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Seagate Expansion 8TB Desktop External Hard Drive US $150.32 Delivered (~AU $199.52) Delivered @ Amazon US

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A US $10 drop from the previous deal.

Note that shipping is to parcel locker:

Items: USD 139.00
Shipping & handling: USD 11.32
Total before tax: USD 150.32

Regular shipping to your address should be USD 151.32, however I was getting something more once it goes to checkout:

Items: USD 139.00
Shipping & handling: USD 16.54
Total before tax: USD 155.54
Order total: USD 155.54

So get it shipped to a local parcel locker if it's showing the same for you (at checkout click 'change' on shipping location then 'Ship to an Amazon Pickup location').

AUD amount is approximated using today's MasterCard rates.

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  • Bellpop on 30/04/2018 - 13:51

    Oh man I’ve only ever had WD. Should I go for this? Great price

    • Kaise on 30/04/2018 - 14:13
      +9

      Bought a Seagate and a WD drive roughly a few weeks apart. Seagate has had issues consistently after just a year of use. WD still working fine. Just my two cents

      • Bellpop on 30/04/2018 - 14:25

        Thanks for the info. I think I'll hold out for a WD deal. My WD 4TB WD has been going strong for 5 years non stop on a plex server

      • ricf on 30/04/2018 - 14:31

        Same, had tons of Seagate fail. WD never.

        • EightImmortals on 30/04/2018 - 14:46
          +1

          Someone should do a study on that, srsly, over 30 years or so I've seen plenty of dead WD's and none (or none that I can remember) Seagates.

        • deal seeking missile on 30/04/2018 - 15:07
          +1

          @EightImmortals: yeah me too! i havent had a single Seagate failure. i still have my ancient 9 year old 500gb drive. its all just random luck in my opinion

        • Caped Baldy on 30/04/2018 - 15:30
          +1

          @EightImmortals:

          Backblaze has done an analysis on failures. IIRC 3TB seagates are the ones to avoid. Deskstars and Toshibas are good for reliability.

        • Click_It on 30/04/2018 - 19:53
          +1

          @phil1311:

          Yeah the HGST (Hitachi) Deskstar drives are amazing. I particularly loved the 5400rpm CoolSpin drives which are no longer in production. I paid a hefty premium importing them (4TB) from USA. They've been on 24/7 in my NAS for 4 years and never skipped a beat. When I went to expand the array they were out of production and disproportionately expensive to secure another so I added a Seagate desktop drive, darn thing starting dropping out of the array and getting SMART errors within 12 months.

          I've had WD fail too but I'd take it over Seagate and I'd take neither if HGST were the 3rd option (despite it now sharing tech with WD). I'd still give it a go at this price but I won't put another Seagate Desktop anywhere near my NAS. You can rightly argue it wasn't meant for that purpose, but nor were the CoolSpins still running solid and Seagate's 7200rpm NAS drives run too hot so it's a pickle.

          My older NAS has Samsung 2TB drives (x6) running almost 24/7 since 2010! Not a single hiccup, now that's impressive for a budget model 'WD-Green' alternative of the day.

          And a 2.5" 500GB WD-Blue running 24/7 since 2010 also, ridiculous hour count. Solid.

        • jztilly on 30/04/2018 - 20:41
          +3

          as someone who performs data recovery - i see much more WD drives that seagate. The WD drives that do come in are much harder to recover than the Seagate's too due to their useless and unnecessary "encryption"

          personally i always go for seagate over wd, but i use both in each of my storage servers

        • p1 ama on 06/05/2018 - 20:30
          -2

          @ideasman:

          as someone who performs data recovery - i see much more WD drives that seagate

          That's probably because WD sells many more drives than Seagate, sort of like a mechanic saying that they see many more Toyotas than Hondas.

        • voter1 on 09/05/2018 - 18:44

          @p1 ama:

          thats actually the opposite of all the backblaze fans that report their studies here.

          eg. seagate cops a lot of flak from backblaze but they also buy their drives with 3x or more volume. So its kind of wierd to argue.
          If seagate drives are so crap backblaze should stop buying them but no.

          a few years ago WD drives were cheap and backblaze bought those instead and at the time I think their stats were also crap and the fanbois were negging WD a lot.

          Conclusion : its random

      • Scab on 30/04/2018 - 14:40
        -1

        My Seagate internal drive started randomly disappearing.

        At least I had warning to make a backup but never Seagate again.

        • Dark Zeus on 30/04/2018 - 14:42
          -1

          WD is considered to be better than Sea "can".

      • stonkered on 01/05/2018 - 07:50

        With respect, these comparisons are next to useless in my opinion but they always come up.

        I've had problems with both. It's usually batches that there are problems with rather than brands, we accept and look for differences in models and revisions amongst other products but this seems to be over looked in HDD.

    • [Deactivated] on 30/04/2018 - 16:47

      I have 4 Seagate drives and they're all working fine.
      Funnily enough my first and only WD green drive died years ago so ymmv

  • Scab on 30/04/2018 - 13:53

    I'm getting this to keep backups of all of Hamza's deals.

    Thanks, Hamza.

  • thelastnoob on 30/04/2018 - 13:59
    +1

    Horrific reviews
    As much as I love a good hard drive deal I fear Seagate

    • samfisher5986 on 30/04/2018 - 14:14

      I wouldn't worry.

      To my knowledge these are good drives that the same problems any external hard drive has of lower life due to heat and being knocked around.

      I shuck these and put them in my home server and the work really well.

      I paid $182 USD at the end of 2016 for this so its a good deal.

    • c0balt on 30/04/2018 - 14:24

      I got mine from this one a few months ago: https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/360589

      It's been fantastic. It's up to 6TB full and still writes at 150MB/s.

      • stringbean402 on 30/04/2018 - 15:12
        +6

        I have 10 of these 8TB drives running in 2 different RAID arrays, 150-300 days old depending on the drive, all smooth so far.

        Good SMART data, temps, read/write speeds etc.. handle RAID 0 nicely on LSI RAID controller / Intel expander.

        I also have about 9ea 4TB Seagate drivers which are between 2-4 years old also with no failures.

        I also have 12 x 3TB drives which are a mix of WD RED & GREENS, a bunch getting close to the 6 year old mark, marketed as very different drives but ultimately similar performance.

        31 drives now in my collection and only 1 failure in the last 5 years, happened to be a WD RED 3TB.

        My oldest drive is a WD30EZRX (WD GREEN 3TB) - power on time 2174days 8hrs. No bad sectors all SMART data passing to this day.

        Ultimately i have no real conclusion, WD and SEAGATE seem like much of a muchness to me.

        • c0balt on 30/04/2018 - 15:51

          Jesus that's a lot of data.

          Here I am with my life's worth of data not even taking up one drive.

        • Cusack on 30/04/2018 - 20:45

          I have to ask, why do you need all that storage?

        • gadgetguy on 30/04/2018 - 21:15

          Similar experience - I have had 8 x 4TB (shucked) Seagates running in one NAS since 2013 (24/7). Now also have 8 of these 8TB drives running the same for a month.

        • stonkered on 01/05/2018 - 08:23

          @Cusack:

          Do you really need to ask?

          He's big in to Photoshopping obviously.

  • RocketSwitch on 30/04/2018 - 14:17
    +1

    Damn good price, got one, pick up is like 5 minutes from my place.

  • CheeryCheapskate on 30/04/2018 - 14:35
    -1

    Agree with the reviews. WD had no issues, I got a Seagate and although files were fine, it had a few disconnection and reading errors (however a simple reboot and pull out and in fixed this). I would say Seagate is a lot more unstable in comparison to WD. Seagate monopolises on data loss with their paid recovery software.

    • RocketSwitch on 30/04/2018 - 14:37
      +5

      It's funny, only drive I had fail on me has been WD. So, stopped listening to reviews. 7 Seagate HDDs, still going strong, some of them 5 years old. Luck of the draw.

    • stonkered on 01/05/2018 - 08:27

      You can't draw any conclusions from that sample size, i.e; 1.

  • Imsopov on 30/04/2018 - 14:58

    How hard is it to shuck these? I've never done it before, afraid I'll mess up something.

    • stringbean402 on 30/04/2018 - 15:20

      Very easy. I have 2 of these to pickup today from the PO and will be shucking later. Will take a couple of pics for you.

      • groook on 30/04/2018 - 15:21
        +1

        These exact ones? Would love to know what drives are inside!

      • XeKToReX on 30/04/2018 - 15:21

        Keen to see exactly what's inside

        • stringbean402 on 30/04/2018 - 15:29
          +3

          Yes these exact ones. I own 10 so far, 2 more arrived today.

          All 8TB Seagate Expansion externals i've shucked so far are ST8000DM004 - Barracuda Compute's

          https://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Barracuda-3-5-Inch-Internal-S…

        • Caped Baldy on 30/04/2018 - 15:31
          +4

          @jg86tsv:

          80TB is a lot of p0rn

        • XeKToReX on 30/04/2018 - 15:35
          +1

          @jg86tsv: Cheers

        • stringbean402 on 30/04/2018 - 15:37
          +4

          @phil1311:

          168TB after today… Linux ISO's :)

        • wasdw246 on 30/04/2018 - 17:43

          @jg86tsv: is that the same as a wd green?

        • stringbean402 on 30/04/2018 - 18:58
          +1

          @wasdw246:

          WD Greens don't exist any more.

          These drives are somewhere middle of the road between a WD Blue and a WD Red.

          256MB Cache - 600,000 load/unload cycles, 190MB/sec
          https://www.seagate.com/www-content/product-content/barracud…

          The caveat here is their rated workload cycle is 55TB/year vs 180TB/year for a WD RED NAS drive vs 175TB/year for a Seagate Ironwolf NAS drive. So it depends how much you write/rewrite/read your data. Bigger cache than a WD RED is a real plus. 256MB is great.

          Depends what you use it for, most of my data is written once and accessed occasionally, all video library.

          To give you an idea the lifetime recorded workload (read & write) of a Seagate 4TB drive I have had for 4.27 years is 50.5 TB (12.8TB/year actual usage). This is at the higher end of my drive usage, some have much less. So 55TB a year is more than enough for what i do with them.

          A NAS/Surveillance drive is designed to be written to over and over again and they cost much more because of that.

          For the money these are excellent drives and in my opinion they can't be beaten for specs vs $

    • stringbean402 on 30/04/2018 - 16:16
      +4

      Please see below pics, basic text description describing the steps of Shucking the drives. It is actually a surprisingly simple process.

      https://imgur.com/a/s7PGrkP

  • Perthguy on 30/04/2018 - 15:44

    There is no way I need this much storage but I want it…. so much! :)

  • tyme on 30/04/2018 - 15:44

    These drives are fine as long as you're realistic about what you're using them for.
    I use them as archive drives, backing up my WD reds to them only once per week so they're not constantly running and it's not a big deal if they start dying.
    Actually shucking them for use in a NAS, gaming PC or kodi box is obviously not a great idea.

    • stringbean402 on 30/04/2018 - 16:19

      Number 1 rule with any data you actually care about is to keep a mirrored backup copy, preferably off site.

      A hard drive can fail at anytime, enterprise level or consumer grade, all can and do fail. Personally i don't think NAS, Surveillance, Enterprise drives etc are worth the price tag.

      Even powered on 24/7 the drives are not spinning, they are sitting idle unless in use. If your running a data centre where data is being read/written 24/7 then yes pay the money and use enterprise level equipment. The average punter does not need 99.99999% up time and is not actually constantly using the drives.

      Easier and cheaper to replace the odd failed drive. Not having a backup is just asking for trouble.

  • Asherman on 30/04/2018 - 15:57
    +1

    Hi guys,
    Just wondering what is the difference between this deal - the seagate expansion, and the seagate backup+hub 8gb (+ 2 months adobe cc)
    https://www.amazon.com/Seagate-External-Storage-Photography-…

    Maybe i am blind, but to me they look the same price, effectively same model number (just different letters at the front), and from what i can tell the same? internals. (Just wondering if one of you "shuckers" out there might know the difference?).

    Plus the other one comes with usb ports and 2 months free adobe cc.

    • Clear on 30/04/2018 - 16:05

      Backup Plus includes two USB's on the front

      Two integrated high-speed USB 3.0 ports on the front allow you to connect and recharge your other USB devices

      • Asherman on 30/04/2018 - 17:11

        yes, i just wondered whether that (the usbs) would make that the better deal over this one? the 2 months adobe CC is neither one way or another really (free to start with and then you have to pay, so not really free if you actually want it. or bloatware if you dont. if you dont really need photoshop, affinity photo is a much better option.

        Or is this deal more about postage?

        • lbft on 30/04/2018 - 17:51

          If you just want storage, buy whichever of the two is cheaper (which right now is the Expansion, but sometimes it's the other way around due to different specials).

          If you want the USB ports (or anything else they're including), the Hub is better. Be prepared for the possibility that the CC 2 month thing might not work in a different region.

  • dddp on 30/04/2018 - 18:08
    +1

    Seagate reliablity and performance have improved a lot since buying the Samsung HDD business

  • WhiteEvo6 on 30/04/2018 - 18:15

    sold out, only used available.

    • nige0090 on 30/04/2018 - 19:06

      Not sold out. Ordered at 7:05pm

      • WhiteEvo6 on 30/04/2018 - 22:55

        At the time of my post none available only used. Obviously they have added stock.

  • mortyestmorty on 30/04/2018 - 18:15

    Is this an Archive or Barracuda drive?

  • snark on 30/04/2018 - 20:28

    Thanks OP! Ordered two.

  • [Deactivated] on 30/04/2018 - 23:23
    -1

    I got a Seagate, 5 years old now.

    From the Hard Disk Sentinel:

    The drive found 304 bad sectors during its self test.
    There are 304 weak sectors found on the disk surface. They may be remapped any time in the later use of the disk.
    It is recommended to examine the log of the disk regularly. All new problems found will be logged there.
    It is recommended to backup immediately to prevent data loss.

    Has been like this for the past 2 years. Working fine :)) expecting a crash any day now. Need to buy a new HDD rather fast

  • Thaal Sinestro on 01/05/2018 - 07:51

    Ozbargained, now out of stock. I hate missing out on bargains. IronWolf drives are superior, but over 50% more $, and the various Amazon stores will not ship to Oz.

    • hamza23 on 01/05/2018 - 11:33

      Looks like it's available again, hopefully still there by the time you read this.

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