least 4TB.
Torn between WD and Seagate.I need to backup my 2006 WD My Book Essential 3TB data…
Search online and many said that Seagate tends to fail in the long term.
Any recommendation?All drives fail long term. Get more than 1 backup drive.
I was thinking should I actually get that powered external hdd or the portable one would do?
Is anyone price matching? Amazon?
Nothing on Amazon.
I don't need it, but that blue!
Might grab one of these tonight and shuck,
Can anyone clarify the specs of the HDD itself? Just a regular 7200rpm 4tb Barracuda? Will use it to replace the 2tb i bought a while ago.
Pretty sure it's 5400rpm
And its gone now, should have bought.
Merged from Seagate Backup Plus 4TB USB 3.0 Portable External Hard Drive $99 ($89 with AfterPay) + Delivery ($0 NSW C&C) @ Mwave
Was looking for a good HDD deal and found this one. Paid via AfterPay and instantly got $10 off making the total price $89.
This is a pickup only price. ($14.95 for Delivery)
This is my first post so excuse me for my mistakes.
Isn't this the same deal https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/648593 with its exorbitant shipping costs.
Same product, high shipping fee: Yes. If paid via AfterPay you got $10 off now, Not sure If it was back then.
Can we price matching at Officeworks?
I have not tried but deals go OOS sometimes faster than OW response.
OW will factor the shipping cost, so will not exactly match down to 99
@itsme56: last time i called pricebeat at officeworks, they said they could only do shipping. might have been related to covid.
They can take up to a week to ship an order, even if it is in stock.
Surcharge for credit card use.Is this better or worse than that wd 4 tb?
I will let someone to answer that as I am not sure. Only thing I know is its cheaper. 😂
If you are referring to brand alone, I always prefer Seagate as the internal HDD should have standard connectors, giving an additional chance to retrieve data should the enclosure fail.
I think this make sense, someone said that on that WD post, good luck on getting the data back on failure as the connectors are soldered.
@asangam: Had a WD Elements 1 TB portable fail on me once. The data retrieval guy cracked it open and found the internal connector soldered to the drive which meant that if there was a fault with the connector, the extracted data would be corrupted. That taught me to never use WD where possible.
For some reason the link to the deal is only going to mwave home page. Maybe It had to go to do a duplicate post from last week.
But here is the direct link.https://www.mwave.com.au/product/seagate-backup-plus-4tb-usb…
4tb too small, need some cost effective big boy drives.
Did not reduce $10 with afterpay , came to 113.95 with delivery on the payment screen
EDIT: can see a $10 discount on the payment confirmation page :-( very bad design.
Thanks, OP was keeping an eye on a deal on storage, this is the cheapest after the JB-Hifi deal even with high delivery rates
Sadly $10 discounts not on the confirmation page in my case, miss this deal.
Have you used the $10 discount in afterpay before with any other sites?
Sadly I missed the last one, so was pretty much checking every hour from the last week. I think its a good deal and on top of that AfterPay.
Tried to check out 6 times on afterpay, each time got a "The transaction has been cancelled, please try again."
I signed up for a new account with afterpay, I think they have that $30 off $50 new user thing that's interfering with the whole transaction
Keep in mind even if Mwave says they have an item physically in stock at their own premises, it can take days for them to "process" the order before shipping. I paid for something in stock at the start of the week and the money was instantly debited from my credit card, but the order still stands static as "processing".
I did a pickup today abd ordered 2 days ago, looks like the issue is with delivery.
I used Afterpay but did not see the $10 discount on the payment confirmation page. Even after I paid, still can't see any discount being applied.
Not sure, what happened there, maybe you have used the discount earlier?
Same thing happened here. Pretty disappointed. Its probably cause there's a 1000 transaction limit with the afterpay deal
For those new to afterpay don't try to sign up and try to redeem this deal bcuz clashing promotions/deals make it impossible for you to complete the transaction u_u
Sigh so I tried for 45 minutes and I still didn't get any discount
Did you already pay? Did you see the $10 off thing when you press the final button? Did you have use any discount with AfterPay earlier in any of the websites? Not sure what the real issue. I got a $10 discount for the first order and made another second for a friend of mine. To the same account, its a one time thing.
Was it a while ago? The $10 off $50 on mwave thing got ozbargained I can only imagine. It's limited to the first 1000 ppl
And yeah I paid without the discount
only the (ugly) blue at this price
Is it expired? I can't get the discount to work at checkout
I was looking at this last night, need to buy 2 of those so $99 is perfect for me. Coming up as $139 tonight though, I saw it's running until end of the month so didn't hurry to buy.
Underneath the price the page still states
Online Only. Ends 30/09/2021 or While Promotional Stock Lasts
and also
In-Stock at Mwave: Yes
So they haven't ran out of stock. Is there a rep here we can ding to fix this? I assume their system runs a script at the start of each week to adjust pricing and this has overridden the sale price with the regular stock price.
I think they are trying to clear the stock, this offer started I think early this month and two days ago, I am sure they will have it on offer again. I just picked up today, The light blue is too much light with white cable but for the price I paid, its a deal. Plus its a storage device.
While Promotional Stock Lasts
Which probably suggests there is limited promo stocks. It doesn't hurt to ask them though
Oh okay, I'll keep an eye on it until the 30th and wait for the restock.
Ooft $15-$16 delivery for VIC kinda kills the deal for me.