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Seagate 6TB Desktop HDD 6GB/s 128MB Cache 7200rpm (STBD6000100) A$275 Delivered @ Amazon

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Hard drive price dropped. Now $5 cheaper at $275 (according to exchange rate)

This seagate HDD is 7200rpm (cheaper ones selling online in Australia are 5900rpm)

The HDD is fast according to this Amazon Review with pics of performance

The 6TB Seagate's with 7200rpm are selling > $400 locally with a quick google search

Performance wise this is probably the fastest mechanical drive I've used in a long time!
200MB/s which is way faster than the typical 120MB/s and even faster than some SSD drives!
See the picture I posted. The slowest speed of this this drive around 167MB/s is the fastest speed for the older 4TB as you can see.

Cheapest Ever Delivered to Australia according to CamelX3

Also remember that Seagate warranty shipment is to an Australian Address unlike Samsung/Hitachi/WD which is to Singapore and China.

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  • dannyhc on 02/03/2015 - 19:50

    My Barracuda 7200.11 1500Gbytes just packed it in on Sunday after running in my HTPC (usually at 50C as the Amp underneath would cook it) since 2008 when they were first released!

    • scrimshaw on 02/03/2015 - 19:57
      +1

      Lucky you. Mine bricked itself after 1.5 years of use. And the store I bought it from went under (it was 9289 chatswood).

      • dannyhc on 02/03/2015 - 20:49

        I just replaced it with a WD5000AAKS because I like to party like it's 2007! Still cost me $229 back in the day and I thought I would replace the Seagate with it as they had the firmware that bricked drives issue, but I escaped it. Seems like I can sell the old Barracuda on eBay for data recovery as the PCB Board still works for around $60.

      • thedriver on 02/03/2015 - 21:33
        +1

        Contact Seagate online. See their warranty / RMA section, you'll get a replacement drive if still under warranty.

      • furythree on 02/03/2015 - 22:49
        +1

        wasnt 9289 that store that had those crazy deals on ozbargain a few years back

  • gmatht on 02/03/2015 - 20:01
    +4

    The comparison "200MB/s which is way faster than the typical 120MB/s and even faster than some SSD drives!" is possibly misleading as that is only for sequential IO. Until recently, rotational harddrives were usually faster than SSD's for sequential IO. For random reads, even a USB stick would run rings around this (or any other rotational drive). For a standard mix or sequential and random IO, I'd expect any reasonably recent SSD to be significantly faster overall.

    Very cheap though. StaticIce lists the cheapest 6TB at $319, and that is for only a WD Green. Especially cheap compared to 6TB of SSD :).

  • silent1 on 02/03/2015 - 20:33
    +3

    http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1818315

    Seems like it's actually 5900rpm. Only the enterprise version is 7200rpm.

  • t25 on 02/03/2015 - 20:47
    +3

    Seagate also offers a pick up service if required.

    Problem is, I've been bitten too many times by seagate hdd failures. But that is my personal choice and your mileage may vary.

    • easternculture on 02/03/2015 - 20:54
      +1

      7200rpm according to this too http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Seagate/STBD6000100/

      If it does end up 5900rpm, Amazon would offer you

      • Either 30% refund and keep the drive
      • Ship the drive back at their expense and get your money back. I usually say that im too busy to return the item, which i actually am, and they refund and tell me to keep it (because its their mistake)
      • stebie on 02/03/2015 - 21:58

        Unfortunately Seagate's data sheet neglects to mention any RPM figures.

        Good to see it mentions RAID, so hopefully no drives will be dropped from arrays unlike other cheaper drives.

        Other sites also mention 5900RPM - http://www.microcenter.com/product/432833/6TB_7,200_RPM_SATA…

        I do like Amazon's returns policy though.

        Note some people have returned the drive due to lack of certain mounting screw holes making it incompatible with some setups. Someone also stated (from what they read) the drive consumes up to 18W during heavy read/writes - if true, something to keep in mind for those concerned about power consumption.

    • giventofly on 02/03/2015 - 22:51
      +4

      I'm the same. All hard drives that I've had fail have been Seagate. However, friends of mine have had WD's bite the dust. Strange world!

      Still, no Seagates for me.

      • asa79 on 02/03/2015 - 23:22
        +2

        All drives die just a matter of backups and warranty returns of drives

  • humbala on 02/03/2015 - 20:59

    Care about reliability?
    https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-reliability-update…

    • TimeOrMoney on 02/03/2015 - 21:09
      +4

      If you trust the Backblaze stats, then don't use Seagate 1.5TB or 3TB.
      Seagate 4TB has an acceptable reliability rate for most uses. 6TB is still too early for a verdict.

      • MetalPhreak on 04/03/2015 - 20:54
        +1

        Yeah I've had issues with a lot of seagate drives (more so than other brands I've used WD/Hitachi/Samsung). All brands have had failures for me though. Seagate just happens to occur more often. I ran a 4TB model for about 4-5 months as a single drive with no issues. Seeing the backblaze results convinced me to buy 3 more for a new RAID array (using the existing first one). Smooth sailing so far. If they prove to be reliable I'll upgrade my 2TB samsung F4EGs (1 failure out of 16 over 3+ years. RMA drive came back with a seagate logo on it haha).

    • Doge on 02/03/2015 - 21:16
      -3

      You really shouldn't blindly trust completely unscientific data that like provided by Backblaze. Why are they even subjecting consumer drives to enterprise workloads in the first place? Let alone why are they doing it in their own poorly designed chassis. How many 6TB drives are in that data? 0. Can you know how reliable they are? No. Can they? No. If you keep them at reasonable temperatures and aren't hitting them with hundreds of thousands of IOPS, and are just using them in your NAS, they will be fine 99% of the time.

      • LoungeLizard on 02/03/2015 - 21:33
        +8

        You really shouldn't blindly trust completely unscientific data that like provided by Backblaze

        Maybe not, but their results are quoted by a LOT of other reputable sites, and they use 25,000 hard drives for their online backup service, so I dare say they have better data than most. I lost 3 out of 4 seagate drives I had in my NAS. It'll be a long, long time before I use a Seagate again.

        • cashless on 02/03/2015 - 21:42
          +1

          2nd that. Have had bad experience with 3TB Seagate drives in my NAS. 2 failed within 18 months

        • t25 on 02/03/2015 - 22:39

          @blibster: what is it with 3TB seagate drives. Notoriously bad for failing, and usually in a catastrophic manner.

          Two barracuda drives and one replaced under warranty from Dell.

        • SteveBuscemi on 02/03/2015 - 22:42

          I lost 6 ST3000DM001s in my 5-bay NAS in < 2 year period. Temps were low. IOPs were minimal. Once I had to start replacing the replacements I switched to WD Reds without any issues, although one early replacement Seagate remains with for 582+ days operation so far.

          The Backblaze data certainly isn't perfect (one could easily argue that the HGST vs WD results were purely due to their sample sizes and well within the margin of error) but I don't think the outliers like the absolutely craptacular 3TB result should be discounted.

          And no, an old 3TB model's reliability isn't indicative of the 6TB's reliability. But consider it has six platters necessitating the moving of the middle mounting holes and I wouldn't be rushing to put it in my system…

        • Nousernamehere on 02/03/2015 - 23:16
          +1

          @SteveBuscemi:

          I lost 6 ST3000DM001s in my 5-bay

          I've had 2x ST3000DM001's in 2 different NAS's and they're operating perfectly fine touch wood. Both have had over 2.5 years of 'power on' hours.

          For everyone with a horror story of a certain brand of drive, there are a lot more with a good story of them. As always though, when people have a bad experience with something they're more likely to say something than people who have had a good experience (as really, there's nothing to report).

          I've had a number of WD drives fail. Therefore from my perspective, WD drives are sh*t? See how opinions are like arseholes :-)

        • Ebany on 02/03/2015 - 23:17

          @SteveBuscemi: I keep Reds as my Primary and Green cheapies for backup.

          I've got 3TB's currently, am now replacing with 6TB's

        • sallan75 on 02/03/2015 - 23:22

          I have 5 3TB drives and no failures after 3 years. Had 4 1.5TB before that for a similar amount of time. I have been using Seagate for over a decade and never had a failure. Everytime I have tried a different brand due to reviews they have failed. Including WD and Samsung. So you can be unlucky I guess. I have seen servers and storage lose multiple drives in a short amount of time as the drives all came from the same batch. So it would suck to fill your NAS with a batch of faulty disks.

        • t25 on 03/03/2015 - 00:11

          @sallan75: which is why it is advisable in my opinion to always upgrade your hard drives every 1.5-2 years as part of your backup.

          that way, there is always new drives for the backup.

          one of the reasons why i have decided to get a n54/gen 8 and convert to a NAS with the plan to keep changing out drives every so often so as to keep my backups safe, afterall, no point having backups if the hardware is old.

        • SteveBuscemi on 03/03/2015 - 08:16

          @Porthos: That's why Backblaze's data is important and shouldn't be discounted so easily. Anecdotal evidence on 5, 15, even 50 drives is often unhelpful and misrepresentative, but not when you start talking about over 41,000 drives in otherwise identical configurations and environments. The distribution of failures is very heavily weighted towards that one particular drive model.

          Yes, I've heard plenty of HDD horror stories over the last 20 years about virtually every manufacturer…but I've also heard many "your anecdotal evidence is invalid, they're all the same" defences about growing numbers of complaints regarding what are now generally accepted to be unreliable drives — late 90's Maxtors, the infamous IBM Deskstar 60 and 75GXPs — not to mention OCZs SSD reliability woes.

  • Ebany on 02/03/2015 - 21:35

    Damn, I just bought 2x Western Digital WD Red 6TB WD60EFRX @ $400 each. For this deal I'm tempted to use some of my saved US currency - nice find OP.

    • easternculture on 02/03/2015 - 21:40

      Can you return them?

      • Ebany on 02/03/2015 - 21:43
        +1

        1 was DOA, the other has just started use. Also, got them from PCCG who had best prices and excellent service, wouldn't do that to them :)

        But I was in the market for a couple of extra as backup drives, I think your fantastic deal just showed me my next purchase.

    • jordanface on 02/03/2015 - 22:27

      Would love to see a deal on the 6TB WD Reds, eying off 2 of these as well

      • Ebany on 02/03/2015 - 22:44

        Same m8.

  • Nukkels on 02/03/2015 - 22:09

    I was waiting for a good deal on a 4TB HDD in Australia - but I had $120 credit in my Amazon account so this'll do nicely!

    Assuming the usual crappy conversion rate, I just paid less than $120 for 6TB of storage :D

  • tomwood on 02/03/2015 - 22:09

    I'd hold out, 10TB due soon.
    Should be enough for all the 4K alien porn you'd want :)

    • SF on 02/03/2015 - 22:22

      Well 8tb drives are already out (although at $50 per tb).

    • Ebany on 02/03/2015 - 22:25
      +1

      I never did understand how beast porn could be illegal but porn with angels, shapechangers, vampires, or aliens isn't.

      • furythree on 02/03/2015 - 22:51
        +1

        Congrats

        Senator Brandis has metadata on you posting about angel, alien and vampire porn

        ….shit me too now

        • Ebany on 02/03/2015 - 23:19
          +1

          We're famous :D

        • endotherm on 03/03/2015 - 16:04
          +1

          Actually the metadata contains no such reference.

        • Ebany on 04/03/2015 - 00:23

          @endotherm: When spoiling peoples imaginative dabbling it's probably best to lead with the more obvious of our curious delusions.

          e.g. Bestiality is legal in 13 American states.
          or
          e.g. Sex is legal with aliens because their existence is yet unproven.
          or even
          e.g. People who have DNA from 3 separate people are still human, hence they can legally have coitus with others.

          Talking Metadata is like trying to mix Twilight vampires with #Gamersgate, it's a party killer.

      • [Deactivated] on 02/03/2015 - 22:57

        @ebany Probably to protect animals.

        • Ebany on 02/03/2015 - 23:20

          what about the Aliens?

        • iridiumstem on 03/03/2015 - 02:19

          @Ebany: We all know that animals have more rights. If not then they would've arrested Stephenie Meyer for defiling vampires.

        • Ebany on 03/03/2015 - 10:44

          @AznMitch: So true. All this make me think of that movie called Splice.

  • Shonky on 02/03/2015 - 22:20

    6Gb/s not 6GB/s

  • OzViper on 02/03/2015 - 22:39

    Is the $9.95 Data recovery option given through checkout worth it?

    I'm looking at Raid 1 two of these for a bit of extra protection..

    • stebie on 02/03/2015 - 22:44

      I don't think it applies to us Aussies. If you click the button for more information, it states it does not ship to Melbourne, Australia (for me).

      If I recall, the blurb also states it's for single drives only (i.e. not in a RAID configuration).

    • t25 on 02/03/2015 - 22:52

      might want to check what data recovery options are applicable.

      I'm guessing for $9.95, you would be looking at accidental file deletion, or software recovery.

      For things like head crash or physical damage requiring a donor drive and clean room operation, you would be looking at $1000 minimum

  • davidl2 on 03/03/2015 - 02:13

    damn 6TB costing $280 now?

    • Gomo on 03/03/2015 - 09:28

      5tb cost me $178

  • garetz on 03/03/2015 - 06:17

    BH sais they are DISCONTINUED.

  • Klang on 03/03/2015 - 07:08

    Anyone know if the warranty period is 2 years or 5 years?

    Also, is this a worldwide warranty or I need to send it back to Amazon?

  • frostman on 03/03/2015 - 08:51

    Damn, my stupid Netgear ReadyNas only supports 2x 4TB max

    • bryans on 03/03/2015 - 09:12

      Try Synology mate…

  • bryans on 03/03/2015 - 09:10

    How do you backup 6TB?

    Seen too many HDD failures to want to leave all my eggs in one basket…

    • Shonky on 03/03/2015 - 09:13

      What do you have 6TB of that needs backing up? Cloud for the important stuff like photos etc. RAID two or more for some redundancy but of course that's not a backup and won't protect against corruptions or accidental deletes.

      • grb1234 on 03/03/2015 - 09:39

        I know many people who would have upwards of 10TB of photos and video which would be backed up multiple times. Probably not ultra common, but not that uncommon either.

        • Shonky on 03/03/2015 - 09:42

          I guess my initial reply was to someone indicating they'd have a single 6TB drive. If you have that much important data you need to spend some money on local and offsite backups/redundancy.

          Videos? You mean downloaded? If so you really shouldn't need to back that up.

        • Ebany on 03/03/2015 - 11:00

          @Shonky: I assume grb1234 is referring to media other than downloaded video, I see no reason why a person would spend so much money just to keep/back-up downloaded stuff.

        • grb1234 on 06/03/2015 - 07:37

          @Shonky:

          No, professional photo and video.

        • Shonky on 06/03/2015 - 08:51

          @grb1234:
          And professionals should be having multiple backups at multiple locations without question. Not what the original comment was about. Someone asking questions like that is unlikely to have that much real data to backup.

        • Ebany on 06/03/2015 - 20:46

          @Shonky: Very true.

    • Ebany on 03/03/2015 - 10:54
      +1

      buy another 6TB.

      I'll replace my first 8x3TB's with 8x6TB's and move those 3TB's into backup drive collection.

  • noshopping on 03/03/2015 - 09:24
    -1

    The Backblaze website seems spot on. Every HD that has failed on me has been either Seagate or WD. I have never had any HGST/Hitach drives fail on me yet… touches wood

    • ironpaw on 03/03/2015 - 09:56
      +3

      Damn…so my 2 x dead 3tb Hitachi's most be a "miracle"….:/

    • jeffr on 06/03/2015 - 01:45

      One of my 4Tb Hitachi drives failed in my QNAP NAS (I have 4 x Hitachi 4Tb drives in it). Raid 0 is quite handy.

  • easternculture on 04/03/2015 - 19:50

    price back down guys and gals

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