SeaGate 4tb $100

[fightingfi]

http://www.pcgamer.com/seagates-beefy-4tb-barracuda-hard-drive-is-on-sale-for-100/


waits for ssd's and 100 bucks

 

[buzzbomb]

I had two 3TB Seagates die on me in less than 6 months...I know they had problems with that drive in particular, but it's going to take a lot for them to win back my trust.

 

[Guarana [BAWLS]]

this is tempting.... Do I want a 3 disk RAID 5 set.....

 

[WhoBeDaPlaya]

HGST / Toshiba / WD or death!
Now Seagate (really Samsung's) 2.5" 4TB (ST4000LM016) is a totally different story.

 

[farscapesg1]

I've been tempted since I think Microcenter carries them at that price point, or at least has for the last month or so. I need to buy 2 more 4TB drives to rebuilt my storage, I just can't bring myself to pull the trigger on another Seagate desktop drive. Been hoping that someone would run a sale and get something else down in the price point. Still kicking myself for not buying all the HGST I needed back last year when Fry's was selling them between $89.99 and $99.99. Just didn't have the cash to drop on 6-8 drives at the time

 

[InorganicMatter]

I had two 3TB Seagates die on me in less than 6 months...I know they had problems with that drive in particular, but it's going to take a lot for them to win back my trust.

Indeed. My experience with Seagate has been you get what you pay for. But this is so cheap that I'm very tempted...

 

[chaikovski2002]

Spend $5 more and get Western Digital 4TB Blue drive instead? Or this?

 

[Zepher]

Spend $5 more and get Western Digital 4TB Blue drive instead? Or this?

Spend $42.50 or $65 less and get a WD Black or Toshiba 7200 4TB, lol
I wish they had more than 1 of each.

Best deal I had in a few years,

 

[ir0nw0lf]

Where did that wd black for 57.50 come from?

 

[klank]

Where did that wd black for 57.50 come from?

It was a Prime Same day mistake clearance thingy a while back. Not at all applicable now.

 

[Centauri]

And yet he references it...

 

[A15G]

And yet he references it...

Exactly. Ermmmm wtf? Lol.

 

[koomba]

Exactly. Ermmmm wtf? Lol.

Umm isn't it obvious? Bragging for internet points!

 

[swetmore]

Seagate and reliability... It appears that BackBlaze uses a ton of the 4TB ST4000DM000 series drives and reported an annualized failure rate of about <= 3%... much much better than the previous generations... The advertised drive is a ST4000DM005 .. a little newer, so no data on it.

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-failure-rates-q3-2016/

 

[Centauri]

One of my two 4TB 000s started accumulating bad sectors on me a few months ago after about 3 years of ownership. I replaced them both with 4TB 005s last month.

They've good drives in my experience. Quick, quiet and energy efficient.

 

[Flexion]

I've just been doing something like this... https://www.servethehome.com/seagate-4tb-2-5-sata-hdd-124-get-ready-density/

(Didn't shuck most of mine to keep under warranty.)

I find them regularly priced at $109 now, sometimes SD has them shown for $99.

They don't perform particularly well, but these are Samsung drives apparently so they're better? XD

 

[you2]

I've not been happy with seagate and have been happy with hgst but it really comes down to individual models and generations. There is no fix answer here; but my hope is by 2021 4+ TB ssd will be price competitive. Might not happen in that time frame but fingers crossed.