Got 2 of these from Argos a couple weeks ago for £200 each... Just FYI the drive inside is ST8000AS0002 and you get 7.27TB of usable space. Only issue I have is once you pull the drives out of the enclosure it only has 4 screw holes instead of the normal six for mounting.
cykb to r34per
30 Jul 16#4
So ripping the drive out is no issue, standard sata connectors? Thanks
kkthomask
30 Jul 16#3
Elephant memory but elephant size. ..not voting cold though.
r34per
30 Jul 16#5
Yes, once out of the casing it has normal sata connectors like any other internal drive... taking it out of the enclosure was a bit tricky, but to be fair I planned on reusing it for another drive so did everything real slow and carful...
wakkaday
30 Jul 16#6
Are these good for nas use
Berhwale to wakkaday
30 Jul 163#7
Possibly, but not if you use a RAID setup. These are archive drives which use Shingled Magnetic Recording (SHR) to cram more data on to the disk. The downside is that SHR drives write more slowly than a normal drives and SHR drives can get very slow when you're writing a lot of data (basically, once you've filled the cache on the drive).
Why wouldn't it have SATA? There isn't a single 3.5" external HDD that has a native USB interface (where the SATA connector has been replaced by USB). Are you thinking of 2.5" external HDDs?
cykb
31 Jul 161#9
That's not true, some older Seagate external drives had there connectors soldered onto the USB Interface. Just like some 2.5" ones.
LeeJS
1 Aug 162#10
There's no way I'm trusting half of my porn to a Seagate disc.
ifa
27 Sep 16#11
Hey brother, try nofap - that way you won't need any porn lol
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With the price of WD Red drives so high lately (eg. 6TB = £206.99) this is probably your best bang for buck for storage at the moment.
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https://www.amazon.co.uk/Seagate-Backup-Desktop-External-Drive/dp/B00HSYI58U/
http://www.storagereview.com/seagate_archive_hdd_review_8tb