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Epic deal for an 8TB AND an extra 200GB of Cloud Storage from OneDrive
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Seagate Backup Plus 8TB Desktop External Hard Drive $213.8 USD (~ $281.23 AU) +200GB OneDrive Delivered @ Amazon
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The delivered price is US$213.8 btw
Sorry, fixing it now
whats the lowest this has been?
Last year November $180 USD
If you want Australian stock:
https://www.officeworks.com.au/shop/officeworks/p/seagate-8t… $399
http://www.warehouse1.com.au/epages/shop.sf/en_AU/?ObjectPat… $329.00 + $24.10 = $353.105% price beat: 0.95 * $353.10 ~= $335.45
However it seems they have a retail store: http://www.warehouse1.com.au/epages/shop.sf/en_AU/?ObjectPat…
So 0.95 * $329 = $312.55
will check them out at lunch to see OW will price match
Anyone know what model internal drive they use?
I'm not entirely sure but it says it has a SATA drive?
I'm not a big hard drive fan myself so I don't know
Omg I am pleased to hear I am not the only one who isn't a hard drive fan. I much prefer the eneloops.
Id get eneloops but I don't want to
@Bearosaurus: Bearosaurus,
Due to the fact you don't own eneloops the admins have permanently blocked your account. People who don't possess eneloops do not belong here. If you wish to come back buy some.
Sincerely,
the mods
I have had trouble storing my iTunes collection on Eneloops though. Can never get the Eneloop to connect to my USB port.
Archive class SMR drive
i've got two of these internal and two external.
They perform well if you change windows write caching to the disks, constant high performance around 100mb/s+ R/W over USB3How would I do that?
http://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/21904-disk-write-caching-…
Change from Quick removal to better performance.
what is an SMR drive?
is it more worth it to get 2x4tb drives instead if space is not an issue? (i used mine to run backups then store in cupboard forever)
http://www.tomsitpro.com/articles/shingled-magnetic-recoding…
That's a good overview to the tech. It's been around for a while before hitting consumer levels. (FB/Google big data etc.)
if you're archiving data then this is what the drives are designed for. I load them up, occasionally watch an old video and it's mostly offline.
whatever's lower cost per GB is going to suit for that type of storage, if you want performance get a RED or NAS drive. if your using for active storage same rules apply.
@xdivino: thanks
this wouldve been a good deal if minimal drives mattered and cost
but i only ever buy when HDDs go on sale and $35/tb has been the going rate for cheap hdds which is what this is anyway
cheers
Yeah my gold standard is $35 per TB. Always aiming for this or less.
Less disks are always desirable depending on the type of data or what your looking to store.
i.e 1:1 backup is better than having 2x 4TB in production and 2x 4TB in backup. just harder to manage or search for files.10TB drives should be out next month as well so i'll potentially be looking out for these and selling off my 8's.
After reading reviews of this 8TB archive drive, I'm skeptical to throw my money away, 8TB is a lot of data to be lost if it fails.
Redundancy>reliability
don't buy without making sure you have redundancy.
I bought 2x and filled them up 1:1 copy of each. 3rd and 4th now for ultra redundancy since I can't effectively use cloud or backup services and works out cheaper per GB to store on these drives.Ignore, I should read before I post :)
Does anyone know how warranty would work (ie. do you need to ship back to US)?
It's US$228 now.
it's not being "sold by amazon" now though it's "fulfilment by amazon"
Are you sure that includes postage OP?