Limited time offer Use code C1RP0317 to take £10 off the price to reduce it to 100.96 Delivered.
2% Cashback with TCB that makes it under £100 for 4TB!
Ideal for PS4 now we can use External Drives.
Top comments
paul_merton
10 Mar 179#38
I'm not sure that counts as a "similar one" :smiley:
It's 3.5", it's not an external drive, and it's £183.07!
ocelot20 to donslibi
9 Mar 178#5
Of course it is. I paid £50 for a WD 2TB external. I took part in beta testing the 4.50 update. The 2TB external has come in very useful in the past few weeks. Before this update I had 1TB in my Pro and only had like 200GB left. £100 for 4TB for an external drive is very good.
Bully
10 Mar 174#12
30 day warranty vs 3 year warranty.No thanks. Out of Stock anyway.
bollybobinson
10 Mar 173#49
Wow, my first computer had a 6gb HDD
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you_gotta_be_kidding
9 Mar 17#1
2.5" or 3.5"?
Gordon.Bell to you_gotta_be_kidding
9 Mar 173#2
Product overview
• Form Factor: 2.5"
• Capacity: 4TB
• Interface: USB 3.0
• Stock Status: In Stock
Voucher code: C1RP0317
donslibi
9 Mar 17#3
Not sure it's worth using with the PS4 considering it's over half the price of the actual console. Good for general storage though.
ocelot20 to donslibi
9 Mar 178#5
Of course it is. I paid £50 for a WD 2TB external. I took part in beta testing the 4.50 update. The 2TB external has come in very useful in the past few weeks. Before this update I had 1TB in my Pro and only had like 200GB left. £100 for 4TB for an external drive is very good.
prynolfc to donslibi
9 Mar 17#8
Depends if you plan on buying alot of games and keeping them for the next 5 years or more, for me it's well worth it mate :smiley:
3guesses
9 Mar 17#4
Presumably this will feature a Samsung drive using SMR technology?
prynolfc
9 Mar 171#6
i agree, payed 100 for a 4tb seagate ror my xb1 and now 100 for this maxtor for my ps4, very rare that you see a 4tb external hard drive for less than 115-120 quid
prynolfc
9 Mar 171#7
heat op... very convenient find for me you legend :smile: I payed 100 for a 4tb seagate portable hard drive for my xb1 about 6 months ago and have not seen another 4tb for around 100 since... so this 4tb maxtor for my ps4 will stop me from needing to delete games/recordings constantly to make room for a new beta/demo/game every couple of weeks (it's so frustrating)
30 day warranty vs 3 year warranty.No thanks. Out of Stock anyway.
AznAssassin
10 Mar 17#13
I remember it was seagate drives that had a 'period' of high failure rate drives. I think it was the 3TBs?
Since Seagate bought Maxtor, are the drives the same? what about the failure rate on these? still luck of the draw?
Never owned a maxtor drive, so asking before I buy xD
Thanks
-BA-
10 Mar 171#14
Thanks OP; bought one as soon as I saw this last night. I travel a lot for work and have a PS4 Slim coming today so this was perfect timing. Recently had a WD My Book fail so don't think one can ever be certain who is better. Would take this over a refurb any day.
pieman790
10 Mar 17#15
Will any external hard drive work on the PS4 Slim with update 4.5?
nige182 to pieman790
10 Mar 172#16
It must be USB 3.0, and the PS4 supports up to 8TB. Those are the only limitations I have read.
Edit: Oh and only one external drive can be used at a time.
dfunked
10 Mar 17#17
Perfect for my PS4... Put an old 240GB SSD in it as a boot drive/drive for the small amount of games that benefit from SSDs last night. Everything else can go on the external, and this should easily last the lifespan of the console without needing to delete stuff.
rumuk
10 Mar 17#18
thanks op, has anyone not received the 4.50 update yet? I am still waiting
dfunked to rumuk
10 Mar 171#21
Didn't download in rest mode yesterday, but as soon as I got in from work and woke it it started downloading... I'd say just try restarting the console if you use rest mode a lot.
The firmware updates are available to everybody at the same time, there's no staggering of release.
Failing that you can just download it on a PC and put it on a USB stick and update from there
jrandrews72 to rumuk
10 Mar 17#27
Thanks, I got my 4.50 update last night.
Snakeyes646
10 Mar 171#19
Exactly, its a bargain and if you want extra space its a no brainier, nothing to do with the price of what you are buying it for.
ought
10 Mar 17#20
Are these reliable?
adilimam1
10 Mar 17#22
as reliable as a Seagate since they make them...
ought
10 Mar 17#23
Not had a seagate in a few years but they used to be very unreliable ;o)
prynolfc
10 Mar 17#24
How do we get the 3 year warranty please?
dodgymix
10 Mar 171#25
Are these the type of things you can plug in the back of a Samsung TV? for recording?
But needs a power adaptor so not as convenient I believe.
NATHANDRAKEUNCHARTED
10 Mar 17#29
Can you crack one of these open and install inside a PS4?
paul_merton to NATHANDRAKEUNCHARTED
10 Mar 171#34
I doubt this one would be thin enough to fit in the drive bay. Even many 2TB disks are too thick.
Spectral to NATHANDRAKEUNCHARTED
10 Mar 171#39
It wouldn't be worth it anyway. With yesterdays 4.50 update PS4 can now use USB drives to install too so it wouldn't be worth voiding the warranty on the drive just to have it inside the PS4.
uni
10 Mar 17#30
I never noticed yesterday that this is a portable drive as it doesn't say in the header. 4tb for £100 for a 3.5" isn't particularly exciting but portable is reasonable. although the 3tb WD refurb I missed at £56 is a much better bang for the buck
firstofficer
10 Mar 171#31
Amazon do a similar one for £99.99.
That said, the quality of the current one seems superior and for that reason I am giving off plenty of heat...
Regards
paul_merton to firstofficer
10 Mar 17#32
Where?
rastbury
10 Mar 171#33
GREAT PRICE! great drive, use it for my travels
AlexBleubolt
10 Mar 17#35
dont think this is a deal 2.5" used to be on sale in Sainsbury for £99. yes its too big for ps4, havnt checked inside ps4 pro
I'm not sure that counts as a "similar one" :smiley:
It's 3.5", it's not an external drive, and it's £183.07!
firstofficer
10 Mar 17#40
Similar means not quite the same. So im covered that way. The size is within a couple on inches, so that fits. It is an external drive once you use the provided cage. The price you quote is without the discount, for prime customers.
Many thanks for your enquiry.
timb999
10 Mar 17#41
Great deal - ordered - thanks for finding.
bruno116
10 Mar 17#42
Superb, just what i need for the new PS4 USB game storage update that drops today.
Heat8)
Holte_ender
10 Mar 171#43
Am I the only one who thought this was an inflatable bed until the description was read?
amour3k
10 Mar 17#44
What is/was that please?. :-)
crazygoldfish
10 Mar 171#45
For the pro If the drive is 15mm you can literally hammer it in. But it will make the case buldge a bit.
Wouldnt risk the extra heat or jamming a drive in there when you can connect a usb.
For the old phat ps4 it was easier to jam one in, not sure about the slim
amour3k
10 Mar 17#46
Hahahahaha, yeh, it does look a lot like that too I guess?, lol. :-)
Hassann
10 Mar 17#47
Not the lowest price. I got them at £80 each
paul_merton
10 Mar 172#48
Literally no idea what you're going on about now.
I have prime, and the disk you claim is £99.99 is actually £183.07. There is no discount.
There is no cage provided with it, so it's not an external drive.
Even if you did have an enclosure for it, it would use more electricity than the Maxtor.
You'd also need to use up another mains power socket to power it.
And it's 3.5" instead of 2.5". It's a lot bigger and a lot heavier!
This Maxtor is a good deal for an external, £100-ish, portable drive (none of which that other disk is).
bollybobinson
10 Mar 173#49
Wow, my first computer had a 6gb HDD
dfunked
10 Mar 171#50
Presuming that that isn't a red Delorean in your profile pic, any chance of letting us know where from...
-BA-
10 Mar 17#51
Sorry can beat that; my first PC was an 8088 with a 20mb hard drive and a single speed CD-ROM and a 5.25" floppy :smiley:
That was after the Spectrum 48k and Atari STFM years :smiley:
firstofficer
10 Mar 17#52
Yeah Maxtor was the other one I saw which was also cheaper.. I guess you could buy that instead, every penny counts..
J4GG4
10 Mar 17#53
Often amazon have this for £103 ish, could then do a flubit on it which should bring it down to sub 100 easily.
paul_merton
10 Mar 17#54
Okay, gonna have to stop feeding the trolls now :smiley:
taraweeh
10 Mar 17#55
Would someone be able to explain if this backwards compatible? Think my laptop and smart tv may be a bit old for usb3?
firstofficer
10 Mar 17#56
Troll?
snoopy18
10 Mar 17#57
In other words nothing like ..geez
BubaMan
10 Mar 172#58
I'm toying with the idea of getting a load of 32GB USB sticks and putting 1 game on each...
Game carts! FTW :stuck_out_tongue:
dazdragon
10 Mar 17#59
Heat for the price, but not sure about reliability if Seagate are involved?
johnthehuman
10 Mar 171#60
Minimum size is 250Gb IIRC.
ScotBoy
10 Mar 17#61
Ha - we had an RML 380Z with a single 5 1/4 floppy disk - had to disk swap to load basic. Later upgraded to twin 5 1/4 disks. Then an Amstrad PC1512 and a TI 99 4/A.
Happy days.
inagrump
10 Mar 171#62
would never consider a seagate / maxtor ( same makers ) drive. western digital for me all the way. low error rates on WD drives.
JumpMan1980
10 Mar 17#63
Shots fired! :man:
DevilsNeverCry
10 Mar 171#64
Great price for 4TB.
Expert timing OP :P
JumpMan1980
10 Mar 17#65
4.50 drops. Everyone scrambles for huge externals! :confused:
Marcoos
10 Mar 17#66
It's a feature a lot of people have asked requested for quite some time Little to no notice was given that it was going to go live. There was a rumour at the start of the week, then Sony finally confirmed the day before it went live. So I'd imagine there would be a scramble as people want to take advantage of a hassle free way of expanding storage. Especially if you only have a 500gb drive
mr-mixalot
10 Mar 17#67
Cold someone had 2 up for sale in the Classfieds for £85 each delivered
Missed my chance there
K0smopolitan
10 Mar 17#68
Does anyone know if this drive can be taken out of its box and connected through SATA, or is the USB connection soldered directly to the drive?
dcr1d3r
10 Mar 17#69
nice! iv'e missed out on a few offers recently, but this price point aint bad for 4TB!
J4GG4
10 Mar 17#70
Yep. had a few failed seagates bought brand new and failed either within 1 year or just over the year. Annoying and frustrating. Even a 10 year warranty wouldn't do it for me.
Never had a problem with WD and i've had old old drives which just don't seem to fail.
Saying that, i've got a couple external drives which appear to look identical to this maxter one externally, but internally the ones i've got are samsung drives, both holding out pretty well.
johnthehuman
10 Mar 171#71
Can't fathom how much people spend on downloads to fill up a 4Tb drive with games Oo
I just about filled up a 500Gb launch PS4, and I'm nowhere near filling the 1Tb slim I've got now.
a5h73y
10 Mar 171#72
Most AAA games are excessively big, COD: IW and MWR take up 130GB, and that's essentially one game.
Knightlife
10 Mar 171#73
Thanks OP.
nolanj3
10 Mar 171#74
amour3k
10 Mar 17#75
Fair enough.
Where from/when please?. :-)
amour3k
10 Mar 17#76
:-)
ocelot20
10 Mar 17#77
The one I got was a WD My Passport for MAC (just needed formatting and partion deleting via windows PC) and it was second hand from CEX.
xPabloz
10 Mar 17#78
Can someone tell me how good/reliable this is and whether its worth it? I have not purchased an external drive since like 2010 so quite behind with things.
EDit: current drive pretty much failed and am running chkdsk as i type this
Thanks
amour3k
10 Mar 17#79
Cool, thanx. :-)
amour3k
10 Mar 17#80
It's reliable, and worth it.
And even moreso for the price ...
xPabloz
10 Mar 17#81
thanks. also while this is worth it in terms of price mainly would you say its worth paying extra £26 for this..https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00YRBNGLS/ref=twister_B01F75OW8S?_encoding=UTF8&th=1
dfunked
10 Mar 17#82
That's a 3TB drive, not a 4TB...
I've got one of the older Samsung branded 2TB versions of these drives and it's still going strong after being carted all over the place. I've had two failed Western Digital drives over the years, one Samsung and one Seagate so while some people might warn you against X, Y or Z brand, you need to be aware that ALL hard drives can potentially fail.
I'd go with this, just as long as you're not using it for your only copy of irreplaceable data.
xPabloz
10 Mar 17#83
the drive that is starting to fail is actually WD My passport which i have been using on mac (could be why it started messing up but then again i had it for 7 years). i had data on so didnt want to reformat for mac. as of right now i can access the data but it takes like half an hour to mount and then some extra time for the data to actually appear PER folder.
in this case would moving my data to new drive or will it mess up the new drive too?
BritishDragon
10 Mar 17#84
Not sure if srs :confused::neutral_face:
JumpMan1980
10 Mar 171#85
I know, but from 500GB to 4.5TB? Though they do say go big or go home! :sunglasses:
MrMini748
10 Mar 17#86
I used a MyPassport 1TB for my XBOne but thought that games were quite slow to load to be honest when compared with installing on the internal drive - it was USB 3 but a few years old now (5ish) - are they better these days in terms of read/write etc.?
miktil
10 Mar 17#87
Anybody disassembled it already? I want to know if it's SATA disk with little USB adapter or the whole PCB is USB
niceguyrick
10 Mar 17#88
I've been waiting for that to come back in stock for a while now
K0smopolitan
11 Mar 17#89
I've asked the same question today. Nobody answered. I'm guessing and hoping it has a SATA interface since Seagate drives do, and Maxtor is a Seagate company.
gazjon
11 Mar 17#90
What would be even better, can you crack one of these open, and install a PS4? Very portable gaming then. :smiley:
gazjon
11 Mar 17#91
My first computer with a built in hard drive, had a 40Mb hard drive. That was back in 1990 though.
gazjon
11 Mar 17#92
So not the same then. New for £100 or second hand for £80. Just what is the point?
amour3k
11 Mar 17#93
Copying/moving files from one Drive to another Drive WON'T knacker your good one in anyway.
It's a Hardware issue your old one has, NIT a Software one ...
Hardware issues are to technically (both figuratively and literally) a little bit more difficult to rectify?!.
Software or later ones (in comparison) are nothing!, lol.
Any issues your new Drive may have with receiving the 'data' from your old Drive will most likely be a 'cosmetic' one (eg. mainly Software related).
Of which (if push comes to shove), a simple formatting of your new Drive would/should more than sufficiently rectify such problems in itself .....
Tests have shown improved performance when using an external drive on an Xbox one, so it does sound like an issue with your older drive.
I've got a few different external drives and tested them all with diskmark... The best performing one got used for my Xbox one and the slowest for backups.
Tried using an SSD in an external caddy on the Xbox one for a while too and that massively improved things (AC Syndicate's loading times were driving me potty)
ChrisUK
11 Mar 17#96
Ordered one on Monday for £115, ordered another as I've nearly filled it.....
Hot !
mickael28
11 Mar 17#97
Do you guys know of a model with same design but USB 3.1 or port-C instead?
bollybobinson
11 Mar 17#98
wasn't a zx 80 was it?
anuruddha
11 Mar 17#99
It's so cheap :innocent:
anuruddha
11 Mar 17#100
anybody did try this with ps4 as an external hdd? :man:
Oxford89
11 Mar 17#101
Is it possible to use e.g. 2 TB for Ps4 and the other 2 TB for other backups? (PC, Mac etc.)?
amour3k
11 Mar 17#102
What the ...
Hahahaha, tell me about it?, lool.
dfunked
11 Mar 171#103
Nope. The PS4 will format the entire thing and that part of it won't be readable by a PC.
firstofficer
12 Mar 17#104
Don't feed the trolls.. Not worth the headache...
cassoncoutinho
12 Mar 17#105
Just seeking clarification does this require mains to power it or not ?
rich146
12 Mar 17#106
One day memory storage as we know it won't exist and will be limitless in thin air. We will look back and laugh at the big black boxes with a tiny 4 TB lol.
jrandrews72
12 Mar 17#107
USB powered I already have the 2TB version of this and now ordered this 4TB version.
3guesses
12 Mar 17#108
"In the long run we are all dead" -- John Maynard Keynes
anuruddha
12 Mar 17#109
did anybody receive it? still my order in process. now it's been 2 and half days? :disappointed:
gazjon
13 Mar 17#110
No, It was one of the first Amstrad portables. My first computer was a TRS80 Model 1, with 4Kb memory, so I added another 12 Kb and a 5 1/4 floppy drive after I got fed up with putting my programs onto cassette tape. That little lot cost me about £1200 back in 1980.
mwalke36
13 Mar 17#111
Assuming that this has expired as BT won't accept the voucher.
Burkos
13 Mar 17#112
same here .still being processed. you had any joy yet.
Burkos
13 Mar 17#113
Anyone got a status other than being processed????
jrandrews72
13 Mar 17#114
Yes, Mine was delivered this morning by Royal Mail.
Burkos
13 Mar 17#115
when did you order it though?
dfunked
13 Mar 171#116
Ordered at 08:31 on Friday and delivered this morning... Seems like a nippy little drive too (146MB/s sequential read/writes)
bollybobinson
13 Mar 17#117
Lol. My brother spent all day typing a programme into his zx81, the 16kilobyte plug in ram pack shifted a bit and he lost the lot, zx81 nearly flew out of the window... 16kilobyte !!!
jrandrews72
14 Mar 17#118
16k.. I wish.. I started out on the Commodore Vic 20 with 3.5k RAM
To expand to 16k RAM then would have cost me more than this 4TB Storage !
Yeh I have, but i did pay for a saturday delivery. ordered on the friday evening.
fyrewall
14 Mar 17#120
Code no longer works.... :disappointed:
Wortho
14 Mar 171#121
Yep, it's working a treat :-)
ought
15 Mar 17#122
They are taking their time. My order is still processing when it should have arrived.
pantaiema
15 Mar 17#123
"Sorry, this coupon code can’t be used on this order. Please check the terms and conditions to ensure your order qualifies, if your order does qualify it may be that the maximum number of redemptions have already been reached. Please note some coupons are customer specific and can only be used by the person they were issued to."
EXPIRE IT
AznAssassin
16 Mar 17#124
Mine has arrived (on 15th march).
The packaging was broken-ish (HDD packaging, a tear in the plastic casing. not the mail packaging). Guess the handling was bad..
should I be worried about the drive failing soon?
used HD tune and no errors/bad sectors found. are there any other tools to use to check?
They could have done better with packaging tbh...was just the HDD stock package and a thin mail package bag.
ChrisUK
16 Mar 17#125
Just checked mine as it's a day late & it's still processing, it's not even been posted yet.....
gazjon
16 Mar 17#126
Rang them up, got some twaddle about the site reporting stock when they have none, but new stock is (allegedly) arriving tomorrow (Friday). I ordered late Friday evening last week, so I'd imagine the stock they did have was sold before my order went in.
nick666
17 Mar 17#127
fyi.. mine was ordered on 10th, dispatched on 13th and arrived on 15th.
I've opened mine up and for those wondering it's a Seagate BarrCuda ST4000LM024
I emailed [email protected] to query it last night. I've just had a postage confirmation come through now !
K0smopolitan
19 Mar 17#129
Do a full scan with the Drive Manager, that came bundled with the hard drive. Same situation about postage. I did a full scan with Drive Manager twice, overnight, and both times after about 8 hours of scanning it told me the drive didn't pass, and that I should contact seagate about warranty. h2testw successfully filled the drive and verified data though, but I'm still not liking it and thinking about returning it.
anuruddha
21 Mar 17#130
I got mine today :wink: . it work perfectly with ps4. cheers guys :innocent:
anuruddha
21 Mar 17#131
I got mine today. Did you? :innocent:
mickael28
21 Mar 17#132
Similar issue about the postage not being any secure (not enough wrapping, no fragile sticker, etc), so that our postman delivered it by putting it through the letter plates in the door and dropping it about 1.5m.
Passing the Drive Manager software give a total failure, after some mechanical noises and a lot of HDD programmes not recognising the drive.
Great, let's see now how BT customer service is...
AznAssassin
22 Mar 17#133
K0smopolitan, I did as you said.
btw, I bought 2 drives (one had cracked casing, other is fine), also dropped through letter box.
BOTH failed the 'complete' testing from Drive Manager. typical..
H2testw seems to take forever to test.
Not sure if Seagate software itself is unreliable..(mind you, I've never trusted manufacturer softwares).
Is it better to return this?
I read through the returns a bit, BT shop does let us RMA the product.
though, I'd like to hear from you guys first.
reply ASAP.
Thanks
mickael28
22 Mar 17#134
Personally, I'm going to try and return it. The other software the I've got doesn't even recognize the drive...
And 4TB of data is quite a lot of data in case it starts failing soon. If BT sends a replacement fine, but if they give me a refund instead... I'll feel more comfortable anyway. Another one will come at some point.
I told them by email that the packing was really poor and not even putting a fragile sticker was maybe even worse. Hopefully they'll improve for future customers!
Good luck.
AznAssassin
22 Mar 17#135
I might do the same, what was the reason you chose for returning?
"faulty on arrival" or was it something like "didn't like the product"? (I'm aiming for a refund with less/no hassle)
gosh I hate returning stuff...
mickael28
22 Mar 171#136
I choose 'goods arrived damaged' and I'll see what they prefer to do. TBH, I'll be happy either way (replacement for a new one, better for me; or refund, a little bit annoying... but I guess it's just bad luck). I would not like to keep a faulty item anyway.
I hate returning stuff as well, but thankfully, it doesn't happen often. But again, sellers tend to pack their products with more care. BT seems that didn't care at all to me...
anuruddha
22 Mar 17#137
actually they did **** packaging but fortunately I got it to my hand rather dropped down to letter box. I don't know how did they handle it until it come here. Amazon packaging is the best. cheers :man:
K0smopolitan
22 Mar 17#138
That's rudicilous, although something is making me feel like your replacement drive will suffer the same fate of the postage system. I ordered mine to my work address so it was handed to me, but still I'm paranoid about these things. It seems like it's not just my Drive Manager software that's showing full scan error though - but the drive works fine for me otherwise and I recently did an extended SeaTools test which it passed.
mickael28
22 Mar 17#139
Sorry, to what were you referring to?
My drive was making a strange mechanical noise the 1st time I plugged it in, and then all other tools I use to check temperature, SMART errors, etc... none of them recognize the drive, so there's definitely something wrong with it.
I do agree, that I doubt BT will pack anything differently, but knowing it. We have a few ideas to mitigate the risks of the delivery in our house. Although we cannot control what happens on its way here.
We will see, as BT has not even replied yet...
Strawdog
5 Apr 17#140
Mine was happy away for a couple of weeks but has just died on me whilst copying some files to it, it's now making nice grindy disk noises and emitting an occasional beep when the actuator arm resets.
mickael28
5 Apr 17#141
Good luck trying to talk to BT then.
I reported mine faulty over 2 weeks ago now and I'm still waiting for a replacement, maybe next week I think. I had not seen a customer service so bad in a longgg time!!! It seems they just opened an online shop yesterday and are still learning by the way they do things...
Strawdog
6 Apr 17#142
Just called them and got an RMA with collection tomorrow morning... Hopefully they don't leave me hanging for weeks on a replacement.
Worst case I'll cancel it and take a refund (they gave me the option of refund or replace).
mickael28
6 Apr 17#143
I wanted to give it another go. The replacement finally arrived today, this time seems working fine... although the same poor packing, postman dropping it to the floor, ... but seems ok this time.
Let's hope it lasts.
Good luck with yours this time...
mickael28
10 Apr 17#144
Guys, did you run the complete Diagnostics with the tool that's provided in the drive?
If you have run it, could you please let me know what were your results? or if you have not run it, could someone pls run it and let me know if it success or fails for you?
I thought the replacement HDD was fine because windows recognised it, but when I run those complete diagnostics I get an error again?!
Or if you
K0smopolitan
11 Apr 17#145
I get exactly the same message after the test hangs at about 60%. Re-ran it something like three times overnight.
mickael28
11 Apr 17#146
Really? Was that your 1st drive or the replacement as well?
I didn't contact them today thinking about keeping it or just return it for a full refund, I think I'll do the later and just buy from a different shop in the future...
jrandrews72
11 Apr 17#147
Interested to see that now if you follow the link its no longer new stock.. Maybe they have 50 returns?
Product overview
Stock Status: Clearance
Stock Status: Used Stock
More than 50 in stock
mickael28
11 Apr 171#148
Ah... I forgot to say. I think the replacement HDD was not brand new, ie, it came with dust all over the place!!!!
Strawdog
12 Apr 17#149
My original drive was delivered to my work and I'm not in this week so unsure if a replacement has been sent out yet or not (not had any emails to say one's been sent out).
I'll not be best pleased it they send a tatty refurb, I'll be running TestDisk/PhotoRec (http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk) on it, to see how clean it is, if it's not new.
mickael28
12 Apr 17#150
Hey Strawdog, never used that TestDisk tool before, but I run it on the drive and it's got a log with around 3000 lines with the following messages. Do you know if that means it's definitely faulty? I think so, but wanted to ask you in case it sounds familiar...
file_pread(5,1,buffer,3519070000(486401/83/3)) lseek err Invalid argument
file_pread(5,1,buffer,3519071913(486401/113/26)) lseek err Invalid argument
file_pread(5,1,buffer,3519069865(486401/80/57)) ReadFile The request could not be performed because of an I/O device error.
file_pread(5,1,buffer,3519069866(486401/80/58)) ReadFile The request could not be performed because of an I/O device error.
file_pread(5,14,buffer,3519069867(486401/80/59)) ReadFile The request could not be performed because of an I/O device error.
K0smopolitan
12 Apr 17#151
Mah first one - I couldn't be bothered to return, mine was delivered to an office so no dropping through the door post hole, but still badly packaged and likely have suffered rough handling. Testing with SeaTools it passed though so I decided not to return.Could be that the Drive Manager program is just ****.
mickael28
12 Apr 17#152
That's what I was thinking as well... although it was strange as it seems Drive Manager just recognizes this drive and not others, so in theory, I thought it should be more reliable with the results.
After running that TestDisk programme though, I got around 3000 lines of errors, so I'm with my doubt again about trying to return it or not.
But at the moment I don't feel too comfortable putting 4TB of data in this drive, so most likely is that I'll try to arrange a refund this time and just avoid BT shop in the future for fragile things...
Strawdog
12 Apr 17#153
TestDisk is primarily intended for file recovery/partition repair rather than physical testing despite the software's name.
I/O errors can indicate physical faults but they could also be due to entries within the allocation table (the directory of the locations of the files on the disk) that are pointing to data that is no longer present.
It appears it's a second hand drive as it's finding bits of files and/or references to them still on the drive.
3guesses
12 Apr 17#154
Not an expert, but that looks like faults on the hard drive to me (especially the "I/O device error" lines). Have you run the SeaTools long test on the drive? That should test every sector and should indentify any dodgy ones. Personally, I would be thinking about returning the drive...
mickael28
13 Apr 17#155
Thanks for the help guys, just arranged a return and refund this time!! Bad luck this time...
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It's 3.5", it's not an external drive, and it's £183.07!
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Since Seagate bought Maxtor, are the drives the same? what about the failure rate on these? still luck of the draw?
Never owned a maxtor drive, so asking before I buy xD
Thanks
Edit: Oh and only one external drive can be used at a time.
The firmware updates are available to everybody at the same time, there's no staggering of release.
Failing that you can just download it on a PC and put it on a USB stick and update from there
Smart tv suggests I can record stuff?
That said, the quality of the current one seems superior and for that reason I am giving off plenty of heat...
Regards
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It's 3.5", it's not an external drive, and it's £183.07!
Many thanks for your enquiry.
Heat8)
Wouldnt risk the extra heat or jamming a drive in there when you can connect a usb.
For the old phat ps4 it was easier to jam one in, not sure about the slim
I have prime, and the disk you claim is £99.99 is actually £183.07. There is no discount.
There is no cage provided with it, so it's not an external drive.
Even if you did have an enclosure for it, it would use more electricity than the Maxtor.
You'd also need to use up another mains power socket to power it.
And it's 3.5" instead of 2.5". It's a lot bigger and a lot heavier!
This Maxtor is a good deal for an external, £100-ish, portable drive (none of which that other disk is).
That was after the Spectrum 48k and Atari STFM years :smiley:
Game carts! FTW :stuck_out_tongue:
Happy days.
Expert timing OP :P
Missed my chance there
Never had a problem with WD and i've had old old drives which just don't seem to fail.
Saying that, i've got a couple external drives which appear to look identical to this maxter one externally, but internally the ones i've got are samsung drives, both holding out pretty well.
I just about filled up a 500Gb launch PS4, and I'm nowhere near filling the 1Tb slim I've got now.
Where from/when please?. :-)
EDit: current drive pretty much failed and am running chkdsk as i type this
Thanks
And even moreso for the price ...
I've got one of the older Samsung branded 2TB versions of these drives and it's still going strong after being carted all over the place. I've had two failed Western Digital drives over the years, one Samsung and one Seagate so while some people might warn you against X, Y or Z brand, you need to be aware that ALL hard drives can potentially fail.
I'd go with this, just as long as you're not using it for your only copy of irreplaceable data.
in this case would moving my data to new drive or will it mess up the new drive too?
It's a Hardware issue your old one has, NIT a Software one ...
Hardware issues are to technically (both figuratively and literally) a little bit more difficult to rectify?!.
Software or later ones (in comparison) are nothing!, lol.
Any issues your new Drive may have with receiving the 'data' from your old Drive will most likely be a 'cosmetic' one (eg. mainly Software related).
Of which (if push comes to shove), a simple formatting of your new Drive would/should more than sufficiently rectify such problems in itself .....
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I've got a few different external drives and tested them all with diskmark... The best performing one got used for my Xbox one and the slowest for backups.
Tried using an SSD in an external caddy on the Xbox one for a while too and that massively improved things (AC Syndicate's loading times were driving me potty)
Hot !
Hahahaha, tell me about it?, lool.
To expand to 16k RAM then would have cost me more than this 4TB Storage !
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EXPIRE IT
The packaging was broken-ish (HDD packaging, a tear in the plastic casing. not the mail packaging). Guess the handling was bad..
should I be worried about the drive failing soon?
used HD tune and no errors/bad sectors found. are there any other tools to use to check?
They could have done better with packaging tbh...was just the HDD stock package and a thin mail package bag.
I've opened mine up and for those wondering it's a Seagate BarrCuda ST4000LM024
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Seagate-ST4000LM024-4-2-5-Inch-Barracuda-Internal/dp/B01LXCE9W9
4TB
5400RPM
SATA III
128MB Cache
2.5" Form Factor
Passing the Drive Manager software give a total failure, after some mechanical noises and a lot of HDD programmes not recognising the drive.
Great, let's see now how BT customer service is...
K0smopolitan, I did as you said.
btw, I bought 2 drives (one had cracked casing, other is fine), also dropped through letter box.
BOTH failed the 'complete' testing from Drive Manager. typical..
H2testw seems to take forever to test.
Not sure if Seagate software itself is unreliable..(mind you, I've never trusted manufacturer softwares).
Is it better to return this?
I read through the returns a bit, BT shop does let us RMA the product.
though, I'd like to hear from you guys first.
reply ASAP.
Thanks
And 4TB of data is quite a lot of data in case it starts failing soon. If BT sends a replacement fine, but if they give me a refund instead... I'll feel more comfortable anyway. Another one will come at some point.
I told them by email that the packing was really poor and not even putting a fragile sticker was maybe even worse. Hopefully they'll improve for future customers!
Good luck.
"faulty on arrival" or was it something like "didn't like the product"? (I'm aiming for a refund with less/no hassle)
gosh I hate returning stuff...
I hate returning stuff as well, but thankfully, it doesn't happen often. But again, sellers tend to pack their products with more care. BT seems that didn't care at all to me...
My drive was making a strange mechanical noise the 1st time I plugged it in, and then all other tools I use to check temperature, SMART errors, etc... none of them recognize the drive, so there's definitely something wrong with it.
I do agree, that I doubt BT will pack anything differently, but knowing it. We have a few ideas to mitigate the risks of the delivery in our house. Although we cannot control what happens on its way here.
We will see, as BT has not even replied yet...
I reported mine faulty over 2 weeks ago now and I'm still waiting for a replacement, maybe next week I think. I had not seen a customer service so bad in a longgg time!!! It seems they just opened an online shop yesterday and are still learning by the way they do things...
Worst case I'll cancel it and take a refund (they gave me the option of refund or replace).
Let's hope it lasts.
Good luck with yours this time...
If you have run it, could you please let me know what were your results? or if you have not run it, could someone pls run it and let me know if it success or fails for you?
I thought the replacement HDD was fine because windows recognised it, but when I run those complete diagnostics I get an error again?!
Or if you
I didn't contact them today thinking about keeping it or just return it for a full refund, I think I'll do the later and just buy from a different shop in the future...
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I'll not be best pleased it they send a tatty refurb, I'll be running TestDisk/PhotoRec (http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk) on it, to see how clean it is, if it's not new.
file_pread(5,1,buffer,3519070000(486401/83/3)) lseek err Invalid argument
file_pread(5,1,buffer,3519071913(486401/113/26)) lseek err Invalid argument
file_pread(5,1,buffer,3519069865(486401/80/57)) ReadFile The request could not be performed because of an I/O device error.
file_pread(5,1,buffer,3519069866(486401/80/58)) ReadFile The request could not be performed because of an I/O device error.
file_pread(5,14,buffer,3519069867(486401/80/59)) ReadFile The request could not be performed because of an I/O device error.
After running that TestDisk programme though, I got around 3000 lines of errors, so I'm with my doubt again about trying to return it or not.
But at the moment I don't feel too comfortable putting 4TB of data in this drive, so most likely is that I'll try to arrange a refund this time and just avoid BT shop in the future for fragile things...
I/O errors can indicate physical faults but they could also be due to entries within the allocation table (the directory of the locations of the files on the disk) that are pointing to data that is no longer present.
It appears it's a second hand drive as it's finding bits of files and/or references to them still on the drive.