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Seagate Backup Plus 4TB USB 3.0 3.5" Desktop External Hard Drive $99.99

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[Canada Computers] Seagate Backup Plus 4TB USB 3.0 3.5" Desktop External Hard Drive $99.99

Seagate Backup Plus 4TB USB 3.0 3.5" Desktop External Hard Drive $99.99

http://www.canadacomputers.com/product_ ... _id=111620
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I've only ever had three hard drives fail on me- one of them was a first gen. OCZ SSD, and the other two were Seagate HDDs. Why should I trust Seagate when their drives have such a high failure rate? Then again, WD Drives have a proprietary connect that I will have to replace if the drive fails and I want my data.

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Not a bad price, the WD MyBook was selling for $89.99 + email coupon discount (if you were lucky enough) at The Source just a month or so ago.
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gq_fuzion wrote: how is this unit for shucking?
Depending on if they kept the same model... (they have been known to change models...)

Previous deal thread

So there is a good chance it's this one:
DM004 for 125.99

If you want to try and identify prior to shucking, a utility like CrystalDiskInfo might work?
(might not as the drive is 'behind' the USB interface) but I have seen it work.

The risk would be if they changed to a soldered on USB interface. (which I think only Western Digital does..)
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Seagate drive w/1y warranty... Oh boy...

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snipzy wrote: I've only ever had three hard drives fail on me- one of them was a first gen. OCZ SSD, and the other two were Seagate HDDs. Why should I trust Seagate when their drives have such a high failure rate? Then again, WD Drives have a proprietary connect that I will have to replace if the drive fails and I want my data.

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Because that chart is missleading

The "high failure rate" 4tb Seagate drive is a desktop drive not meant to be used in server farms, let alone in drive farms, it's also a 90$ US drive

The super low failure HGST hms5c4040ble640 drive is an enterprise class drive meant for drive/server farms and retails for 300$ US

Backblaze always compares consumer level drives (which are cheap) with enterprise level drives from HGST, making them both pointless and thoroughly missleading and has been doing it since 2011 (the first report they published)

Edit : The reason Backblaze uses consumer level drives in their farms is because it's cheaper for them than using the enterprise ones. If you take the failure rate and apply it to the price per drive/TB you'll see why they go that route and also why the failure rates are so high, they stress them too much for what they've been designed to do and how they were designed to perform.
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Can we take the drive out and use it for desktop?

$99 for 4tb seems like a good deal
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Seagate is trash. My ehd from them is making some weird scratching noises. Too scared to even plug it in lol.
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What's the best deal on 2.5 and 3.5 drives in the last little while?
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vivibaby wrote: What's the best deal on 2.5 and 3.5 drives in the last little while?
BB had the 4TB 2.5" portable for $120 last week, and that's a far better deal than $100 for a 3.5".
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JackWhyte wrote: BB had the 4TB 2.5" portable for $120 last week, and that's a far better deal than $100 for a 3.5".
Depends how you look at it and use it. 30$ or 25$ per terabyte. WD or Seagate. If you need portability is $20 more worth it or do you plan to sunk it into a computer.
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gq_fuzion wrote: how is this unit for shucking?

the case's plastic latches are SUPER fragile, I shuck 4 of them and canNOT make a single perfect undamaged case...your choice.


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I got one of these at The source for $75...it was $100 but email sign up coupon of $25 off $100.
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joongpark wrote: Oops...it was WD My Book not Seagate.

the-source-wd-4tb-my-book-desktop-exter ... 9-2173258/
God for you... Also, they come w/2 or 3 years warranty as well...
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althegreat wrote: the case's plastic latches are SUPER fragile, I shuck 4 of them and canNOT make a single perfect undamaged case...your choice.
Functioning as expected, by design. (e.g. like those VOID warranty stickers)
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RickyChamp wrote: Depends how you look at it and use it. 30$ or 25$ per terabyte. WD or Seagate. If you need portability is $20 more worth it or do you plan to sunk it into a computer.
Not really, as I can find desktop drives on sale regularly (for lower than this per GB), but portables are much harder to get on clearance and are significantly more flexible and useful.
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JackWhyte wrote:
BB had the 4TB 2.5" portable for $120 last week, and that's a far better deal than $100 for a 3.5".
Hard to believe 4TB USB in 2.5" and at $120.
Source?
Just because it says portable does not mean it is 2.5" and that's a common misconception.

EDIT:
Seems like I'm really falling behind in technology trends. That is a fairly common price for a 4TB 2.5" form factor (and external). Thanks for pointing it out.
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