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Microserver Gen8
Xeon 1265L V2 3.1ghz 8 Thread
16 GB Ram

Intel PCH Ports
Port 1 240GB SSD 2.5"
Port 2 6TB WD 3.5"
Port 3 6TB WD 3.5"
Port 4 5TB Toshiba 3.5"
Port 5 5TB Toshiba 3.5"

Marvell 9230 (PCIE 2.0 x2)
Internal 1 2TB Samsung M9T 2.5"
Internal 2 2TB Samsung M9T 2.5"
Internal 3 2TB Samsung M9T 2.5"
External 4 3TB Toshiba 3.5" (Esata 6gbps FIS PM) (Was Seagate 3TB Died Buffalo Replaced the drive with a Toshiba)
External 5 3TB Seagate 3.5" (Esata 6gbps FIS PM)
External 6 3TB Seagate 3.5" (Esata 6gbps FIS PM)
External 7 3TB Seagate 3.5" (Esata 6gbps FIS PM) (Dying being swapped out for Toshiba 5TB)

10 Port USB 3.0 Hub (USB Attached SCSI)
Port 1 2TB Seagate Expansion Portable (Samsung M9T)
Port 2 2TB Seagate Expansion Portable (Samsung M9T)
Port 3 2TB Seagate Expansion Portable (Samsung M9T)
Port 4 320gb Seagate Backup+ Portable Samsung HM320JI (Spare drive fitted in the Casing after i shucked the 3 Internal M9T's)
Port 5 320gb Seagate Backup+ Portable Seagate Momentus Thin (Spare drive fitted in the Casing after i shucked the 3 Internal M9T's)
Port 6 320gb Seagate Backup+ Portable Toshiba MK3265GSX (Spare drive fitted in the Casing after i shucked the 3 Internal M9T's)

Internal Headers
Samsung G2 Portable Deshelled 320GB (Samsung HM321HX) (Internal USB Header)
Samsung UHS-1 Micro SD 64GB (Onboard Micro SD Reader)

19 Drives
9 Internal

6 Gbps Esata Port Multiplier capable of 430 Megabytes a second actual traffic in each direction (Shared between the 4 3.5" Esata Drives)
5 Gbps USB Controller capable of 270 Megabytes a second actual traffic in each direction (Shared between the 6 USB Attached SCSI Drives)
All other drives on dedicated ports

5 out of 6 people that play Russian Roulette have a personal experience that it's safe.

The huge failure rate for Seagate was predominately the 3TB drives, but their entire range has a higher failure rate than WD and HGST

Hot!
I see Amazon have matched so I've bought it from there as I had £50 in vouchers to spend.
Been waiting for this to drop - Thanks for the heads-up OP :smiley:

Some people haven't got a Scooby.

Seagate had issues with their 2 and 3TB drives but the 4 and 5 are far more reliable.

It goes without saying; if you can't afford to lose the data stored on the drive back it up to something else too.

Thank you - andywedge

add summat to get over £100 & you get £10 GV

I think to use with xbox it has to be usb 3.0 so this should be ok :innocent:

Great price for the capacity. I've reserved one while I consider the Seagate failure rate and make up my mind.

Flubit also gave an instant offer of £96.99

£10 voucher for every £100 spent. Has it expired?

Should be fine with an xbox one.
I've got a 5TB Toshiba drive plugged into mine and it was detected just fine.

good price (lost my faith in seagate though after couple of drive failures)

Yeah the failure rates for their drives in recent years is appalling, I don't think I can take a chance to be honest.

its the laser bit at he end of the arm that goes bad (it can't read the platters so just skims back and forth). to lose 5GB of stuff is not the end of the world, but 5TB could be

as I've recently re-installed Win7, (had issues with Win10) i used Hard Drive Inspector, it did correctly detect a Samsung drive was soon to fail, just wish it been running this time last week

So if Seagate isn't that reliable then which manufacturers do you guys recommend?

Do this only if you know you can't get it back up......it's a bit drastic
Put it in a bag in the freezer for at least 6hrs...plug into laptop/pc... then trans data to another portable drive...
it does work as I've done this a few times....it's has to be repeated over (freezer then connect)
until you get most of your stuff off :wink:

Laser bit! You mean magnet head, I think (this isn't an optical disk :smiley: )

Toshiba and WD have better longevity than Seagate

Some people haven't got a Scooby.

Seagate had issues with their 2 and 3TB drives but the 4 and 5 are far more reliable.

It goes without saying; if you can't afford to lose the data stored on the drive back it up to something else too.

Perhaps he got an an advance production Heat-assisted magnetic recording drive (HAMR)?!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat-assisted_magnetic_recording

This Seagate drive does however use Shingled magnetic recording (SMR).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shingled_magnetic_recording

great price and find OP.

This seems a ridiculous technique, I don't see why they just don't use more real platters, the number seems to have decreased over the years.
And I don't like 'skim' actually they float.

is the McAfee Internet Security 2016 license for 1 or 2 years thanks the q & a won't load for me

good find op, heat

10% off if through nationwide

Severely tempted, but I just had a very lightly-used Seagate drive die on me (albeit a 3TB). If I can find a source that Seagate has fully resolved its prior reliability issues with this larger-capacity drive, I might take the risk.

this is 2,5" or 3,5" ??

Cold I'm afraid. People should check the failure rates on these big seagate drives before buying. Way too much of a risk. One in five buyers will lose their data each year of use.

Hot!
I see Amazon have matched so I've bought it from there as I had £50 in vouchers to spend.
Been waiting for this to drop - Thanks for the heads-up OP :smiley:

Whats the cheapest item i can add to get it over £100 for the £10 gift card?


Thanks

Argos comes with free McAfee Internet Security 2016

More reason to go with Amazon then :stuck_out_tongue:
Seriously though, the Argos deal is better as you get vouchers back, but for me, it was better to use up my Amazon credit.

The free voucher promotion has ended.

My Seagate Expansion 3TB version failed. I sent it to Seagate and they sent me a replacement which also failed

My 2x Seagate 4TB BackUp PLus have however been fine

OK - comes down to whether you think McAfee is worth having then...
It's far too hard on system resources to let it touch any of my my devices but some people might think it's worth something.

Shame about Samsung selling out to Seagate only ever had one hard drive fail out of hundreds back then and return depot was on surrey not Europe oh well.

Never trusted Seagate had too many bad experiences when I was a field engineer esp the ones that had a stupid bit of rubber around them that just trapped heat in.

Don't really pay much attention to brands these days they all have their good batches and bad batches if you want best possible integrity buy 2 different brand externals the same size and back up one to the other, hopefully that way you mitigate the risk by the fact two different brands are unlikely to fail simultaneously.

Thank you for that graphical evidence, Luke. My 3TB Seagate drive failed after approximately 54 days (equivalent) of being powered on. A quick search online showed that the model was renowned for failing (wish I'd known before!) - so my search for a replacement has led me to regard the Seagate brand with caution. Your experience has leveled the balance for me. :smiley:

Cheers just bought one for £90 using the Amazon prime now app with £10 off code

Most drives look like that until they fail! Unfortunately SMART data is not very good at predicting failure.

Got four of these earlier in the year when they were £119.99 each then de-shelled and used them in my pc and now my microserver. Did have it running in a Raid5 for a while but moved to 2x mirrors now in case of issues. If you do decide to remove the drives remember that they use a crippled firmware designed for USB use. I would not put these in hardware raid setups, storage spaces works great though as it gets freaked out less.

Tempting, 5TB seems overkill for a external drive for the XBO but with game sizes nowadays it might be worth the purchase...specially with BC adding more titles to my library.

5 out of 6 people that play Russian Roulette have a personal experience that it's safe.

The huge failure rate for Seagate was predominately the 3TB drives, but their entire range has a higher failure rate than WD and HGST

WD or Tosh is my bag now, will take something real special to get me to buy another seaflake.

Click of death be-gone!

You havnt reached the magic number yet 20k hours spinup

I had one drive go at 20k hours thats been binned
Another has just reached 20k hours and has reallocated sectors popping up daily since 20k
The other two drives have around 16k hours and are still ok so about 4k hours left in them

These are lightly used storage drives with spindown enabled and headparking disabled on every boot

Using it only as a seed drive atm will swap it out in the next few weeks for a 5TB Toshiba

What's the name of the software you're using?

hard disk sentinel pro at a guess :wink:

i purchased the 4tb one yesterday for 89.99 now its 79.99... is there a chance i can get the £10 difference back? i havent used it yet

also, i notice that the 4tb does not have the small triangles type shell like the 2/3/5tb drives... is this 4tb one the older model?

and is my 4tb drive only designed to sit horizontally? id prefer it to stand vertically

great find thank you!

Sata controller on my mb went yday.. First one drive started acting up. A few hours later i hadn't even finished running disc diagnostics on that one when my other 3 + ssd all went at the same time. Ive lost about 1% of my data across the 5 drives due to corruption.. Not nearly as bad as i thought when the first one started playing up i thought i was going to lose the lot... Bought this in a panic to back up some data now everyone is saying they are crap haha cant win...

Damn that looks like a decent rig, makes my setup look puny by comparison. Any chance you can can share the specs so I can drool a bit more?

Fine for Xbox One.

From the manufacturer on the Amazon link.
"Seagate Expansion 5TB USB 3.0 Desktop 3.5 inch External Hard Drive for PC & Xbox One"
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00UNA1O0W/?tag=ho01f-21

This really is a cracking deal, however seagate are really not known for their reliability...

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Microserver Gen8
Xeon 1265L V2 3.1ghz 8 Thread
16 GB Ram

Intel PCH Ports
Port 1 240GB SSD 2.5"
Port 2 6TB WD 3.5"
Port 3 6TB WD 3.5"
Port 4 5TB Toshiba 3.5"
Port 5 5TB Toshiba 3.5"

Marvell 9230 (PCIE 2.0 x2)
Internal 1 2TB Samsung M9T 2.5"
Internal 2 2TB Samsung M9T 2.5"
Internal 3 2TB Samsung M9T 2.5"
External 4 3TB Toshiba 3.5" (Esata 6gbps FIS PM) (Was Seagate 3TB Died Buffalo Replaced the drive with a Toshiba)
External 5 3TB Seagate 3.5" (Esata 6gbps FIS PM)
External 6 3TB Seagate 3.5" (Esata 6gbps FIS PM)
External 7 3TB Seagate 3.5" (Esata 6gbps FIS PM) (Dying being swapped out for Toshiba 5TB)

10 Port USB 3.0 Hub (USB Attached SCSI)
Port 1 2TB Seagate Expansion Portable (Samsung M9T)
Port 2 2TB Seagate Expansion Portable (Samsung M9T)
Port 3 2TB Seagate Expansion Portable (Samsung M9T)
Port 4 320gb Seagate Backup+ Portable Samsung HM320JI (Spare drive fitted in the Casing after i shucked the 3 Internal M9T's)
Port 5 320gb Seagate Backup+ Portable Seagate Momentus Thin (Spare drive fitted in the Casing after i shucked the 3 Internal M9T's)
Port 6 320gb Seagate Backup+ Portable Toshiba MK3265GSX (Spare drive fitted in the Casing after i shucked the 3 Internal M9T's)

Internal Headers
Samsung G2 Portable Deshelled 320GB (Samsung HM321HX) (Internal USB Header)
Samsung UHS-1 Micro SD 64GB (Onboard Micro SD Reader)

19 Drives
9 Internal

6 Gbps Esata Port Multiplier capable of 430 Megabytes a second actual traffic in each direction (Shared between the 4 3.5" Esata Drives)
5 Gbps USB Controller capable of 270 Megabytes a second actual traffic in each direction (Shared between the 6 USB Attached SCSI Drives)
All other drives on dedicated ports

Wow.. How much porn does one need :smirk:

Amazing setup!

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