£167.98 + £4.57 = £173.46 Cheapest I have seen so far
" For free delivery all you need is 20 forum posts", easily obtainable in an hour making this only cost £172.99" thanks to JimBobJ in post #1
3 years Manufacturer Warranty.
It is also available same price @ Scan eBay Site http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/like/131567342333?rmvSB=true
Supersized capacity, energy efficiency and lowest TCO
• Seagate brings over 30 years of trusted storage reliability to the growing need for online long-term storage.
• Industry’s best cost/GB/watt 8TB hard drive
• Engineered for 24×7 workloads of 180TB per year
• Drive down costs with up to 1.33TB-per-disk hard drive technology.
• SATA 6Gb/s interface optimizes burst performance
• Seagate AcuTrac™ servo technology delivers dependable performance.
• Free Seagate DiskWizard™ software allows you to install 5TB, 6TB and 8TB hard drives in Windows without UEFI BIOS
• Reliable, low-power data retrieval based on Shingled Magnetic Recording (SMR) technology
• RV-balanced for high density environments
Best-Fit Applications
• Cost-effective online archiving
• Object storage
• Big Data cold storage
• Cloud active archive
• Web-scale archiving
For free delivery all you need is 20 forum posts, easily obtainable in an hour making this only cost £173
pantaiema to JimBobJr
15 Dec 151#3
Thanks for this I have amended the original posting
008 to JimBobJr
15 Dec 152#5
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Wish I could make £5.49 in an hour posting replies on HUKD! ;-)
Nice info Jim, thanks
>>>>>
BenChand
15 Dec 153#2
>Seagate
sureshot
15 Dec 152#4
"Seagate brings over 30 years of trusted storage reliability..."
Yeah tell that to Amstrad, whose PC business folded over reliability issues with Seagate HDDs. :stuck_out_tongue:
Although a very good price, personally after my own experiences I wouldn't trust Seagate, never mind with that amount of data.
pantaiema
15 Dec 15#6
Same as WD anyway.
I have a few Seagate external HDDs, never disappoint me ...
But indeed they use to have a bad batch sold in the market a few years ago.
Dont think its that easy, had my free delivery years but if i remember rightly they cant just be random rubbish posts they have to be of some use, so going on a thread and saying thanks wont do it. Also before you couldn't make all 20 posts the same day so unless its changed you wont be getting free delivery today.
fatdeeman
15 Dec 15#9
I think I paid this much for a 300gb Maxtor about 10 years ago, had 16mb cache and everything!
norm1
15 Dec 15#10
Funny thing is Hitachi took over IBM's HDD business which were notorious for the Deathstar scandal of failing drives.
My first IDE / PATA Deathstar died on me within a week, long before a scandal. I was had invested heavily in SCSI HDDs and devices before than and I lost 22GB of data. I still ended up going back to IBM after a failing Seagate and Maxtor HDDs, and with exception of their "meowing" IBM HDDs all's been well and up until recently never had a problem since buying the Hitachi equivalents.
Currently using Samsung, Western Digital and Seagate HDDs. I have three 1.5GB Seagate HHDs, when I bought them they were failing with clicking errors, Seagate just replaced them with refurbished ones, which cheesed me off, especially as a couple of them still needed replacing a few times to get ones that weren't exhibiting the fault. I was cheesed off as I could have just bought refurbished ones in the first place for probably cheaper.
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Opening post
£167.98 + £4.57 = £173.46 Cheapest I have seen so far
" For free delivery all you need is 20 forum posts", easily obtainable in an hour making this only cost £172.99" thanks to JimBobJ in post #1
3 years Manufacturer Warranty.
It is also available same price @ Scan eBay Site
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/like/131567342333?rmvSB=true
Supersized capacity, energy efficiency and lowest TCO
• Seagate brings over 30 years of trusted storage reliability to the growing need for online long-term storage.
• Industry’s best cost/GB/watt 8TB hard drive
• Engineered for 24×7 workloads of 180TB per year
• Drive down costs with up to 1.33TB-per-disk hard drive technology.
• SATA 6Gb/s interface optimizes burst performance
• Seagate AcuTrac™ servo technology delivers dependable performance.
• Free Seagate DiskWizard™ software allows you to install 5TB, 6TB and 8TB hard drives in Windows without UEFI BIOS
• Reliable, low-power data retrieval based on Shingled Magnetic Recording (SMR) technology
• RV-balanced for high density environments
Best-Fit Applications
• Cost-effective online archiving
• Object storage
• Big Data cold storage
• Cloud active archive
• Web-scale archiving
>>>>>
Item data sheet [PDF]
http://www.scan.co.uk/PDFs/Products/64184.pdf
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Wish I could make £5.49 in an hour posting replies on HUKD! ;-)
Nice info Jim, thanks
>>>>>
Yeah tell that to Amstrad, whose PC business folded over reliability issues with Seagate HDDs. :stuck_out_tongue:
Although a very good price, personally after my own experiences I wouldn't trust Seagate, never mind with that amount of data.
I have a few Seagate external HDDs, never disappoint me ...
But indeed they use to have a bad batch sold in the market a few years ago.
Dont think its that easy, had my free delivery years but if i remember rightly they cant just be random rubbish posts they have to be of some use, so going on a thread and saying thanks wont do it. Also before you couldn't make all 20 posts the same day so unless its changed you wont be getting free delivery today.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HGST_Deskstar#IBM_Deskstar_75GXP_failures
Currently using Samsung, Western Digital and Seagate HDDs. I have three 1.5GB Seagate HHDs, when I bought them they were failing with clicking errors, Seagate just replaced them with refurbished ones, which cheesed me off, especially as a couple of them still needed replacing a few times to get ones that weren't exhibiting the fault. I was cheesed off as I could have just bought refurbished ones in the first place for probably cheaper.