The drive from the Expansion still needs its mounting screws removed. This is primarily due to the differing orientation of the drives within their enclosures.Īt this point the drive from the Backup Plus is ready to use. One interesting thing to note, while the two enclosures use the same drive, they use two slightly different converter boards.
The Backup Plus all but the top lid of the drive in foil tape, which is more of an ordeal to remove.Īfter removing the foil tape, the USB 3.0 to SATA converter board can be removed. The Expansion has just a couple of inches of foil tap securing the converter board to the drive. But to do this, first some foil tape must be removed. Once the drives have been removed from their housing, they still need to be separated from their USB 3.0 to SATA converter board.
Seagate retail 4tb backup plus portable dr full#
For this drive, it will take badblocks about 24 hours to complete a full run of a single test pattern. In Linux, the badblocks utility can be used. Constructionīefore attempting to remove a drive from its external enclosure, it should be extensively tested for errors-shucking will void the drive’s warranty. But, at a cost savings of about 50%, purchasing extras for replacements will still be cheaper than paying retail prices-honestly, if the drives have a 50% failure rate, they’re not worth using anyways. Shucking likely voids the drive’s warranty. Thus, inside every 4TB Backup Plus and 4TB Expansion lies a ST4000LM016 waiting to be shucked from its enclosure. Unlike what Western Digital has done with its passport series, Seagate has yet to integrate the USB 3.0 controller into the drive controller board. And, both have frequently been on sale for 110USD or less with promocodes. These external drives retail for 124USD and 119USD respectively. They sport a USB 3.0 interface, and contain a 2.5″ hard drive, the ST4000LM016. Seagate’s 4TB Backup Plus and 4TB Expansion are both “portable” external hard drives. Seagate 4TB Backup Plus to the left and 4TB Expansion to the right. However, there is another way to acquire these drives. The ST4000LM016 retails just north of 200USD.
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But, the 2.5″ WD Red series tops out at 2TB, so overall system power will be lower for the same capacity. It is a little more power hungry than the 2.5″ WD Red series drives. This sure beats the 5.1W write/read and 1.1W when idle that the 10K RPM VelociRaptor consumes. In regards to power, the ST4000LM016 consumes 2.1W of power when writing, 1.9W when reading and 0.85W when idle. According to Seagate’s datasheet, the ST4000LM016 has a SATA 6Gb/s interface, 128MB of cache, and can sustain 130MB/s transfers. While 15mm is too thick to fit into a laptop, it is the standard height of 2.5″ enterprise drives that typically reside in the SC216. The ST4000LM016 is a 4TB 5400RPM hard drive in the 15mm tall 2.5″ form-factor. However, there is the ST4000LM016 made by Seagate. Most manufacturer’s only have 2TB drives in the 2.5″ formfactor. The problem with the SC216 is it has 24 drive bays for 2.5″ drives. Finding a good quality rackmount case, with hot swappable drive bays, at a reasonable price leaves just one option, the Supermicro SC216. To start the build, one needs to have a case. Specifically, transcoding Plex streams to Chromecasts and Fire TVs is a stuttering affair. While it can still handle print and file serving, it is having issues with its newer tasks.
The current local server, a HP Proliant Microserver (Gen 7 with a N40L) is four years old. This is the first in a series of posts regarding a new server build one is working on.
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