g725s Posted December 26, 2012 Share Posted December 26, 2012 Western Digital 4TB My Book Essential USB 3.0 Desktop Hard Drive, $179 with Free Shipping at B&H Photo Video online. And No Tax for some. http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/890490-REG/Western_Digital_wdbacw0040hbk_nesn_4TB_My_Book_Essential.html The lowest I've seen this drive has been $199, so this is $20 less. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drashna Jaelre Posted December 27, 2012 Share Posted December 27, 2012 For me, Costco has had the 4TB Seagate Backup Plus for that price for a while... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
g725s Posted December 27, 2012 Author Share Posted December 27, 2012 I'll keep an eye out for that. For me this is no tax though. Would like to see these go lower still. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
g725s Posted December 29, 2012 Author Share Posted December 29, 2012 H For me, Costco has had the 4TB Seagate Backup Plus for that price for a while... Ok it's been a month at least since I've been in Costco. My Costco did have them in stock now for $179 also. But what drive is inside that enclosure? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ikon Posted January 2, 2013 Share Posted January 2, 2013 H Ok it's been a month at least since I've been in Costco. My Costco did have them in stock now for $179 also. But what drive is inside that enclosure? That is always the question with these external drives. My experience, based mainly on stories from friends and colleages is that there seems to be quite a bit higher failure rate of external drives vs normal internal ones. I have often wondered if manufacturers use drives that pass QC with the lowest scores in their external enclosures. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drashna Jaelre Posted January 3, 2013 Share Posted January 3, 2013 Well, I know the 3TB model is a ST3000DM01. I've gotten like 5 of them. Running strong. @g725s: Yeah, I think they released them too soon, or they got recalled, or such. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drashna Jaelre Posted January 4, 2013 Share Posted January 4, 2013 That is always the question with these external drives. My experience, based mainly on stories from friends and colleages is that there seems to be quite a bit higher failure rate of external drives vs normal internal ones. I have often wondered if manufacturers use drives that pass QC with the lowest scores in their external enclosures. Something that just popped into my mind. I've had a few bad experiences with externals (exclusively WD externals), and I've seen a lot of reports of issues with them too. However, on every "dead external" I've ever dealt with, as soon as you take it appart and pop the disk into a system, the drive works just fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ImTheTypeOfGuy Posted January 4, 2013 Share Posted January 4, 2013 That is strange. I would have never thought the enclosure would fail before the drive. Especially for the WD's because I figure they are just crappy green drives. I have never bought an external other than a 2TB Seagate a few years ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ikon Posted January 4, 2013 Share Posted January 4, 2013 Something that just popped into my mind. I've had a few bad experiences with externals (exclusively WD externals), and I've seen a lot of reports of issues with them too. However, on every "dead external" I've ever dealt with, as soon as you take it appart and pop the disk into a system, the drive works just fine. That may explain a lot for the WD externals. I've had bad experiences with about a dozen Seagate externals (they were very hard to take apart, actually). When we finally got them open, and ran SpinRite on them, many of them had bunches of recovered sectors. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drashna Jaelre Posted January 5, 2013 Share Posted January 5, 2013 (edited) I've only recently bought externals... mainly because I tend not to trust externals. Too many "moving parts" to fail. But just to rub it in, my WD Scorpio Blue (in my hp touchsmart tm2 tablet PC) has been dying for a while. No SMART errors IIRC, but occassional bad sectors... and had to constantly run scanpst because it was corrupting my outlook PST database/file almost daily. Manufacturer tools found errors only when doing the long test, and errored out when trying to fix them. The built in drive tester (in BIOS) hung on the long test. First HDD i've had die on me in a *long* while. And naturally, it's a WD drive. I got a nice OCZ Vertex 4 (128GB) that replaced it. $84 after tax+shipping. Edited January 5, 2013 by Drashna (WGS) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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