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Great price on WD portable 4TB from Amazon US
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WD 4TB Black My Passport - Portable External Hard Drive USB 3.0 -$106.99US($144.22AU delivered) Amazon US
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Im getting $109.99 + $7.50 shipping $US,now , shipped July 19th for the yellow model.
Yellow no longer available
That's using Amazon's USD to AUD conversion, instead opt to pay in USD
what's the problem with seagate?
Nothing.
https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/317433#comment-4858529
Any drive can fail at any time.
Like all manufacturers, Seagate has some great drives with very low failure rates, and some models that have higher than average failure rates. Generalising is pointless when you're buying a specific drive.
Seagate's overall failure rate is around average, and not the worst for the industry depending on how you measure it.
eg., https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-failure-rates-q1-2…
I'd rather have a Seagate. They make better products.
The 3T units of a couple of years ago were particularly bad. After the hassles of getting the warranty honoured I vowed Seagate No More.
After 6 2TB Seagate Slims that have had no issue, I vowed Nothing But Seagate.
There is one good reason why the seagate 4TB portable is better than WD. a very common failure is with the usb3 connector. The seagate has a regular sata drive inside so if the connector fails you can take the out drive and put it in another enclosure. The WD the usb3 is connected to the drive.
This ^
I've come across a few failed WD portables and the in built connector is a joke. Can't remove the drive and insert into a PC or sata caddy.A lot of the time it's the board that the drive is connected to that fails. But you'd need an exact same one for the drive to work.
WD are great for powered 3.5" externals and internal hard drives. But I'm starting to steer away from their portables now.
Whenever I buy one now I see if I can find videos to see if they can be disassembled easily and plugged in directly to SATA
Great point.
The only reason why I hesitate buying a Seagate 4TB portable HDD at the moment is that I can't determine if it's still an SMR drive, or at least some sort of hybrid.
When it first came out, the reviews said it was an SMR drive:
http://www.storagereview.com/seagate_4tb_backup_plus_portabl…
But it seems it's actually some sort of hybrid. And according to AnandTech, that doesn't seem to affect its performance like a pure SMR:
http://www.anandtech.com/show/9489/seagate-backup-plus-porta…
(Note: This is all from 2015 and I haven't found anything more up to date. Not that I've really looked)
My concern is longevity with all the extra SMR disk writing going on. Looking at the reviews, the Seagate drive seems to be failing a bit more than the WD equivalent. And hey, who knows, the WD is probably equivalent hybrid tech anyway.
Just food for thought
Can this be shucked by a cuck?
I am getting us$109 (yellow one ) = AUD$155 ( including UD$9.45 shipping) ?? How did you get your price ?