Redeem a bonus $40 VISA gift card from Seagate if purchased before 30th September 2025.
Specs: CMR, SATA3 6GB/s, 7200RPM, 512MB cache.
2 year warranty.
$23.25 per TB.
$21.25 per TB if you factor in the gift card.
Surcharges: 0% direct deposit & zipMoney, 1% card & PayPal.
Same price at Scorptec.
It's a Barracuda, that's why.
Yep, not a NAS drive.
But for most users & use cases NAS drives are totally unnecessary.
What makes this not a NAS drive?
@pronoun: I'd love to know what a typical NAS workload is, lol. Everyone uses them very differently.
@beatsntoons: Honestly you're totally correct, and I'm the opposite of knowledgeable on the topic. I was assuming the question was genuine and uninformed, so I gave a short answer based on the prevailing opinion… Shermanpk and marshmall0w2 gave better answers slightly further down the page.
It's a shame they don't offer a 5400rpm version at a lower cost. I also think 512MB cache is overkill. My HDD only has 64MB and it's more than enough.
Same price as Scorptec
$479 normal price, $14 discount, $465 final
Seems like a small discount then lol
Looking for a deal on 2.5" HDD SSD for my Tapo Hub H500…
HDD or SSD?
HDD or SSD.. forgot to put "or"
Is this good for NAS?
nope
Home NAS as a media server or something, absolutely great. Something doing production type workloads absolutely not.
Even for Home NAS I think this won't last as long as EXOS
Officially, no. No vibration support, lesser write longevity, and no RAID tuning with TLER and ERC. Essentially not rated for NAS.
Reading the Seagate rules and it sounds like you need to purchase 2 units to be eligible?
https://www.seagate.com/content/dam/seagate/assets/promos/st…
Each end user customer who purchase two (2) units of the same Seagate IronWolf Pro, Exos, or BarraCuda product in one single transaction from an Eligible Reseller during the Promotion Period and submits the proof of purchase online as instructed in Section 2 below, will be eligible to claim a digital Visa Gift card based on the specifications outlined in subsection 3.1 below.
If you buy 2, you only get 1x $40 gift card
Why does a 20TB HDD need to be 7200RPM? People who need that kind of capacity generally don't need fast speed.
I used 5x4tb barracuda drives in my gen 8 microserver. That would have been over 10 years ago now. One fell out of the raid a couple of times so I replaced it with a nas drive, however I'm still using it for testing a server. (And it may have been because I had it cable tied to the case) So they seem ok…
I'm not as keen now though to use non nas drives, the wtr max with likely get enterprise grade drives as the limited hours use in this (ie not 24/7) is more of a concern.
The 24TB was $500 + $50 gift card (so $450), but they have sold out and increased the price….
Also BarraCuda not suitable for NAS.
Remember to buy 2
buy 2 to be eligible. Also only gives you ONE $40 gift card.
Eligible Products:
IronWolf Pro HDD
Exos HDD
BarraCuda HDD
I asked before…if anyone has successfully claimed the $40/$50 cashback?
submitted the claim but no confirmation email? :(
seem like no one care about their cashback claims * shocks *
Ordered Mwave, they said stock wont arrive until November, so cannot put through the claim :(
Has anyone received their cashback card? I submitted my claim for two hard drives two months ago and heard nothing. Emailed team@seagateanz.com.au and still haven't heard anything.
Was this just fraud?
20tb for 5 hundie, thats cheap as