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Just find this when browsing DSE website, and as it is not on special, so I think $150 will be the new market price for 3TB,
DSE currently running free shipping for $100 and above, so it is free shipping Australia wide now.
Seagate Expansion 3TB Desktop Hard Drive USB 3.0 $149 @DSE, Store Pickup or Delivery
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Maybe not. Wasn't DSE recently sold off?
They may be still accepting Wish cards, sale may not be complete yet. Anybody know if DSE is still accepting Wish cards?
Well they aren't accepting Everyday Rewards cards, not sure about Wish cards tho. I'd think that they would for a bit longer.
might grab one of these too, my fiance's staff card is getting a hiding when im around
Strange it's in the current catalogue as $159, looks like someone slipped up or maybe they just decided to pricematch ow/jb. Grab one before they change the price if you need it..
Anyone had any luck with Bing Lee doing this price on 3TB HDD so we can combine with the Amex $30 deal?
Are the cases on this USB 3.0 model simialr to the older style USB 2.0 model where the plastic 'pins' that lock it in place break when you attempt to gut the external?
Same price at OFFICEWORKS too, maybe they are all price matching.
Just bought one at JB on Sunday and I was dissappointed to find out that most media players and my sammy tv and home theatre system don't support this much data so I ended up returning the hard drive and bought a 2TB instead.
me too, windows can only format whole 3TB in GPT format, which most media player wont recognize. Or you have to partition a 2TB NTFS, then the left 1TB wont be used.
The strange thing is out of the box the Seagate 3TB drive is formatted as NTFS with a capacity of 2.72TB.
1 megabyte = 1024 bytes
3TB Drive = 2793.97GB = 2.72848 TiBYes, I know. I was just pointing out that the drive is NTFS and out of the box is already capable of having a partition size greater than 2TB.
The 2TB limit is not a limitation of NTFS. In fact, you can have an NTFS partition up to 256TB, and it can store files up to 16TB in size each.
The 2TB (2.2 I believe) limit is due to the partition limit of MBR (master boot record).
GPT (GUID Partition Table) supports up to 9.4 ZB (Approx 8549250196 TB).
Most modern OS support GPT/GUID, but most media players and other "black box" devices don't (yet).If OOTB drive is formatted for NTFS, do you guys reckon that a Smart TV will be able to recognise it, if the drive is directly connected to it? I assume that the data should be readable over DLNA anyway, when drive is connected to a PC.
What media players do you have? Did you try a WDTV Live Streaming by any chance?
I ran into that problem on a NAS/HTPC I built from one of the HP Micro Servers and thought the limitation was on the Bios of the computer, and after upgrading that to a newer Bios was shocked to find it was actually a Windows/NTFS limitation. I wouldn't have thought we could run into such limitations of a fairly recent operating system in 64-bit so quickly.
I ran into the same issue.. I have a nice 3TB disk in my microserver partitioned into 2TB. :(
Do you mean to say that out of the box, the drive did not work with a normal Windows x64 install?
I'm running Windows 7 64 bit and have a 15 TB NTFS partition running fine…
Wikipedia (which is always correct) shows NTFS to have a 256 TB limit - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTFS
I'm not that familiar with the HP micro server, does it support UEFI?Microserver does NOT have uefi no.
But the microserver does support 3tb and 4tb drives, you just need to format it as a GPT, meaning you cannot use it as a boot drive.
Win7 supports upto 256tb partitions. Ive got a few rather large ones here http://i.imgur.com/143RK.png
have been advertised at this price at my local DSE for a few weeks. i assumed it was a inhouse clearance.
Anyone know if this can be remvoed from the enclosure and used in desktop PC as an internal drive?
2TB drives are this much these days :(
Yes, These can be removed. And no 2TB drives are no longer these prices.
2TB drives are around $100 now or less.3TB Drives are around $145 or so though. But remember if you get a bare drive, you will get warranty. If you crack open one of these and use the drive, there is no warranty as the drive is linked as a "External Drive" so you cannot RMA it.
Thanks!
And sorry, I meant a 2TB Internal Drive.. not external sorry….
If you don't mind voiding your warranty, sure. I've ripped apart 6 of these to put in as internal drives, all 6 drives have been ST3000DM001*
*Past Performance is No Guarantee of Future Results! You may get a different drive out of the enclosure.
Thanks, I need more internal storage and these are cheaper than the equivalent internal drives!
Not by much though, you can get bare ST3000DM001's for around 150~ currently. Is saving a few dollars (<5) worth loosing your warranty?
Chit, you're right. I checked umart 2 days ago and saw that the "Western Digital 2TB SATA3 64M Black(WD2002FAEX)" were 170 and just left, I was in a rush and didn't look properly, or at all, at Seagate.
Are the ST3000DM001's the Barracudas?
Yes they are barracuda's, same as whats found in these externals.
Thanks so much! Trip to umart in the next couple of days.
Rubbish. NTFS can be easily formatted with a 3TB drive. And people still use media players? How quaint. HTPC is the only way to go. My $300 HTPC will shit all over any half assed media streamer.
Specs for your HTPC please?
- G540
- 4GB KVR DDR3 1333MHz, downclocked automatically to 1066MHz
- Gigabyte H61N-USB3
- Antec ISK 300 w/ adaptor
- Win 8 Pro
$300 all up.
Plus HDD's which will jump up the price considerably…
Edit: Also, why the heck do you need 4gb of ram in a HTPC, 2GB will nearly always suffice.
Double Edit: Oh and windows 8?! Were you drunk when you built this? hah. Nah, id prefer to install xbmc and stream everything from my desktop which i do anyway now. Don't have a issue with streaming, everything is pracitcally lagless, maybe 2-5 second buffering at the beginning…Logic fail - the media streamer also needs HDDs.
And a 64GB SSD.
What's wrong with Win 8? It's much faster than Win 7 in my daily use.
RAM is also cheap as chips these days.
Win 8? It's much faster than Win 7 in my daily use.
various benchmark sites demonstrated that Win 8 is only marginally faster than Win 7.
If you disable or "Automatic delay" unused services (as Win 8 does) or un-schedule unused programs, difference will be unnoticeable. [Not saying 8 isn't faster, I'm saying it'd be unnoticeable.]
A warning about this - I bought this a few days ago from OW, but have hit this issue:
http://forums.seagate.com/t5/Other-External-products/Odd-Cli…
just find officeworks and JBhifi sell it @ $149 as well,
oh well at least I can use my discounted wish card.