non Tyneside area
voting cold as looks like very little stock anywhere

Well done Currys. Same crap as last time - appears to be available in store until you try to reserve it.

Heat, good price.

Great price if you can get hold of one

I was up early suffering from aches and pains of flu jab, so saw this as it went live and managed to get one.

I always miss out - and really needed a new HD - so thank you for this, op. There was some reward to feeling ill!

I have one running on my PS4 and one on my Xbox One. Have no problems.

That's for the box lol.

The drive enclosure measures 174mm x 120mm x 35mm

Hot but non near me

Holy god almighty this is SCORCHING hot.
Fantastic find!
Have some heat.

Before you get carried away, remember that this is a Seagate product.

They dont have good reputations with regards to their Hard Drives...

They've been perfectly fine for many years now.
Have a look at the numbers backblaze puts out. They're pretty much in line with everyone else.

I paid £55 for a 2tb samsung hd204ui drive in 2011:

Mechanical storage prices have barely moved in years.

It would yes. For both

Closest to Glasgow in-stock is Berwick

Sorry but this is just a wild goose chase now!

I want!

cant find one in London :thinking:

hopefully the start of discounts on the 5GB means more price cuts are coming soon.

i paid less than that for 2TB from currys over SIX years ago
thats equally irrelevant ofc

Looks like out of stock for delivery too, was gonna buy it like NOW! Not available in any local stores.

None in my local Currys, forgot about it, drove 30 miles for a wedding, nowhere to park all resident permits etc, someone said park for free in Currys for 3 hours, went inside as I was early, there was a clearance sale desk which had the drive marked up for £125, manager scanned it through.... £89!! result!

Good price but no store nere me has it

Heat!

No stock within a 100 mile radius

Great Yarmouth, Lowestoft and Norwich. oos.

London. oos.

Typical Currys deal - sparsely available marketing loss leader.

Should be expired

Yes, prices of these things have BARELY MOVED in donkey year's, yep!.

I paid a similar price to what you two both paid also (around the £60+ mark?), but for a 2TB External HDD by Seagate, from Amazon, in 2011 ...

You forget, the OP's above HDD Deal contains not just the HDD itself?.

It contains an external power supply adapter/transformer too (in-built within the body of the HDD + of course it includes the HDD external body shell as well, etc?.

So, with all things considered, you can't really expect it to be a perfect fit to that of an internal 3.5 inch HDD alone can you?.

Only 2.5 inch Portable HDD's can claim a perfect fit like that, as (other than USB power alone), they don't require any form of power again ...

But 3.5 inch External HDD's (via a similar fashion), do. :-)

Amen to that!.

I'm unable to get either!. :-(

Hopefully more 'Deals' like this to come, via the longgggg Black Friday/Cyber Monday Weekend ?, who knows ... lol. :-D

Kinda ...

Hahahahaha, CLASSIC story!.

So it's a touché to you, huh?, lol. :-)

It's a shame I never spotted this Deal much sooner though?. :-(

Lol.

Care to share where you bought the gift card?
Was it Zeek?

I believe these are the enclosures with the Seagate Barracuda ST5000DM000 SMR drives in them, perhaps one of the purchasers can confirm.

Shingled magnetic recording enables manufacturers to squeeze more data on the drive but it's a bit finicky so it requires writing data to a non-SMR area of the disk first before copying it to the SMR areas when idle. This can result in somewhat sporadic performance (to say the least). Good luck with that, as they say.

No. A disabled motoring org I am a member with have a deal with giftcloud for many retail outlets. This sort of thing:

these aren't available anywhere checked 200 miles from most major cities in the country.

OOS...

But this site will not expire it to get all the false heat.

Misconception and sadly, often repeated bad advice.

Assuming that all 3 HDD have the exact same reliability and you have more than 2Tb of data to store, if using 2x2Tb drives instead of a single 4Tb, you double your chances of loosing some of your data although you increase your chance of keeping some of your data. So it's only safer if you don't mind loosing some of your data and believe that keeping some of your data is more important than keeping all of your data.

E.g.:
Suppose all hard drives have a flat 1% chance of total irrecoverable failure in a year (gross simplification), over the first year:

Single 4Tb drive:
- Prob of keeping all of your data: 99%
- Prob of loosing any/all of your data: 1%

2x2Tb drive:
- Prob of keeping all of your data: 98%
- Prob of loosing all of your data: 0.01%
- Prob of loosing some of your data: 2%
- Prob of keeping some of your data: 99.99%

Moral: splitting your data data across multiple drive is not safer. It makes more likely to lose data overall. If you care about your data you need to duplicate it completely on multiple drive. Make backup (or mirror). In this case, the equation become:

All data duplicated across 2 drives:
- Prob of loosing any/all of your data: 0.01%
- Prob of keeping all of your data: 99.99%
- Prob of one duplicate failing: 1% (no data loss, make sure you create a new duplicate asap)

Note that is the data is recoverable, then you may as well use one large disk for convenience, for example for game consoles or computer programs installations. Correct maths over multiple years would be more complex but essentially use the same principles.

I have a 2tb one and it works fine.Google toe to format for PS4

Just had my third Seagate drive die on me

well that didn't last long!

How can this be so hot if about 90% of people cannot find a one ?
are you just publicising curry's web site for visitors

Is this compatible with the ps4? Does it need its own power supply? TIA

The PS4 now supports external HDD, So it should work on the console just plug it into the USB ports at the back...and yes it does require it's own power supply.