3TB Seagate Expansion USB 3.0 Desktop External Hard Drive (STBV3000100) $108 + Free Shipping w/ V.me by Visa Checkout (expired)

Good price. Bought mine around thanksgiving from amazon. Great copy speeds. Only downside so far is aggressive head parking, about 40 per hour for me, and drive is rated for a total 300,000 head parks. Comes out to 312 days if you leave it on 24/7. Seagate offers a firmware update for the internal version that reduces head parks to 4-5 per hour. Unfortunately CC4H update would not update my firmware version of CC9F. CrystalDiskInfo can disable APM but not permanently so you have to start application with Windows each time (Resident) option.

Use instead the VMEPROMOMAR13 10% off V.me by Visa only promo code and get $12 off instead of the $10. Not much more in savings since they don't stack, but $2 off is $2 off

Anyone know if these have the new firmware?

I have this drive...great drive..bought it for $75 though from amazon.

Quote from 198four : I have this drive...great drive..bought it for $75 though from amazon.

How did you get it for $75 ??

The lowest I have seen is $89.

any drawbacks to buying two of these, using one as a primary back up from various PCs, Ipad, etc,

and then use the second to back up the first?

Quote from dogpatchsf : any drawbacks to buying two of these, using one as a primary back up from various PCs, Ipad, etc, and then use the second to back up the first?

Yup, when your house burns down, or you get a massive power spike running through your house.

Quote from dogpatchsf : any drawbacks to buying two of these, using one as a primary back up from various PCs, Ipad, etc, and then use the second to back up the first?

make sure you keep the second drive somewhere else, like the office.

aggressive head parking...new word of the day for me

Quote from harshan9 : How did you get it for $75 ?? The lowest I have seen is $89.

Oops sorry i should've mentioned I had some reward points stacked up.

Thks and repped

Quote from bil : Good price. Bought mine around thanksgiving from amazon. Great copy speeds. Only downside so far is aggressive head parking, about 40 per hour for me, and drive is rated for a total 300,000 head parks. Comes out to 312 days if you leave it on 24/7. Seagate offers a firmware update for the internal version that reduces head parks to 4-5 per hour. Unfortunately CC4H update would not update my firmware version of CC9F. CrystalDiskInfo can disable APM but not permanently so you have to start application with Windows each time (Resident) option.

Thanks for that info, and I'm curious as to how you measured the 40/hr figure.

what is a head park