4tb external desktop drive. Online only. Cheapest I've seen so far.
Seagate 4TB Desktop HDD $265 @ Officeworks
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Isn't it cheaper to buy 2 x 3tb and have a total of 6tb?
Yes it is but then you use two usb ports, two power supplies and more resources and electricity.
While all the is true. It can also be twice as fast. More portable (i.e. able to remove 1 device and use somewhere else) and if something was to fail you would only lose up to 1/2 your data!
Or get 2 of these, keep them synced and lose nothing…..
Or you have a spare power supply, 3GB backed up in two places and only use power when you are writing to them,
why are external drives cheaper than internal drives of the same capactiy
I don't think it is?
You're pretty much getting the same hard drive most of the time + an added enclosure.
(I think) JB 2tb seagate was going for $79 and the same hard drive for internal is going for $97 at MSY
It might be because simply more externals get sold.
I think largely because externals get sold by massive retailers, and internals tend to only get sold by PC shops. That is, there's better volume discount etc. This isn't always true, but in some cases, the warranty period is different as well.
edit: Oops, just noticed that Michael15286 answered this below.
Because when you try and take out the drive to use as an internal- boom! there goes your warranty
Because of lack of competition. Internal hard drives are only sold by a few speciality technology outlets (eg "the computer shop"), it's easier for manufacturers/suppliers/retailers to control the price of such items. You'll find Harvey Norman, Officeworks and Dick Smith don't usually stock internal HD's. However, you'll notice that all of those shops and many others carry external hard drives. All these shops compete with each other to sell it cheaper than one another by cutting margins, negotiating prices with suppliers, ect, and the result is a lower price for consumers like us. The beauty of capitalism.
what you have remaining, usb cord, power supply, external casing etc represents the additional cost. i dont even…
You appear to have misread the question. He was asking why external drives were cheaper than internal ones.
A valid question, considering that a 4TB external drive is $250-$265 but 4TB internal drives are ~$360.
Mate any chance you can amend your post and remove the no longer used term "spastic" ? It's offensive to me and perhaps other people as well.
Unfortunately, once a comment has been replied to, the poster can't edit it.
You, or the poster, could always click the "report" link and ask a mod to change it.
Haha, are you serious? Seems a bit mental to be taking offense over that!
Someone missed sensitivity training day at work..
Oh come on guys, this is very punny.
I posted a cheaper deal for the WD from jb hifi about 2 weeks ago.
WD > Seagate
I'd also take a WD over a Seagate for the same price… but your deal was even better at $247.
Surprised you didnt get more + votes Gav.
Hopefully people will click through and give you one as its still active.Thanks UFO. Price aside, I'd also buy the WD over the Seagate as it doesn't appear to have the heat issues reported on Seagate models.
This is the normal price, hasn't dropped
I have purchased 3TB Seagate 3.0 USB for $125 (see other ozbargain notes; two 3TB for $250 at JB HiFi). I think it is a great drive and total 6 GB comes cheaper than 4GB WD.
The market for internal drives is aimed at the"power user"
The external market would be much bigger , more competition.
Grandma could buy an external hdd and plug it in.
Competition can mean "cheaper"
This…is an awful deal.
Oh and I hate Officeworks with a passion anyway.
Thanks for contributing!
care to explain why it is an awful deal? pretty poor reason to neg I reckon.
A bad deal is a poor reason to neg?
Calling it a bad deal with no justification is a poor reason to neg.
no, but saying "awful" without explaining to the rest of the world is.
Okay, I admit "awful" was a strong word to use, but with this I feel "deal" is a strong word to use also.
It's not a price that would be hard to match/beat and I really question Seagate's quality anyway.
To me, this deal is equivalent to saying "$10 t-shirts at Kmart!" Well…yeah…that's pretty much the same as everywhere and they are usually around that price…
Have a look at Gav's post for a cheaper, better quality HD.
The thing that scares me about big HDDs is that disk failure means you lose more data than you would if you had say a 500GB drive, making it a higher risk. Nothing scares me more than disk failure. If I had to pick a part inside my PC to die on me, the HDD would be the absolute last thing I want dying.
The thing that scares me about big HDDs is that disk failure means you lose more data than you would if you had say a 500GB drive, making it a higher risk.
If you only have one copy of your data, you're the one with the issue.
Buy yourself some piece of mind and get a 2nd drive as a backup drive. For $250-$265 per 4TB you can backup your data and have one less thing to worry about.
Keep the backup drive at work / friends place so if you get robbed / house burns down / floods / get struck by lightning / whatever, you'll still have a copy of your data.
I have to buy 2x 4TB drives for $265 each… just too expensive.
I prefer to use a bunch of smaller drives and back some things to DVDR. Reduces the risk without having to pay twice as much per GB of data. I'll still be sad if a smaller drive died, but I won't be paying 8TB prices for 4TB either.
It's also not easy to sync two external drives together. You'd have to manually copy things onto one drive then do the same on the next.
Still not big enough. Need 6TB internal and I need it NOW.
I read on other IT forum, manufacturer put "2nd quality" drives (same model build etc but categorised differently) into enclosure and sold as external because externals are meant for backups or casual usage not 24/7 like internals. Thats why warranty on internals are longer.
Need confirmation from someone works in hdd industryI doubt anyone here works in the HDD industry, as it's mostly done in Asia. Sounds plausible though.
Saw this in the catalogue too.