Cheapest price ever on the 8TB Expansion with a massive $25 USD Price Drop.
You may want to also add these to your order as they are a bargain if purchased with something else and cheapest price ever
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Does anyone know if you can pull the drives out of the case? Can the pulled out drives still have their warranty claimed?
I would assume that pulling out the drives would be under "modification" and hence I am assuming no.
Does Amazon actually make you return items to the US for warranty claims?
Yes they make you return the items to USA but they will pay for the postage
8TB WOWZERS
4tb portable for $120us not too shabby either:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00ZTRXFBA/ref=psdcmw_595048_…
its been $99 USD before
I was thinking of getting one until I saw some comments about the heating issue.
there's no comments about that here?
I have WD and Seagate desktop USB drives in plastic cases and they all get very hot, you only know if you look. I stop using them at about 50degrees
Which one is faster?
They're both desktop drives so 5,400 RPM.
These actually contain the 5900 RPM archive drives, so while read performance is pretty good, write speeds can be extremely variable (dropping down to sub 25MB/s) depending on the workload.
What are the differences between the models besides the looks and price? Is there an advantage buying the plus over expansion?
Can anyone confirm if the devices have SATA inside ?
Desperately waiting for the 16tb Mybook Duo to reappear on amazon.de at the right price again (2x 8tb WD Reds inside)
Why .de specifically?
Most likely to be cheapest from there.. they had it at $670AUD recently.
Cool story bro.
I got mine pretty fast, Off topic but I took the WDRED drives out of it for my NAS and I am unable to put 2 x samsung drives in it, would you know how to get non WD drives working in the duo?
No, I kept them in there. I'd like to know too, because if I got a second unit I'd be taking the drives out. Although I do have some wd green I could put in if need be
Thanks ordered one with referrer discount.
Do they offer the same 3-year warranty as Aussie sellers when buying from Amazon?
yes, seagate warranty is global
Keep in mind these contain the Seagate archive (SMR) drives (http://www.storagereview.com/seagate_archive_hdd_review_8tb), not conventional desktop drives.
This means they are great for write-once or archival type of storage as the name implies, but performance tanks pretty quickly if you are doing a lot of random (re)writes or are planning to shuck the drives and stick them in a NAS.
I like how they make it clear in the product literature that these are SMR drives.
Almost bought one. Excellent price.
I noticed the 4TB is on sale as well, wonder if you could get a 10% price match at Officeworks ?
Maybe if the work experience kid serves you!
If these were internals is be all over them
good price