Personally got 2 of these for 599 usd delivered, pretty good value for money for jellyfin drives, under $18 per tb when accounting for delivery and gst
7200rpm hamr+cmr barracudas
Hmmmm I see, what do you think about longevity for the drive? If you have one ahaha
Probably pretty good given the warranty is 3 years for APAC
@Kazusa: From memory though Seagate don't do international warranty, so you'd be sending back to b&h at your expense
Primary concern around longevity though is not the shipping cost just the likelihood of failure (restoring backups is such a drag) or replacement after 3 years
This deal seems oddly cheap though.
@justtoreply: If you click the "See All Options" for the warranty, it states 1 year USA warranty.
That being said, if you shuck the drive, your warranty goes out the window regardless.
If you buy two, with shipping it works out to $920 which makes it $460 each.
So you take a pretty big hit if you test the drives in their USB caddy first, don't hear any clicking and it seems to work fine, shuck it and pop it in your NAS, then a couple months later one of them shits itself … you've just lost $460.
That being said, a proper 26TB drive (one you don't have to shuck) is more than double that price … so you could just hedge your bets buying a few of them and maybe having one die and you'd still be ahead.
Either you get Exos or Ironwolf or Barracuda
ST26000DM000 if Barracuda
I ordered 4 last time and it was all Barracuda
What do you mean last time? Last Seagate deal at b&h that came up on searching was in 2021
Hmmm tempting but I believe very few contain the Exos and most are the poorly rated Barra (8 hours per day).
Now we need a creative OZB way to avoid GST and minimize shipping cost.
Ship hard drive to an American address. Buy a plane ticket. Pick up hard drive.
Ideas man!!
Ask Albo to bring them back from the US in his carry-on for you after his Trump AUKUS meeting…….that's if you don't mind waiting a bit.
get an ABN and register for GST. make no income, claim gst on work expenses (hdd).
pls dont do your taxes yourself or spend 2 months reading up on things before doing it.
It was a joke, but your disclaimer is valid lol
I bought a 22tb from amazon US for roughly the same price about a week ago. That said, this is insanely cheap and have to have another one.. 26TB.. damn!
Seems the price has risen
Still the same price, however..
$100.00 Coupon Applied in Cart
Comes up as Est. AUD $474.62 for me
$382+GST+Shipping=$475
Probably should show the post GST price in title
is this a good deal?
Damn, I paid AUD $1050 for 2x 24tb of these a month ago from amazon. but maybe amazon = less hassle to get refund if it fails…
its $309.02 US now with the $100 discount after tax and shipping
Can you shuck these? What drives are inside? :)