3TB Seagate Backup Plus USB 3.0 Desktop External Hard Drive (STCA3000101) + 1-Year Extended Warranty $130 + Free Shipping

Quote from Sheiker : Great write up! This is exactly what I did as well last week (or two weeks ago?) with mine. I currently have 2 of these, both were enclosed versions. One I purchased about 3 months ago, the 2nd one a week/2 ago. I extracted the drives from their cases, and just run them bare in my Linux box. Both had the "ST3000DM001" drive inside of them. I also see 100MB/s + speeds as well. PS: I really like these drives. They spin at 7200, and they run very quiet and with no heat to speak of either. I can't speak for the longevity of them, but per a lot of the reviews of the bare "ST3000DM001", a lot of people seem to like this drive as well.

What happens to the warranty? Voided?

Possible to reassemble?

In for 1. Thanks!

Quote from Appleanche : What happens to the warranty? Voided? Possible to reassemble?

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Quote from Appleanche : What happens to the warranty? Voided? Possible to reassemble?

Warranty most likely voided. But u can easily take it apart without damaging stuff. At least for me.

I guess you can try to put it back together and send it in if you didnt ruin anything while taking it apart

Great! I'm going to get this drive to BACKUP my other BACKUP, BACKUP my other BACKUP, BACKUP my other BACKUP, BACKUP my other BACKUP, BACKUP my other BACKUP, BACKUP my other BACKUP.

Quote from danpi : Costco has satisfaction return policy, plus extra year warranty if you buy it with their AMEX. Occasionally, Costco's price has been $119 ($10 instant coupon), although $129 as I write this today. Drive is fine and you can easily extract from case. I have 3 of these from Costco and their returns policy & warranty peace of mind. No reason to post this as a "Deal"- OP your bad.

Although this might be true, not all of us live where there is a Costco, Microcenter, Frey, etc, (the only thing we have is Worst Buy) thus, these online deals are much better. Also, no tax.

Thanks OP. Grabbed one.

Quote from Appleanche : What happens to the warranty? Voided? Possible to reassemble?

Oh, I have no doubt that I "voided" my warranty, at least technically.

However, if I did get a crash on either drive, I would attempt to do what someone else mentioned in a previous thread of this same drive.

I would call up Seagate, and explain that it crashed, and that I have very important data that I need to attempt to extract from the drive, and as such, I need to open up the case and connect the drive directly to SATA to try to rescue any data that I could.

From what was mentioned in the other thread, Seagate is willing to allow you to do that, as long as you send back the case.
(Which I have kept anyway, and put an older, smaller drive into)

Obviously, this is a bit of a white lie, but I don't have any qualms about it, because I believe the warranty should be on the drive itself, not the casing.

Of course, I will cross this bridge, if I have to... (Lets hope not!!!)

anyone know when the 4TB drives will be coming back? I feel for the people effected by the flooding but come on now, it's been a year since they were last available at any decent number (or I suppose for a decent price) I have a number of external 3TBs and I really want to add a 4TB, so I have been waiting (now a full year since I decided to wait a few weeks/months before buying a 4TB seagate..... talk about bad timing on my part )

For those wondering about the quality, here's my experience with Seagate drives:

I've had 3 Seagate hard drives (that I know of--not sure what brand some internal hard drives have been). One of them is in a desktop that has more or less been running non-stop since 2004. Next I have another 1TB internal I got in 2010 that has not had any problems at all. And finally I have a 3TB external FreeAgent GoFlex that I got in last year's Black Friday $100 ($75 for me after Staples PM and coupon ) deal. Each one has performed flawless and I'm extremely happy with them.

The last one that I got from Costco was $119+ tax = $127, so. $129 is not a bad price . Mine works great. I want another, but I am wondering if I should wait for Black Friday.

Quote from h_tran1 : Great! I'm going to get this drive to BACKUP my other BACKUP, BACKUP my other BACKUP, BACKUP my other BACKUP, BACKUP my other BACKUP, BACKUP my other BACKUP, BACKUP my other BACKUP.

LOL! This reminded me of this: http://youtu.be/zjYSERaXEGI

I'm backin'up, backin'up, backin'up, backin'up...

Quote from holysin : anyone know when the 4TB drives will be coming back? I feel for the people effected by the flooding but come on now, it's been a year since they were last available at any decent number (or I suppose for a decent price) I have a number of external 3TBs and I really want to add a 4TB, so I have been waiting (now a full year since I decided to wait a few weeks/months before buying a 4TB seagate..... talk about bad timing on my part )

I know, I feel bad about the flood but I was not expecting it to take this long for prices to come back down. I've been waiting forever to get a decently sized drive.

Down to $129.99 @ Amazon now (6:22pm EST)

Quote from z320 : Down to $129.99 @ Amazon now (6:22pm EST)

Saw that, need a staples coupon =P