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I have 5x2TB Seagate drives, the older two just needed firmware updates and they are all still in perfect condition. My 500GB Seagate from around 2009 only died at the end of last year...it was my main download and gaming drive so it did a truck load of work.
 
sand_man said:
Yeah, thought as much. He does 0 gaming and all installed programs by default are installed to the C drive. He's using it primarily for email, excel and internet, bit of teamviewer, iTunes but little else. The space is more for his million and one pictures.

To preserve space on his C drive iTunes media is all installed on the D drive. Also, Outlook loads and backs up to the D drive. So when these 2 programs are reading data off the D drive, a hybrid might improve their performance?

The price difference between a Toshiba 1tb 2.5" and a Seagate ssdhybrid is about R300. Worth the extra?
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Depends on how much SSD cache you get.
 
Praeses said:
I have 5x2TB Seagate drives, the older two just needed firmware updates and they are all still in perfect condition. My 500GB Seagate from around 2009 only died at the end of last year...it was my main download and gaming drive so it did a truck load of work.
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I have a 250GB and 320GB Seagate from 2008 still going strong. They run almost 24/7. Loadshedding being the exception. :)
 
Totempole said:
I have a 250GB and 320GB Seagate from 2008 still going strong. They run almost 24/7. Loadshedding being the exception. :)
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Those smaller sized drives lost a lot longer, I have a 10gb WD that will outlive us all.
 
Game has a 3tb for R1299. Not sure what brand. Check their online catalogue.
 
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http://www.pcworld.com/article/2873...e-for-4tb-study-of-40000-plus-hdds-finds.html
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Shellyb1 said:
Game has a 3tb for R1299. Not sure what brand. Check their online catalogue.
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Its a seagate expansion, very Bad.
 
Zuner said:
What do we do though, I need a drive, but only Seagate goes on special. The 2/4tb are on special what do I do...
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Buy the 4TB for R1799 from Makro (https://www.makro.co.za/computing-a...ve-plus-panda-anti-virus-2015-1-user-255120EA)

Open the casing and use the drive as an internal. It is a ST4000DM000, same as you would buy when you buy the 4TB bare drive.
I even re-used the casing to put an older 500 GB drive inside.

People must not say Seagate fails more, I have had many WD and Seagates since I had my first pc in 1987 and have had failures on WD and Seagate, sometimes you might just get a bad drive, its the luck of the draw.


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Interesting thing if you check the warranty of the bare drive that you took out at http://support.seagate.com/customer/en-US/warranty_validation.jsp
it says it has a 3 year warranty whereas bare drive bought seperately only has 2 year ;)
 
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enerdude said:
Buy the 4TB for R1799 from Makro (https://www.makro.co.za/computing-a...ve-plus-panda-anti-virus-2015-1-user-255120EA)

Open the casing and use the drive as an internal. It is a ST4000DM000, same as you would buy when you buy the 4TB bare drive.
I even re-used the casing to put an older 500 GB drive inside.

People must not say Seagate fails more, I have had many WD and Seagates since I had my first pc in 1987 and have had failures on WD and Seagate, sometimes you might just get a bad drive, its the luck of the draw.


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Interesting thing if you check the warranty of the bare drive that you took out at http://support.seagate.com/customer/en-US/warranty_validation.jsp
it says it has a 3 year warranty whereas bare drive bought separately only has 2 year ;)
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noob question.. i'm going to buy it today, after a bit more research on the drive, so if i remove the drive before the warranty on the whole unit expires and the drive fails later on, do i still have warranty on the bare drive? if so i'm guessing that's with Seagate themselves obviously not Makro, where would i take this drive to then?
 
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Zuner said:
noob question.. i'm going to buy it today, after a bit more research on the drive, so if i remove the drive before the warranty on the whole unit expires and the drive fails later on, do i still have warranty on the bare drive? if so i'm guessing that's with Seagate themselves obviously not Makro, where would i take this drive to then?
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My guess u have voided the warranty totally if u open it
 
My experience is that Seagate has less RMAs than WD. The green WD drives used to fail a lot where I used to work.

The thing about WD externals is that the USB board is now incorporated into the hdd. So you can't crack the WD drives open anymore and use or recover data.

I have a WD external now which is nice, but I buy desktop drives (Seagate) in pairs and run them in RAID 1. Also use an SSD so drives are only for storage and are behind a UPS and gold rated quality psu. I heard that cheap PSUs are a large culprit of hdds dying.

Anyhow I find the Seagate drives to be very good value until about 4TB then the WD provide better value.
 
I worked for a supplier.

50/50 on SG and WD. Got back 50 or so HDD's a day.

70% of the returns was WD. Unit within 1 year warranty threshold.
 
To get us back on topic....

Huawei P7 on Vodacom Uchoose Flexi 200 for R199pm. Works out to R5k over the 24+1 months and you get R200 airtime per month included. Just keep in mind the pricy R1.80 per minute voice call rates..

Overall, phone a decent bargain to finance the device over 24 months with some airtime thrown in. Realistically, if you use the airtime for voice calls, it is only R75 airtime compared to 79c prepaid rates...
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RichardG said:
Dude I spent R22 grand in total on hardware alone. Excluding monitor
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R19k at incredible and then they messed up the order by losing the stock

Awaiting 10+ GTX980ti look out on Carbonite for them going at R10k each. Local stock full local distro support.
 
Zuner said:
noob question.. i'm going to buy it today, after a bit more research on the drive, so if i remove the drive before the warranty on the whole unit expires and the drive fails later on, do i still have warranty on the bare drive? if so i'm guessing that's with Seagate themselves obviously not Makro, where would i take this drive to then?
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If you open it carefully and put it back together again nobody will know. The 500 Gb I put into my casing you cannot even see it used to contain a 4 TB.

Also a few years ago I had a 500 GB Seagate which crashed which I got as a birthday present and I gave it to a friend which is registered with a few Seagate distrubutors and he sent it to them to RMA for a small handling charge (think it was Rectron), so that could possibly be an option.
 
FlashSA said:
To get us back on topic....

Huawei P7 on Vodacom Uchoose Flexi 200 for R199pm. Works out to R5k over the 24+1 months and you get R200 airtime per month included. Just keep in mind the pricy R1.80 per minute voice call rates..

Overall, phone a decent bargain to finance the device over 24 months with some airtime thrown in. Realistically, if you use the airtime for voice calls, it is only R75 airtime compared to 79c prepaid rates...
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Where is this from can't find it on voda's site?
 
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