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[strumpusplunket]

I remember my dad getting an 80MB external drive for his Mac back in the late 80s. We spent ages just staring at in amazement saying to one another "80MB - just amazing!" "Wow, you could never fill even if you tried." How times change!

Seriously interested in the 4TB here, though a 3TB would be a nice middle point in price if any are likely to drop to similar price ranges?

 

[Pleiades]

I like the pictures

 

[chippy08]

Boggles my mind how cheap hard drives are now. 1TB for 35 quid. What a time to be alive!

I paid £25 for 1TB while i was away that was cheap.

 

[MrMarvelous]

I remeber a few years ago when the HDD factories is Asia flooded and HDD prices went through the roof. Seems like they're getting back on track now, if only SSD's would come down lower in price though.

 

[rjk]

price of flash is at perhaps its all time low.

 

[MrMarvelous]

Could still be lower for Jews like me!

 

[Akagi]

Yay! Hard drive prices are back down!

Though the previous prices of £1.20 were better!

 

[andy_mk3]

I'm sure Seagates are fine now but after multiple failures in the past I refuse to buy again now. But great prices.

 

[cook001]

Wow my first hdd was 40meg.Trouble is i've never been much of a fan of Seagate still might be worth a gamble at these prices.

 

[Akagi]

I'm sure Seagates are fine now but after multiple failures in the past I refuse to buy again now. But great prices.

I haven't seen a recent report about hard drive failure rates. That would be a good thing to have.

 

[TwsT]

they are what they are totally understand people who had trouble in the past having brand loyalty else where I had to bring these in to match competitors who are all offering 1 year warranty drives at low prices.

I have only ever used Samsung spinpoint which is now part of seagate.

 

[melvis]

I haven't seen a recent report about hard drive failure rates. That would be a good thing to have.

i found this a pretty interesting read regarding that from Jan last year
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/what-hard-drive-should-i-buy/

ive been midly dissapointed with the noise and heat from my seagate 3TB compared to my WD drive but it hasnt failed yet and had it well over a year now

 

[George Hincapie]

WD NAS drives are superior. Seagate build quality isn't good enough for me to want to spend my money on them yet. Great prices though.

 

[Dicehunter]

Damn these are some awesome prices, Hope WD Caviar Blacks come down to this price this year

 

[Akagi]

Damn these are some awesome prices, Hope WD Caviar Blacks come down to this price this year

I doubt we'll see that happening. WD Blues perhaps.

 

[FMTopfan]

Been running a dozen 4TB Seagate in NAS for a couple of years and touch wood no issues, extended SMART tests are normal. Also have the 2TB Seagate I bought for backups among many other 1/2TB variants, 2TB is solid in my experience much like 1TB single-platter.

Had more bother with SSDs than HDDs, namely OCZ dying back in the day and those damn 840 PRO's/EVO's slowing down (yes latest firmware with EVO being far worse)

 

[Roady]

I remember my dad getting an 80MB external drive for his Mac back in the late 80s.

I remember cycling to a friends house to see his new CD-ROM drive, we couldn't get our heads around how 600mb+ could be crammed on that little cheap 'plastic disk' after many years of zip disks and floppies lol

Edit: Running 4x Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB in my NAS box the last couple of years with no problems or failures (they were cheap & on B grade!)