non Tyneside area voting cold as looks like very little stock anywhere
Meathotukdeals
7 Oct 17#2
Well done Currys. Same crap as last time - appears to be available in store until you try to reserve it.
smsmasters
7 Oct 17#3
Heat, good price.
cliosport65
7 Oct 17#4
Great price if you can get hold of one :smile:
Duckman
7 Oct 17#5
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!
feintzebra
7 Oct 17#6
I have one running on my PS4 and one on my Xbox One. Have no problems.
BritishDragon
7 Oct 17#7
That's for the box lol.
The drive enclosure measures 174mm x 120mm x 35mm
mr-mixalot
7 Oct 17#8
Hot but non near me
MrCynical
7 Oct 17#9
Holy god almighty this is SCORCHING hot. Fantastic find! Have some heat.
BlackTiger
7 Oct 17#10
Before you get carried away, remember that this is a Seagate product.
They dont have good reputations with regards to their Hard Drives...
FireOnAWire
7 Oct 17#11
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.
tarantulas
7 Oct 17#12
I paid £55 for a 2tb samsung hd204ui drive in 2011: Mechanical storage prices have barely moved in years.
senor_sombrero
7 Oct 17#13
It would yes. For both
alexmtmorgan
7 Oct 17#14
Closest to Glasgow in-stock is Berwick
sergiup
7 Oct 17#15
Sorry but this is just a wild goose chase now!
visolb
7 Oct 17#16
I want!
cant find one in London :thinking:
hopefully the start of discounts on the 5GB means more price cuts are coming soon.
brilly
7 Oct 17#17
i paid less than that for 2TB from currys over SIX years ago thats equally irrelevant ofc
RobM_UK
7 Oct 17#18
Looks like out of stock for delivery too, was gonna buy it like NOW! Not available in any local stores. :disappointed:
Gary.Dunn
7 Oct 17#19
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!
Gamer903
7 Oct 17#20
Good price but no store nere me has it
sy281184
7 Oct 17#21
Heat!
parsimony
7 Oct 17#22
No stock within a 100 mile radius :cry:
Gort1951
7 Oct 17#23
Great Yarmouth, Lowestoft and Norwich. oos.
London. oos.
rohitmkiller
7 Oct 17#24
Typical Currys deal - sparsely available marketing loss leader.
sam_of_london
7 Oct 17#25
Should be expired
amour3k
7 Oct 17#26
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 ...
amour3k
7 Oct 17#27
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. :-)
amour3k
8 Oct 17#28
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
amour3k
8 Oct 17#29
Kinda ...
amour3k
8 Oct 17#30
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.
1616french
8 Oct 17#31
Care to share where you bought the gift card? Was it Zeek?
djonesuk
8 Oct 17#32
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.
BritishDragon
8 Oct 17#33
No. A disabled motoring org I am a member with have a deal with giftcloud for many retail outlets. This sort of thing:
a7mag3ddon
8 Oct 17#34
these aren't available anywhere checked 200 miles from most major cities in the country.
ikomu
8 Oct 17#35
OOS...
sam_of_london
8 Oct 17#36
But this site will not expire it to get all the false heat.
yant
8 Oct 17#37
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.
ScottAppleby
8 Oct 17#38
I have a 2tb one and it works fine.Google toe to format for PS4
triops
8 Oct 17#39
Just had my third Seagate drive die on me :angry:
cyclone111
8 Oct 17#40
well that didn't last long!
the.ghost
8 Oct 17#41
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
bigmanaw
9 Oct 17#42
Is this compatible with the ps4? Does it need its own power supply? TIA
Harryisme
9 Oct 17#43
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.
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voting cold as looks like very little stock anywhere
I always miss out - and really needed a new HD - so thank you for this, op. There was some reward to feeling ill!
The drive enclosure measures 174mm x 120mm x 35mm
Fantastic find!
Have some heat.
They dont have good reputations with regards to their Hard Drives...
Have a look at the numbers backblaze puts out. They're pretty much in line with everyone else.
Mechanical storage prices have barely moved in years.
cant find one in London :thinking:
hopefully the start of discounts on the 5GB means more price cuts are coming soon.
thats equally irrelevant ofc
London. oos.
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 ...
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. :-)
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
So it's a touché to you, huh?, lol. :-)
It's a shame I never spotted this Deal much sooner though?. :-(
Lol.
Was it Zeek?
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.
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.
are you just publicising curry's web site for visitors