4TB Samsung D3 Station USB 3.0 External Hard Drive $100 + Free Shipping

[DP]

Newegg via eBay has 4TB Samsung D3 Station USB 3.0 3.5" Desktop External Hard Drive (STSHX-D401TDB) on sale for $99.99. Shipping is Free.

http://slickdeals.net/f/8468171-samsung-...daily-deal

[mikebw]

From the comments it seems like one could easily pull the drive to use as an internal, or maybe get 2 and mirror them.

[rz]

I'd probably jump if I hadn't just bought two 3TB Toshiba drives last week.

[datbeme]

Arrggh. Tempted...but it's a Seagate drive, and I've had quite a few failures over the years with just this type of unit. While not written by an English major, this SlickDeals comment made me laugh and pretty much talked me out of it.

I know someone who has ran across the freeway twice and wasn't run over by a car. wrote:

I've had great luck with Seagate's 2TB 2.5" Slim USB 3.0 drives though. Just ordered a couple more.

[jdc]

Not sure what the hang up is with seagate.

Or wait, I do. Its that one report that backblaze (or whoever) put out about their 3 Tb segates dying faster than others. Oh, yeah, forgot to mention that they use their drives IN A TOTALLY DIFFERENT WAY THAN NORMAL USERS. &*!*@!!

So now all the sudden *all* seagates are public enemy number one. sheesh.

Im doomed, cause my internal 1 TB is a seagate (still going strong 5 years later, lots of use) my main external is a 3 TB seagate and I just bought a 5 TB external seagate backup drive for $93.

A butterfly is gonna flap its wings in china and all three are gonna fail next tuesday.

Personally I have had 3 drives die. all WD. A Black and 2 Blues, one 2.5"

[Lew Zealand]

It's no biggie jdc, it just makes them Seagates cheaper for the rest of us. I have 3x5TB Seagates in my Probox, ripped from this same case when the 5TB version was $110 a couple of months ago.

[datbeme]

jdc,

I'm with ya'. I've over that report, and I agree with you for the most part—hence my interest in this deal.

Except that I keep buying Seagates, and they keep failing. I know this is anecdotal, but over the years, I've accumulated failed Seagate external USB, FW or USB 3.0 3.5" drives in 500GB, 750GB, 1TB, and 3TB (latest failure a week or two ago) denominations. And I have failed internal 3.5s in 300, 500GB, 1TB, 1.5TB and 3TB denominations. I'm not saying I haven't had other failures, but just a handful spread across several different brands...most of which occurred after many years of use. So this concern me a lot more than what Backblaze reported.

After reading the reviews, it's easy to convince yourself that any drive will be dead in a year, so I'm not confident about any of the other choices either, but I do have 4 Hitachis and a Samsung that are still going strong from 2009-2010.

I do currently have a 4GB Seagate USB 3.0 external and 4 2TB Slim 2.5s that have been going well for a year and half. I just ordered 2 more of the Slims for offsite backups. But if I had to wager on which drive would fail next, that 4GB would seem to be a good bet.