Pretty sure a good deal for a hard drive. $99 for 4tb is good value and have checked most JB Hifi in Mel still have stock.
Seagate Expansion Desktop Hard Drive 4TB $99 + Delivery (Free C&C/In-Store) @ JB Hi-Fi
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not a deal, it is $99 everywhere
yeah $99 all day at oficeworks
Not a deal anymore but I bought it from last deal months ago and using it in my HTPC.
yeah $25/TB is my target price for portable drives.
Officeworks price guarantee for $93.10
Thanks picked one up from Officeworks for $93.10
HN have upped their price now.
Nice find, thanks for pointing it out
its amazing to me that we got to $25 a gigabyte… sure it may not be all that reliable but its still cheap as its ever been
I think you mean $25 a terabyte. I'm old enough to remember buying a 240MB Quantum drive for BBSing in 1990 for $1200 ($5 per megabyte) which was a bargain as they had just dropped from over $2,000.
Fidonet node?
I remember people forking out $5k for the Apple Progile
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_ProFile
I had to flash an eye prom on one when it was upgraded to….<gasp> 10mb. What will they ever do with all that storage?
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Paradise BBS
I remember paying that $2000 for Quantum SCSI drives and thinking it was a steal.@killergreely: I also ran a BBS, and realised I could get 650MB of storage for around $500 around the same time. That meant buying a CD-ROM drive and having 650MB worth of stuff written to a disc, which cost ~$200.
I imported 3 Nakamichi 7 disc stacker units from the US.
Those were the expensive old days!!
@photonbuddy: Remember when you couldn't even be in the same room as a CDROM Burner because the slightest judder would make a coaster out of your CD and also ruin 74 minutes of burning time for that disc? :)
Remember when you couldn't even be in the same room as a CDROM Burner because the slightest judder would make a coaster out of your CD and also ruin 74 minutes of burning time for that disc? :)
I remember the shop where I got my burning done paid $13,000 ex-tax for his external burner. It was a 2x burner, and if data stopped getting to the burner, the $85 blank CD was a coaster.
He was offered a $5000 upgrade to the unit which slowed it to a 1x burner to solve the problem!!
Part of me misses the BBS days. I have telnet'd into a few over the years but it's not the same anymore.
I had 2 lines on mine! was quite the time. Of course, no one would dare imagine a website that only allowed 1 or 2 users at a time to be connected.
Nostalgic indeed.
@photonbuddy: Part of me misses the BBS days. I have telnet'd into a few over the years but it's not the same anymore.
I remember my first Quantum Fireball drive I got (I think it was 2 gb) you could fry and egg on those things they got so hot and you could also hear a defrag from the other end of the house!
That's truth in advertising for you. Fireball drives that ran hot. Barracuda drives that stank like the rotting fish that they were.
My first PC had a 130Mb drive which I instantly filled up with an install of Strike Commander (105Mb iirc. I tried to defrag it once. Back then software like Stacker was used to maximize HDD capacity. Because of the HDD being compressed, the dfrag took 2-3 days & never made it past 3-
its more amazing to me that this is standard jb ow price and i looked at umart today and bare metal 3.5" are much more than this.
It's market segmentation, the people buying bare drives are usually making a non-optional purchase, often for a business that wants a long warranty, people who want just an external drive to store crap probably have other alternatives like cloud storage.
A tiny part of the difference sometimes is that these are often archive drives (SMR) with slow write speeds as well, though that's not the major reason for the price difference.
Any deal on 1TB portable ?
Search, and let us know
Yep the 1TB Portable Drive, also by Seagate, is down to $59. I believe it's still $58 with free delivery at Amazon, however.
Usual price, not a special.
Its a bit special (even though normal price) compared with the premium when buying 6 - 12 TB drives. So much for economy of scale!
I attach this to my modem to make it a NAS. I don't know if I can even call it that. But basically it's on my network and everyone at home can store there junk on it.
You can call it a NAS but you probably meant you connect it to your router.
Sorry… yes. Router. I had a WD MyCloud thing… and it died on me, so I bought this, plugged it in, and it seems to stream music and videos just fine. Costs less than getting a new NAS too.
That’s what I’ve had for years (well a 2TB drive).
Our android phones auto backup their photos to it when ever we charge them, computers I don’t auto back up but just copy files over every few weeks (pc doesn’t get used much).
What do you use for auto back ups on the PC?
@PVA: I don't. Hahaha! I just copy things twice. Once to the PC, and then from PC to the NAS.
I don't mind the inconvenience.
@BadGiraffe: I don't keep anything on the computer. Everything is on the NAS and I access when I need. I do back-up on the NAS occasionally.
@BadGiraffe: For the PC I was using Microsoft’s sync toy https://www.microsoft.com/en-au/download/details.aspx?id=151…
It’s not automatic, meaning set and forget but it pops up even week or so that I’ve set and then you just click the sync (I keep files on desktop and new files added to the “nas” drive)
simple and works.
And free.For the android phones I use sweet home, free again and automatic once set up.
Nar he meant he connected it to his 56k dialup modem.
At least he won't fill that 4TB for awhile at 5kB/s
I get about 5mb/s from a USB 3.0 stick attached to my 3 yo router via wifi, not sure if that's the expected speed.
This post leaves more questions than answers.
It's next to impossible to deliver USB 3.1 speeds on a router without going upmarket to GHz processors and PCIe bus.
Plus if you use low quality USB cables they're known for very efficiently jamming 5Ghz band.
Seagate 4tb drives have been at $99 for over a year, at many retailers (officeworks, JB, ebay sellers/futu). Was a deal maybe a year ago, but not anymore.
No deal, come back one year!
No soup either.
Bougght this a few weeks ago and cracked it open for my NAS. working well.
What drive was in it?
The drive in it is a Seagate Barracuda Compute 4TB ST4000DM004 5400rpm (SMR). It would be terrible to use an SMR hard drive in a NAS. It would develop issues quick smart since an SMR drive is not made for NAS. Constant writes is not good for SMR.
Any reason I shouldn’t get this and take the HDD out and use as a storage drive on my home PC?
I think you can disable the constant writes with special software. I did this on some el cheapo drives for my nas like 6 years ago and only recently is one of them starting to fail.
Hi
What if I use on NAS for music server , only write once or twice fill up with music and only use when I listen , thanks .@Meganinja: There shouldn't be a problem if you're only going to use it for write once or twice and use it for read.
Is it noisy when spinning like my 8tb seagate one is?
Maybe play us the sound of your 8TB otherwise we can't tell if it's the same.
Just close your ears.
Better buy from officeworks ebay.
Free express delivery (overnight)I bought 2 now. Works great (shucked)
Free express delivery for you perhaps but some have to pay $25.95 delivery even although the local regional city Officeworks store a few km's away has it in stock. It is abasolute rip off. Subsidising your free delivery. Hint according to the delivery system, Rockhampton QLD here is classed as a country location (so it charges $25.95 delivery) even although it's regional, total load of crock. And OW just doesn't care. In fact i just bought one of these drives today from the local OW.
Click and collect?
Yeah free click and collect.
Hey mate, what are the models of the drives that you got once shucked?
Would love to know this too.
ST4000DM004 5400rpm
ST4000DM004 5400rpm. Ideal for normal data storage.
How did you shuck? Any good guides?
Yeah but that wasn’t cheaper else where, what am I missing here ?
Because this deal was mentioned by many in the post you are referring to.
It's not new.2 people mentioned it. Not the first time a post mentioned in a comment is posted on it's own. At least 48 people find this post useful, cause it brings awareness. Thanks OP
Seagate are selling these on Ebay. Free delivery and returns.
Will these work as expandable storage on XB1? Any experiences?
yes
Every day prices are not deals sorry but a quick look would of shown it's previous deal prices
Will this work for my PS4? Thanks.
Nah it won't mate.
Edit: actually it might
It should. Not internally obviously, but as external storage I don’t see why not.
Yep. I am using one as my external PS4 drive.
Thanks for this too. I have been trying to find it and your post made me remember where it is.
Has Seagate fixed the problems with the 4TB HDD's yet?
What problem?
Their hard drive always have problem XD
exactly :p
FYI as of today not available in Top Ryde, there was some available in Macquarie Park (which I took one)
Purchased 6 now all running in my NAS in raid 6. Purchased 4 from JB, asked for best price and they gave me $95 a drive. also picked up two from office works and price beat with Harvey Norman when they were on sale there for $98.
So far happy with them. Time will tell about durability!
recently bought at bing lee ebay for $99