This will probably be the cheapest 2TB portable external hard drive deal for a while. These drives can be dismantled and used in PS4's and other 2.5in SATA enclosures.
Backup Plus Slim 2TB (The aluminium top one) in various colours are also on sale with the coupon for $119.20 + $5.18 P&H. http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/121500274627 (Black 2tb)
The word Portable signifies a 2.5", USB-powered external hard drive in Seagate's current external HDD line up. The AC-powered external hard drives are part of the Seagate Expansion Desktop range.
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I got the 5TB for $180. Bargain for a 5TB HDD.
Pretty certain only the Backup Plus Slim will fit in the PS4… NOT the Expansion Portable
The expansion portable 2TB contains the same Seagate/Samsung M9T 2.5in 9.5mm 2TB hard drive as in the Backup Plus Slim. I found a YouTube video of a guy dismantling the Expansion portable drive and replacing the HGST hard drive in the PS4. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGerAyesQZY
Interesting… I wonder if that is for a certain batch of them or for all newer models. As this certainly wasn't the case when I was researching them a couple of months back.
Hmm, after my 1.5tb just died I probably wouldn't trust Seagate ever again for large storage devices like this.
So I just bought the Toshiba 2tb on CotD for $93.
Hmm, I just had a barely one-year old Toshiba HDD rack up something like 400,000 reallocated sectors in one of the workstations at the office. And it ha been virtually untouched; powered-on for that time, but had no data written to it.
Welcome to mass production; someone gets the duds with every manufacturer.
Nah see the that Toshiba problem you experienced sounds like a platter issue, where as Seagates have mechanical and PCB board issues. The SMART system for me isn't so good at detecting latter, which is where you're going to get hit least expected.
I agree with mass produced products, you can't have insane expecations, but Seagate have got their costs allocated to the wrong qualities.
where as Seagates have mechanical and PCB board issues.
How exactly did you diagnose that it was an issue with the logic board or some moving part?
So you've had one bad Seagate (maybe 2 or 3).
I've had a dozen combined WDs and Toshibas fail on me over the course of just this year (along with more Seagates). I fail to see how you'd glean any meaningful, observable failure trends from your scant consumption of HDDs as a consumer.
sounds like a platter issue
If the HDD goes from 0 to 400,000 bad sectors in the span of a week, that is surely a defective unit that was defective from the moment it left the factory, and not symptomatic of wear & tear (which as I said in this case was highly unlikely given that it hadn't been used).
but Seagate have got their costs allocated to the wrong qualities.
Again, pure speculation. Are you another proponent of BackBlaze's flawed study?
How exactly did you diagnose that it was an issue with the logic board or some moving part?
Pretty simple to diagnose it's a PCB board fault or motor/head fault. Check PCB board for burns or check the head/motor for irregularities like not being in the right position etc. Conversely you can also diagnose by listening to the sound a broken HDD behaves when you plug it in.
In my case I've experienced no movement = PCB board and another with a whirl + beep = actuator broken.
Again, pure speculation. Are you another proponent of BackBlaze's flawed study?
No need to be a scientist, check this site out and compare how specific and large the description of Seagate related problems are compared to other brands:
http://www.datadetect.com.au/sounds/seagate/
Then read http://datacent.com/datarecovery/hdd/seagate
All my drives are from those quoted series.
But who am I to convince you.
Check PCB board for burns or check the head/motor for irregularities like not being in the right position etc. Conversely you can also diagnose by listening to the sound a broken HDD behaves when you plug it in.
Yeah I've seen brownish discolouration marks on PCBs but the HDD was still recognisable, same with clicking/whirring noises (hell if the old Seagate Barracuda 7200.7s-10s didn't make a clicking noise, something was wrong).
You can hardly call that a precise isolation of a faulty component when you're going by hearing and visual inspection.
No need to be a scientist, check this site out and compare how specific and large the description of Seagate related problems are compared to other brands:
http://www.datadetect.com.au/sounds/seagate/
Woooooooow
A couple of anonymous testimonials on a data recovery firm's website, who has it in their best interest to convince everyone their HDDs are all on their last legs, is enough to sway you, is it?
But who am I to convince you.
Here's a tip for next time, when you're on the Seagate scaremongering wagon, link to the 4.8 million search results for "Seagate click". That'll fool 'em.
Bought Cheers OP!
This is the USB powered one right?