Seagate Backup Plus 3TB USB 3.0 External HD $99.99 FS

[Grateful11]

Not bad. Review are all over the place like everything else.

Supposedly compatible with GoFlex adapters

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00829T...slickdeals&tag=slickdeals&ie=UTF8&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER

[hal]

it shows up as $132 + $6 shipping for me...

[testcase]

hal wrote:
it shows up as $132 + $6 shipping for me...

:agree:

[Gareth]

hal wrote:
it shows up as $132 + $6 shipping for me...

Amazon ran out of stock. Now you're seeing third party sellers.

[Chakravartin]

Seagate externals are shorter-lived than fruit flies and the bundled software is Mac-poison.

But those GoFlex adapters are neat!

[Black]

Question about these and also the $39 porrtable listed below--
Does anyonw know whether they have actual physical on/off switches? The last Seagate externals I had would automatically be on when they got power, and I hated that.

[Bosco]

These do not have on/off switches. However, you can hook it up to a power strip and use the switch on the power strip to turn it on/off. That's how I handled the problem with the drive connected to my WDTV Live.

[Grateful11]

Well you gotta be quick ;-)

Try this one:

3Tb Seagate but only a 1 year warranty for $89.99

http://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Expansion-...slickdeals&tag=slickdeals

http://slickdeals.net/f/5521050-Seagate-...p=54888696&utm_source=dealalerts&utm_medium=em-i&utm_term=1&utm_content=u806597&utm_campaign=tu10#post54888696

[Grateful11]

Bosco wrote:
These do not have on/off switches. However, you can hook it up to a power strip and use the switch on the power strip to turn it on/off. That's how I handled the problem with the drive connected to my WDTV Live.

I let my 2 - 1Tb WD's run all the time, in fact I let all my ext. run all the time.

[Black]

Grateful11 wrote:
[quote=Bosco]
These do not have on/off switches. However, you can hook it up to a power strip and use the switch on the power strip to turn it on/off. That's how I handled the problem with the drive connected to my WDTV Live.

I let my 2 - 1Tb WD's run all the time, in fact I let all my ext. run all the time.
I would rather have backup drives off except during the backing up process. I guess power strip is a possibility, but it would have to be one drive per power strip which gets kind of dumb.