Or you can buy four and stick them in a microserver for a whopping 16TB of storage - around 11TB in RAID5.

fuck yeah!!! I've been trying to buy a 3TB goflex on ebay to get the hard drive out of it, but all the idiots keep bidding up the value that it is at the shop...
I'd need 3 though, two to run in a mirror, plus a backup
how long till umart gets it though, would be better
I've read bad things about the goflex controllers, they start to.. smoke...

last edited by thermite at 10:52:59 23/Mar/12

Pretty good price too, really - $230 US

Price isn't everything. Look at the user reviews from your link. 26% of people gave it 1 star - many quoting severe problems, instability and compatibility problems.

Good luck to anyone who decides to buy one. I feel sorry for anyone who buys 4 as suggested ...

Look at the user reviews from your link. 26% of people gave it 1 star - many quoting severe problems, instability and compatibility problems.

A lot of the reviews aren't even for the 4TB version. And most of the negative comments are pretty much MAC users.

And then there are reviews like:

Actual available space on the drive is around 2.7 TB, which is less than what is claimed. Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't 3 TB supposed to mean 3 TB, not 2.7?

im running 5x3tb Hitachi fine in my microserver but thinking about upgrading to synology nas drive

$299 if you want to walk in to office works

http://www.officeworks.com.au/retail/products/Technology/Data-Storage/Desktop-Hard-Drives/SGTC4000BK