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Seagate Backup Plus Portable 2.5" 5TB External USB Drive (STDR5000303) - $167.92 Delivered @ Amazon AU

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websterp on 02/06/2020 - 16:41 amazon.com.au (1541 clicks)
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Might not be the cheapest ever but still a great price for a 5TB 2.5" USB3.0 External Drive during these times while AUD is at historic lows.
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Purchased two as these drives are shuckable and mine are going inside a DIY low-profile NAS I'm building. Currently you are able to shuck only Seagate 2.5" external drives as WD and Toshiba have their SATA to USB circuitry implemented directly on the HDD controller board.

Edit: Price has now gone up to $184.45 from the earlier $167.92

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  • sk213 on 02/06/2020 - 16:53

    Can I ask what NAS you are building?

    • websterp on 02/06/2020 - 16:56
      +2

      A 1U rackmount running FreeNAS

      • futaris on 02/06/2020 - 17:22

        What 1U case did you end up using for this?

        • websterp on 02/06/2020 - 17:33
          +2

          I've looked at SOHO rackmount NAS Systems currently available from QNAP and Synology but didn't like any as they are either under-powered or quite expensive being enterprise grade products. I am planning to run plex and few other applications so with FreeNAS I can run these in separate jails. I also wanted the NAS to be silent and with my use case I am happy with 10Tb of storage.

          I'm using this short 1U case from Aliexpress with a J4105(which is capable of HW based 4K 10bit transcoding) based fanless mini-ITX board. With this case the disks aren't hot-swappable, something I don't have a problem with. Most likely these are SMR Drives but this also not a concern for me as the data I'll store would mostly be movies and music so even the disks go kaput after a year or so I wont lose sleep over it. If you value your data this may not be the preferred drive for shucking but as a backup only drive this would be perfect.

  • nfr on 02/06/2020 - 16:59

    Can you RAID these?

    • [Deactivated] on 02/06/2020 - 17:30
      +4

      Physically - yes, but they're SMR so better don't.

  • CheapandUsed on 02/06/2020 - 17:07
    +2

    "during these times while AUD is at historic lows"

    What? We are back to where we spent the majority of the second half of 2019 against the USD
    https://www.xe.com/currencycharts/?from=AUD&to=USD&view=1Y

    • scuderiarmani on 02/06/2020 - 17:13

      Was thinking that too…. and pretty sure a while back we were much lower (noticed XE shows 10 years though)

    • kaal on 02/06/2020 - 17:16
      +1

      Was just wondering this, it’s sitting close to 0.68USD. How is that historically low?

      • dm01 on 02/06/2020 - 18:13

        It's not - someone is about a month and a half behind on watching the news.

  • karimk74 on 02/06/2020 - 17:19
    +2

    Still waiting for 6TB 2.5" portable drives. 5TB's were available since late 2016 I think, so capacity increases seem to have stalled in this form factor.

    • [Deactivated] on 02/06/2020 - 17:39

      Probably will not happen until some breakthrough in technology, same as 9mm drives can't go above 2TB because of limitation of how much data can fit to a platter.

      • imcold on 02/06/2020 - 18:31

        Possible if most things are moved to an external controller board. You could then squeeze in an extra platter for +20% capacity. Will work well for an external drive.

  • Abbi on 02/06/2020 - 17:25

    $167.92 now :p

  • [Deactivated] on 02/06/2020 - 17:28
    +3

    Likely SMR ST5000LM000 inside. Have a reliable and regular backups if you care about your data, preferable to non-SMR drive of other manufacturer or 10+TB Seagate.

    • Neggy-Z on 02/06/2020 - 17:32

      Can anyone confirm this?

      • [Deactivated] on 02/06/2020 - 17:40

        Large cache + low rpms + short warranty = you can almost guarantee it's SMR without even checking datasheets.

    • whirlpool_guy on 02/06/2020 - 17:44

      Yup, Backup Plus line is likely SMR. I have one, it's quite usable as a backup only drive.

      • Neggy-Z on 02/06/2020 - 17:51
        +1

        Bugger, thanks guys. i'll give this a miss then.

  • PlushToys on 02/06/2020 - 17:38

    Thanks OP.

  • nkrdlyk on 02/06/2020 - 18:02

    Would this work to expand PS4 storage?

  • razorite on 02/06/2020 - 18:04

    what has been the historic low? from camelcamelcamel it seems like this has been the lowest

  • inaudable on 02/06/2020 - 18:08

    Why would you use these drives in a NAS that is presumably always on? They are not really designed for thins and likely wont last that long right? I ask because I was building my own similar NAS, but using raspberry PI but was thinking a proper NAS drive would be much better for an always on system.

    • elusive on 02/06/2020 - 19:15
      +3

      NAS drives are better for NAS use because they bail early on errors and let the RAID controller handle them. As far as being always on, that's probably better for the drive than the frequent start/stops from typical portable use.

  • Abbi on 02/06/2020 - 18:23

    $184.45 now. People must have bought a few now.

  • Cineaste on 02/06/2020 - 20:17

    Still hunting for an 8TB NAS drive. Any deals lately? Looks like IronWolf is the cheapest option?

  • Nom on 02/06/2020 - 22:33
    +1

    Currently you are able to shuck only Seagate 2.5" external drives as WD and Toshiba have their SATA to USB circuitry implemented directly on the HDD controller board.

    Note that this only matters if you have a use case that MUST be SATA (ie you're using a backplane or trays).

    For a homemade NAS you can just shuck the WD or Toshiba drive and then connect by USB3 inside the case…

  • websterp on 10/06/2020 - 14:05

    Received my drives today. If anyone is interested the 2.5" HDD inside is a ST5000LM000

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