Temporarily out of stock, however they allow placing orders and will charge your card when the item is shipped. Price increased
Looks like the other colours are the standard $159.
Placed my order, will try shucking when it arrives.
CamelCamelCamel.
Really? For a bulky portable hard drive that uses hybrid shingled write, you want to pay premium for a USB-C plug?
this is the standard plug for portable mechanical HDDs. Type C is not a standard.
Can you even use a computer…
Yes?
Can't add to cart.
No more
No longer available now
Party's over?
Yep its all over.
This deal from last month is way better. https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/517746
Easy shucking and a non SMR drive inside for $90.
Coupon code has expired but you can still get it for $99 (+post)
Yeah will come down to the same price, but 2.5" vs 3.5".
The deal you linked has a ST4000DM004 in it. They're SMR drives.
I haven't had any issues with the write speed of the drive I purchased. Where did you hear that it was SMR?
https://www.seagate.com/www-content/product-content/barracud… - here, they're all the same SMR drives. Apparently PMR has 0004 at the end and sold as BarraCuda Pro
@[Deactivated]: I cannot find any reference to SMR in the page you linked. I also haven't had any write speed issues when writing big files, so I believe that the drive isn't SMR. Maybe provide a quote from the document?
@AwesomeAndrew: https://files.ozbargain.com.au/upload/24472/77682/st4000dm00…
Have a look at that. I've shucked a few of the drives you mentioned and they come out as ST4000DM004 drives (which you can see in the CPUID HWMonitor listings. The sequential speeds (top two rows) in the CrystalDiskMark test are passable, usable and in normal applications where you're writting large sequential files (video, high res photos) you won't really notice anything (they definitely can be faster though). The random read/write speeds (bottom two rows) are dismal. That's one way of telling if the drive is SMR or not as well, ok sequential read/write speeds but horrible random read/write speeds.
@Trance N Dance: Random read/writes are suppossed to be slow on hard drives and it is not a sign of an SMR drive. Search for hard drive benchmark on google and you'll see that all hard drives are slow at random reads and writes. Google search result Your slow sequential write speeds do suggest that the drive is SMR, however my sequential write speeds are around 160 MB/s. link Maybe I got lucky and received non SMR drives?
@AwesomeAndrew: I know random read/writes are slow on hard drives, these drives are slower. My sequential write speeds are just less than half your's because I'm in a RAID1 config with a fair chunk of it used. You have a SMR drive.
The 2.5" drive inside the Backup Plus Portable is also SMR did you know that?.
Why on earth do people keep comparing pricing between desktop and portable drives……
cause Andrew is Awesome
Because ignorance.
ST4000DM004 is SMR actually
Is it last month still?
Half an hour late and already gone!! Bugger i've been needing one of these
And now they're available again. At $159 each, unfortunately.
Why order one when you know you are going to shuck it out?
What a waste of money :)
You can't buy internal drives for this money.
I'm just looking for a cheap NAS disk. Thanks for teaching me something new. I'm even more annoyed now that I missed out on this deal but at least I know how to save up in the future 😉 A new shucker has risen! 🙈
Good time to learn difference between SMR and PMR drives then
I was just educating myself on this 😊
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