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Currys - seagate 5tb hard drive - £99.99 (poss 1% cashback - quidco or topcashback)

£99.99 Currys14 Mar 16

Source: HotUKDeals | Deals > Technology

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Stuart1234cat

13 Mar 16

this is the same deal as on Amazon but you get 1% cashback through quidco or topcashback

Top comments

Oneday77

13 Mar 16 36 #2

It's nearly Easter, you can carry all your eggs in one basket :wink:

bigdeal66

14 Mar 16 10 #8

http://gifrific.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Ralph-Wiggum-Picks-Up-Egg-and-Puts-it-Into-Basket.gif

dennisruss3

14 Mar 16 10 #7

I would never touch another Seagate if they were the last on this Earth. Already lost 2x1TB and a few errors on a 3TB.

dewonderful

13 Mar 16 10 #5

My hand is quivering over the buy button, but it's a seagate :confused:

All comments (64)

OrribleHarry

13 Mar 16 #1

Heat from me.

Oneday77

13 Mar 16 36 #2

It's nearly Easter, you can carry all your eggs in one basket :wink:

OrribleHarry to Oneday77

13 Mar 16 #6

It's ideal as a backup drive.

Stu C to Oneday77

14 Mar 16 #19

Only if you are stupid enough to use this as your only storage location!

CyDoNiA to Oneday77

14 Mar 16 1 #24

Whilst I do agree a little with this if you are using it as a backup or like me have 2 backups of important data there is less issue.

Touch wood my 4tb and 5tb Seagates have been fine for ages.

steve23094 to Oneday77

14 Mar 16 1 #34

I see what you're getting at but what's your suggested alternative? To spread data over multiple disks which will just increase the chance of some sort of failure, but only lose a smaller amount of data?

RAID? No professional considers RAID an alternative to backups.

The only correct answer is that if your data is important and irreplaceable and you don't back it up don't moan if you get a hard drive failure.

pantaiema to Oneday77

24 Mar 16 #63

Here we go again !!!!
Nope If you put Dinosaur’s eggs and not Hummingbird’s on his basket.
Are you aware that one 3D BluRay Remux DTS could be around 40GB ?

baseley09

13 Mar 16 1 #3

Excellent amount of storage.

QAL

13 Mar 16 1 #4

Excellent

dewonderful

13 Mar 16 10 #5

My hand is quivering over the buy button, but it's a seagate :confused:

toninhoscotti to dewonderful

14 Mar 16 1 #15

Lol, same here, the word "back up" and "seagate" should never be in the same sentence, I'd definitely would go if it was a western digital or toshiba.

dar72 to dewonderful

14 Mar 16 #20

I think it's just down to luck, I've got a Seagate drive in my PC that's over 5 years old, never had an issue

Buy two and RAID?

dennisruss3

14 Mar 16 10 #7

I would never touch another Seagate if they were the last on this Earth. Already lost 2x1TB and a few errors on a 3TB.

bigdeal66

14 Mar 16 10 #8

conor147

14 Mar 16 1 #9

Seagate, garbage.

steve23094 to conor147

14 Mar 16 2 #38

Based on what? The feedback loop people like yourself keep perpetuating? I know this originally stems from a discredited Backblaze report, but since that's what you're thinking of...

Backblaze's latest report (Q3 2015) does not include 5TB Seagate or WD disks. But it does include 6TB Seagate and WD disks, and their 2015 failure rate was 2.9% and 5.73% respectively.

OMG! WD drives are garbage! I'll never buy a WD drive again in my life. /sarcasm

floppydesk

14 Mar 16 3 #10

ive just had a 3TB Seagate die , 1 day after warrenty ended. they wont replace it :disappointed: nice price crap brand, so COLD from me.

jasee

14 Mar 16 2 #11

Most of my drives of more than 3 gigabytes are Seagates. I have never had a drive fail in 4 or 5 years. I haven't raided any of them. Most people seem to raid drives. Is there a connection?
Most of the time, mine are sleeping.
Of course mine are all backed up :smiley:

bma1445 to jasee

14 Mar 16 #32

I have (had) 4 of the infamous Seagate 3TB drives in Raid 5. So far two original drives, have failed, and one of the replacements have also died, in the space of just over 2 years. 60% failure rate, or a 75% as-per-original failure rate.

Started replacing them with Toshibas which have been faultless.

Seagate seem to be fine, other than one particular model of 3TB drive.

smckirdy

14 Mar 16 3 #12

Not worth buying from Currys, the customer service is so bad it's not worth buying anything that might need returned, and a hard drive falls into the category of might need returned.

pedrorq

14 Mar 16 #13

Link to the amazon one please? :smile:

Zontes to pedrorq

14 Mar 16 3 #16

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Seagate-Backup-Desktop-External-Drive/dp/B00IT2K1QE
Or this for a few quid more:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Toshiba-HDWC250EK3J1-Canvio-External-Desktop/dp/B00J3OP7FW

refaey

14 Mar 16 2 #14

Where is the Amazon deal please? I'd rather buy from Amazon.

BubaMan

14 Mar 16 #17

The Toshiba is a noisy bu@@er!

bigdeal66

14 Mar 16 #18

Got 2x2TB Seagates 2 and 3 years old,both been fine apart from a poor connection on one,seagate sent a new cable in the post quickly.

Whoever designed the USB3.0 connector needs shooting its so poor...

zzzz to bigdeal66

14 Mar 16 #21

Yes ,yes, yes.
How come no-one else has issues with the carp connecter on seagate drives ???
I bet many more have been given-up on because of super weak connecter than "fail" from hdd issues.

bigdeal66

14 Mar 16 8 #22

Carp connector.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3e/Carpe_miroir_de_17kg.jpg

blitzmmccv

14 Mar 16 2 #23

I love hard drive deals everybody always bitches about them and says they are a rubbish brand.

ponytan

14 Mar 16 #25

cant argue with that amount of storage

frakison

14 Mar 16 4 #26

You'd be better off using memory sticks for that level of storage!! :smiley:

revolver31

14 Mar 16 2 #27

Still waiting for the deal that was WD 5tb for £90, sexy got some money there should somebody decide to to have 5td WD drives for £90 i'll have 4 plz.

Only buy WD drives in-fact truth be told i'll buy anything before Seagate, but that's just me.
wont vote because price is ok but for me Seagate is a no, no.

editor

14 Mar 16 1 #28

Not suitable for Windows 10. Caused me all sorts of problems when I bought one. Had to return it.

HaiderIQ

14 Mar 16 #29

I had Western Digital 2TB failed last month after 2 years of light use, search for WD fails on Google to see how many people complain about it

BoB2oo9

14 Mar 16 1 #30

Click, Click, Click.......

morty

14 Mar 16 1 #31

both have issues the toshiba has problems with temps rising to 60+c

They have gone backwards with harddrives they are poorly made now I remember before you would get years out of drives with the odd doa but now they hardly last at all and the worst thing is the prices have shot up.

yesBilly

14 Mar 16 #33

They must be really old drives.

581d

14 Mar 16 #35

The 4GB is the one you want to get, I believe the tech used on the 3's and 5's is quite unreliable.

dewonderful to 581d

14 Mar 16 #39

Any link to info about this?

boomish

14 Mar 16 #36

I got two of these a month or so ago for aprox £125, working perfectly on my Mac & PC..

higgles

14 Mar 16 #37

@bma1445: wouldn`t you have to also wait 2 years to see how the toshiba drives perform before you declare them `faultless`.

008

14 Mar 16 #40

HEAT!

Contains a 7200rpm drive, not the crappy 5400 or 5490rpm speed, so great
for overnight massive GB backups and archiving of media files etc etc :sunglasses:

PurplePerson to 008

14 Mar 16 1 #41

Great. So it just generates more unnecessary noise and heat and uses more power for what? So it can spin unnecessarily fast?

fo_sho_yo

14 Mar 16 1 #42

I just tried putting this is my DIMM slot to upgrade my memory. Didn't work. Cold.

ChrisBargainHunt

14 Mar 16 #43

Is the Seagate Expansion External Hard Drive - 4 TB, Black £99.99 any better in any way?

BoB2oo9 to ChrisBargainHunt

14 Mar 16 1 #45

yeah, it's smaller so you lose less data when it goes, click, click, click... and stops working.

sickly sweet

14 Mar 16 #44

Oos :disappointed: here (delivery & local collection) and on Amazon.

My dad asked me to organise the one from Amazon for him the other day but I didn't get around to it. Oops.

conor147

14 Mar 16 2 #46

It stems from the literal *box full of dead Seagates* sitting in the corner of my room. Almost all of the Seagates I've bought in the past 8 years are dead. Only ONE of the dead drives in the box is non-Seagate, and it's a Toshiba that fell 3 feet onto laminate flooring. The other Toshiba that took the fall, is still fine 2 years later.

I have 50TB+ worth of drives running at the moment, and I have about 30TB of dead drives. 27TB of the dead drives are Seagate. Only 10TB of the running drives are Seagate, and it's two 5TB in separate RAID 1s because I know it's only a matter of time before they're dead. Seagates fail like clockwork.

Seagate is garbage. Take it from the people that are qualified to comment.

Banzai

14 Mar 16 #47

Good price for 5TB and 2 years warranty - but as many have said before, back up your data in more than one place - these cheap hard drives aren't mean to last forever. Buy 2, take the drives out and run them in RAID 1.

Banzai

14 Mar 16 #48

Disassembly guide: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGhnFyBR0WQ
Model ST5000DM000

carrotming

14 Mar 16 #49

would this be any good as an xbox drive or should I steer clear ??

frakison to carrotming

14 Mar 16 #50

It should work, lets face it, its probably a perfect use for it as if it DID fail, you would only lose download data which you can easily redownload, but I'd personally say its a bit overkill for that??

I have a 2Tb WD portable on mine and its loads (32% used and I have lots of games). the benefit is that its powered by the Xbox not the mains and its a lot smaller so its more discreet (apart from the fact that the stupid xbox wont shut it down so you get the blinking light all the time!).

GwanGy

14 Mar 16 #51

Seagate has the majority of the enterprise market somehting like 65-30-5 Segate Wd Toshiba.
So ppl rate their Enterprise drives.

bearcat

14 Mar 16 #52

Would these drives be any good in a NAS or PC running FreeNAS?

thinkiwillhaveit to bearcat

14 Mar 16 #53

If you run em in raid 10 yes, as they will fail faster than most drivers.

yeah you get loads on here saying otherwise, proof look which HDD companies have been took to court over failed drives and ask IT companies that has boxes of dead Seagate and Maxtor drive (yes same company) .

For NAS or Server or Storage use WD Red

bearcat

14 Mar 16 #54

Don't think I could afford 4 drives to run RAID 10.

tin

14 Mar 16 #55

Purchased. I don't have the Seagate fear like some here. IME (which I'm not stupid enough to think means anything in the scheme of things) Seagates have been the most reliable. And It's to be used for a cold backup anyway. Thanks OP.

zebrum

14 Mar 16 #56

Seagate let me know that the Seagate ST5000DM000 has 4 disks/ 8 heads and SMR. So each disk holds 1.25TB.

omendata

15 Mar 16 #57

Seagate drives are all we get in the workshop to try and recover data from.
If you want to see how bad they can get just google Seagate 7100 firmware lockup

http://www.techpowerup.com/82331/seagate-offers-firmware-fix-for-all-problematic-barracuda-7200-11-hard-drives.html

They deny this affects later drives but it doesnt! I have had non Barracuda 2tb drives with the nasty parking heads squeak problem exhibit exactly the same failures!

I will never trust Seagate again - Toshiba and IBM for me!
Even an IBM deathstar is a better proposition!

steve23094

15 Mar 16 #58

You're not qualified to say squat.

steve23094

15 Mar 16 #59

LOL!!! The article you linked dates from 2009 and IBM stopped selling drives in 2002. It sounds like you retired many years ago and are a bit out of touch now.

SpyJoe

15 Mar 16 #60

I don't trust Seagate either.

justboris

15 Mar 16 #61

Beware Seagate drives.

bigdeal66

16 Mar 16 #62

Squat :confused: