Was looking at this wonderful deal by our lovely EC when I stumbled upon the same item on warehouse1 eBay store. $9 more, but starting tomorrow at 10am you'll be able to get a bonus $50 eBay voucher with it if you click and collect it at your local WW/Big W. Hopefully price doesn't get jacked up, enjoy :)
EDIT: Also a nice price on WD Red 3TB Expired
Standard 3.5 or soldered on, do you know?
I haven't heard of the 3.5" getting soldered before?
Never soldered.
Some one purchased 2 earlier today. No $100 voucher for them.
"offer will commence at 10.00am (AEDT) on 18 October 2016" :-( Looks like you bought before the offer started.
Can you use these as internal drives?
Can you use these as internal drives?
Yes.
Any idea what drives are inside this?
It's a little bit of a pain but I've done it in the past. You can pop the external case off and remove the standard 3.5" SATA drive for use in a PC or NAS. With the more recent Seagate cases you end up partially destroying the plastic casing but who cares, right?
@juicejuice:
Im guessing it'd be a problem for warranty? That's my biggest issue, I just want the drive to put in my nas.
@Wally Simmonds: of course. You open something not supposed to be open, no more warranty… Very easy stuff.
I did a youtube search and found a helpful video showing how to take apart one of these drives
I have a Seagate 2TB Backup Plus Desktop HDD, but it was corrupted for no reason? Tried a few tricks found on Google, EaseUS can't access it either. Does anyone had same experience / know how to restore it?
rip :(
but it was corrupted for no reason?
Does anyone had same experience / know how to restore it?
Yes, restore your last full backup.
When all else fails throw it in the freezer
http://lifehacker.com/5515337/save-a-failed-hard-drive-in-yo…
Haven't tried it myself personally
That only works if it's a physical problem, and it's only for a little while so that you can recover data, not continue to use it. Sounds more like a partition/file system issue. Maybe try something like testdisk which is Open Source, or Recuva for files. Good Luck.
Can anything "see" it?
Is it in disk management? Or can you, boot from a Windows DVD & from a cmd prompt, run diskpart— list disks Is it there?
If so, you can exit diskpart & run chkdsk /f
Another open-source way to try to detect is to use a bootable copy of Gparted or UBCD (ultimate boot CD).
Good luck!
Can someone please clarify which model on the official Seagate website this product relates to?
Tried looking at the code of the Backup Plus Portable and Fast but doesn't match.
I assume this is an older model of one of the series?
Tried looking at the code of the Backup Plus Portable and Fast but doesn't match.
I assume this is an older model of one of the series?
This is a DESKTOP drive not a portable drive.
DESKTOP and 3.5" are the giveaway.
Any deals on Toshiba 4TB?
They are meant to be made from Hitachi parts, are Toshiba drives meant to be as good as WD Red for NAS? They don't have a specific NAS type
Check this out as well - comes in other offers
http://m.ebay.com.au/itm/Seagate-Backup-Plus-4-TB-External-5…
Keen for a 2.5" Portable HDD if anyones found a deal
Second this, looking for a 4tb portable to out in my PS4
How do you get the $50? Do you need to do anything?
It is worth paying extra for a Red NAS drive if you are running redundancy?
Ehhh depends on all sorts of factors.
What your max/min IOPS will be, do you hit bottlenecks, do you have issues with temperature/noise, do you need any of the NASware functionality etc.
If you are using JBOD or storing low read/write data its a bit redundant (heheh) to spend so much extra on the NAS series HDDs.
When I helped setup my friends NAS, we put reds in because he has LANs every-so-often and everyone smashes the network transferring files and copying things dozens of times in the space of a few days. Not the sort of load you'd want to put on consumer level HDDs.
Nice summary, so that level of HD use doesn't include high bit rate 1080p mkv files for kodi streaming does it?
A regular SHR Xpenology redundancy for Htpc set up would be fine without NAS type HDs?
Thanks Tomsco.
Excellent!
stumbled across whirlpool forums thread regarding issues with warehouse1
https://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies.cfm?t=2381832&…
seems like they have a bad rep??
If you sold thousands of orders a day a small amount would complain.
I have bought numerous times from Warehouse1 and if something has not been in stock for shipment i was notfied and offered a refund or if i would wait or an alternative.
I have bought
Monitors
Microservers
Lightning Cables
HDD
Memory
SD Cards
Is this faster than the 8TB drives?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe the HDD is $159 elsewhere: https://www.pccasegear.com/products/20886/western-digital-wd….
(I prematurely upvoted this)
Plus postage though and no $50 voucher.
Most places (MSY et al) have it for around $160.
THis seems to be a slightly cheaper price:
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/New-Western-Digital-WD-Red-3TB-3-…
$169.98= 5400RPM vs $178.00= 7200RPM ?? which one is incorrect?
from what I read, the normal reds are 5400rpm. i think warehouse1 is a misprint. and the other seller has put the price up. worthwhile buying it from warehouse1 for the feedback now!
I messaged them via eBay and confirmed it is 5400.
20-Oct-16 10:22:39 AEDST
New message from: warehouse_1_online
Hi,
I have had a look into this for you and the specs for this item are showing that this item has a rotation speed of 5400RPM,
As such I have now updated the listing on our website.
Apologies for any inconvenience that this may cause you, please let me know if you need anything further,
Regards,
Stephen.
Reply
Your previous message
Is this 7200RPM as listed or 5400RPM?
These are back in stock now in case anyone missed out.
![[Bonus $50 eBay Voucher] Seagate 4TB Backup Plus Desktop HDD $159, WD Red 3TB HDD $178 C&C (AU Stock) @ Warehouse1 eBay](https://files.ozbargain.com.au/n/36/271036.jpg?h=ac022251)
Lol but $150 was apparently "below cost", yet $159 including ebay listing fees isn't…
Ah huh
WTG Warehouse 1