3TB Seagate Backup Plus USB 3.0 External Desktop Hard Drive $99.99

Well when you do buy stuff at costco ... essentially you can think of it as a lifetime warranty... hard drives are not limited to a 90 day return policy


Costco return policy:

MERCHANDISE:
We guarantee your satisfaction on every product we sell with a full refund. The following must be returned within 90 days of purchase for a refund: televisions, projectors, computers, cameras, camcorders, touchscreen tablets, MP3 players and cellular phones.

It says "Limit 5" in the scan. Does it mean every customer can buy 5 or there are only 5 for every store?

Quote from sushiserv : I don't trust Seagate. I have had 5 drives fail: all Seagate.

I have two 2 TB drive failed and both is Western Digital...what's the point..anything can fail

Quote from 257209 : Is this model reliable? I have a bad history with Seagate failing all the time, so I try to get Western Digital when I can.

I've had a seagate for 10+ years so far. Transferred it from one computer to another with no problems. Actually all my HD's are seagate. Guess it's just the luck of the draw.

these hard drives are great, the enclosures resemble a vacuum sealed bag. the first one i got hit 72 degrees(hd safe limit is ~60) after 45 mins or so of file transfer, i promptly returned it and took the hard drive out of my next one and put it into my own vented enclosure with esata. on esata i get sustained speeds of 65-70 mbps.

in summation: The hard drive is fine, Enclosure is a piece of garbage that has no airflow.

Quote from Wanderer8 : I've had a seagate for 10+ years so far. Transferred it from one computer to another with no problems. Actually all my HD's are seagate. Guess it's just the luck of the draw.

Seagates, and other makers, were a LOT more reliable back then...

Are these big drives that say 'backup' usable if I want to use them to store videos and play on my WD Live box? Are they too slow to stream video?

Quote from thename1000 : Are these big drives that say 'backup' usable if I want to use them to store videos and play on my WD Live box? Are they too slow to stream video?

YES! very fast drives

Funny, I bought one of these tonight at the local Costco. The receipt checker person at the door told me I had to take the booklet to see it's $40 cheaper on Monday. It's item 669430; says "Limit qty 5", and "also available online".

I've got WD and Seagate, all working fine. I've been buying these 3TB hard drives for more than a year, plus 2TB and 1.5 and 1.0 before. The cases are not great. As for the unit I bought about 90 days ago, I removed one from its enclosure and installed it into my tower as an internal drive. Works great, very fast, not particularly warm. Doing an "erase free space" with Disk Utility, it goes at about 300MB/s which seems amazing. BTW it shows up as a model ST3000DM001-9YN166, and has usable capacity of 3,000,592,982,016 bytes. Maybe these are so cheap now because they'll have the 6TB models in time for Valentine's day.

Quote from guoguo914 : It says "Limit 5" in the scan. Does it mean every customer can buy 5 or there are only 5 for every store?

I have the ad in hand.It is limit 5 per customer while supplies last.

Quote from markliebman.me : Maybe these are so cheap now because they'll have the 6TB models in time for Valentine's day.

Link to this info?

Quote from markliebman.me : the 6TB models ... for Valentine's day.

It is so romantic!

;-)

I'm in for 4. Anyone want my 5th since it's limit 5 per customer?!?

Is it in store deal or online too..?

Is it only in-store or online too ?

Quote from dude2000 : also bad reviews on amazon

can you explain it pops up 4 stars for me on amazon STCA3000101 ?

im concerned with buying seagate as i bought one few months ago it failed.