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Amazon is offering the Seagate Backup Plus Hub 8TB External Desktop Hard Drive Storage (STEL8000100) for $149.99 USD + $13.96 USD Shipping. All up around ~$243 NZD if you pick USD when paying or $247.16 using NZD by using Amazon's converter. This is the cheapest price ever from Amazon for this drive and $10 USD / ~$17 NZD cheaper than last time this was posted.
You can also get $5 off $25 for using the Amazon Assistant.
- Two integrated high-speed USB 3.0 ports on the front allow you to connect and recharge your other USB devices
- Formatted for Windows computers out of the box
- Install the provided NTFS driver for Mac and use the drive interchangeably between Windows and Mac computers without reformatting
- Install the free Seagate Mobile Backup app on an iOS or Android mobile device, and back up all of the photos and videos from your device to your Seagate drive or to the cloud
Seagate Expansion 8TB Desktop External Hard Drive $154.96 USD (~$230 NZD) Delivered @ Amazon
Lowest price by same margain. If you use Amazon's conversion rates it comes out to $233.61.
Saw this on OzBargain, CheapCheapLah and GP Forums so truly a great global deal. :)
Currency Conversion:
If you use your credit card and select to be charged in USD, it may end up cheaper than using Amazon's exchange rate. For example, if you have the ASB Visa Platinum then you will be paying Visa exchange rates + 2.1% (what ASB charges). Warehouse Money is 2%.
Just a heads up. These externals contain an Archive drive which uses SMR (Shingled magnetic recording). In short they're great for storage, not so great for intensive tasks (E.g. Video editing).
SMR (Archive) drives are best at write infrequently, read frequently. If you use these as a backup or media storage they'll perform great. If you plan to do intensive write/delete cycles you'll find the drive slowing down quite a bit.
I have a few SMR drives myself and have no complaints. Just make sure you're informed before purchasing.