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Seagate BarraCuda 4TB 3.5" - SATA 6Gb/s Hard Drive - [ST4000DM005] £94.98 @ Ebuyer incl Delivery
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Decent amount of storage for the price at the moment and comes with 2 yr warranty - £94.98 delivered. Reviews on the 4TB drives are good and personally never had an issue.
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- Product Description: Seagate Barracuda ST4000DM005 - hard drive - 4 TB - SATA 6Gb/s
- Type: Hard drive - internal
- Capacity: 4TB
- Form Factor: 3.5"
- Interface: SATA 6Gb/s
- Data Transfer Rate: 600 MBps
- Buffer Size: 64 MB
- Features: Native Command Queuing (NCQ),Halogen Free,Seagate AcuTrac technology ,S.M.A.R.T.
- Dimensions (WxDxH): 101.6 mm x 146.99 mm x 26.11 mm
- Weight: 610 g
- Manufacturer Warranty: 2 years warranty
INFO
- Product Description: Seagate Barracuda ST4000DM005 - hard drive - 4 TB - SATA 6Gb/s
- Type: Hard drive - internal
- Capacity: 4TB
- Form Factor: 3.5"
- Interface: SATA 6Gb/s
- Data Transfer Rate: 600 MBps
- Buffer Size: 64 MB
- Features: Native Command Queuing (NCQ),Halogen Free,Seagate AcuTrac technology ,S.M.A.R.T.
- Dimensions (WxDxH): 101.6 mm x 146.99 mm x 26.11 mm
- Weight: 610 g
- Manufacturer Warranty: 2 years warranty
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Straight off, within the first half hour, had tapping 'dull tamborine' noises, the completion time jumping up, then reducing back. A good sign of sector read problems, short term failure. Going back.
The packaging of drives by Amazon's 'frustration free' packaging is causing me 'frustration', in that its just so poor, a single layer of bubble wrap in a single book 1"" style card envelope, while sent with other stuff in a bigger box, it was loose to be thrown about.
I only bought it to keep consistency (with other 4TB reds), but this is a software raid, and this 4TB Barracuda would have done the job for a lot cheaper (and better packaging from ebuyer). It's £40 cheaper too, though similar price on Amazon.
Preferred the time, when you just bought one general purpose drive and its name was Hitachi, where all motor spindles were manufactured to the same standard.
Bricked again after that so it got smashed to bits, Unless they're built better now I'd stay clear.
Original Poster Editor
Price gone up now Also the free delivery is on the drop down menu
Seagate's reputation did take a serious hit a few years ago with some reliability problems, but from what I can tell their current generation of drives have no such issues.
I remember they were asking us to send the drives to Holland to be restored and the data saved however at the price of us having to postage both ways.
Lovely customer service.