Here (it's ebay but ships from Newegg).
About $20 cheaper than a 4TB WD on newegg and $30 cheaper than the regular Newegg price for the same drive. USB 3.0, 5400 RPM.
Ordered one last Friday, got it yesterday. Reviews are mixed but I plan to use it for non critical storage like all my Steam game backups and archive.org files. Things I can get again but would rather not have to re-download. Basically data hoarding. God, I'm a data hoarder.
Samsung (Seagate inside?) 4TB external HDD $99 shipped
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Re: Samsung (Seagate inside?) 4TB external HDD $99 shipped
I was really tempted to buy it...but I already have 2 500GB external drives that aren't really being used. I just don't have enough data
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Re: Samsung (Seagate inside?) 4TB external HDD $99 shipped
Samsung makes their own HD's.
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Re: Samsung (Seagate inside?) 4TB external HDD $99 shipped
The Samsung Ds are Seagate, from everything I've seen. Even Seagate lists the Samsung D as their product. AFAIK, they still own Samsung's HDD label.Kasey Chang wrote:Samsung makes their own HD's.
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Re: Samsung (Seagate inside?) 4TB external HDD $99 shipped
The HDD world is still in a bit of flux. Seagate and WD are the two big companies at the moment, with Toshiba far far behind.
Seagate purchased Samsung about four years ago (and Maxtor before that, in 2006), and WD followed suit by acquiring HGST (Hitachi Global Storage Technology). Seagate's purchase of Samsung went through very quickly. WD's acquisition of HGST has been slowed by China's MOFCOM issuing a "hold separate" order for the two companies (and also forced HGST to divest a factory in China to Toshiba, allowing that company to manufacture and sell drives previously manufactured and sold by HGST).
At its peak the storage industry had approximately 54 separate businesses in operation. Once/if the WD acquisition of HGST goes through, it will be down to three.
Seagate purchased Samsung about four years ago (and Maxtor before that, in 2006), and WD followed suit by acquiring HGST (Hitachi Global Storage Technology). Seagate's purchase of Samsung went through very quickly. WD's acquisition of HGST has been slowed by China's MOFCOM issuing a "hold separate" order for the two companies (and also forced HGST to divest a factory in China to Toshiba, allowing that company to manufacture and sell drives previously manufactured and sold by HGST).
At its peak the storage industry had approximately 54 separate businesses in operation. Once/if the WD acquisition of HGST goes through, it will be down to three.
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