Nice HDD with useful back-up software and two extra usb ports.
Amazon, Maplin and other site's price £149.99
Until Sunday if you spend more than £100 at argos (both in-store and on-line) they give you a gift card for £10 with no minimun purchase. argos.co.uk/eve…tml
From Seagate: Seagate® Backup Plus Desktop drives come with a USB 3.0 hub option. With cross-platform compatibility, exceptional reliability and speed, you can back up just about everything. Plus you can conveniently back up and share your digital favourites with the included cloud storage service.
Take advantage of the Backup Plus Hub drive which doubles as an all-in-one data hub and recharging station built into a desktop drive with phenomenal capacities.
I ordered one, and with the gift card I bought a second one as I wanted 12tb (and they gave me a second gift card)
I hope it helps
27 comments
philmitchell
4 Sep 17#27
I have about 50 so far on a drive :grin:
mchcreations
4 Sep 17#25
If someone is on a tight budget WD has again recertified 6tb for £99. wdc.com/en-…tml
radialblur
2 Sep 17#19
Anyone know what the internal drive is? Assuming it's an Archive drive?
mchcreations to radialblur
2 Sep 17#20
yes it is, I found videos of the 4tb and 8tb dissasembled so I assume the 6tb will be the same.
seagate.com/gb/…dd/ "drive engineered for 24×7 workloads of 180 TB per year"
radialblur to mchcreations
2 Sep 17#22
Cheers bud.
zebrum to mchcreations
4 Sep 17#24
Old models from April have those the SMR archive drives, new models this summer are meant to have a drive similar to the 8tb barracuda pro but less reliability bit slower but uses less power but no smr is main thing.
jokinjp
2 Sep 17#18
Can it work with Mac?
dougiegee2003
1 Sep 17#14
This will be good for backing up that backup of my backups
cpc3232
1 Sep 17#10
Does this work with the Xbox?
Houstieboy to cpc3232
1 Sep 17#11
Yes
foordy08
1 Sep 17#7
Got a 3TB version of this for not much less than this price. Good hard drive. Got for me at this price and storage!
mntumambing
1 Sep 17#6
Can I use this for the ps4?
TomBoyNI to mntumambing
2 Sep 17#15
I don't think the PS4 takes a drive like these. (The Ines with USB hubs).
PTibbets
1 Sep 17#2
Hot
Although I really cannot see how anyone (in their entire lifetime) could use 6TB of data?
I must be getting old!
ste1975 to PTibbets
1 Sep 17#3
Yes, it may be somewhat overkill, but with some of the upcoming new Xbox One X games coming in at 100GB+, it wouldn't take a hardcore gamer that long to start filling it up.
teflbloke to PTibbets
1 Sep 17#4
I have about 10TB, but if you Google 'datahoarder' you'll find the serious storage freaks. No one blinks at 30TB there and some of them have petabytes.
Uncompressed movies take up a lot of space, for example. Archives of entire websites, that sort of thing.
philmitchell to PTibbets
1 Sep 17#5
50gb on a 4k film will not take long .
BEKO86 to philmitchell
1 Sep 17#9
This eventually. As it stand now HDCP 2.2 / AACS 2.0 has yet to be cracked.
True UHD rips will be thin on the ground for a while yet.
Lahn to philmitchell
4 Sep 17#26
That'd be roughly 120 4K films... are there even that many 4K blurays out yet?! :dizzy_face:
renatakogut81 to PTibbets
1 Sep 17#12
For Wedding photographer very usefull :smile:
thegamingkinginfo to PTibbets
1 Sep 17#13
Well for people like me that keep all their crap from their life (photos, documents, videos, downloads ect...) then it fills up pretty quickly. I bought a 4TB WD External Hard Drive a few weeks ago. Turned it on, shoved my stuff on it and 10 mins later it was ful :laughing:
hero9989 to thegamingkinginfo
2 Sep 17#17
Wow - 6.6GB/s transfer speeds over USB 3.0!
SkilledNutter to PTibbets
2 Sep 17#21
I said this back in 1995 when I bought a PC with a 1.2GB HDD.
mchcreations
1 Sep 17#1
Not that important but as a plus they also give you 1 year of McAfee Internet Security for 1 User (estimated value £14.99) argos.co.uk/pro…205
Luke4efc to mchcreations
1 Sep 17#8
That's one way of filling your computer with utter crap and slowing it down to make it feel like it's 10 years old. Then having pop-ups all day reminding you to renew your subscription. urrghhh
kalico to mchcreations
2 Sep 17#16
I wouldn't put that on any machine of mine, even if you paid me.
Helgrr to mchcreations
3 Sep 17#23
Great price for the storage but hell will freeze over before I let McCrapee anywhere near my pc
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Amazon, Maplin and other site's price £149.99
Until Sunday if you spend more than £100 at argos (both in-store and on-line) they give you a gift card for £10 with no minimun purchase. argos.co.uk/eve…tml
From Seagate:
Seagate® Backup Plus Desktop drives come with a USB 3.0 hub option. With cross-platform compatibility, exceptional reliability and speed, you can back up just about everything. Plus you can conveniently back up and share your digital favourites with the included cloud storage service.
Take advantage of the Backup Plus Hub drive which doubles as an all-in-one data hub and recharging station built into a desktop drive with phenomenal capacities.
I ordered one, and with the gift card I bought a second one as I wanted 12tb (and they gave me a second gift card)
I hope it helps
27 comments
wdc.com/en-…tml
seagate.com/gb/…dd/
"drive engineered for 24×7 workloads of 180 TB per year"
Although I really cannot see how anyone (in their entire lifetime) could use 6TB of data?
I must be getting old!
Uncompressed movies take up a lot of space, for example. Archives of entire websites, that sort of thing.
True UHD rips will be thin on the ground for a while yet.
argos.co.uk/pro…205