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Seagate Expansion 3TB Ext HDD US $153.20 ($139.99 + $13.21 Postage)

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ShrewdOrJustTight on 01/04/2012 - 21:54 amazon.com (1086 clicks)
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Not sure if this is a good deal as HDD prices have been slowly recovering. The cheapest on Static Ice seems to be $179 but that seems to be USB2. Guessing most buying this will be ripping out the HDD for their NAS so the fact that this one is USB3 may not matter to most. Hopefully this is a good deal for someone.

Note: This price was the same as their lightning deal a couple of days ago.

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  • Zen on 01/04/2012 - 22:00
    +5

    Link broken, try this instead - http://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Expansion-Desktop-External-STA…

    Perfect timing as I need to build a big fileserver!

  • fufufu on 01/04/2012 - 22:06
    +1

    As many 1 star reviews as 5 star.

    I've not had good personal experience with Seagate HDDs.

    Caveat emptor.

    • NeoWilson on 01/04/2012 - 23:25

      +1
      http://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Expansion-Desktop-External-STA…

      Nice price but a lot of bad reviews e.g DOA. Probably not worth it.

      • g12345567 on 02/04/2012 - 06:45

        Is it worth importing this kind of delicate electrical device where is unknow if you will get dud or how it will be treated by the courier company?

        • chyawala on 02/04/2012 - 09:39

          I beleive if it is DOA, Amazon will pay return postage and replace or refund.

  • T1OOO on 01/04/2012 - 22:07

    i dono about other people, but when building a nas i dont want to cut corners and have it shiped and throw arund from across the pond,… esp more so when you just use it straight of the bat with no raid… 3tb down the drain, really playing with fire

    • tonyjzx on 01/04/2012 - 22:23
      +2

      the last two drives i bought came from DSE

      made in china (subject to thai flood tax)

      they would have gone on a slow ship from china to sydney where it went via courier from their warehouse to my place

      is the difference from china to here much different from say california to here?

      • T1OOO on 02/04/2012 - 01:50
        +2

        i would say so,..

        buying 1 item, thats so small and can be tossed around by one of 50 jerks along the line…

        compare that with pallet loads of hhd's getting shipped costing millions, youd think they would take more care with them, coz if they drop them then the whole shipment/batch is dead…

        • chyawala on 02/04/2012 - 09:45

          All courier parcels get thrown and tossed so much you would cringe if you could see. Luckily most things are protected by excessive pakaging and HDD'd are rugged things.

        • T1OOO on 02/04/2012 - 12:25

          chyawala , were talking about a hhd which has a very fragile needle, in it, if that goes bye , bye data,.. thats why id rather not buy this fro over seas, the only thing i wont.

  • wog_ta on 01/04/2012 - 22:08

    More info about drive

    http://www.seagate.com/www-content/product-content/expansion…

  • asa79 on 01/04/2012 - 22:18
    +1

    Better drive in this one http://www.amazon.com/Seagate-FreeAgent-GoFlex-External-STAC…

    • chyawala on 02/04/2012 - 11:49

      What features are better, warranty?

      • vt on 02/04/2012 - 11:54

        I think the model of the HDD inside may be better/faster than the one the OP posted although this won't really apply to someone who wishes to use it as an external HDD

  • nfr on 01/04/2012 - 22:35
    +1

    Very nice price, almost back to pre-flood levels. But with HDDs esp. Seagate I prefer to buy from local stores.

  • PainToad on 02/04/2012 - 05:53

    Tempting but after the click of deal my last Seagate had (and LOTS of others had), I won't touch them again. WD for me.

  • artxty on 02/04/2012 - 08:05

    I had bad experience with my seagate 500gb usb3.0
    It just died after barely 12months, never been dropped, while my 4 yr old maxtor 2.0 is still running great.
    Imho i wont buy a hdd that will be shipped that is most likely to be tossed.

  • Stryke on 02/04/2012 - 09:43

    I bought 2 of these just before the floods from US Amazon @ $99 each. Hope to see those prices again!

    • chyawala on 02/04/2012 - 09:46

      As in two 3TB drives for $99 ea?

      • ShrewdOrJustTight on 02/04/2012 - 12:20

        hmmm.. according to camel, the lowest these have ever been is $110. how did you get it at $99?
        http://camelcamelcamel.com/Seagate-Expansion-Desktop-Externa…

        for those concerned about doa, amazon have amazingly good service. if it's doa, they will likely offer a refund or a swap over and will most likely cover most (sometimes all) of the postage costs back.

        my brother bought five of these for his nas/server - six months on and still running fine. i'm sure there are many other who have had similarly good experiences.

  • peteru on 02/04/2012 - 19:44

    You are much better off buying the Australian version of this drive. The US drives only have 1 year warranty, whereas the Australian models have 3 year warranty. The USB2.0 version is available for under $180 locally.

    • ronnknee on 03/04/2012 - 10:13

      The limited warranty won't cover for lost data.

      • peteru on 03/04/2012 - 11:40

        There is a statutory Consumer Guarantee that has a clause for consequential losses (which can not be excluded by a vendor or manufacturer), but that only applies to purchases made in Australia after 1 Jan 2011.

        ‘Consequential losses’ are the reasonably foreseeable costs to the consumer in time and money because something went wrong with the goods or services.

        Again, buying from Amazon in the US means you are not covered.

        As for the pain and misery associated with data loss - we all know we should backup important stuff diligently. ;-)

  • cib0_madu on 02/04/2012 - 20:17

    This series of hdd are just too shoddy to use for everyday stuff, sure, if you just want to back stuff up, fill the drive and leave it a lone, it would be fine, but having personally owned the 1, 2, and this 3tb drive, I can safely say they are too unreliable to use.

  • 51722 on 18/05/2012 - 14:28

    Received mine today!

    HORRIBLE!!

    [H2testw Error 1]
    Writing
    202424 MByte
    2:12:56 h

    Error writing file 'K:\198.h2w', offset 0x2b800000.
    It is still possible to verify the test data written up to this point.
    (The request could not be performed because of an I/O device error. Code 1117)
    Warning: Only 2861400 of 2861578 MByte tested.
    Writing speed: 25.4 MByte/s
    H2testw v1.4

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