Been looking for an external hard drive for my Plex server and this seemed like a good deal for a 4tb drive with free shipping.
Also has 6TB for 99.99 but felt 4tb was best bang for buck.
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michaeladamson89
29 Aug 17#1
Been looking for an external hard drive for my Plex server and this seemed like a good deal for a 4tb drive with free shipping.
Also has 6TB for 99.99 but felt 4tb was best bang for buck.
barmrest
29 Aug 17#2
4TB is slightly better value. They've been roughly this price for a while but if I'm not mistaken this is the cheapest I've ever seen them. I've have a few of the 6TB drives, they seem fine. Heat.
tek-monkey
29 Aug 17#3
Tempted by the 6Tb but I'd be ripping it open for the drive, not sure as warranty would be void.
danieltraugott7765
29 Aug 17#4
Recertified? What does it mean?
barmrest to danieltraugott7765
29 Aug 17#8
Drives that allegedly failed and were returned to the manufacturer who then tested them and found them to be reliable. Like I said in an earlier post, I have a few of these from WD and they're fine, I think WD are trustworthy but there are other HDD manufacturers who I'd be less trusting of.
gacameron01 to barmrest
29 Aug 17#16
Can also be the housing that failed, so that gets swapped out.
nomnomnomnom to gacameron01
29 Aug 17#21
Yep, it's the housing most of the time. If a drive is dead (bad sectors, head failure, etc...) it's not an economical repair. Only the PCB can realistically be swapped out without an issue.
omendata to danieltraugott7765
31 Aug 17#62
It means dont buy it. I work in IT and would never buy a recertified drive - it could have a new motherboard or other part fitted, it could even have been zero cluster reformatted or if you are lucky just reboxed but if one thing has gone wrong it could lead to more going wrong - generally in electronics i would never buy refurbished or recertified stuff even though as an electronics engineer i could always repair it - its just not worth the bother or the small savings!
I had many customers with seagate drives with the notorious 7200 firmware lockup problem - sent em back to seagate got a new recertified drive and they all failed within 1-2 years, some even had the same fault appear again months later!
If you want to make sure the drive is new then use S.M.A.R.T. i recommend Acronis drive tester its free and will tell you how many hours the drive has been on for , how many times it has been switched on and how many bad sectors it has had remapped - up to you but i wouldnt buy one and i am as tight as a gnats chuff!
Master_Yoda to omendata
31 Aug 17#63
Omendata - it would be useful to know what in your opinion would typically be acceptable for hours the drive has been on / how many times it's been switched on and how many bad sectors it has(?). Also, is there a threshold for these numbers, above which we are able to refuse the drive (i.e. effectively as a defective unit) and demand a refund / exchange?
S.c.0.TT.y
29 Aug 17#5
6tb is not available.
Ordered the 4 :wink:
Arizolas
29 Aug 17#6
Will this work with a ps4?
At the minute my hard drive beeps its an early samsung 2tb and I want to swap back to the 1tb that came with the pro.
Could i copy all onto this and then back again?
philmitchell to Arizolas
29 Aug 17#13
It will work on the ps4 .
JonDOnnis
29 Aug 17#7
Is this compatible with an Xbox One?
philmitchell to JonDOnnis
29 Aug 17#14
Yes .
Got one in the xbox one s and a ps4 .
dashforth
29 Aug 17#9
Does anyone know what colour the WD drive is?
rev6 to dashforth
29 Aug 17#10
Usually Silver.
:stuck_out_tongue:
barneydog to dashforth
29 Aug 17#11
I don't know about the 4tb but I have 3 of the 6tb drives and they are WD blues
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Also has 6TB for 99.99 but felt 4tb was best bang for buck.
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Also has 6TB for 99.99 but felt 4tb was best bang for buck.
I work in IT and would never buy a recertified drive - it could have a new motherboard or other part fitted, it could even have been zero cluster reformatted or if you are lucky just reboxed but if one thing has gone wrong it could lead to more going wrong - generally in electronics i would never buy refurbished or recertified stuff even though as an electronics engineer i could always repair it - its just not worth the bother or the small savings!
I had many customers with seagate drives with the notorious 7200 firmware lockup problem - sent em back to seagate got a new recertified drive and they all failed within 1-2 years, some even had the same fault appear again months later!
Check this:-
petervis.com/gal…tml
If you want to make sure the drive is new then use S.M.A.R.T. i recommend Acronis drive tester its free and will tell you how many hours the drive has been on for , how many times it has been switched on and how many bad sectors it has had remapped - up to you but i wouldnt buy one and i am as tight as a gnats chuff!
Ordered the 4 :wink:
At the minute my hard drive beeps its an early samsung 2tb and I want to swap back to the 1tb that came with the pro.
Could i copy all onto this and then back again?
Got one in the xbox one s and a ps4 .
:stuck_out_tongue: