Cheap 8TB drive, goes on sale quite often at this price but no denying it's great value. This is an external drive but "shuckable". Some conjecture about what drive you'll get inside but quite possibly a BarraCuda Compute from the most recent comments.
Great timing for me as another drive decided to fail …
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I think you may seen otherwise we are not maybe perhaps.
I start off as gentle as I can be and end up just breaking the entire closure into pieces haha
I've bought a number of drives in the past and have successfully shucked them without breaking any clips.. but, I think it's a deliberate act by Seagate to weed out the returns on shucked drives..
I start off as gentle as I can be and end up just breaking the entire closure into pieces haha
gosh you're a donkey
is a compute good?
So this can be taken out of its enclosure and be installed as interns via sata ???
Yeah
I just purchased one. It's $162.46 USD, or $219.66 AUD if you choose to be charged in AUD through Amazon instead (1:1.35 exchange rate)
You just broke like rule 1. Never take the house exchange rate.
Is there a difference choosing USD when making payment?
Yep. Amazon gives you an exchange rate about 3% below the visa/mc/commercial rate. If you're using a good forex card (Citibank, 28 degrees, etc) then you're better off going with usd. If you're using a bad local card, then use aud (and go and get a good forex card =P)
Same applies to paypal.
Who said I did?
I was just pointing out that that is the price if you use Amazon's exchange rate. Besides I've purchased things from online stores before that have a cheaper exchange rate than what I'd get if I was charged in their currency. In this case, Amazon was more expensive, so my bank did the conversion.
Excellent. Just what I need for cryptocurrency hard drive mining. Yes, it's a thing. Burstcoin, Storj, etc. Hopefully the craze has passed us by otherwise fanboys will do to hard drive prices what they did to good graphics cards.
How much are you expecting to make? You'll probably only mine around $5 worth of burstcoin/month :(. LTT projected earnings of ~$100/mo with >150TB.
FWIW, I bought one a few months ago. Shucked it and threw it in my NAS. Lasted about 2 months.
Yes, it's not a "NAS" drive but still. FWIW.
Edit. Hardly wrote to it too. Probably bad luck.
…or because seagate.
thats what you get for buying Seagate drives m8
I've got 1TB WD "Elements" 3.5" portable drives from my nintendo wii days (10?? yrs ago) still going 24/7 in my machine
I don't think Seagate or WD are more reliable than another. I've got a mix of Seagate and WD in my systems over the years and have had failures from both brands and old drives that are still going from both brands. You should assume that the data on any hard drive can fail at any time so you should have at least 2 backups of any "important" data (one other HDD, one cloud)
Exactly. I have 8 X 4 TB shucked Seagate desktop drives that have been running 24x7 in a NAS since 2013 without incident.
Yep - particular models are dogs..
I'm showing my age a bit but I had the 60GB IBM deskstar with glass platters in high school - those would last about a month before failing and needing a low level format. They'd then be fine for another month.
I got 4x 3tb Seagates and sucked them in 2012 - 3 failed within 18 months but the other one still works. I replaced them with 2x wd and 1x Hitachi drives and haven't had more failures.
I've got plenty of reliable Seagates.. But ultimately trust none of them and have a solid backup strategy for the stuff you can't replace.
It's nice to see bigger drives starting to appear at sane prices - might be time to swap out some drives in my nas.
Agree, very model dependant, but my experience with Seagate has also been awful.
Also, backblaze results have some Seagate drives with absolutely horrendous failure rates.
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-failure-rates-q3-2…
I have only ever had trouble with "stand up" vertical external HDD's FWIW. I've never had a single issue with "lay flat" horizontal external HDD's. Even though manufacturer's spruik that the orientation shouldn't matter? Anyone else had a similar experience as me?
I was pretty close to getting this recently due to the price but after reading previous comments I ended up getting the WD Mybook which I haven't bothered to shuck as I don't have torx.
What swayed your decision?
The WD mybook is a better Hard Drive
Did anyone manage to get the price to $209 AUD?
It's $162.46 USD currently to Melbourne and that's $211 AUD if you buy it in USD on a 28degrees card.
That clears it up. Thank you
Ah I should have mentioned I used delivery to a ParcelPoint location - potentially this shaved off $1 USD?
Been this price for ages. Have 8 of them from the last deal shucked and running in my Synology just fine.
Dont put these cheap Seagate or WD's in a raid array. They'll last months then die. Spend the extra and get the NAS/Raid drives.
WD white's from My Books are fine in raid though right?
Like these, https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1273853-REG/wd_wdbbgb…
Do these drives last longer if they're kept and used in their original enclosure?
I bought 6 of these in the end. Shucked all 6 but only to check the drives and use one internally in a PC. Lucky no failures bit ran them all for about 5 days still shelled. All Seagate computes and varying production dates (3 orders of 2pcs) Did the "cut" to the serial eeprom just so they show as an ASMT controller and not "Seagate expansion" To seagates credit they didn't encrypt these like they did with the older expansion drives. Clips are impossible not to break, I can get em apart using an iOpener and break only about 6 without a mark or scratch but some clips will always still break.
Did the "cut" to the serial eeprom just so they show as an ASMT controller and not "Seagate expansion"
Can you give more info or a link to an article on this?
+1
Thanks techead
No guide or link alas as this is my own doing.
At your own risk of course, all this does now is returns the controller chip to it’s internal firmware by disconecting the external Flash chip. Cut the tracks carefully and not too deep tp avoid fouling a layer.
Previous older drives used to have the drive formatted into a propietery encrypted filesystem.
https://files.ozbargain.com.au/upload/144098/57770/453bde03-…
https://files.ozbargain.com.au/upload/144098/57771/46a24b3f-…
This is the drive to go internal, it’s still on the USB as I will copy the old laptop contents before installing it.
I like you.
Off topic.
If your hard drives are failing can I suggest you look at spinrite. This is a fantastic utility that will help to recover the drives. Can be found at. https://www.grc.com
this might have been useful in the xp era but it hasn't been updated in yonks. Wouldn't bother with modern drives.
This is true, it works well on smaller drives, but on 2TB+ it almost always fails. Some people report using freedos allows it to get past the limitation, but it didn't help me.
My shitty alternative was to use Dariks boot and nuke (multi pass). But I guess my goal wasn't to save a failing disk/data, it was to verify if the drive is any good for re purposing.
1 year warranty for those who might care.
https://www.seagate.com/www-content/datasheets/pdfs/expansio…
The datasheet above shows 3 YR warranty for various drives, although the 8TB is not listed, in APAC where they are only 1 yr warranty in AMER….
If someone has recently purchased one, they can plug the S/N into Warranty checker and tell us the results.
Would this be ok for a ps4 external drive?
I bought 5? drives around christmas time and they were all Computes.. I'd be surprised anyone managed to remove the drives without break any of the clips.