If you need some more storage these use a single 5-platter disk drive, not bad for £119
SEAGATE GoFlex Desk External Hard Drive - 3TB at cheap prices | PC World
I plan to strip 'em down and use them in my N40L.
HEADRAT
If you need some more storage these use a single 5-platter disk drive, not bad for £119
SEAGATE GoFlex Desk External Hard Drive - 3TB at cheap prices | PC World
I plan to strip 'em down and use them in my N40L.
HEADRAT
Not bad at all with current hard drive prices.
At the moment most external drive are being stripped for their internal drives
typical, i literally got a 3tb drive delivered today after being mucked about a couple of times with amazon and staples and now this. but i suppose at least the drive i got has the warranty that will probably be lost by opening this up
Yeah warranty is probably not as good, I would imagine the disc inside is classed as OEM
This does sound like a fantastic deal considering how the hard drive prices have rocketed up so much recently and seems like it may continue to rise.
Pity 3TB drives don't really work properly with my WHS
I'm limited to 2TB drives for simplicity (I know you can get 3TB with a lot of messing).
Really, why is that?
I'm using WHS v1 with Drive extender (pooling drives).
Later versions of WHS (Veil) supported 3TB drives, but dropped the ddrive extender.
WHS v1 PP3 sees my 3TB drive OK:-
Seems to be this disc inside:-
Hmm - did you do anything special ?
Or just add to pool?
Plenty of sites make it seem its not so easy e.g.
http://spackle.wordpress.com/2011/04...3tb-in-whs-v1/
so I've avoided 3TB drives.
Maybe I've missed an update or some news that it now works easily?
Just plugged it in and it worked, I'd formatted it in a Win7 machine before installing it in my WHS, obviously WHS wiped the disc when I put it in the pool
Last edited by HEADRAT; 30-11-2011 at 02:33 PM.
Yeah, I've heard the same of 3Tb HDD's simply not running as one partition or so etc in Windows 32Bit, I only really would be looking at using one as a storage drive in my HTPC.
Sold out on that link but I did pick-up the last 2tb GoFlex that my local PC world had in stock on Sunday for £79.00 I felt so guilty removing the nice shiny black plastic though and to think that less than 2 months earlier I was waiting to see if 2TB drives would drop to £50 each so I could pick a pair up for a HP Microserver
Yeah think they've all gone
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