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The more baskets the better :smile:

What would you do if you did actually have 5TB of data to protect? Buy two maybe? No matter what size of drive you have, back it up.

I was wondering which was best, a donkey or a can of rice pudding. perhaps somebody could answer both of our questions at once

Buy two, store same data on both. Problem solved.

Popped up on my searches but still expired. The HUKD mods must be on holiday. :smirk:

Well they are for completely different things. One is small and speedy one is big and for holding lots of things. No-one should be torn between an SSD and a 5TB Desktop HDD they are for different purposes.

No, but a Solid State Drive Drive is twice as good as an SSD. :smiley:

Considering the 4TB Seagate is about the same price in Argos, this is a steal! Heat added :wink:

or xbox games . which can be 50gb+
or pictures, hd/4k pictures are big things ...

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where is the exchange rate for this or do you find out once you have bought it ?
tried looing it up but it has eluded me.

I'm confused , is this a parable?

Those responding with genuine reasons for having such a large drive. I'm talking about your average user they simply don't need 5 TBs for family photos and mp3s.

Are you also weighing up the pros and cons of a motorbike and a bus?

Expired!! 139 euros

Google has more data than anyone on failed disks but they're too afraid to upset manufacturers so publish their data without manufacturers names! Interesting to see (from Google) that if a hard drive will fail it tends to do so quickly but it would help the consumer out a lot to just tell us who makes the worst drives!

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I'm surprised no one has posted this yet -

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-reliability-q4-2015/

It usually pops up in each HD thread.

My video camera does 0.83GB per minute of video.

Found the console peasant.

how long is the offer on for?

Last time this offer came up on Amazon UK in November, I bought eight of these drives for use in a new ZFS server I was building. The drives inside are ST5000DM000:



Hopefully this is helpful to anyone buying these and planning to shuck them, since I don't think you can find external 5TB disks anywhere near this cheap. Fairly easy to do too, but you will break one or more tabs opening the enclosures. Takes around two or three minutes per drive once you've got the first one done.

€139 now???
I think this has expired

Avoid Seagate drives like the plague! Every Seagate drive I've had in the past 10 years had developed a fault.

Expired?

Why dont i see the offer?

Plug into Xbox One and laugh at those eggs in one basket comments knowing that you already have a backup of all your games and DLC on Xbox live.

Missed it, dammit!

I agree...as I said in total I currently have around 60Tb....true that is effectively 20TB x 3 (original plus 2 backups)....absolutely nothing illegal on there either....I think my total music collection on my PC is under 1GB & I have a separate NAS drive linked to my TV where I store recorded TV etc (just under 1TB)

wish I had £90 to spareeeee

As a photographer I shoot in RAW format & currently have around 60Tb of data stored over 16 external & networked drives as well as 5Tb of higher value stuff also stored in the cloud

Now showing as €139 ...so guess the deal is over :disappointed:

All this piracy talk.

It is a fine and dandy external Xbox One hard drive for all them games, DLC and gold freebies. :smiley:

What? Why do you have to have an occupation in media to have that much data stored on a HDD? I have about 15TB of VMs on one iSCSI LUN. There's nothing illegal on there!

Actually it is 5TB. It is 4.54 TiB. And yes the measurement names have swapped to let HDD manufactures officially screw us. :P


It can be but...

These drives are low use external drives, not everyday internal drives, and wont last long if you are using them full time. You are far better getting actual internal drives.

You start by typing in German to an operative in Mumbai; or South Africa; or ???

Oh I say "fine", but it's still a Seagate, so it's probably going to explode anyway. It just won't be the technology at fault, merely Seagates total lack of affection for it's customers and/or quality control!

Hm, from my brief google this is an SMR drive, shingled magnetic recording - so it should be cheaper, making it less of a deal!

It's not the end of the world - the data tracks overlap in this design, to fit more onto the disk, in cold storage tasks, e.g. backups, with infrequent writing and reading, it's fine.

However, it will be prone to some anomalously low speeds here and there, especially with small file writes, and especially as the drive ages - it's fine at first, probably long enough for the amazon customer reviews to go online.... but tails off over time!

Extra RAM caching and trickery on the drives controller masks the issues, but until file systems at the OS level are fundamentally aware of what's going on and how data is stored, and make allowances for how SMR drives work, (and who knows how long that will be!) there will be drawbacks!

All version of Windows have Robocopy....;-)

I migrate enterprise Windows servers using robocopy everyday, simple and it works.

Do these have UK/EU adapters included i.e. can fit either? or are you going to have to buy an adapter?

Voted hot for price. But 5TB too much for me to handle. I dont back up stuff cause I live dangerously.

​unless your wife is smoking hot, there's no need to be taking so many pics and videos!!!!!

That's why this one comes in a nice black microwavable tub.

I thought the backup in windows 10 was the same one as from windows 7

It's actually 4.54 TB

Let's be honest. If you have 5tb of data and you're not a professional videographer or photographer. You have illegal content on it. Highly likely...

​definitely a donkey with a can of rice pudding for a head.

I don't think this is always the case based on what others have experienced, but I had an issue once and they gave me a return label for Amazon in Scotland (ie, the one you return Amazon UK items to..)

I'd recommend Microsoft Synctoy. It's free and you can schedule backups and what you backup.

Ordered. Does anyone know what the returns process would be in the event of an issue?

​lol

Nice.

I just upgraded to Win 10 Pro a couple of days ago. Is its built-in backup better than Win 7?

With Win 7 I had to get separate software, as the built in backup was so poor (for large data).

Less than £19 per TB!!! <3<3<3

Yeah but I cba writing it all :P

There's much more to know about hard drives than that... this is from someone who has done Comp Sci.

Can the hdd inside be removed for use in a server?

Its funny I have this exact caution for almost every generation of HD space going back to 500GB external drives. 500GB was a lot to lose at one point too. If it bothers you, buy 2 :smiley:

I'd be careful I bought my Synology nas from Amazon France it came with 2 pin plug and other adaptors but no uk one, had to use shaver adaptor till I found another psu with same clip design with uk bit as a donor.

cracking find op, heated

I vote for the can of rice pudding, I can keep it in the bath with my eggs.

Thanks, ordered to backup my backup 5tb drive. Now I'm golden.

Got stung for postage as not prime customer.

Zwischensumme: EUR 91,60
Verpackung und Versand: EUR 5,18
Zwischensumme ohne USt.: EUR 96,78
Umsatzsteuer: EUR 19,35
Endbetrag inkl. USt.: EUR 116,13
GBP 94.35*

i have 2 2tb drives i originally started using. one master one the backup (+ a 3tb nas as a network backup). so 3 copies.

but uou get to the stage where your backups get too big...id probably move to using the two 2tb drives as a 'single' 4tb solution and use the 5tb drive as a backup.

and no i dont have 4tb of pirated stuff...but i do have a phone that records video in hd...i back up the familys pictures and videos at the end of each month and im going through 20-40gb a month ...at xmas/hols it can be 80gb.

Buy two, store same data on both. Problem solved.

Good find - heat added

Reference delivery charges and foreign exchange - no rules on this which doesn't help sometimes but given not everyone has a fee free credit card suggest to add something to the OP that this is what the price is based on.

Hope you have revised Logic Gates. Good luck!

It's slower (moving parts)
It's more prone to failures (due to a spinning drive)

But it's cheaper!

(I've got my A-Level Computer Science tomorrow so I would know)

:smiley:

Sorry didn't mean to reply to your post. Meant to generically ask how this compares to an SSD drive

As I only use my PC for gaming and the days of fast internet and cloud save game storage are upon us, if a hard drive fails on me its simply a cleansing of all the crap I will never delete myself :smile:

Nice try,the Bathtub actually is acting as the basket there. :sunglasses:

I do remember I read some threads here some people mentioned they contacted amazon (German or other amazon Europe) and claim it back.

Back everything up!!!

Is this better than an SSD drive?

Use a fee free debit/credit card. For example a Halifax Clairty Card (current exchange rate 0.778136 = £90.36)

It should come with a plug where you can swap the connector between a UK and EU one

SSD what?

I was wondering which was best, a donkey or a can of rice pudding. perhaps somebody could answer both of our questions at once

Seagate ewww

Yep comes to around £95 inc delivery so header should be amended to reflect that. Btw does anyone know whether power socket can be used in the UK as I assume the powerbrick will have a European power connector?

SSD?

ok so my order is adding €6.21 for delivery - even though I have a Prime UK account ??

You are absolutely right.

Only a right pr*ck would fail to backup important data.... on a 5mb or a 5gb drive .... Do it... Do it now :wink:

not really...

What would you do if you did actually have 5TB of data to protect? Buy two maybe? No matter what size of drive you have, back it up.

5TB !!! That is a lot of data to lose :smiley:

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This is my eggsetup:



The more baskets the better :smile:

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