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AMAZON: Seagate USB 3.0 5TB Desktop Ext Hard Drive $175 USD + Shipping (~$201 AUD Delivered)

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Click_It on 18/08/2014 - 19:33 amazon.com (640 clicks)
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While I'm not personally a Seagate fan I thought this represents decent bang for buck. And to be fair to Seagate, there has been no significant evidence of high fail rates since the disastrous 3TB drives. 4,5 & 6TB check out okay so far (albeit early days for the latter two).

It's the 2nd cheapest it's ever been and the 5TB Toshiba is currently $199 USD leaving this far and away the cheapest option.

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UPDATE: I changed the AUD price to $201 (down from $212) as reported by some users. Thanks.

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  • Tm15 on 18/08/2014 - 19:37
    +1

    +1 for "high fail rates since the disastrous 3TB drives"

    Got me last month, definitely enough to put me off seagate for awhile, 3tb is alot to lose!

    • Axelstrife on 18/08/2014 - 19:42

      whats wrong with 3tb? this is the first i am heading of this
      is it limited to segate 3tb or?

      • [Deactivated] on 18/08/2014 - 19:52
        +3

        I have 2 3TB Seagates, both been fine for the 9-10 months I've had them. I've never heard of this massive fail rate either. Time to worry.

        • Tm15 on 18/08/2014 - 19:58
          +1

          mine was about 15 months. without warning, click of death. check out the reviews on amazon. you know somethings up when about half the reviews are one star. just dont keep important things on those drives!

          mine was this type:

          http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0056YNA1Q/ref=oh_aui_detai…

        • ballistykx on 18/08/2014 - 21:21

          I lost a 3TB seagate hdd too about 6 mths ago. Even though it probably was just a one off, it has put me off Seagate.

        • SeanEIt on 18/08/2014 - 21:26

          i lost 2 x 3TB seagates in only 11-12 months of use..so naturally moved on to 2 x 4TB seagates at the ebay 20% off sale..not dead yet..

        • senorclean on 19/08/2014 - 08:35

          I bought 4 at the end of 2011 - 3 have now failed.. These all had the troublesome firmware though which excessively parks heads. Since I pulled mine from enclosures I couldn't update them. They are in a raid5 array so are always on.

          Oh well, they cost less than half what local drives did at the time so I haven't really lost out.

          All manufactures have bad patches, my IBM 60gxp would only last a month between failures but now Hitachi are top dog. I would trust other brands no more than this.

        • salem on 19/08/2014 - 10:07

          @senorclean:

          Yeah I remember the dark days when Hitachi deskstars were called deathstars because of their high failure rates. But that's going back a decade or more now.

        • Magic Mirror on 19/08/2014 - 10:51
          +1

          @salem:

          It was actually "IBM Deathstars", a few years before IBM sold its HDD business to Hitachi. I know, because I had one of those.

  • Sage on 18/08/2014 - 19:46
    +2

    seagate is a no go brand for hard drives.

    • chyawala on 18/08/2014 - 21:37
      +1

      They a noticeably loud, sitting there whirring away. Probably something to do with being 7200 RPM. I'd prefer a silent WD any day over them.

  • c64 on 18/08/2014 - 19:59

    gee are they up to 6gb nowadays!

  • Bob81 on 18/08/2014 - 20:17
    -2

    Use raid and save your data.

    • davidl2 on 18/08/2014 - 20:54
      +6

      raid is not a backup…….

      • alo1234 on 18/08/2014 - 21:06
        -7

        RAID-1 is. And RAID-5 and 10 if you have enough disks…

        • salem on 18/08/2014 - 21:22
          +1

          If you shift-delete a file on your raid10 by accident, how do you get it back?

        • [Deactivated] on 18/08/2014 - 21:31
          +2

          No. RAID 1 is mirroring. Mirrored disks are not a backup. If you delete a file it's deleted off both of them.

        • Hrnnghdeal on 18/08/2014 - 21:44
          +1

          The other thing to remember is that hard drive failure is very common during a RAID rebuild. It's not a valid backup.

        • Wally Simmonds on 18/08/2014 - 21:49

          It really isn't.

        • Jabba the Hutt on 18/08/2014 - 22:08
          +4

          Against drive failure, RAID is a backup. Against ransomware encrypting your data, it's not.

          Against ransomware, a disconnected drive is a backup. Against fire, it's not.

          Against fire, an offsite drive is a backup. Against accidental deletion and overwrite of files created subsequent to the last backup, it's not.

        • serrin on 18/08/2014 - 22:51

          RAID is not a backup. Not RAID-1, not RAID-5, not RAID-6 not RAID 10, 50, 60.
          http://lmgtfy.com/?q=raid+is+not+a+backup

          Redundnacy =/ backup

        • Diji1 on 19/08/2014 - 11:40

          @Jabba the Hutt:

          They're still backups. Backups that could be implemented better. Just because I might say the offsite backup got taken out by a gas explosion doesn't mean it wasn't a backup…

          LOL

        • measles03 on 19/08/2014 - 13:00

          @Diji1:

          As already stated raid is definitely not a backup. It protects you from drive failure but accidental deletion and corrupt files you need an actual BACKUP

      • SickDmith on 18/08/2014 - 22:14

        Use RAID and save your backup. :)
        But remember one backup = no backup. :)

  • wisc on 18/08/2014 - 20:27

    Only had wds fail, no seagates so far… Have 4x2tb drives for about 4 years now. So god so far touch wood…

    • giventofly on 18/08/2014 - 21:32
      +1

      Haha, I'm the opposite here.

  • salem on 18/08/2014 - 21:03
    +2

    When I bought the 4tb from amazon recently I didn't realise they used a courier. So they use Fastway for the Australian leg. The idiots tried and failed to deliver it to my auspost parcel locker on three separate days, without even trying to contact me, and then sent it back. I only found out afterwards when I thought it was overdue so I checked the tracking. Amazon customer service were brilliant, they sent out a new one to my work address, no charge, and even a free upgrade to priority shipping. +1 for amazon.

  • adam149 on 18/08/2014 - 21:14
    +9

    In before…. <insert brand here> has high failure rates, I only buy <insert brand here>, they are much more reliable. This is based on some random Google searches and <insert site here> forum

    • [Deactivated] on 19/08/2014 - 04:21

      Exactly, so here is a much better version, <WESTERN DIGITAL> has overseas RMA, I only buy <ANYTHING ELSE>, they are under half the price to send a dead drive to as everyone else has domestic RMA centres. This is based on my own horrible experiences of RMAing a WD drive and them sending me back a dead one, expecting me to pay the shipping AGAIN for the dead drive they sent me.

    • BryceW on 19/08/2014 - 14:00
      +1

      Backblaze tested 25,000 hard drives over a number of years and reported their findings on failure rates: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/what-hard-drive-should-i-buy/

      Seagate has the highest failure rate by far. Admittedly though, the model numbers for the Seagates they had were known to be a "bad batch".

      • salem on 19/08/2014 - 14:06

        They also concluded it was still worth it, for them, to buy Seagate as they were just that much cheaper.

  • giventofly on 18/08/2014 - 21:31
    -1

    Every hard drive that has failed me has been a Seagate. Never ever had a WD fail on me, although my friends have, but they've always been the WD MyBooks.

    • [Deactivated] on 18/08/2014 - 22:20

      I've lost a couple of WD drives recently. They were four years old and well used though.

    • Mister Plod on 19/08/2014 - 00:07

      Weird how it works out, the only drive I've ever lost was a WD back when 80 gb was massive!

      Been using Seagate 2, 3, and 4 tb drives for years now without issue; mainly cause they're cheaper :-P

      On the other hand, a mate has lost 2 of his 3 tb Seagate drives in the last couple of months… Crazy

  • samlor on 18/08/2014 - 21:32

    Good deal. $175 + $12.61 (shipping to Australia) = $187.61 ~ $201.24 AUD according to Google Finance converter.

  • uder on 18/08/2014 - 21:33

    Would jump on one but just wary of having to use an AC adapter for the US plug.

  • Wally Simmonds on 18/08/2014 - 21:50

    I'm only really interested in the drive. Have to void my warranty to rip it out =/

  • Phoebus on 18/08/2014 - 21:51

    This could be the answer to backup our 8TB NAS (4TB RAID 1) that we all bought the other day.

  • Draxxx on 18/08/2014 - 22:11

    Each to his own.. Hitachi & Samsung are my no - go drives. Seagate's & WD's have always been good to me.
    That said this is an awesome price for 5tb. Such a shame they don't come with Au adapters (of at least au pinned socket for the adapter).

  • bhter on 18/08/2014 - 22:29

    This is indeed a good price. It's $189 when I bought it about a month ago.

  • bxpressiv on 18/08/2014 - 22:55

    My 3TB external failed on the weekend. Just lucky is a backup of one of my media drives. On the up side Seagate doors warranty returns through an agent in Sydney, which beats South East Asia.

  • Baghern on 18/08/2014 - 23:18

    Went to the Amazon site today

    First time i got the not deliverable to Australia

  • protecon on 19/08/2014 - 00:06

    Never had a problem with the 3TB.

  • balkerman on 19/08/2014 - 09:49

    Thanks! Got it for $201 AUD delivered….

  • AtomicEnd on 19/08/2014 - 10:50

    Just a heads up guys, i ordered 4 of these last time they were on sale. So far i have had 2 of them fail.. they will only give you $15 for return postage and it will cost you $40.. But honestly %50 failure rate 2 months in

  • LadyGlitterSparkles on 19/08/2014 - 11:44

    had plenty of drives of all brands fail over the years, would have called myself a wd fanboy a few years ago, now they're all pretty much on par for me. Except Maxtor, they were terrible, we had them in the dell's at my old work and we'd lose one a week. Had one of those seagate 3tb drives running for a while now, since the great post office ozb sale, seemed bulletproof until I dropped it down the stairs, took a chunk out of the hardwood step too! Hasn't been the same since, although seatools say it's fine! I just don't trust it now…

  • Click_It on 20/08/2014 - 10:23
    +1

    A little update, just changed the AUD price to $201 as reported by a few users. Thanks guys.

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