Couple quid more than the Toshiba drive from eBuyer.
£21.23 per TB
2 year warranty.
Flubit offered me £104.54
Non HUKD referral: amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00UNA1O0W/
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iserlohn
20 Oct 164#7
These are shingled magnetic recording drives (SMR) and has all sorts of problems unless you use them for just archiving.
iserlohn
20 Oct 163#11
Yes. Both model use the same drive model. The difference is in the warranty and software included (as well as the design of the housing).
I did some research on this and in the end got the Toshiba 5TB Canvio from BT Shop for less than this deal.
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K1LLER HORNET
20 Oct 161#1
In before Seagate reliability comment.
Note: Anyone who has accurate information knows that it was mainly the 3TB drives that gave Seagate a bad reputation. All other capacitie drives should be as reliable as any other brand.
slayermatt to K1LLER HORNET
21 Oct 16#20
Wasn't that an issue with 3tb drives in general? (Seagate was the worth offender though)
quidstretchy
20 Oct 162#2
Yep, and I had two of those fail on me.
Seagate can rot in hell as far as I'm concerned
Slinger55
20 Oct 16#3
I run five of these in my server and they work flawlessly and never had any problems. I understand people have had issues but in my case they have been amazing for the price.
momo2712
20 Oct 161#4
dang it! bought last week for 119.99 at currys
use it with the xbox one..
alictait
20 Oct 16#5
I had a 3TB one fail on me last week :disappointed:
Mixtrixx to alictait
21 Oct 161#22
Is it not covered under the "Sale of Goods Act"? If it's a Manufacturer Fault (which I'm assuming it is, due to the amount of other people having failing 3TB Drives) then I think the Manufacturer has an obligation to repair or replace it, even if the original warranty has expired. Think you may be covered for upto 6 years, could be wrong though :smiley:. Would not waste time getting fobbed off by the store you purchased it from, just write directly to Seagate :smiley:.
CookieMunzta
20 Oct 161#6
I've had a Corsair SSD and a Crucial SSD fail on me this year.
My trusty 1.5TB Seagate Barracuda from 2010 is still going strong.
iserlohn
20 Oct 164#7
These are shingled magnetic recording drives (SMR) and has all sorts of problems unless you use them for just archiving.
K1LLER HORNET to iserlohn
20 Oct 162#8
Are you sure it uses SMR?
I would have thought the 'Backup Plus' drives would be the ones with SMR as they'd logically have 'Archive' drives in them.
If it's SMR read speeds will be fine, write speeds after a certain point will fall off a cliff. Will not be a problem as it's an external drive unless you're regularly copying over 50GB of data to the drive in one session.
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Opening post
Couple quid more than the Toshiba drive from eBuyer.
£21.23 per TB
2 year warranty.
Flubit offered me £104.54
Non HUKD referral: amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00UNA1O0W/
Top comments
I did some research on this and in the end got the Toshiba 5TB Canvio from BT Shop for less than this deal.
All comments (27)
Note: Anyone who has accurate information knows that it was mainly the 3TB drives that gave Seagate a bad reputation. All other capacitie drives should be as reliable as any other brand.
Seagate can rot in hell as far as I'm concerned
use it with the xbox one..
My trusty 1.5TB Seagate Barracuda from 2010 is still going strong.
I would have thought the 'Backup Plus' drives would be the ones with SMR as they'd logically have 'Archive' drives in them.
If it's SMR read speeds will be fine, write speeds after a certain point will fall off a cliff. Will not be a problem as it's an external drive unless you're regularly copying over 50GB of data to the drive in one session.
A good explanation of how SMR works if anyone is interested