Hitachi 4TB Touro Desk Pro USB 3.0 £169.99 Delivered @ eBay sold by ebuyerexpress

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  SUMMONER9 months, 3 weeks ago #1Show comment toolsReply

  Not bad, imagine taking 5 of these apart and putting them in one of those cheap HP MicroServers. X)
  

  
  Edited By: SUMMONER on Jul 30, 2012 00:10: ..
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  jouster9 months, 3 weeks ago #2Show comment toolsReply

  that is what i am currently thnking.....
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  xchaotic9 months, 2 weeks ago #3Show comment toolsReply

  What is the height of the drive inside? will it fit and work inside of an Apple Time Capsule?
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  SUMMONER9 months, 2 weeks ago #4Show comment toolsReply

  xchaotic

  What is the height of the drive inside?

  
  Assuming it has a Deskstar 7K4000 drive inside it, 26.1mm, the same as lower capacity drives.
  

  
  Edited By: SUMMONER on Jul 31, 2012 00:09: ..
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  qooz9 months, 2 weeks ago #5Show comment toolsReply

  wow... i will assume more comments..
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  sej72789 months, 2 weeks ago #6Show comment toolsReply

  not a bad price if it is a 7k400 considering the current best for 2x2tb would be about £160 (i got 2x2tb 7k300 for £110 a year ago from tesco).
  
  £180 incl. vat/p&p on regular ebuyer: http://www.ebuyer.com/339425-hitachi-4tb-touro-desk-pro-usb-3-0-hard-drive-0s03504
  
  internal version of the 7k400 is £250-270 elsewhere, for some reason hitachi drives are often cheaper externally - guess the warranty is lower or something....?
  
  still think i'd go with 2x2tb for backup, 4tb is a lot of data to lose (unless you buy two).
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  djrikki9 months, 2 weeks ago #7Show comment toolsReply

  Bought one last week and dismantled it. Its a 7200rpm SATA 4TB drive in there.
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  mus_ne9 months, 2 weeks ago #8Show comment toolsReply

  4TB, that's great!
  
  But how much 'real' space do you actually get? 3.2TB?
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  Mavericksol9 months, 2 weeks ago #9Show comment toolsReply

  I'm not very good with computers, so please bear with my ignorance.
  But could I take this apart and use it as my main HDD for my OS?
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  Guyver999 months, 2 weeks ago #10Show comment toolsReply

  Wow, I think I would just take out the 4TB and put that in my PC and put something smalling in this external case.
  

  
  Edited By: Guyver99 on Jul 31, 2012 10:15
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  sej72789 months, 2 weeks ago #11Show comment toolsReply

  Mavericksol

  I'm not very good with computers, so please bear with my ignorance.
  But could I take this apart and use it as my main HDD for my OS?

  
  
  you'd have to be insane to use a 4tb drive as your main os, that's what a small ssd is for.
  
  plus there's various issues with booting off >2tb drives (uefi bios, gpt partition table etc.)
  
  with the 5% filesystem overhead and manufacturer's insistence on using 1000 instead of 1024 for gigabytes, i'd assume this would format as 3.8tb maximum, which concurs with my 2tb giving me 1.9tb (and 1tb = 0.93tb) when using JFS. not sure about NTFS though.
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  Guyver999 months, 2 weeks ago #12Show comment toolsReply

  Can anyone confirm whether you can take this out and simply plug in to a sata connection internally?
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  sbadger9 months, 2 weeks ago #13Show comment toolsReply

  does anyone know if taken out and put in a hp microserver n36l the bios will recognizs the full size?
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  jonathan_d9 months, 2 weeks ago #14Show comment toolsReply

  if it's anything like their 2tb version then you can't really reuse the case once you've opened it, as you have to break it to get in, but it should be sata
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  SUMMONER9 months, 2 weeks ago #15Show comment toolsReply

  Here is a take apart video for the 3TB version, for those too lazy to look for it in Google.
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  crofter9 months, 2 weeks ago #16Show comment toolsReply

  djrikki

  Bought one last week and dismantled it. Its a 7200rpm SATA 4TB drive in there.

  
  
  Did you check the serial number online to see if it came up with any warranty??
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  djrikki9 months, 2 weeks ago #17Show comment toolsReply

  I got one and took the drive out, put in my PC - happy days.
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  SUMMONER9 months, 2 weeks ago #18Show comment toolsReply

  Price has gone up to £189.98 delivered now. :(

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