Seagate 6TB Backup Plus Hub USB 3.0 Desktop 3.5 Inch External Hard Drive £95 @ Amazon

Suckit

£94.99 = €108.72

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B01IAD5ZEE

Seagate 6 TB Backup Plus Hub USB 3.0 Desktop 3.5 Inch External Hard Drive for PC and Mac with 2 Months Free Adobe Creative Cloud Photography Plan

• Two integrated high-speed USB 3.0 ports on the front allow you to connect and recharge your other USB devices
• Formatted for Windows computers out of the box
• Install the provided NTFS driver for Mac and use the drive interchangeably between Windows and Mac computers without reformatting
• Install the free Seagate Mobile Backup app on an iOS or Android mobile device, and back up all of the photos and videos from your device to your Seagate drive or to the cloud
• Includes two month free membership to Adobe Creative Cloud Photography Plan. Must redeem by January 31, 2020

Good price for 6TB.

Be aware these are very probably SMR drives. For the typical external user that will make little difference. But if you're a heavy user or planning to shuck it might affect your decision.

Suckit

Deleted User wrote: »

Good price for 6TB.

Be aware these are very probably SMR drives. For the typical external user that will make little difference. But if you're a heavy user or planning to shuck it might affect your decision.

Yeah, SMR (Archive Drive)

6TB version of this.

http://www.storagereview.com/seagate_archive_hdd_review_8tb

yoshimitsu

It's a good price for 6TB (even though I despise Seagate). Could I rip out the HDD and use it in my NAS for non-critical data (basically media that I download, watch and delete)? NAS is always on but hibernates when not used

ED E

yoshimitsu wrote: »

It's a good price for 6TB (even though I despise Seagate). Could I rip out the HDD and use it in my NAS for non-critical data (basically media that I download, watch and delete)? NAS is always on but hibernates when not used

Nah, not a good idea. Archival drives designed for warehousing data and not much more.

grogi

ED E wrote: »

Nah, not a good idea. Archival drives designed for warehousing data and not much more.

Why?! As long as it does not park the heads like a madman (AKA WD Green) it will be fine. It's not database workload...

ED E

StorageReview strongly recommends against such usage, as at this time SMR drives are not designed to cope with sustained write behavior.

SMR is cheating, it works but reduces the resilience of the disk. Great for monthly backups, vpoor for daily use.

yoshimitsu

WD Red it is then... about 60% more expensive though

studdlymurphy

Would this be good for backing up photos/videos and not a whole lot else. Possibly attach it to a tv for viewing the photos too?

yoshimitsu

yoshimitsu wrote: »

It's a good price for 6TB (even though I despise Seagate). Could I rip out the HDD and use it in my NAS for non-critical data (basically media that I download, watch and delete)? NAS is always on but hibernates when not used

SMR drives function relatively normally as long as you fill them sequentially with no deletes or overwrites (basically use them like a tape).

As soon as you start deleting stuff and then trying to write new data into the empty space, the write performance tanks. And not just the write performance, drive I/O in general can tank sometimes due to background maintenance.

I would say in your case they are suitable...ish. Bulk media storage is one thing they are kinda suited to.

But you would need to consider it in a little more depth - eg specifically what is your NAS? is the storage drive the same as the download drive? is there an intermediate unpack stage on same drive? is media going to be downloading/unpacking while you are trying to watch stuff off same drive? etc.

Depending on your setup and flexibility you can certainly make SMR work fine in general scenarios. But you definitely have to be aware of the issues and think through the specifics very carefully.

ED E

yoshimitsu wrote: »

WD Red it is then... about 60% more expensive though

Trust me, current pricing is way better than what I've paid for my reds.