Not sure if these can be shucked, but I believe they are Seagate drives so that would suggest that they can be
This is the cheapest I have ever seen 5TB portable drives
Lacie 5TB USB 3.1 Type-C Mobile Drive (Space Gray) $117 (Was $299) @ Rubber Monkey
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Never heard of them either, but I have been in the market for portable drives for a while so I'm very tempted despite the risk
More like a robbermonkey? Lol
No stock in Officeworks, so no pricematch.
Been around for ages, do a lot of audio, video and photography stuff.
lacie be a hottie
Despite such premium fancy case, pity still an SMR drive inside, pretty good price tho.
Insanely good price. Annoyingly I just bought 6 Seagate ones on Amazon for $150each
it's Amazon, easy return
I've replaced all my drives to CMR after terrible experience with SMR drives, all sold on ebay (sorry all my buyers). Now I have 4tbx5 with raid 5 and 3x12tb drives from amazon, all CMR drives, happy with the speed and everything.
SMR is for bulk storage only, write once read many times. You can't use it for anything that might require frequent/random writes.
any idea which one works better for gaming purpose PS4, smr or cmr???
They are ALL SMRs at 2.5inch.
5k followers on Facebook, looks NZ based.
Yep, was just going through their site and noticed that they are indeed NZ based
Wow that's crazy cheap for a LaCie drive. Not that there's anything particularly spectacular about LaCie products - they're massively overpriced stock standard consumer gear, for the most part.
Also never heard of RubberMonkey shrugs
But pretty average for a Seagate drive, which is whats inside. You just get a pretty USB-C instead of the ugly USB Micro 3.0.
4TB was recently 90 on Amazon, and 5TB 95 on Amazon.
Oh yeah, absolutely - that's why I didn't say it was cheap for a 5TB drive ;-)
No PayPal no thanks
And its gone…
You can’t downvote the op for purchasing their own deal!
For once, I bought in time.
Ordered two, thanks OP!
Apparently, this one is for Apple only
Ad says Apple Or Windows out the box
Lol, there’s no such thing. Format as HFS+, NTFS, exFAT, whatever you like.
the specs sheet would disagree with you, though I did think that was kinda odd
https://www.lacie.com/as/en/products/mobile-drive/#specs
400 is for both and 402 for apple only
Which spec sheet? They say Windows and Mac.
Sometimes drives are marked “Mac” simply because they are formatted out of the box as HFS rather than NTFS, but they definitely aren’t “Mac only”.
@ln28909: Read the whole sheet, they refer to both throughout. These will just come preformatted for Mac.
@Mitch889: well I assume since both models were in the same specs sheet, hence they refer to them both in a general sense
don't see a reason to add Apple only in the notes if it just a formatting
don't see a reason to add Apple only in the notes if it just a formatting
They come preformatted and the manufacturer assumes a regular user won't be reformatting by themselves, hence "Apple Only". And by regular user I mean a person who wants it to work right out of the box.
But it's a USB disk, it can be connected to any PC with USB and you can easily reformat on any system in a couple of steps, without doing any harm to the disk or its warranty.
Its showing 299
Oh well, I think they revise the price error?
I grabbed it for $122 with shipping.
Damn too slow
Not as good as 97$ deal
are you futurer?
Yep
Not sure if these can be shucked
wtf does that mean? added on to playstation or xbox??
You must be new here.
https://www.howtogeek.com/324769/how-to-get-premium-hard-dri…
A lot of the external HDDs (especially larger ones) come with enterprise drives inside, and are FAR cheaper than buying the drives as barebones internal drives.
Thanks, I've heard of shucking shellfish, so that makes a lot of sense.
Did anyone see the email in order to verify the order?
They want to know amount charged on your CC, and you enter it on a link they've provided? Is this normal?
I've had that as an anti-fraud mechanism from smaller shops before. straightforward way to verify you have access to the bank account as well as the CC number.
Oversold the units and have to cancel the order, but request that I gave them a call back when they left a voice message.
Not super surprised, but as above they emailed to cancel my order. Annoying, but oh well.
Are these companies deliberately doing these price errors to get customers or marketing?????
I feel like annoying potential customers would be extremely poor marketing.
Yes but maybe they are doing it to get customers information and create PR
I think it's far more likely to be a mistake. I'm less likely to shop somewhere that messes me around, not more.
They have them listed at $299 now so the original price does seem like a price error..
Exactly so not running out of stock more like price error
Any experience with this store? Never heard of them