Seagate Backup Plus 6TB USB 3.0 Desktop 3.5 inch External Hard Drive
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benjai
22 Jun 1617#7
That's a lot of porn to lose.
markevans31
22 Jun 166#2
Get ready for the "that's a lot of data to lose" brigade, heat added from me
zombrex to thevman2k3
22 Jun 166#10
**** have 3 of them never had a problem with seagate, people are still riding out the waves from the floods that caused a shortage just to look cool
ianbeany to markevans31
22 Jun 165#8
I'm more part of the "shame its a Seagate" brigade.
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Mr No
22 Jun 162#1
markevans31
22 Jun 166#2
Get ready for the "that's a lot of data to lose" brigade, heat added from me
ianbeany to markevans31
22 Jun 165#8
I'm more part of the "shame its a Seagate" brigade.
Lonyo to markevans31
22 Jun 16#20
That's why you buy a 6TB external HDD, to back up your data onto so that you hopefully don't lose it if your non-external drives fail.
It's even called a backup drive. "Seagate Backup Plus"
lukaes2011
22 Jun 161#3
Where'd you get that graph? Interesting!
sparx1981 to lukaes2011
22 Jun 161#5
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sparx1981
22 Jun 161#4
I'm very tempted. I'm looking to upgrade my machine at the end of the year so fingers crossed the price may drop a little more by then.
As for the "it's a lot of data to loose"... yep I agree but I'd be using it for my steam and origin libraries and maybe as a secondary backup. At least that way, if it does go tits up, nothing is really lost.
nomanssky
22 Jun 165#6
First time post, long time lurker - found the same (I think) 6tb disk at Argos, for the same price too. For those that want the disk 'right now'.
had one and honestly there bloody awful. Failed within a month. Pay abit more and get a WD. Had 3 of them now and still going strong.
zombrex to thevman2k3
22 Jun 166#10
**** have 3 of them never had a problem with seagate, people are still riding out the waves from the floods that caused a shortage just to look cool
WBRacing to thevman2k3
22 Jun 16#17
I've been running 8 3 & 4TB seagates in two N40L's for over two years with no issues whatsoever. The last disk failure I had was a WD, about 4 years ago.
steve23094 to thevman2k3
23 Jun 16#33
I have had two Western Digital drives fail on me. Bloody awful. So where does that leave us now, want to go back to pen and paper?
uni
22 Jun 16#11
decent price considering the WD refurbs were this price. hopefully this is a sign of prices falling
5fingadefpunch
22 Jun 16#12
Can you use this for the xbone. Noob question i know :smiley:
shasnir to 5fingadefpunch
22 Jun 16#19
Yes you can, you can go up to 16 terabytes on the Xbox One.
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If you go to the Amazon link and scroll down to "Customers Question and Answers" look at the first question and answer.
samwiseganga
22 Jun 16#13
Anyone know if the drive can be liberated from the enclosure and used internally?
wanye to samwiseganga
22 Jun 161#14
if its like the 4 and 5tb drives in similar enclosures, then yes. got a bunch of them sat in my microserver right now...
samwiseganga
22 Jun 16#15
Thanks amigo, heat added
samela
22 Jun 16#16
Does that void warranty?
fishmaster to samela
22 Jun 16#18
Yes, it does.
pjmatthews58 to samela
22 Jun 16#29
Technically yes, but in reality when one of mine died I put it back into the enclosure and RMA'd it with no issues at all. One week later I had a refurbished drive replacement.
megaman666
22 Jun 16#21
I use the 4tb version.. had it about 3 years now with no dramas
MeneerSmith
22 Jun 16#22
As I always say, these are low use backup drives and not constant use drives. Pay the extra and get an actual internal drive.
You can take it out of the enclosure and pop it in a pc but it will invalidate the warranty and guarantee, and will fail a lot quicker than an actual internal drive will. Your choice of course...
MeneerSmith
22 Jun 161#23
Price per tb is about £21.66 which is not that good.
Watch for a sub £100 5tb which is £20 per tb. There have been deals where you can get 5tb at £18 per tb posted on hukd.
Still hot though for those who must have more than 5tb in their hd. :P
chavhunter to MeneerSmith
22 Jun 162#26
this is about £21.50 per TB
mranderson1971
22 Jun 162#24
I have a couple of Seagate drives and never had an issue. Had a WD and that failed on me, so we all have different experiences.
SpeedyG
22 Jun 16#25
Any good for cheap NAS drive or link to NAS?
smr1
22 Jun 16#27
Really? I've only got 4 seagate drives and over the last 2 to 3 years I've had 3 die on me and had 2 replacements under warranty.
Hitachi ultrastars, still running a number of 7k3000 models with no deaths yet.
WD I've had fewer of so I am considering changing to their red pro drives when I replace/supplement my drives.
4Real2016
22 Jun 16#28
No need to argue about drive reliability when Backblaze publish their results every quarter.
Not sure how long HGST will stay the most reliable now they are owned by WD, I recently bought another HGST drive and it was definitely a WD drive :disappointed:
helllraiser
22 Jun 16#30
i purchased ones of these, the 3 TB for my microserver, started having problems after 18 months, died within 2 years.Gone with WD drives now. Neither Hot or Cold for me.
greenball
23 Jun 16#31
good amount of storage, decent find
DragonQ
23 Jun 16#32
Just had my oldest 1.5 TB drive in my file server tell me it's about to die. I was gonna get the 5 TB version of this as a replacement but held off in case it dropped from £110 to £100 again. Might as well grab this instead! They're out of stock but I'm in no rush.
Mr No
23 Jun 161#34
TickingTock
26 Jun 16#35
Expired.
surfer69
27 Jun 16#36
Still available at that price at Argos. Cheers for the heads up, purchased today.
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It's even called a backup drive. "Seagate Backup Plus"
As for the "it's a lot of data to loose"... yep I agree but I'd be using it for my steam and origin libraries and maybe as a secondary backup. At least that way, if it does go tits up, nothing is really lost.
http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/4139836.htm?CMPID=GS001&_$ja=tsid:59158|cid:200290250|agid:12504949730|tid:pla-140364502850|crid:66128553890|nw:g|rnd:15552617254855513880|dvc:c|adp:1o2&gclid=CjwKEAjw7qi7BRCvsr3N58GvsTkSJAA3UzLvPQaWGuCk7CEms--LTJqGTHgBmjRTjR0-XQRRC0tc_RoCpzbw_wcB
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If you go to the Amazon link and scroll down to "Customers Question and Answers" look at the first question and answer.
You can take it out of the enclosure and pop it in a pc but it will invalidate the warranty and guarantee, and will fail a lot quicker than an actual internal drive will. Your choice of course...
Watch for a sub £100 5tb which is £20 per tb. There have been deals where you can get 5tb at £18 per tb posted on hukd.
Still hot though for those who must have more than 5tb in their hd. :P
Hitachi ultrastars, still running a number of 7k3000 models with no deaths yet.
WD I've had fewer of so I am considering changing to their red pro drives when I replace/supplement my drives.
Not sure how long HGST will stay the most reliable now they are owned by WD, I recently bought another HGST drive and it was definitely a WD drive :disappointed: