HGST 3TB Touro Desk Pro USB 3.0 99.99 FS

an awesome deal.
was hoping for some good HDD deals on black friday and cyber monday, but nothing good popped up especially with them seagate HDD. I am just not fond of Seagate HDD based on past experiences, but no doubt YMMV with any HDD brand. But so far I have been happy with my Hitachi 2tb (2) for the past 3yrs.

anyway, I ordered 2 of these HDDs. Maybe I should i have ordered more. mmm.

I keep waffling, put it in my cart and then didn't pull the trigger, do I really need more storage?

if anyone has concerns about the 5 platter design, i have been running 2TB 5 platter HDDs for over a year and they are running just fine.

so if i crack it open, will it have sata connector?

So it's confirmed the drive can be used internally? I know you can't with the WD versions. Is the warranty also void when taken out of the case?

I regret not buying more Seagates 3TB when they were $90. I would be interested in buying a couple of drive depending on the answer to my questions.

Screw it , N 4 1.

almost ordered 2, but the newegg review is scary. I'll wait.

I just got two from this deal... to match the two I already have in my NAS.

thanks OP!!!

I wouldn't store my backups on this.

Quote from oric4000 : so if i crack it open, will it have sata connector?

yowza

Quote from jnthornh : Questionable reliability, otherwise I'd bite. Really wish some reliable 3tb drives would hit this price point.

There are no reliable > 1TB drives at the moment. All of them have 10% to 25% failure rates.

Most of the manufacturers are putting these high capacity drives in external backp units and pushing them out cheaply because the usage is much less than a regular internal drive, so much less warranty claims which makes them higher margins than selling as internal drives.

People who populate the third-party NAS drives have the toughest time finding reliable drives. Typically they have to send back at least 1 in 4 with initial failures and another one mid-life. On the average. Warranty claims for this kind of use are high which is why the manufacturers have started to intentionally cripple lower priced drives from RAID array use, etc. They want to sell the higher priced, higher margin drives to deal with the warranty claim costs. This is the same problem car manufacturers have.

Doesn't matter which brand.

Quote from snowcrash : So it's confirmed the drive can be used internally? I know you can't with the WD versions. Is the warranty also void when taken out of the case? I regret not buying more Seagates 3TB when they were $90. I would be interested in buying a couple of drive depending on the answer to my questions.

yes and the drive warranty is not independent of the case.

Quote from ReverseHandedJO : if anyone has concerns about the 5 platter design, i have been running 2TB 5 platter HDDs for over a year and they are running just fine.

Thank you for that.

Quote from oric4000 : so if i crack it open, will it have sata connector?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=morhgz2OU_g

Quote from snowcrash : So it's confirmed the drive can be used internally? I know you can't with the WD versions. Is the warranty also void when taken out of the case? I regret not buying more Seagates 3TB when they were $90. I would be interested in buying a couple of drive depending on the answer to my questions.

Should be fine thats what I bought mine for. Void will depend on if you can open it without breaking it, which should prove difficult based on this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=morhgz2OU_g

Quote from BaseShip : almost ordered 2, but the newegg review is scary. I'll wait.

Yeah but you gotta admit there arent many reviews to begin with...

Quote from mjt2890 : I wouldn't store my backups on this.

Why? that means almost nothing to me because I don't know jack about your opinions' validity.

Quote from jubjub : Who cares--these are going to be cracked open(which voids the warranty) and installed in home servers by 95% of the people on this board that pull the trigger on this deal. SMOKIN'HOT DEAL...

To crack it open immediately is just asking for it, that's not too smart. If you plan on voiding the warranty, I would put it through a test run and give it some heavy disk usage for a week at least before risking it.

Personally I would only buy hard drives from places that provide no hassle returns/exchanges for DOA or problematic drives.

Heat is also something to consider with home servers. Too bad about Samsung being swallowed by Seagate. They made some good low power drives.