The Seagate Expansion Desktop drive offers an easy-to-use solution when you need to add data storage to your computer instantly. With drag and drop file saving right out of the box, consolidate all your files to a single location, or free space on your computer's internal drive for improved performance. Easy to use; simply plug in to your computer and drag-and-drop your files to save.
Set-up is straightforward. High-speed USB 3.0 and 2.0 connectivity offers plug-and-play functionality on your pc without the need of an external power supply. It is automatically recognised by the windows® operating system, so there is no software to install and nothing to configure.
Storage space 5TB: GB1250000 hours of video, 1000000 MP3s, 5000 photos, 5000 Divx movies.
USB 2.0.
USB 3.0.
Weight 0.95kg.
Size H3.66, W12, L17.6cm.
Http: //www. Seagate. Com/support-home/.
EAN: 7636490048371.
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nipstyler
9 Feb 179#1
5000 photos?
biggiep
9 Feb 175#5
This will be great for people with a lot of PS4 games after the next firmware update!
merchant_ac
9 Feb 174#13
PARDON?
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nipstyler
9 Feb 179#1
5000 photos?
MrFizzy to nipstyler
9 Feb 17#4
1 Gig Photos :confused:
David_e to nipstyler
9 Feb 171#6
Big 'uns!!
srcard to nipstyler
10 Feb 17#66
If your photos are 5 MB in size, this hard disk will store 1 million of them.
Trueogre to nipstyler
11 Feb 17#76
Not really a photopgraper are you? When you get a camera that can take jpegs and raws, the raws take up the room, they are HUGE!
Use Flubit when ordering through Amazon.
Got one for £98 IIR doing it that way about a year ago
towan to buckmr2
9 Feb 17#7
Flubit only offering 3% right now :disappointed:
PointDex to buckmr2
10 Feb 17#40
Not anymore buddy... that's premium for a max of 15% now they only offer 3%. Warranty sucks with them too
biggiep
9 Feb 175#5
This will be great for people with a lot of PS4 games after the next firmware update!
dm01
9 Feb 171#8
Just a note to op and prospective buyers, it comes with an ac adaptor and does need its own power supply, I have one and it is plugged in to the mains, even though its also attached to the PC with a USB 3.0 connection. Works great though so far, very easy to set up and use.
tech3475 to dm01
9 Feb 171#9
Anyone know if you can remove the HDD from the enclosure to use in a desktop? Or does it integrate the SATA-USB controller?
In case you don't know, this is normal for most 'desktop'/5.25" external HDDs.
If you need USB only then you need to buy 'portable'/2.5" HDDs.
Yep, I got one at that time through Flubit for even less, I think it was just over £80. Shame there have been no 5TB drives that cheap recently.
rakeanomander to mistermoleymole
10 Feb 171#45
And I rushed out to buy one then!
merchant_ac
9 Feb 174#13
PARDON?
mistermoleymole
9 Feb 17#14
HAHAHA :smile:
dm01
9 Feb 171#15
Yeah it is a little noisy, it sits next to my xbox one s and when thats on they are about the same for noise level.
merchant_ac
9 Feb 17#16
I assume these 5TB drives are using SMR (shingled magnetic recording)? If so, expect slow write speeds (30MB/s) when saving large amounts of data.
friar_chris to merchant_ac
9 Feb 171#21
I've not been able to find out definitively whether it is SMR, but I'm pretty sure it is. I'd also expected the same cr@ppy speeds, but I bought one through a Groupon deal anyway.
It has 100GB left on unwritten and all I have done is write from one disk onto this, but it wrote steadily at 70MB/s. Not fast, fast, but equally it could be half that. No real tail off in speed at all, which has surprised me.
I don't know what will happen when I come to delete some files and write over those sections, or even whether it will slow up as the free space reduces down to zero, but if it is SMR, it's not at all bad considering what I'd expected to get.
dm01
9 Feb 171#17
Yes I know that but op description states it does not need its own power supply as it has usb 3.0, which for this item is not true.
J4GG4
9 Feb 171#19
Wouldn't touch another seagate drive.
Good luck to those that do.
Bully to J4GG4
9 Feb 171#20
Agree.Having worked for them and seen their "quality control" first hand or lack of it,not to mention the way they treat their work force.
Rich44
9 Feb 171#23
Because other manufacturers are any different, they all have bad spells, poor batches yada yada.
Foxconn drives its workers to suicide and also forces students to work for them or they fail their courses so don't tell me any of them are any better or worse
Hivanh91
9 Feb 17#24
Will these type of external hard drives work with the PS4 after the update or does it need to be one running off a USB power supply from the PS4 directly?
TrickyDicky99
9 Feb 172#25
Oh dear, here we go again with people saying Seagate/Western Digital/Hitachi/Toshiba Drives (delete as appropriate) are crap. Please, Please, please don't base your comments on the few drives you have bought.
Seagate et al, will sell millions of units to the likes of HP, Lenovo, Dell etc etc for inclusion in their PCs, laptops and servers. Do you really think Seagate (in this case) would still be in business if their drives were truly ropey?
goodfera
9 Feb 17#26
Yes, cheaper before, so may be worth waiting unless Brexit means prices only upward !
Interesting. I’ve just retested my Seagate Expansion 5TB external HD (with a ST5000DM000 inside) which is 75% full and the write speed is 30MB/s (I am using USB3.0!). I bought it in June 2015, I wonder if Seagate have improved SMR?
To hell with Seagate. I had their drive 2 frickken days before it failed, just in time to forever lose a bunch of my late Mum's photos/videos I'd backed up onto it. ****.
yannarascala
10 Feb 17#49
This
jj584143
10 Feb 17#50
great price...no raid so as long as you have an online backup or another copy..otherwise..... its a case of
DarrylJohn to jj584143
10 Feb 17#53
15 eggs in one basket?
badasschris
10 Feb 17#51
can the hdd inside be removed and put inside a desktop?
nick_2k
10 Feb 17#52
I found a comment online that someone had the internal drive from this running in a NAS without any problems. So, sounds like yes but obviously you'll be voiding warranty etc.
*XxGunnerxX*
10 Feb 17#54
1956 was the first time it went over 60p per Gallon, it then dropped up to 1975 and then went over 60p again and has continued to rise since. Or were you trying to be sarcastic?
Danjw91
10 Feb 17#55
Ah yes when 15p per litre back in that day, 15p back then is probably equivalent to £10 nowadays.
What the poster is stating should not be taken literally, he or she is simply stating that over time prices rise. He or she are not relating this to a specific time frame just clarifying the above.
dezontk
10 Feb 17#58
WD 5TB Elements over this all day. Got two of them, both £79.99 the last two black fridays. Even at normal price (still cheaper than this) still take that over a seagate.
mr_fuse to dezontk
11 Feb 17#79
Nowhere has them in stock unfortunately.
merchant_ac
10 Feb 171#59
To my knowledge, SMR is only used by Seagate, and on their cheaper 5TB and larger drives (although I did read they are now using the technology on smaller drives). Their more expensive high capacity drives, and those from other manufactures are using Helium. A 3TB drive from 2013 will be a conventional design that doesn't use SMR.
mistermoleymole
10 Feb 17#60
Pointless comparison then? Everyone on here just wants to argue other peoples posts :smile: Its laughable :smile:
friar_chris
10 Feb 171#61
So the consensus seems to be that these are pretty fast and not SMR. I seriously wish Seagate would 'promote' their 'technology' so it was easier than this for consumers to say yay or nah.
potatohed
10 Feb 17#62
Wasn't long for these unhelpful sarcastic comments to come rolling in."I'll just get a time machine blah blah....".Mistermoleymole was simply pointing out a fact. If you dont check historic prices, how are you going to ever judge if it is a "hot" deal? As mistermoleymole pointed out. It was indeed £89 one off price last year and averaged at around £110 for the first half 2016 and then about averaged £120 for the second half (probably due to the currency adjustment). So £119.99 is a average price and I one I wouldn't call "Hot".
anuruddha
10 Feb 17#63
is this compatible with ps4 external hard disk support in v4.50? :man:
dudiedood to anuruddha
10 Feb 17#69
Yeah it should do.
horatiog
10 Feb 17#64
I can remember when petrol was 28p/gallon. Remember my Dad had us scouting for the cheapest fuel station as we headed south through Stirling from the Highlands - up in the Highlands, it was an exorbitant 33p per gallon - Mind you, that was back in the mid 70s!
buckbyter
10 Feb 17#65
Looks like that previous lower price of £90 was just a Black Friday 2015 special so not worth grieving over.
mmacarthur
10 Feb 17#67
In case like myself you were wondering how easy it is to remove the HDD.
I'm not anti Seagate, it's a hot deal. I'm pointing at some data.
If warranty makes Seagate's failure rates a non issue for you, yay.
For most people and for obvious reasons, hard drives rank high on the list of warranty-covered devices which they would prefer didn't fail at all.
PointDex
10 Feb 17#71
Few? Try around 10
HotAddict
10 Feb 17#72
Already got 2 of these and keep an eye on them to pick up another when on offer.
Good drives, bit noisy but good value. £120 is the usual price though, they sometimes drop lower.
3applepie
11 Feb 171#73
Thanks Stimpington for posting the stats for failures, useful info for buyers.
fruman23
11 Feb 17#74
Filled one of these on my Xbox one, good buy!
ipsa
11 Feb 17#75
That's a lotta porn
nipstyler
11 Feb 17#77
I am a photographer and no camera in production today produces RAW files of 1000MB. The average RAW file size is around 25-30MB. That would result in worst case scenario 167000 photos in RAW. Which you don't need to be and eminent mathematician to work out is a far larger number than 5000
flooker
11 Feb 17#78
Completely off topic. :stuck_out_tongue:
1973 ish. 18yo me on basic agricultural wage 50p/hr and petrol 50p gallon.
Today minimum wage for 18=>20 is £5.55/hr and petrol is £5.46 gallon.
Coincidence?
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Opening post
Set-up is straightforward. High-speed USB 3.0 and 2.0 connectivity offers plug-and-play functionality on your pc without the need of an external power supply. It is automatically recognised by the windows® operating system, so there is no software to install and nothing to configure.
Storage space 5TB: GB1250000 hours of video, 1000000 MP3s, 5000 photos, 5000 Divx movies.
USB 2.0.
USB 3.0.
Weight 0.95kg.
Size H3.66, W12, L17.6cm.
Http: //www. Seagate. Com/support-home/.
EAN: 7636490048371.
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Got one for £98 IIR doing it that way about a year ago
In case you don't know, this is normal for most 'desktop'/5.25" external HDDs.
If you need USB only then you need to buy 'portable'/2.5" HDDs.
Petrol used to be 60p a gallon....
It has 100GB left on unwritten and all I have done is write from one disk onto this, but it wrote steadily at 70MB/s. Not fast, fast, but equally it could be half that. No real tail off in speed at all, which has surprised me.
I don't know what will happen when I come to delete some files and write over those sections, or even whether it will slow up as the free space reduces down to zero, but if it is SMR, it's not at all bad considering what I'd expected to get.
Good luck to those that do.
Foxconn drives its workers to suicide and also forces students to work for them or they fail their courses so don't tell me any of them are any better or worse
Seagate et al, will sell millions of units to the likes of HP, Lenovo, Dell etc etc for inclusion in their PCs, laptops and servers. Do you really think Seagate (in this case) would still be in business if their drives were truly ropey?
Backblaze Q1 2016 Hard Drive Stats
Taken from their end 2016 stats
Pry them out and they run nicely on my NAS :smiley:
How come £119.99 is a bargain ????
http://www.citroenet.org.uk/miscellaneous/1975-gs-what-car/whatcar.html
Did a few speed tests and it was a pretty fast drive indeed.
Oh yes, both drives still working fine
WD 5TB Elements
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82D_VxVeolc
If warranty makes Seagate's failure rates a non issue for you, yay.
For most people and for obvious reasons, hard drives rank high on the list of warranty-covered devices which they would prefer didn't fail at all.
Good drives, bit noisy but good value. £120 is the usual price though, they sometimes drop lower.
1973 ish. 18yo me on basic agricultural wage 50p/hr and petrol 50p gallon.
Today minimum wage for 18=>20 is £5.55/hr and petrol is £5.46 gallon.
Coincidence?