Seagate 8TB Expansion Desktop External Hard Drive $182.20 USD (~ $252 AUD) Delivered @ Amazon

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Amazon lower the price by $20 USD on 25 Nov.

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Amazon lower the price of Seagate 8TB Expansion drive.

$189.99 + $12.21 USD delivery to pick-up point

$189.99 + $13.21 USD delivery to home

$169.99 + $12.21 USD delivery to pick-up point

$169.99 + $13.21 USD delivery to home

Features

• Easy and simple to use - simply plug in the power adapter and USB cable
• Fast file transfers with SuperSpeed USB 3.0
• Compatible with USB 3.0 and USB 2.0
• Drag and drop file saving for Windows, right out of the box

Cheapest 8TB external HDD on staticICE is $359 pick-up.

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  mp3police on 23/11/2016 - 02:19

  +1

  Whats the failure rates on these drives.
  Last time I bought 2x 3TB drives i filled them up and then they both failed at the same time still got them here and they dont work.

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    Teddo on 23/11/2016 - 04:00

    ST3000DM001
    http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/222267-seagate-faces-laws…

    & same here with 2 x 4tb Seagates before I filled them up..

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      toxicdav3 on 23/11/2016 - 08:01

      4 of the 8 ST4000DM001 drives I had died. I've since used hdparm to change the apm at every boot to not sleep or park. None have died since. Bad firmware configuration to save power. They were designed for infrequent use.

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        garage sale on 23/11/2016 - 08:35

        +1

        Was same with wd Green drives ….firmware designed for desktops not NAS use or torrent storage due to frequent head parking …..used to be able to reflash the wd Green ….they disabled the feature so people would buyred Nas drives instead

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      mp3police on 23/11/2016 - 14:04

      I guess the class action suit didn't go ahead?
      Was so pissed off to lose 6TB of data in a split second and the drives were barely a few months old.

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  Crownie on 23/11/2016 - 02:27

  +1

  This is $10 cheaper:
  https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01HD6ZLQ6/ref=psdc_595048_t2_B01H…
  BUT weighs more and is a bigger unit. Has the addition of a USB hub though

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    samfisher5986 on 23/11/2016 - 03:06

    You've listed an 8TB archive drive which has disadvantages. I don't believe the drive posted here is an archive drive.

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      Crownie on 23/11/2016 - 04:41

      +4

      they BOTH use an Archive drive ;)

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        samfisher5986 on 23/11/2016 - 11:32

        I looked on amazon and couldn't find any evidence of that.

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      congo on 23/11/2016 - 07:12

      What is the advantage of an archive drive?

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        toxicdav3 on 23/11/2016 - 07:42

        Advantage: cheap.
        Disadvantage: slow. After about 100GB of writes, the drive drops from 180MB/sec to 25mb/sec.

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        NotCheap on 23/11/2016 - 07:53

        With an archive drive, it depends how you use it, Ive just copied about 5tb to mine and saw no slowdown at all. Slowdowns can occur once you start deleting things and theres no free contiguous space left to copy new things, it then needs to re-arrange data (put simply).

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        toxicdav3 on 23/11/2016 - 08:13

        @NotCheap:

        If your not writing at full speed, the write cache would have moved it to a different section of the drive already. Most users experience the slow down at 100GB. The write cache is about 20GB. Im unsure about about the V2 drive.

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  insular on 23/11/2016 - 08:21

  can the drive be removed easily?

  and it's 1x8tb inside?

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  al8 on 23/11/2016 - 08:55

  Does anyone know whether inside is an archive drive?

  I wanna use it as an internal drive

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    Megahowler on 23/11/2016 - 15:24

    Yes it's an Archive drive.. check the amazon comments

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  al8 on 23/11/2016 - 16:08

  +1

  Thank you very much