harvey norman 3 tb hard drive

monkeysnapper · 02-01-2014 12:15AM #1

http://www.harveynorman.ie/computing/external-hard-drives/seagate-expansion-3tb-desktop-hard-drive-usb-3.0.html

i was looking to buy a back up hard drive for my files when i stumbled apron this online. This seems very cheap. I nearly spent this 12months ago on a 1tb seagate hard drive.

Maybe when i go in they will be out of stock tho.

02-01-2014 12:18AM

~ €100 at Amazon and has been for a very long time.

fl4pj4ck · 02-01-2014 01:51AM

2tb in PCWorld for e85, mind it's only USB2

PaulieBoy · 02-01-2014 10:02AM

Got two of those drives in Argos, €125 each. And at the time a free USB flash drive thrown in! As noted above they have been at that price for near a year or so at this stage. A good drive I might add!

beauf · 02-01-2014 11:17AM

Anyone try pulling the bare drive out? Some of these might not have normal sata connections internally.

the_syco · 02-01-2014 11:25AM

beauf wrote: »

Anyone try pulling the bare drive out? Some of these might not have normal sata connections internally.

Can't really see them having IDE connections (esp with the USB3), and any one of these that I've opened have had SATA.

slave1 · 02-01-2014 11:35AM

I've a few, all SATA connections

beauf · 02-01-2014 11:37AM

Cool they had started removing standard sata connectors for a while.

fl4pj4ck · 02-01-2014 12:38PM

the_syco wrote: »

Can't really see them having IDE connections (esp with the USB3), and any one of these that I've opened have had SATA.

well, some of the USB3 drives are not sata, they have a native USB connector only

the_syco · 02-01-2014 02:40PM

fl4pj4ck wrote: »

well, some of the USB3 drives are not sata, they have a native USB connector only

Was talking about the internal drives, which I doubt are USB :P

fl4pj4ck · 02-01-2014 02:49PM

we're discussing USB ones here :P

joujoujou · 02-01-2014 02:59PM

3TB, USB3, 105.61 EUR inc. delivery.

http://www.dabs.ie/products/toshiba-3tb-canvio-usb-3-0-3-5--desktop-hard-drive--black--8L58.html?refs=52120000&src=3

Doylers · 02-01-2014 04:07PM

beauf wrote: »

Anyone try pulling the bare drive out? Some of these might not have normal sata connections internally.

I have on a few on these segate drives, there all normal drives on the inside normal sata just with a small pcb that does the usb --> sata conversion. Very simple all together. On another note im running 2 * 2TB drives and 2 * 3TB all seagate barracuda drives and their flawless

the_syco · 02-01-2014 07:05PM

fl4pj4ck wrote: »

we're discussing USB ones here :P

Maybe so, but I was responding to

beauf wrote: »

Anyone try pulling the bare drive out? Some of these might not have normal sata connections internally.

As some of the cheaper models once had IDE connections.

beauf · 02-01-2014 09:17PM

the_syco wrote: »

Can't really see them having IDE connections (esp with the USB3), and any one of these that I've opened have had SATA.

IDE is very old standard. I dunno why you brought that up.

They started removing the internal sata connector on these external drives and wiring them direct to the usb. So you couldn't pull them out of the case and use them as internal drives.

Others have said they don't seem to be doing this anymore which is good news.

the_syco · 03-01-2014 02:34AM

beauf wrote: »

IDE is very old standard. I dunno why you brought that up.

Yup. When you mentioned that they may "not have normal sata connections internally", I thought you may have meant IDE.

beauf wrote: »

They started removing the internal sata connector on these external drives and wiring them direct to the usb. So you couldn't pull them out of the case and use them as internal drives.

This sounds quite odd, but luckily I never came across one (people sometimes come to me to retrieve their data).

beauf · 03-01-2014 02:49AM

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/297342-32-samsung-seagate-hard-drive-mini-port-reapir

the_syco · 03-01-2014 03:10AM

beauf wrote: »

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/297342-32-samsung-seagate-hard-drive-mini-port-reapir

o.0 That's mad. Thank funk it didn't catch on!

skeleton_boy · 04-01-2014 02:41PM

Deleted User wrote: »

~ €100 at Amazon and has been for a very long time.

Noob question but if I purchase the 3TB model for £82 that comes with necessary usb cable and charger? The cable they offer at the bottom of the page is simple an extension cable?

styron · 04-01-2014 05:34PM

skeleton_boy wrote: »

Noob question but if I purchase the 3TB model for £82 that comes with necessary usb cable and charger? The cable they offer at the bottom of the page is simple an extension cable?

Yes it comes with the USB3.0 A to Micro B data cable - just under 1.2M for the 2TB model I have. If you're intending to use it with a number of systems or for a desktop, an extension cable is convenient and avoids the microB into the drive being too taut.

skeleton_boy · 04-01-2014 06:52PM

styron wrote: »

Yes it comes with the USB3.0 A to Micro B data cable - just under 1.2M for the 2TB model I have. If you're intending to use it with a number of systems or for a desktop, an extension cable is convenient and avoids the microB into the drive being too taut.

Thanks just wanted to make sure. Nothing worse than getting excited about a new purchase and having to get other bits and pieces before you can actually use it.

vibe666 · 04-01-2014 06:58PM

the_syco wrote: »

o.0 That's mad. Thank funk it didn't catch on!

it sucks, I almost bought a bunch of 3tb 3.5" form factor USB drives for a NAS as they were available for about 20 quid per drive cheaper than the cheapest bare drive from the same mfg at the time online.

thankfully i managed to find a teardown video on youtube and the board on the bottom where you'd find the sata connectors was gone and all it had was the USB connection soldered directly to the board, so they were useless as anything except USB.

very lucky break for me anyway., i was literally planning on pulling the trigger on them that day after mooching around looking for the cheapest drives for about a month.

harvey norman 3 tb hard drive

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