HOT - Seagate Backup Plus 4TB USB 3.0 external hard drive @ Amazon.com - $129.99

[Boze]

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...d_p=1673797982

The deal is supposed to go live in 1 hour and 40 minutes, but apparently someone put it up early. That's $32.50 a terabyte, which is fairly inexpensive for a 4 TB drive.

 

[Ricochet]

I have the 3TB version for about a year and it has served me well. It seems pretty common these days that you find external drives cheaper than internal ones.

 

[Maverickbcp]

Came up as $119.99 for me! I had just bought 2 at Newegg last week for $139.99 each lol. Guess another two couldn't hurt.

Just petitioned Newegg to credit me the $40 difference since the drives are backed by their Iron Egg Guarantee. I've had them credit me quite a few times this last week lol.

 

[mazeroth]

I really don't need this quite yet. What do you guys feel about the price trending of platter drives in the next 6-12 months?

 

[TwiceOver]

What drive is inside? I might need 4 of these...

 

[bbhaag]

Looks like its's at $153 now. When I bought it this morning it was at $120.

 

[PokerGuy]

When I clicked on the link it was listed at $119.99.... so I ordered one. Now it's back up to $153 or so.

Thanks OP, got a good deal on this drive!

 

[xodusgenesis]

Bought one for $129.99, should be getting it today.

 

[zposter]

Newegg Business has it for $129.99.

http://www.neweggbusiness.com/product/product.aspx?item=9b-22-178-111

 

[bearxor]

I like how the 2TB version is $79.99 and the 1TB version is $80.38 right now.

 

[fleshconsumed]

When I clicked on the link it was listed at $119.99.... so I ordered one. Now it's back up to $153 or so.

Thanks OP, got a good deal on this drive!

The $119 price because Amazon price matched best buy around 7am EST. The funny thing is this very same drive was supposed to go on a lightning deal, and the lightning price was $129, higher than what it was just an hour ago!

I saw the deal, but as tempting as it was I had to pass because I'm all stocked up on 4TB drives already. Those who got in on $119 deal with Chase card really made out because chase has 5% cashback on amazon this quarter, so the total after cashback was only $114!

 

[goobee]

I snoozed and loozed on this deal.

 

[zposter]

Staples has it for $129.99 and there's a $10 off coupon code (25147) available.

 

[nomadh]

I just got the seagate 3gig ext for 99 at bestbuy. Bot too bad for a stumbe across deal tonight if anyone needs one.

 

[DreadBelch]

Staples has it for $129.99 and there's a $10 off coupon code (25147) available.

Thanks! Just bought one with your code.

Upgrading from 600 gigs to 4.7 TBs. Haha

 

[hackmole]

Man, this is almost too good to pass up. But I'm still worried about the risk and reliability factor. If you have got 4 terabytes of important data on it and the drive goes bad, you're screwed. I have backups on 500 DVDs all perfectly indexed in Word with a printed copy. But it is still a pain in the neck. However, If one DVD does bad, that is only a small portion. However data on a DVD is pretty reliable and I have never had any go bad on me yet.

I think I would need to get two of those drives to feel more secure. I'd put a copy of everything on each of them so in case one breaks down the other still has it.

 

[zposter]

I think I would need to get two of those drives to feel more secure. I'd put a copy of everything on each of them so in case one breaks down the other still has it.

I think you are correct. And that's what I'm doing.

 

[Maverickbcp]

Dvd media degrades over time unfortunately. They are however releasing soon a new type of (expensive) disc media they (and the government) guarantee won't ever degrade. It however makes SSD pricing look cheap.

I am of the same mind as you though. I buy two copies of every drive I store data on and use the second as a backup. I also use Bitcasa(before their new outrageous price increase so I'm grandfathered in) to have unlimited online/offsite backup of my data as soon as it's created so I don't even have to think about it. I prefer double redundancy just in case as you don't always make copies as soon as you should and unless you're storing the second hard drive off-site(which makes the backing up process kind of a hassle) something could always happen to take out both sets. It's expensive to be sure but losing 4tb's of data isn't something I'm wanting to experience.

 

[Centauri]

Without doing some sort of RAID setup; what is the best way to run two identically sized drives in a system simultaneously and make sure that what ever is copied/stored to one drive is duplicated on the other? Immediately, or periodically. Whichever.

 

[goobee]

You can set up replication software to do it periodically. Here's a freeware program:

http://www.karenware.com/powertools/ptreplicator.asp

 

[xodusgenesis]

How do you check the reliability/S.M.A.R.T status of external HDD? The UPS guy just threw the one I bought over a fence into the back yard and I don't know if there is any damage. I usually hear a slight click when I access the drive but I think that's just the drive spinning up since I don't hear it again while in use.

 

[Jeomite]

Picked one up from Best Buy today. They had it marked with a sale tag for $119.99 but it rang up as $129 at the register. They honored the $119.99 price.

 

[WiseUp216]

Newegg is selling two of these 4TB drives for $234.98 until Sunday 12/8 at midnight PT.


http://www.newegg.com/Product/ComboD...mbo1504965-LC1

 

[zposter]

Has anyone opened up a drive that came in the new box that says "30% faster"? Is it the 7200 RPM or the 5900 RPM version?

 

[ezclick]

damn missed out