Seagate 2TB is down to $69 and you can take a further $10 off with the Perks Voucher to make it $59. Previous popular deal at Officeworks was $68, which is now up to $79.
Delivery was $5.99 for me, or it's free click & collect.
Amazon AU are price matching the JB $69 price if you didn't have a perks voucher, it comes with free delivery at Amazon AU.
also want to know this to see if I can games on it to copy across for series s
On the series s/x externals will only hold games that are s/x as storage to play it you'd need to copy it back into the console itself, the made the solution the very overpriced expansion card
Yes, it's just a drive, just like the game drives are…. don't fall for that crap. They won't act any different.
Sometimes the game drives including some DLC or something, but yeah….
"gaming" or "ARGB" - better increase the price by 30%.
Anyone know if these are shuckable?
Yes, I've shucked a few of em
Thanks you shucking much for confirming this!
They are delicious with a bit of fresh lemon and rock salt
On behalf of xyron:
Awww, shucks!
What do you do with a shucked drive? Put it in your PC?
Aren't the 2.5 drives more slow/less cache etc?
Yep, just used as a cheap storage drive for software on a business laptop.
There's regular new version releases of a software I use for work so I don't really want to be consuming TBW's in a more expensive SSD, just for that.
I do have an SSD as a boot drive though, so it's a "best of both worlds" thing.
Nice.
Thanks OP been waiting for a 2TB special and bought one
Dis any good?
yas
Are they Rosewood drives?
If JB is not convenient you should be able to price match at Officeworks, get 5% off & free delivery.
Does this work with PS5?
Yes don't see why not
Yes, but external drives can only store PS4 games. PS5 games need to be stored in the internal SSD only.
Thanks for the information.
Reasonable price, normally 4TB $100
Where is this normal $100 for 4TB? I’d like to purchase one. Cheers
At the moment, don't know but regularly during sales
What was the last sale? Looking for a reference.
Edit: Found $104 at Amazon. All good.
Its not very common nowadays, they are usually 120
Honestly I'd just spend a bit more for the 2tb WD drive. Cause Seagate drives are always notorious for failing
matter of opinion and personal experience
for me i favor seagate more than WD or toshiba
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-drive-stats-for-q1-…
Drives by average failure rate:
Drives with 0% failure rate:
- All 3 WD models
- 1 Seagate model
- 2 Toshiba models
May I dare to say this data suggests a certain one manufacturer has issues with reliability?
The amount of WD drives I've had issues with over the years, however in recent years I have shied away from them, so hopefully their quality has improved. I had a dead WD a couple of years ago, and when i opened it up, bloody proprietary interface!
Quantum were also pretty bad, as was Connor 20-30 years ago.
Time for the obligatory "Seagate drives fail", closely followed by several other comments "WD drives fail."
Always? False. I've been running 4x 2TB portable Seagates on my laptop dock for several years now. These specific model drives fail? Perhaps. I've been told newer 2TB are not as good as the ones I bought. So I contacted Seagate, repeated that claim, and asked if true when could I expect them to lift their game so I could buy more and how would I tell the difference. They replied they weren't receiving a higher rate of failures than previously.
Not that I trust every reply I receive like that, but "always notorious" if true needs to be qualified, because it doesn't apply to ones I own. Plus in the past I've had terrible luck with 3.5" drives of both brands.
Picked one up. Thanks Op!
Got 2. ThankU
Has anyone tried Officeworks price match?
Of course, it should match, but based on $69. Since JB HF GC can be usually sourced at more discount, it is probably still better to buy it @ JB.
OK Officeworks price match at $65.55 and it saved me an extra 15min drive to nearest JB
Thanks OP
It's the same thing as "game drive" without logo for console right?