Amazon.com - Seagate Expansion 5TB Desktop External Hard Drive - $175 Delivered

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Kiwi on 22/08/2016 - 17:53 amazon.com (94 clicks)
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Price is normally $129.99, but has dropped again to $109.99, plus delivery, etc. bringing the total to $175 NZD.

Been keeping an eye on this since the Amazon gift card credit, a steal for $99+.

This same drive is at least $260 locally, so no comparison really.

Yes, some might not like Seagate, some others might hate WD, but so be it, each to their own.

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  Dunno on 22/08/2016 - 18:02

  tempting since we get gigabit next month.. Thanks

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    Kiwi on 22/08/2016 - 18:03

    Nice, make sure to get a decent router that can handle it!

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  Jay on 22/08/2016 - 18:34

  Yes, some might not like Seagate, some others might hate WD, but so be it, each to their own.

  Not so much a case of not liking SG drives. Just that we have a box of half a dozen SG drive paperweights waiting for a day when we can afford to get a professional forensic data recovery on them. Most are pre-terrabyte drives, so dread the thought of any of them being 5 TB paperweights.

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    Toddy47 on 22/08/2016 - 20:01

    I've now got 6tb of SG drives dead (3x 2tb) and yet I've never had a WD fail on me despite owning 20+ over the past 10 years.

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      Kiwi on 22/08/2016 - 20:53

      I've had no bad experiences with either. Maybe had one drive fail on me ever, and that was years ago. Got Samsung, WD, Seagate, Toshiba, all going strong. Those 2TB Seagate drives have been proven to be horrendous though, but mine is still all good, used daily for years now.

      Guess it's just the way it goes, bad batches and product lines do happen.

      Won't be putting anything valuable on the drive regardless. Just media to stream at home on our crap 3mbps connection.

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      Jay on 22/08/2016 - 21:06

      Similar to Toddy47, we have 3x more WD drives to SG, with never a failure on the WD drives. All bought over several years, different countries etc. So can't blame a bad batch. Like the SG drives, but just don't trust them, especially not with larger drives.

      All good that they are covered by replacement warranty, but be damned if we're sending off our data (albeit on a failed drive) to goodness knows where, just to get a replacement drive. Rather take the loss, and the vague possibility of later recovery.

      But then, we have this same debate every time a SG drive deal comes up. Just wish WD had some deals as well. But perhaps that's a sign that they don't need discounts to shift their stock?