Didn't know EB Games sold internal hard drives, but this seems to be cheap. The cheapest ST1000LM048 I could find on the internets is $67.98 + Delivery via eBay.
Model: ST1000LM048
Capacity: 1TB
Interface: SATA 6.0Gb/s
Cache: 128MB
RPM: 5400 RPM
Form Factor: 2.5"
1TB isn't great for a HDD for uses I can think of. Sure, it's enough space for a boot drive, but your boot drive has to be an SSD these days.
Maybe some cheap storage but personally I'd be seeking at least 4TB for an internal storage HDD.
Thats true 1tb HDDs are in a bit of an awkward spot in the market these days
Off site cold storage for some wedding/baby photos as a 3rd/4th back up is probably the only use case I can think of for something like this now
Exactly my use case!
Yep for semi-accessed cold storage my preferred medium is 2.5 inch HDD. No sudden failures or data corruption due to electron leakage (SSDs), and no need to plug in enclosures for power which is annoying (3.5 inch HDD).
The price is really good compared to the super inflated market prices for new 2.5 inch HDD, but I'd probably be looking towards cheaper still.
I've used them before in NUCs with constant writes that burn through a SSD's endurance. Boot speeds and high IOPS don't always matter for a server.
But it is a pretty niche use case.
For me 1TB is enough, in addition to my smaller SSD. I still haven't completely filled it up and I've had it for 13 years.
This is so weird.
Wonder if their Internal IT team had these drives laying around or something.
They don't stock any other internal HDDs that I can see, Seagate or otherwise.
Having worked in retail I'm curious if they picked these up off a cheap consignment list from a supplier. Might have got them ridiculously cheap (think like $1 each) and figured they could make a few bucks. Fair play to them.
Going to take a guess and assume they're leftovers for use in PS3 and PS4s as part of the Repair/Upgrade program.
If they’re reselling old unused drives, I wonder how the warranty world go with the manufacturer?
These are kind of worthless in this day and age.
Good paper weights, wouldn't trust my data on spinning drives anymore
Blast from the past….This deal reminded me of the PC I built in 2010.
Why did you use a 2.5" drive in a desktop?
Perhaps ITX, lower power, quieter.
I'm talking about 1TB HDD. I never said I used this exact HDD or did I?
Not as useless as people think.
Unlike an SSD their lifetime is measured in MTBF rather than cold hard TBW.
If you want to write over and over again, and the performance isn’t an issue then it’s great.
In that use case wouldn't you be better off using something like this
https://www.computeralliance.com.au/1tb-seagate-3.5-sata-6gb…
Possibly yes. I've filled up all my 3.5" bays with zpool drives, so I use 2.5" drives as a download directory for a certain distributed file transfer protocol.
Agreed.
Aside from write endurance, data retention can be an issue with SSDs, we are talking about at 40°C active and 30°C power off temperature, a client SSD is set to retain data for 52 weeks, i.e. one year, according to JEDEC requirements. I am sure that some of the cheaper SSDs (especially those with QLC NAND) might not fare that well if data is not refreshed on a regular basis.
Seagate Rosewoods are notoriously unreliable though, which means that I probably wouldn't be overly confident of using this HDD as an archive drive either.
1TB or 2TB HDD are only good for PlayStation 2 with Free Mcboot to be honest.
Here's a link to the PDF of the ST1000LM048 Product Manual with the specs on reliability and performance.
This is an SMR drive - poor performance especially when nearly full.
5400 RPM
RIP
Awkward size for a hard drive. Seems like a waste of a hard drive slot.
Personally would spend a bit more for a SSD instead.