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Seagate External 8TB HDD - $139.99 + FS

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[Staples] Seagate External 8TB HDD - $139.99 + FS

Seagate External 8TB HDD USB 3.0 - $139.99

6431899004395498 - $10 OFF
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Maybe a $25 off coupon will appear before this expires?
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Decent price.

Just remember if you're planning on shucking these drives, they contain Seagate ST8000DM004 drives, which are SMR.
These drives are not very good if you plan on writing data to them constantly. Extremely slow writes, average read speed.

Depending on your usage, I'd personally pay a bit more to get the WD Easystore/Elements for the WD RED/White label drives.
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code 71428 didn't work for this item
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qianquan wrote: code 71428 didn't work for this item
Did you have 500 dollars of stuff in your cart?
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Anecdotally...the only "spinning" drives over the past 30 years or so of my computing existence that have failed me have been Seagate Drives and more recently within the last 5 years. For what it is worth which is not much.
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elcaptaino wrote: Decent price.

Just remember if you're planning on shucking these drives, they contain Seagate ST8000DM004 drives, which are SMR.
These drives are not very good if you plan on writing data to them constantly. Extremely slow writes, average read speed.

Depending on your usage, I'd personally pay a bit more to get the WD Easystore/Elements for the WD RED/White label drives.
Which WA model do you recommend?

Furthermore, why is that pretty much Seagate uses SMR technology in their hard drives and they never refer them as hybrid drives. Yet, if you look at the spec sheet you'll see it only has a certain number of lifetime TB writes like a car warranty.
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ryk1998 wrote: Anecdotally...the only "spinning" drives over the past 30 years or so of my computing existence that have failed me have been Seagate Drives and more recently within the last 5 years. For what it is worth which is not much.
I've had some issues with both WD Caviar Black and Hitachi drives. And of course Seagate.

I should also add Seagate is sneaky in hiding that their drives are SMR and not PMR: https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/co ... g_whether/
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sheyenne wrote: Which WA model do you recommend?
Anything WD that is 8TB+ is guaranteed to be either a WD Red or White Label Red or a Helium drive. Anything less than 8TB you'll probably get a WD blue.
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None of the $10 off codes seem to work :(
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416vtyou wrote: None of the $10 off codes seem to work :(
$10 off code expired at midnight
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elcaptaino wrote: Decent price.

Just remember if you're planning on shucking these drives, they contain Seagate ST8000DM004 drives, which are SMR.
These drives are not very good if you plan on writing data to them constantly. Extremely slow writes, average read speed.

Depending on your usage, I'd personally pay a bit more to get the WD Easystore/Elements for the WD RED/White label drives.
Easystore is excluse to Bestbuy from the US and may appear from time to time on 3rd party marketplaces and even if it wasn't, they disappear in an instant because of how many people are after those drives in particular since they contain WD Red drives in them.
The element contains WD White I believe but they rarely ever drop to 20$/TB sweet spot
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ryk1998 wrote: Anecdotally...the only "spinning" drives over the past 30 years or so of my computing existence that have failed me have been Seagate Drives and more recently within the last 5 years. For what it is worth which is not much.
Same here. Never buying a Seagate product again. They all fail on me.
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Thanks, i ended up subscribing to email promotions to get $10 off. This is a great deal OP
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Thanks op great archive drive, snagged for $149.99
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Thanks but the coupon codes are dead
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Dammit. For this kind of price I would have filled another SC846.
ryk1998 wrote: Anecdotally...the only "spinning" drives over the past 30 years or so of my computing existence that have failed me have been Seagate Drives and more recently within the last 5 years. For what it is worth which is not much.
Anecdotally the last failure I had was an SSD.

If we limit it to spinning drives, my biggest failures was Samsung F1 1TB, but that was a small sample size of only about 8 drives. 7 of them failed though.
Now I don't know what your sample sizes are, but if it's anything below 100 you're not statistically valid.

Luckily I am above 100 currently spinning in the next room (which itself is even low statistically) and I'm happy to announce that I've only had one failure: A 2TB Enterprise drive that I got used.

So to new readers, you can choose to side with the guy that probably doesn't have more than 100 seagates or the guy that does.
Neither of us have a large enough sample size to be relevant, but if I were to pick one I'd be picking the guy with more than a handful of drives.

If you guys like small sample sizes my last 2 hard drive failures were WDs, coincidentally in the same server.
I'm totally not bitter about that or anything....
Do you not have anything else to do rather than argue with strangers on the internet
Nope. That's why I'm on the internet arguing with strangers. If I had anything better to do I'd probably be doing it.
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Would this work with ps4 if you plug it in to usb?

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