Seagate Backup Plus 4TB Black Desktop Hard Drive (STCA4000100) $161.49 AC + Free Shipping

Anyone else think that all these drives should have a minimum of a 3 year warranty. Spending a lot of money and having a drive like this go bad after 2 years kind of sucks to think about.

Quote from antlp89 : I am sincerely curious to what the average person would need 4TB of storage for.

I backup all my YouTube vids

Yeah it only does 4K in 15fps. I know that seems pretty low fps these days. I mostly shoot the time-lapse stuff every .5 or 1 sec 5MP pics. When I go on trips, I am usually dumping about 80-100GB of media.

I do admit I have ripped music and blu-ray HD movies on it too.

Quote from Hawk2007 : I could see you needing multiple 4tb drives for that. Thought, doesn't the 4k go pro only do like 15 fps? I thought I read that in an article about shooting 4k on the cheap

Quote from antlp89 : I am sincerely curious to what the average person would need 4TB of storage for.

Collecting private information on Americans takes up a lot of data nowadays.

Quote from teaberry : I have a 24MP camera that I shoot in raw+jpg and I also shoot 28Mbps 1080@60p HD videos. I also have a 16MP point-n-shoot and a GoPro HD Hero3 that can shoot up to 4K resolution videos and lots of 5MP time-lapse pics. Incoclusion, I filled up my 2TB drive so I now have a 4TB to backup that 2TB and considering another 4TB to also back that up

What is it that you shoot that requires such resolution?

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Price Research: Our research indicates that 4TB Seagate Backup Plus USB 3.0 Desktop External Hard Drive (STCA4000100) is $20 lower (11% savings) than the next best available price from a reputable merchant with prices ranging from $181 to $217. - yuugotserved

How so, when Costco has this same model for $159.99?

Quote from bsdc : This is a good deal for those without Costco membership: http://slickdeals.net/f/5821556-C...lus-159-99 If you have Costco, I'd buy through them, as I did, as their return policy is > * I returned a clicking, slow reading four year old hard drive a few months ago with no questions asked, full money back. Thumbs up.

I'd rather save an extra $25 by PMing Costco.com to Staples.com.

Quote from NewtonFine : quoting... Price Research: Our research indicates that 4TB Seagate Backup Plus USB 3.0 Desktop External Hard Drive (STCA4000100) is $20 lower (11% savings) than the next best available price from a reputable merchant with prices ranging from $181 to $217. - yuugotserved How so, when Costco has this same model for $159.99? I'd rather save an extra $25 by PMing Costco.com to Staples.com.

Thanks - you beat me to posting that. I picked up 5 at Costco a couple weeks ago for $159.99 each and I believe there is at least another week of the sale price at Costco.

Quote from antlp89 : I am sincerely curious to what the average person would need 4TB of storage for.

I have 18TB and need to expand again. I keep all my photos, documents, and music on my server. I also don't believe in optical media and use an array for my BD movie collection at full uncompressed ISO. I think I am around 600 movies at this point. It is so much easier being able to click a button and have them load instantly than searching through folders of disks or having a large unsightly shelf of discs.

Quote from waveofdestiny : Not bad, does anyone know what internal drive this is? I'd like to gut four of these for the drives. Edit: From other threads, looks like it is the ST4000DX000.

I'm in the same boat as you in that I need some internal drive storage, but for my NAS.

But if we gut external drives, wouldn't that void the warranty?

Bad deal. 4tb are still way overpriced and a poor buy. 3tb is the sweet spot for $90. Spending almost double for 1 extra TB is wasting money.

$160 at costco (+tax though)

Quote from waveofdestiny : I have all of my movies backed up to my media center now. I'm steadily converting to 1080p (right now most of mine are still DVD rips) and I use over 4TB. After I'm done converting everything I'll be at about 12TB.

Like most here ripped DVDs + TV recordings are what I use my large HDs for. I'm curious, though, do you view your movies on a TV that's not your computer monitor, and if so what device do you use for this? E.g. WD Live, XBox, Ceton Echo, etc. Also, what format do you save your movies to, and does it support DVD menus?

I've got a bunch of DVDs ripped to VOBs that I currently watch on my 24" PC monitor using Windows Media Center, and it's like watching the original DVD, with menus, special features, audio settings, etc. But for the life of me I can't figure out how to watch these movies on a separate TV using one of these devices, networked to my HTPC, such that I can watch them as I do on my HTPC, with menus, etc.

Any recommendations? I know that you can play individual VOB files on the WD Live, but w/o menus, making it a pain to jump ahead, skip chapters, etc.

Quote from bc_boston : Thanks - you beat me to posting that. I picked up 5 at Costco a couple weeks ago for $159.99 each and I believe there is at least another week of the sale price at Costco.

Yeah, I guess Costco is not considered a "reputable merchant". It looks like the price on these are trending downward. I wouldn't be surprised if these end up being sold for something like $99-$129 for BF2013.

Quote from GTiceman : I have 18TB and need to expand again. I keep all my photos, documents, and music on my server. I also don't believe in optical media and use an array for my BD movie collection at full uncompressed ISO. I think I am around 600 movies at this point. It is so much easier being able to click a button and have them load instantly than searching through folders of disks or having a large unsightly shelf of discs.

Nice! We should get a few peeps together from these HDD threads and have a warez meet? That'll fill 'em 4sure.

Quote from nitemare : Bad deal. 4tb are still way overpriced and a poor buy. 3tb is the sweet spot for $90. Spending almost double for 1 extra TB is wasting money.

I've never seen a 3TB for this little. Any links?

In any case, some people might need the extra TB to keep all their files on one drive. Myself, I have one very large collection of TV recordings I've made over the years that has now exceeded 3TB, and can definitely use one of these drives. I'm going to wait till they get down to the $120 level though, probably later this year.