Harvey Norman have this hard drive on special at $176. I went to Officeworks to beat the price by 5% and got it for $167.20.
Seagate 4TB Backup Plus Desktop Drive - $176 @ Harvey Norman ($167.20 Price Beat @ Officeworks)
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The hardrive would actually be $151 with the $25 newsletter voucher. So for those after a hardrive this would be better because of the warranty?
My 3tb died on me last week. Keep getting I/O error. Changed usb ports and everything. It was on nearly every day for 2.5 years. Had to say goodbye to all my 100 or so TVs shows. It was a sad day
You can pull it open and put the drive into your desktop as a internal drive. Infact that is what it essentially is. A hard drive in an USB enclosure. You will need a SATA cable.
not if they've solvered usb connections onto the PCB
The drive itself is usually plugged in to the SATA ports that is soldiered on the PCD, similarly to a drive inside a computer tower. You can simply slide it out and plug it into the tower.
(NOT MY IMAGES. Googled) https://imgur.com/a/K18sf@ozgeek: they are soldered on mostly these days mate, the USB connection actually soldered onto the PCB making it essentially useless
https://d1rktuf34l9h2g.cloudfront.net/5/5b/600x283px-LL-5b19…
that's a portable drive, but i've pulled 3.5 lately with them soldered too
be a very good idea if you wanna gut this drive to make sure 100% you can even use it first
be a very good idea if you wanna gut this drive to make sure 100% you can even use it first
Well if it has failed and is a paperweight now, what's the down side of trying??
And what's with all your warnings about drives being soldered. Yes some are. Others aren't and can be salvaged this way. Recently did just that with a 1 year old portable drive for my brother in law. I say give it a go.
What hard drive is in these?
Or the PCLAN one?I'm sorry I don't know. What can I do to determine it for you?
It comes with a 3 year warranty though, so I'm pretty happy with that.
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A tool like CrystalDiskInfo would give you this.
http://crystalmark.info/download/index-e.htmlClicking on a disk while its connected via USB should give you a disk model name like: ST4000DM000 or similar.
If you have one could you try this?
BTW, this tool will also give you lots of useful information, power on hours, power on count disk SMART health, etc.My Central is marked as ST4000DM000-1F2168 in the Disk Management console.
Please note that the Central is a NAS and does not support direct attach to PC via USB as far as I can tell. Of course this makes no difference if your intention is to shuck…Thank you.
When sharing media on this drive to my playstation/chromecast etc, can I restrict it to share only certain folders?
[i don't own a desktop and need to buy more storage. I can either buy this, buy another kind of external storage, or buy an internal drive and place it in an enclosure. Is buying an internal drive + enclosure when I'm wanting 3-4 TB worth it?]
PCLan has the Seagate Central 4TB Personal Cloud Storage STCG4000300 for $149. http://www.pclan.com.au/index.php/stcg4000300.html