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Seagate Backup Plus Hub 8TB External Hard Drive | Normally $169.99 for $119.99 at Costco (save $50)

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"Keep your data safe and your phone charged with this external 8TB drive for $120

For less than 2 cents per gigabyte, you can keep your data backed up with this external drive, which also serves as a dual-port USB 3.0 hub."

Was checking the news on pcgamer.com, and this was on there. love this drive have had one for over 5 years still running strong and use daily.

Obv. local taxes come into play.https://www.costco.com/.product.100458004.html

Any mod that needs to clean this up if needed, i appreciate it.

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These are SMR drives: Good for sequential writes. Not good (slow) for random access.
See: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/ha...ing-guide/ and https://www.extremetech.com/compu...-customers

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porky
04-15-2021 at 08:32 AM.
04-15-2021 at 08:32 AM.
Obvious question - is this shuckable?
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MyrMcCheese
04-15-2021 at 08:46 AM.
04-15-2021 at 08:46 AM.
Quote from porky :
Obvious question - is this shuckable?

Yes - this is shuckable.
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04-15-2021 at 09:18 AM.
04-15-2021 at 09:18 AM.
Is this any cheaper in store?
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stepher
04-15-2021 at 09:22 AM.
04-15-2021 at 09:22 AM.
Does anyone know if these are usable as main drives (i.e. 7200RPM) or just as RAID drives at the slower speed (5400). Thx.

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Yes - this is shuckable.
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formerglory
04-15-2021 at 09:29 AM.
04-15-2021 at 09:29 AM.
These are shuckable, and they're also SMR, so be advised. Good price per GB though. I have one of these and it's fine for backups and archival, not the fastest drive.

I may buy another one, but if you want to shuck these for a NAS or something I'd wait for WD EasyStores from BBY, as those are shuckable and NOT SMR.
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stepher
04-15-2021 at 09:38 AM.
04-15-2021 at 09:38 AM.
Just read about SMR. Seems great for non-random writes (like tape) but performance isn't good in a random access situation.

Just noticed BBY has the 8GB WD EasyStore on sale from $199 to $134. So if the WD is better for a main drive, this might be an opportunity:

https://www.bestbuy.com/site/wd-easystore-8tb-external-usb-3-0-hard-drive-black/5792401.p?skuId=5792401

Cheers.....


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These are shuckable, and they're also SMR, so be advised. Good price per GB though. I have one of these and it's fine for backups and archival, not the fastest drive.

I may buy another one, but if you want to shuck these for a NAS or something I'd wait for WD EasyStores from BBY, as those are shuckable and NOT SMR.
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04-15-2021 at 04:22 PM.
04-15-2021 at 04:22 PM.
Quote from stepher :
Does anyone know if these are usable as main drives (i.e. 7200RPM) or just as RAID drives at the slower speed (5400). Thx.

5400 rpm or 7200 rpm can be used as main drives or RAID drives. Who told you 7200 rpm was a main drive and 5400 rpm a RAID drive?
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