Just saw this on Amazon's Black Friday deal. Cheapest I've seen for a while. Last time I bought some 4TB's was when I went to OW to pricematch DSE's specials on Seagate Externals and that was about $170 each.
Better hurry as its close to 50% claimed…and only 1 per customer.
CamelCamelCamel.
Hard to say, tech is also getting cheaper and cheaper. I think right now 3TB is the sweet spot, but if you're like me who values max capcity per drive, then this is decent. Cheapest on StaticIce right now is $190.
I'm running 4 x 4TB, 1 x 3TB, 4 x 2TB, 2 x 1TB and 4 x 1.5TB. Slowly replacing my 1.5TBs with 4TB's…
Yeah trying to move all my 1.5TB to 4TB, it is pain but need to be done ASAP.
server are you running?
6TB drives are at least 2015. The initial roadmap was for 5tb Q4 2013 but things have been quiet on that front for a while. So I expect Q1 2014. Helium drives may never make the consumer market.
Companies are bringing 5 and 6 TB drives to the market in 2014.
You would expect the 4's to drop to these prices in Australia by mid 2014 at a safe guess. (maybe even earlier if they can do these deals now)
Yes, everything will be cheaper in 12 months, so just keep waiting.
Although low-end SSD prices have gone up - whats the deal there?
Low supply high demand.
Not really, RAM was way cheaper close to 2 years ago, same with HDD's before that flood. SSD's have also gone up over the past year.
You do realise that hard drives (on a per gigabyte basis) have not become cheaper in years?
This was back in 2011 - http://web.archive.org/web/20110901231054/http://www.msy.com…
Almost a good 2.5 years ago, and 2TB HDDs were going for $85, i.e. $170 for 4TB, which is less than this if you convert USD to AUD. So that's an interesting way to look at it as well.
Also, RAM prices annoy me greatly. A year ago,
http://web.archive.org/web/20130115090948/http://msy.com.au/…
8GB kits were $40. How rubbish is that, look at CPU prices and stuff too.
Interesting. 2TB costs more now then it did 2 years ago!
It's cause of the weaker Australian dollar, point is, they don't decrease in price because people are happy paying that much for 2TB.
Spindle speed is 5900RPM compared to the rest of the series (3TB, 2TB, 1TB etc) which are 7200RPM, anyone know why? Is this supposed to be a 'greener' drive??
I'd say so. I use it for storage so it doesn't really bother me…
Because of the density of the blocks on the platters, 5900rpm is close to the performance of a 7200rpm 1/2/(maybe)3TB etc
88SE, there is a whole series of 5900 RPM from 1TB-4TB designed for NAS
I read that seagate start of a series at 5900rpm, and then if the failure rate is acceptable they bump it up to 7200rpm on the next generation. So the others have been out for a while, while the 4tb is the new kid on the block. I think these are DM0000, so you'd hope DM0001 will be at 7200
the price in your title is in US$.
Comes to ~AUD$173.63573
I need one, but I'll pass on this deal. I bought one few months back for $152.52
http://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/117785
Did you rip out the drive / void the warranty?
yes, i keep the case and just put it back if there is an issue for warranty purposes.
and there's no way they can tell? no stickers or bits which break?
There is no seal broken when you remove the drive. Just make sure that the clips are still intact.
Be little patient and gentle when removing.
Yes, I bought a couple from this sale and took the drives out. One of the drives died so I reassembled the enclosure and returned it to OW who replaced it without any issues.
Last time I RMAd a disk that was ripped out of an external enclosure I simply explained that I had tried to perform data recovery which is why it was removed from the case and they accepted it. They can definitely tell from the serial number of the drive that it came from an external though.
Save $18 compared to cheapest price on staticice. Meh.
And if it fails you have to post it back to Malaysia for warranty.
Cost in postage is about $15/drive in my experience.
I thought seagate had a return centre in NSW..?
Maybe they do now.
I know Western Digital is in Malaysia. (Have had to replace about 8x2TB drives over the past 4 years!!)
Yep they have a Sydney address that you post it to. From there they will forward to Seagatenthemselves.
If you but from Amazon you can send it to nsw?
Hear a bit about that, maybe I've just gotten really lucky with WD.
I am pretty sure 8 of mine (all of them) have gone back to either where I bought them or OS. (some I bought from Thailand so I couldn't take them back here)
A friend has a stack of 1.5TB's he can't be bothered sending back. I think he has around 12 of them.
All in well ventilated cases with temperature monitoring.
All were showing ZFS checksum errors, and when they do that they also have failed WDdiag tests. (eg ready to die)
I'm assuming that's if you buy from Amazon?
As I know if you buy it from Australia, it's always the retailers responsibility to handle any warranty claims.
Can we make multiple orders? I need 4 drives.
Problem with getting hard drives from USA or overseas is you DONT get local warranty and the shipping cost
Umart Brisbane is selling the Seagate ST4000DM000 Desktop HDD 4TB, SATA3, 3.5", 64MB AU$195.00
Great deal! Got 1.
This is ideal to back up my 3TB and 500GB drive…hmmmm!
And back them all up with an 8TB next year, then 16TB in the following year?
Would these be good in a new HP microserver G8? Or should I save for WD Red 4TBs?
Pass. not a bad deal but it's 4TB for 175aud vs 3TB for about 110aud (0.04375 per GB vs 0.03633)
best bang for bucks (GB vs $$$) will never be the highest capacity drives on the market…always been this way.
3TB will be on sale later. Can't be bothered waiting though and I like the extra 1TB.
All claimed!
went up a bit but still reasonable?
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00B99JU4S/ref=ox_sc_act_ti…
$159 + 17.00 postage still a good deal for some? works out to be about 194aus
You can get them for $190 locally…
Seagate Expansion 4 TB USB 3.0 Desktop External Hard Drive
US $125 + 38$ shipping
HDD can be ripped out of the enclosure I suppose.
Centrecom door buster night tonight - http://www.centrecom.com.au/door-buster
Has 4TB drive listed as $1xx, could be a good deal or could be $199 + post lol
Seagate Barracuda 4TB 5900RPM 64MB SATA3/6Gb/s $189
Site is molasses though.
Keep getting error messages.
Wonder if anyone is getting through
1.5TB $93, 2TB $86. Who buys a 1.5TB drive?
Back in stock @ $139 US, for another 30 minutes…
just about to post that!
Are these likely to be cheaper within the next 12 months? I'll probably need to expand my storage within 12 months but it's usually not a good idea to jump the gun with hard drives with how quickly prices are dropping and technology changing (ie: 6TB Helium drives)… Thoughts?