a couple dollars cheaper than previous deals,
links from amazon.com.au but Ships from and sold by Amazon US
CamelCamelCamel.
Casing is pretty flimsy plastic, but you shouldn't be rough with them anyway. Easy enough to open with a razor, HDD inside is thiccer than average so may not fit consoles / some laptops
If you need speed these 2.5 drives are all slow as shit so look elsewhere.
I’m always posting new comment instead of replying…
It’s a Seagate 4tb barracuda. Your basic 5900 RPM used for mass storage
Hybrid SMR hard drive. It has a small portion which uses CMR (so random read/write on commonly used data still has decent performance) and a large portion which is SMR based. You won't be able to tell with standard benchmark software since they would only be able to test the CMR portion.
If the majority of the drive is used for write once read many, you wouldn't notice any performance issue (even if there is a small portion of data you read/write a lot). Only if you re-write a large chunk of data very often, you would notice the SMR type of slow down.
To be fair, pretty much all portable USB 4TB HDDs use hybrid SMR based drives. 3TB ones could also be using them. That's why you see a big change in GB/$ for 3TB, 4TB drives compared to 2TB ones. So compare to other 4TB portable HDDs, rather than compare to a 2TB one and think the 4TB is much cheaper.
I had just signed up to post this. I purchased one of these a few months ago from Amazon US when it was at a good price. I received it, plugged it in and everything worked, nil issues for a couple days. So I pulled it apart as I wanted it for an internal storage drive.
Everything went well for about 1 month then it stopped being recognised in Windows. The drive would exist but couldn't be accessed. I checked all connections, nothing was loose. Pulled it out and put it in an external enclosure, nothing. I went into the Disk Manager and could see it, but it wanted me to initialize it. I thought maybe is just corrupted somehow, but it was also only showing around 2.5gb storage and not the 4gb (3.8gb or whatever it is). Tried it in a Mac, nothing as well, just wants to be formatted and same reduced capacity.
Unfortunately for me, because I pulled it out of the case, no more warranty. This is my second Seagate in 10 years, both have failed. Never again. Now looking at reviews online, even on the Amazon AU site linked above, there are some 1 star reviews and apparently a fairly high failure rate. I've owned countless WD drives, never an issue. Lesson learnt!
Do some research on Seagate failure rates, seems rather common…
So much Seagate hate. I’ve had more WD failures then seagate. Though I’ve never bought the failed seagate models that caused seagates image to drop so low
had failures from both, most commonly on the portable 2.5" models.
diskpart
select disk (disk number)
clean
Tried that. Cleans without issue but still only shows 2.5gb
Just to share my experiences, two failed WD drives; no Seagate problems, currently use a mix of both, not problems at all for the the last 6 or 7 years.
Seagate are trash. Will never touch them. There’s a reason they’re almost always on special.
If you are happy with a soldered connection I recently bought a WD 3tb elements for $93 ($73 with AMAZON20 code) over this drive which was $123.80 last week
I need 8tb :(
buy 2
I want 8tb too.
Buy 4
Nice price
"links from amazon.com.au but Ships from and sold by Amazon US" - does that mean if it ships after 1 July that it will or won't incur the new low value goods import tax?
Wouldn’t have a clue but they usually ship as soon as you buy it and even if it is true, they have already received your money. They can’t force you to pay more, they will just have to take the cost themselves
Don't forget 10% cashback with NAB.
I bought two 2Tb ones in the HN deal
And both were DOA lol
Hard to feel sympathy when people still shop at HN.
Savage
Fatality
Chances of this coming with a local power cord? Not high I guess.
zero chances as this is a USB powered 2.5" portable HDD so it wont come with or require any power cord at all.
It’s portable? It’s your standard USB 3 type A to micro B
Edit. Must not have refreshed in time. Someone already commented
15mm drive inside. 95MBPS writes. About 15-20% slower than non SMR drives. OK for backups, and Steam. Wouldn't run OS off it.
Can't you use AMAZON20 on this? Or is that expired now?
It’s amazon us stock. Code doesn’t work
Good price. Might purchase for a offsite backup of my 4TB NAS
Gaarrdamnitt…I bought the $137 deal a few days ago!
I received this drive this morning. Transferred 220gb to it from my other external drive and it took 4 hours! The transfer speed was 15.6mb/s. Anyone else getting similiar speeds? That's USB1.0 levels, even though my computer only has usb 2/3 ports!
did you check the connection to see if it was using usb3? some of these drives have a blue/white light indicating the detected connection speed.
Thanks for your reply.
I did notice that the light was white, but didn't know what that signified. I am guessing white is not USB 3 then. But even so, the speed is abysimally slow. My other drive, a Toshiba 1TB, can do up to 80 mb/s, and it's 2 years old.
Ok, I bought a USB 3.0 Hub, and connected the seagate 4tb drive and the Toshiba 1 tb drive to it. I then transferred large files from the toshiba to the seagate, and the transfer speed was as high as 100 mb/sec. So it was the USB port on my computer that was slow.
Price is good. Is the hard drive any good?