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AMAZON: 4TB Seagate NAS Hard Drive $159 USD + Shipping (~ $185 AUD Delivered)

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Click_It on 08/09/2014 - 17:55 amazon.com (847 clicks)
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Here is another (lowest price ever) Seagate deal on Amazon.

4TB Seagate NAS is the equivalent of WD RED, brand loyalties aside.

  • FWIW I'm not a fan of either brand, however this is their cheapest price and worthy of mention. Local prices appear to be around the $215 mark + delivery.
  • While I said $185, it will probably show around $187 AUD - generally Amazon conversion rates are horrible so paying in USD should get you in the $182-185 AUD mark.
  • Limit of 2 drives unfortunately

As always with Amazon, if you want this drive you best be quick. Amazon love applying minor (~$5) increases soon to best price deals, heck sometimes they stop them shipping to Australia too. None of that may happen, just be aware.

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  • videoman on 08/09/2014 - 18:14

    I bought the same drives a couple of months ago for around the same price from this deal- https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/150408

    They are still going stong. No problems yet.

    • giventofly on 08/09/2014 - 20:10
      +8

      You'd hope so after a couple of months

      • [Deactivated] on 08/09/2014 - 21:11
        +5

        I've got a few WD drives that are on 24/7.. some are reaching 40,000 hours and not a single fault :)

        Seagate drives I've had recently have been complete shit, dying within 2-6 months

        • sammytrailor on 09/09/2014 - 16:33

          I think this deal is bad luck. Flicked past it this morning: "hmm, that's cheap. Should I grab one? Nah - Probably don't need it".

          Log into my NAS and I'm getting errors. On it's way out after 13149 hours.

          Yes, it's a Seagate. I'm glad I caught it and yes, buying WD drives for sure. Seagate just never last as long.

  • Saiya on 08/09/2014 - 18:29

    WOW great price! Bad timing for me. I bought x4 WD Reds 4TB on Saturday. :(

    These are are great deal for people who don't mind the postage wait.

    • Coops1 on 08/09/2014 - 19:24
      +1

      If you bought them from amazon, they will refund the price drop difference within 7 days, just start a chat with them and ask. Simple as process.

      • Saiya on 08/09/2014 - 19:30

        Na I just bought therm from my PC shop. Needed them that weekend.

        • slix_88 on 08/09/2014 - 19:56

          You probably have forearms the size of The Hulk's after that weekend…

        • giventofly on 08/09/2014 - 20:12
          +5

          @slix_88:

          From carrying them or for what's stored on them? :P

  • Splurge on 08/09/2014 - 18:38

    Bought two - Was waiting for a good price to replenish my MicroServer. Cheers mate.

  • [Deactivated] on 08/09/2014 - 18:39
    +1

    Read up on these, seagate drives are terrible. There are tests from companies running hundreds of seagate, Toshiba and WD drives and the Seagate drives have the biggest fail rate which is very high.

    I'm buying Toshiba 3TB 7200rpm drives from Skycomp for $121 each, strong and reliable

    • haydio on 08/09/2014 - 18:46
      +5

      If you look at Backblaze's HDD testing you will see the 4TBs are much more reliable than the other Seagate models, still not perfect, but not terrible.

    • Gnostikos on 08/09/2014 - 19:13
      +8

      Well if you knew anything you would have gone for Hitachi, who have consistently been the most reliable HDD manufacturer.

      There are tests from companies running hundreds of seagate, Toshiba and WD drives and the Seagate drives have the biggest fail rate which is very high.

      There are only a handful of comprehensive studies, maybe 5 in total, that actually examine hard drive failure rates across thousands of drives over several years of operation with brand for brand comparisons.

      Which is what you need to get any sense of real-world, observable trends. I know for a fact you're basing your observations off of one or two Seagates you've had that ended up being duds.

      Aside from The BackBlaze report and this Russian one (that sampled far less HDDs), this French study actually had Seagate beating many of their competitors in terms of percentage of shipped HDDs that were RMA'd in a one year period and individual drive failure rates.

      As I said, you're rattling off the usual misinformation peddled by fanboys and people stuck in 2007.

      These Seagates will do fine for most folks.

      • [Deactivated] on 08/09/2014 - 20:15

        Hitachi was bought out bro by WD and Toshiba.

        Read here - http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HGST

        Also price per TB the Toshiba 3TB are better IMO.

        • Gnostikos on 08/09/2014 - 22:08

          Hitachi was bought out bro by WD and Toshiba.

          That's right, and as a consequence of that:

          As a result of the order, Toshiba will receive all the production and sales assets required to take Hitachi GST's place in the desktop hard drive market
          http://www.bit-tech.net/news/hardware/2012/03/06/wd-forced-t…

          Hitachi's Deskstar NAS line is still made in Japan under Toshiba's supervision. All the Thailand plants went to WD after the merger.

        • [Deactivated] on 08/09/2014 - 22:18

          @Amar89: Cool, I'm happy with that. Hitachi and Toshiba have been my choice over the past 5 years but Hitachi were more expensive than the Toshiba ones so I have gone with the 7200rpm Toshiba 3TB ones. Thanks for your info!

      • SnowDragon on 08/09/2014 - 21:07
        +1

        You are very knowledgeable with hard drives and I very much appreciate your input.

    • CyberGenesys on 08/09/2014 - 23:06

      I've had too many Toshiba notebook drives fail or develop faults early to risk their desktop drives. Been using Seagate (7200) & WD (green) so far without issues, in future I will be using WD reds.

  • wisc on 08/09/2014 - 18:56

    Damnit just bought 5x external drives for a raid… they are the 5900 RPM ones (which I've been using simular 2TB ones for about 5 years with no issues), so thought id not wait on a decent price for the NAS disks - should have got these, only about 30 bux AUD more per disk would have been worth it!

    edit: awesome only 2 per customer so couldn't get them anyways!!! which is pretty stupid for a nas drive I guess!

  • serrin on 08/09/2014 - 18:59

    Amazon won't let me buy more than two (removes them at the very last step of checking out). Anybody else have this problem?

  • pbvillaflores on 08/09/2014 - 19:21

    Do NAS HDD work on desktops?

    • Jimbop on 08/09/2014 - 19:25

      Yup!

      • CyberGenesys on 08/09/2014 - 19:33
        +2

        Elaborating on that; NAS drives are for most part identical to any other drive. The difference is their behaviour. They are usually configured to be used in RAIDs and be running 24/7 with reduced power consumption.

  • krisspy on 08/09/2014 - 21:23

    Just bought a 4tb wd green today for $10 less. Someone one console me please.

    • prisonerzero on 08/09/2014 - 21:39
      +6

      There there

    • Amaris on 09/09/2014 - 08:34
      +1

      You can get the WD green to behave like a red by stopping frequent head parking. Google it and you can find the small program that changes the firmware.

      • Click_It on 09/09/2014 - 10:44

        For the lazy ones, lahiruwan is referring to WDIDLE3

        This is my only issue with WD drives. It shouldn't be required to hack the firmware to make them run properly. However once you do, all seems to be good.

        It should be mentioned that some WD RED's also have this problem, best to monitor RED's and apply this if necessary.

        • wisc on 09/09/2014 - 11:20

          I thought this only worked for earlier versions of the drives?

        • Click_It on 09/09/2014 - 13:24

          @wisc:

          Now that you mention it, I do recall reading something had changed with the newer firmware drives. I'm not sure if it prevents you using it altogether but you may be right. I'll make sure I know the answer to this before posting any WD deals in future.

          I'm waiting (and waiting, and waiting …) for 4TB Hitachi Coolspin deal to come, they're the drive to beat at the moment IMO. I watch prices daily on Amazon and B&H so here's hoping a price drop comes soon. Worst case, I'm sure Black Friday will bring price drops (still 2.5 months away).

          EDIT: A quick google result, I think WDIDLE3 is still okay on GREEN drives but may not be the case for REDs. Take this with a grain of salt though, it was just one google with a 2014 result.

        • wisc on 09/09/2014 - 13:50

          @Click_It:

          all good they are still great value for drives used outside of a RAID system…

        • Click_It on 09/09/2014 - 16:36

          @wisc:

          I agree

  • frysie on 08/09/2014 - 21:54

    cant justify upgrading my 4x3tb to 4x4… unless i get another esata raid drive for my hpn54l and repopulate to 8 drive raid array :O

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