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Costco Members: 8TB Seagate Backup Plus Hub External Hard Drive

+ Free S/H

$120

$170

29% off
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Costco Wholesale has 8TB Seagate Backup Plus Hub External Desktop Hard Drive w/ Rescue Data Recovery Services (STEL8000401) on sale for $119.99. Shipping is free.

Thanks to community member c2nah777 for finding this deal.

Note, offer valid for Costco Members w/ an active membership only.

About the Product
  • 8TB Ample Storage Space Capacity
  • 3 Years of Rescue Date Recovery Services
  • 120 MB/Sec Data Transfer Rate
  • 2x Integrated High-speed USB 3.0 ports
  • Works with Windows and Mac Computers without Reformatting
  • Schedule an Automatic Backup Plan with/ Seagate Backup Software
Warranty
  • Includes standard warranty w/ purchase + Costco Concierge Services

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  • Price Research: Purchase this unit today and save $50 Off (29.41% Savings) from the original online price of $169.99. This product appears to be unique to Costco Wholesale
  • Warehouse pickup is available for this product; availability may vary
  • Limit 3 per member
  • Offer valid through November 29, 2021 or while promotion last
Additional Note
  • This product has earned a 4.4/5 star rating w/ over 1800+ customer reviews at Costco Wholesale
  • Please refer to the forum thread for additional details - Discombobulated

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Update: This deal/offer is now active for purchase.

Costco Wholesale has 8TB Seagate Backup Plus Hub External Desktop Hard Drive w/ Rescue Data Recovery Services (STEL8000401) on sale for $119.99. Shipping is free.

Thanks to community member c2nah777 for finding this deal.

Note, offer valid for Costco Members w/ an active membership only.

About the Product
  • 8TB Ample Storage Space Capacity
  • 3 Years of Rescue Date Recovery Services
  • 120 MB/Sec Data Transfer Rate
  • 2x Integrated High-speed USB 3.0 ports
  • Works with Windows and Mac Computers without Reformatting
  • Schedule an Automatic Backup Plan with/ Seagate Backup Software
Warranty
  • Includes standard warranty w/ purchase + Costco Concierge Services

Editor's Notes

Written by Discombobulated | Staff
  • Price Research: Purchase this unit today and save $50 Off (29.41% Savings) from the original online price of $169.99. This product appears to be unique to Costco Wholesale
  • Warehouse pickup is available for this product; availability may vary
  • Limit 3 per member
  • Offer valid through November 29, 2021 or while promotion last
Additional Note
  • This product has earned a 4.4/5 star rating w/ over 1800+ customer reviews at Costco Wholesale
  • Please refer to the forum thread for additional details - Discombobulated

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DelightfulPear7941
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I got 3 of these a few months back for the same price. All of them Seagate BarraCuda Computes. Slow as hell when you get close to filling them up since they're SMR.
Danimal86
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Awesome. Been waiting for $15/tb.

Anyone know what kind of drive is inside?
edit: looks like they are smr drives. need to see how they will work with unRAID.
not recommended for raid configurations.
madshakes
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are seagate drives reliable now?

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Awesome. Been waiting for $15/tb.

Anyone know what kind of drive is inside?
edit: looks like they are smr drives. need to see how they will work with unRAID.
not recommended for raid configurations.
Last edited by Danimal86 October 23, 2021 at 02:04 PM.
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Quote from Danimal86 :
Awesome. Been waiting for $15/tb.

Anyone know what kind of drive is inside?
I got 3 of these a few months back for the same price. All of them Seagate BarraCuda Computes. Slow as hell when you get close to filling them up since they're SMR.
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Quote from DelightfulPear7941 :
I got 3 of these a few months back for the same price. All of them Seagate BarraCuda Computes. Slow as hell when you get close to filling them up since they're SMR.
Happy with them? I'm using a bunch of 2&3tb drives that are pretty old, would be nice to consolidate them down
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are seagate drives reliable now?
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bensonw
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I used a few of them as from backup drives to media drives for my server PC. Streaming 4K is fine. Crossing fingers as none failed...yet.
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Wolfmanmos
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I have a bunch of these (maybe 8) that I have picked up over the last two years. All still working. Not an ounce of trouble.
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NotMao
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Quote from Danimal86 :
Happy with them? I'm using a bunch of 2&3tb drives that are pretty old, would be nice to consolidate them down
They've been up full time for a few months. Full and haven't had any issues. Seem okay for archiving data. Read speeds are fine and I never write to them since the initial load.

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Quote from NotMao :
They've been up full time for a few months. Full and haven't had any issues. Seem okay for archiving data. Read speeds are fine and I never write to them since the initial load.
What kind of setup are you using them in?
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ninjamaag
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Quote from Danimal86 :
Awesome. Been waiting for $15/tb.

Anyone know what kind of drive is inside?
edit: looks like they are smr drives. need to see how they will work with unRAID.
not recommended for raid configurations.
Smr unless it's the 10tb and up. For normal stuff or media server these drives are fine. I have one for Xbox and two 5tb other seagate smr external for media server
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ninjamaag
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Quote from madshakes :
are seagate drives reliable now?
I have lots of seagates, they are reliable. Just don't drop them and they should be fine. I've only screwed up a drive by someone knocking one to the hardwood floor
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Quote from shaqoneal :
No thanks. Slow as hell, cruddy Seagate brand, and whi wants 8tb anymore unless it is portable?
More for us who know better and do need them. Sorry if you had a problem with this model. All of mine are doing great. I've got a dozen or so of this one. All perfect. Shucked and used for storage/backups. Fast and quiet for those purposes. This is not intended to be your OS drive. They do get hot if left in their cases. I would suggest putting a fan on any external drive used in its case if used for any extended periods. Or swap it to one with a built-in fan.

I have had one Seagate fail on me. It was a 3TB drive. Those had more than the normal amounts of issues from my readings on them. Every brand and model will have some lemons. You usually will know fast with a test. Use the warranty if needed.
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Quote from Danimal86 :
Happy with them? I'm using a bunch of 2&3tb drives that are pretty old, would be nice to consolidate them down
Quote from c2nah777 :
More for us who know better and do need them. Sorry if you had a problem with this model. All of mine are doing great. I've got a dozen or so of this one. All perfect. Shucked and used for storage/backups. Fast and quiet for those purposes. This is not intended to be your OS drive. They do get hot if left in their cases. I would suggest putting a fan on any external drive used in its case if used for any extended periods. Or swap it to one with a built-in fan.

I have had one Seagate fail on me. It was a 3TB drive. Those had more than the normal amounts of issues from my readings on them. Every brand and model will have some lemons. You usually will know fast with a test. Use the warranty if needed.
the only drive I've had fail was a 1.5TB with a higher failure right that I abused to all hell. I put it in a fanless enclosure and ran it into the ground and it still took an extremely long time to fail.
Besides, that's why you use unraid or something like it anyway. Redundancy is king.
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DealhunterPNW
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I should grab another one of these, it works great to run a time machine backup from. You can backup a Mac and several TB of external drives all to one local drive.

Mine has been going a couple years now though, I should replace it with a fresh one at this price.

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Aacidus
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Got this and it died, it was out a few months of the warranty period. Decided to shuck it, and install into my SFF PC for the heck of it; so far it seems to work with the occasional clicking of the drive with transfer speeds fluctuating. So if anyone reading this ever has that issue, try shucking it.

Thankfully I have a cloud backup via Backblaze, just in case.
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