Found five of these in Tollgate (Colchester) store but worth checking in your local if you are passing. There was space for them in the hard drive section but shelf was empty, I found them in the seasonal / special offers area of the store next to the Star Wars USB drives. I got one leaving four more on the shelf. Seems like a good deal to me, has a manufacture date of July 2015 and product code is STEA2000400 if it helps. Picture is of the drive with receipt.
Like I said worth checking if you are passing store in your area otherwise if you are local to Tollgate then worth grabbing one!
In store / offline deal only - See link for more info and specs
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copystuff
14 Oct 153#1
Shame there not wd but since there seagate i wont touch them
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copystuff
14 Oct 153#1
Shame there not wd but since there seagate i wont touch them
dexix to copystuff
14 Oct 151#2
I have a couple of Seagate drives (one internal and one external) and have not had any problems but each to their own.
copystuff
14 Oct 15#3
I got 3 portables from asda sale but took them back 2 had i/o error when using usb 3 and one didnt work at all.
the__cat to copystuff
14 Oct 151#10
You mean the petrol station?
If you've got issues with these it's probably your PC/laptop. I've never ever seen 3 drives fail like that one after the other and I've been using Seagate drives for 15+ years.
radiocaf to copystuff
15 Oct 15#24
dexix has a point though. I've had four Seagate drives and two WD drives, and the two WD drives have given me more issues than the Seagate Drives, which I've had longer than the WD drives. All external though, if that's a helpful comment for anyone?
jfclfc
14 Oct 15#4
It's gone down a tenner was 60 i got the 1tb for 35
copystuff
14 Oct 151#5
Was £80 in my local not checked today
brettjameslive
14 Oct 151#6
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. (No offence copy stuff)
Western Digital drives fail more than any other. Fact. Sea hate make some of the best drives on the market. If you buy some end of line drives from a supermarket, don't be surprised if they have io issues as most supermarkets stock from non official seagate suppliers. Most banking servers use Seagate drives, as well as the later Apple Macs which don't have flash based memory.
Seagate every time. My experience? 22 years as an IT Consultant. Just saying.
mercutio98uk to brettjameslive
14 Oct 15#8
I'll not quote the backblaze study but... Seagates made in china are shockingly bad with slightly too frequent DOA. The enterprise stuff is fine, a lot of the consumer drives (from Thailand fabs) are fine. The chinese fab is (rightly) giving them a very bad name.
Most banking servers/etc use seagate as they are cheap and raid 5/6 + backups covers them.
leon121
14 Oct 15#7
Been after one of these for awhile good find have some heat
the__cat
14 Oct 15#9
I saw one of these in Cwmbran store an hour ago at £50
the__cat
14 Oct 15#11
I wouldn't be using RAID5 in a banking server unless it's got a tiny amount of storage (in today's money).
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Like I said worth checking if you are passing store in your area otherwise if you are local to Tollgate then worth grabbing one!
In store / offline deal only - See link for more info and specs
Top comments
All comments (28)
If you've got issues with these it's probably your PC/laptop. I've never ever seen 3 drives fail like that one after the other and I've been using Seagate drives for 15+ years.
Western Digital drives fail more than any other. Fact. Sea hate make some of the best drives on the market. If you buy some end of line drives from a supermarket, don't be surprised if they have io issues as most supermarkets stock from non official seagate suppliers. Most banking servers use Seagate drives, as well as the later Apple Macs which don't have flash based memory.
Seagate every time. My experience? 22 years as an IT Consultant. Just saying.
Most banking servers/etc use seagate as they are cheap and raid 5/6 + backups covers them.