With hard drive price keep going up, I believe it is now a good time to grab one of these if you are running low on storage.
Specifications
- Interface: USB 3.0 (USB 2.0 compatible)
- Max. transfer rate: ~ 5.0 Gb/s
- Enclosure: Matt
- Colour: Black
- Capacity: 5TB
- Rotational Speed: 7200 rpm
- Cache Buffer: 32 MB
- Average Seek Time: 14 ms
- File System: NTFS (MS Windows)
*The drive can be reformatted to HFS+ file system for full Mac compatibility.
- Power: AC Power adapter cable
Input: 100-240V, 650mA
Output: 12V - 2A
exchangeable plug head
- Dimensions: 129 (L) x 42 (W) x 167 (H) mm
- Backup Software: NTI Backup Now EZ
- System Requirements: Windows® XP / VISTA® / Windows® 7 CPU with 750 MHz or faster, 10MB system hard disk space, 256MB system memory, one free port of USB 3.0 or USB 2.0
Box Contents:
STOR.E CANVIO
NTI Backup Now EZ software (pre-loaded)
USB 3.0 cable ("A" to Micro "B" 2.5")
AC adapter cable
Quick Start Guide
User's Manual (pre-installed on the hard drive)
Warranty Leaflet
Top comments
jimbb to Thermobaric
5 Jan 176#17
It is always because of money and risk.
External drive warranty is voided as soon as it is disassembled. They generally offer same or shorter warranty period. It has added padding between the drive and enclosure so the unit is always well-protected even dropping it from a certain height. All accessories are provided by themselves, therefore, most of the factors are under their control.
However, as if they are selling it a nude drive, except the driver board is being exposed, these manufacturers are exposing themselves to higher risk as well. Let's forget moral for a second and think about this: If you drop a drive and it stopped working, do you think they will still honour the warranty claim? I believe the answer is yes since they are unable (or might not even worth them) to prove that you dropped the drive instead of the drive has developed a fault internally. And yet you have to calculate risk like damages due to bad installation or faulty PSU etc.
Of course, they know people are buying external drives and taking them apart due to lower cost. But if that is the case, they are basically selling a drive that they don't have to be responsible for the coming 2 years. And I am quite certain that the cost of providing support and warranty for 2 years is much higher than what the customer can potentially save.
Customer might save £20 initially, but they have taken on more risks, if the drive does breakdown within warranty, you will end up with a piece of metal where in the other case, £20 for a refurbished drive, I will say it is a pretty good deal :smiley:
And lastly, let's not forget they can also sneak refurbished drive into the external unit and make more money money money.
(Sorry for the lengthly reply hahahahahaahahahah)
Thermobaric
5 Jan 173#16
HDD prices are definitely increasing in general. You will get the occasional good deal on external drives but still, prices are going up. Why external drives are cheaper, I don't know. I guess there is probably a bigger market for external but I mean, external drives have to have a drive, why use different HDDs? You're adding an enclosure, power supply e.t.c. and charging more for a bare drive. Madness. Price collusion and cartels with WD and Seagate.
I bought a WD 4TB Green in May 2015 for £113. The equivalent WD 4TB Blue (as green is being phased out) is now £127.
All comments (40)
JC2MULTIPLAYER000
5 Jan 172#1
since when were hdd prices going up?
jimbb to JC2MULTIPLAYER000
5 Jan 171#8
I read this article hrough a reddit post previously, not sure if it is true but it seems 5TB was not dropping back to £99.99 that Amazon once did.
Ordered one of these over breakfast this morning and contemplated putting it up myself until the site told me it was already added 3 months ago, is still live and is still cold!
Heat from me.
Sambat
5 Jan 172#5
Be good to know what drive they put inside.....
jimbb to Sambat
5 Jan 171#7
The one I got comes with model: TOSHIBA MD04ACA500
HTH
JC2MULTIPLAYER000
5 Jan 17#9
this is not an ssd drive that uses nand. It's a mechanical drive so the shortage is irrelevant
sradmad
5 Jan 17#10
good find op, heat added
xraven360
5 Jan 17#11
How reliable are the drives tho?
ThatTechGuy to xraven360
5 Jan 17#12
coinflip
jimbb to xraven360
5 Jan 17#15
What you need is backup, backup and backup.
RAID is not a backup. Consider Crashplan or Backblaze or Arq + Amazon Cloud drive / Google drive unlimited.
Or if you like DIY and command line, rclond is your friend :smiley:
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Opening post
Specifications
- Interface: USB 3.0 (USB 2.0 compatible)
- Max. transfer rate: ~ 5.0 Gb/s
- Enclosure: Matt
- Colour: Black
- Capacity: 5TB
- Rotational Speed: 7200 rpm
- Cache Buffer: 32 MB
- Average Seek Time: 14 ms
- File System: NTFS (MS Windows)
*The drive can be reformatted to HFS+ file system for full Mac compatibility.
- Power: AC Power adapter cable
Input: 100-240V, 650mA
Output: 12V - 2A
exchangeable plug head
- Dimensions: 129 (L) x 42 (W) x 167 (H) mm
- Backup Software: NTI Backup Now EZ
- System Requirements: Windows® XP / VISTA® / Windows® 7 CPU with 750 MHz or faster, 10MB system hard disk space, 256MB system memory, one free port of USB 3.0 or USB 2.0
Box Contents:
STOR.E CANVIO
NTI Backup Now EZ software (pre-loaded)
USB 3.0 cable ("A" to Micro "B" 2.5")
AC adapter cable
Quick Start Guide
User's Manual (pre-installed on the hard drive)
Warranty Leaflet
Top comments
External drive warranty is voided as soon as it is disassembled. They generally offer same or shorter warranty period. It has added padding between the drive and enclosure so the unit is always well-protected even dropping it from a certain height. All accessories are provided by themselves, therefore, most of the factors are under their control.
However, as if they are selling it a nude drive, except the driver board is being exposed, these manufacturers are exposing themselves to higher risk as well. Let's forget moral for a second and think about this: If you drop a drive and it stopped working, do you think they will still honour the warranty claim? I believe the answer is yes since they are unable (or might not even worth them) to prove that you dropped the drive instead of the drive has developed a fault internally. And yet you have to calculate risk like damages due to bad installation or faulty PSU etc.
Of course, they know people are buying external drives and taking them apart due to lower cost. But if that is the case, they are basically selling a drive that they don't have to be responsible for the coming 2 years. And I am quite certain that the cost of providing support and warranty for 2 years is much higher than what the customer can potentially save.
Customer might save £20 initially, but they have taken on more risks, if the drive does breakdown within warranty, you will end up with a piece of metal where in the other case, £20 for a refurbished drive, I will say it is a pretty good deal :smiley:
And lastly, let's not forget they can also sneak refurbished drive into the external unit and make more money money money.
(Sorry for the lengthly reply hahahahahaahahahah)
I bought a WD 4TB Green in May 2015 for £113. The equivalent WD 4TB Blue (as green is being phased out) is now £127.
All comments (40)
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/ssd-hdd-shortage-nand-market,33112.html
Guide here: http://goughlui.com/2013/10/01/how-to-disassemble-toshiba-canvio-desk-3tb-external-hard-drive/
Heat from me.
HTH
RAID is not a backup. Consider Crashplan or Backblaze or Arq + Amazon Cloud drive / Google drive unlimited.
Or if you like DIY and command line, rclond is your friend :smiley: