the hard drive are better prices and you can pick them up instead if you just bought the NAS from shoppingexpress deal on the 16th https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/152970
2TB $116
3TB $148
4TB $209
MSY SEAGATE NAS Weekend Sale 2TB $116, 3TB $148, 4TB $209
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Seagate 3.5 NAS drives (Was $229, now $209) really? Today's price is $216 only (not $229) - http://www.msy.com.au/viconline/pc-components/5394-seagate-3…
I purchased 2 x 4 Terabyte Nas units last Saturday for $209 each at the Mitcham store. Just checked and still same price at that location.
External 4tb drives have been near or under $150 with the right deal combos. If rather wait for one of those sales again and remove the drive.
Don't you void the warranty doing that, plus NAS drives have a longer warranty compared to normal domestic drives.
Apart from warranty, is there any real difference (other than marketing gimmicks) between this and a regular non-green 2/3/4TB drive?
I'm a gun-ho storage cowboy.
I've never needed to return a HDD. The most recent one that died, like the others years before it, was so old I couldn't even remember how it had come into my possession. But, if I buy 3x 4tb externals at $150 each, the savings over paying 3x $200 for internals totals $150, which is enough to buy another external drive to replace a dead one, if I do have a dead one. And if they have more than a 1 in 3 failure rate, then I am pretty unlucky.
This is very tempting to set up a NAS rig…
Tempted to get the Seagate 4TB NAS drives. How do they perform / reliability compared to say WD or Hitachi?
Higher failure rate than WD Reds.
But then WD Reds are also more expensive.
HDD failure wise Seagate has the highest failure rate of the 3 followed by WD and Hitachi is the most reliable.
110Mbs/ read and 20Mb/s write for a USB 3.0 flash drive has to be the worst reported transfer speed I've ever seen. Either Patriot is being miraculously truthful, which seems unlikely, or even they can't mask the fact that the Stellar Boost XT is a total lemon.
Here is a review. Okay, but not great.
http://www.ocaholic.ch/modules/smartsection/item.php?itemid=…
oh man, just convinced myself that my current setup is good enough, now I'm tempted to upgrade to NAS again.