Awesome price for au stock 4tbs and pickup is available.
Seagate Expansion 4TB External 7200rpm USB3.0 $179 @ Officeworks
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MATTDAMON on 21/05/2013 - 08:12 officeworks.com.au (1274 clicks)
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Nice. Melbourne Collins St store obliged at $169.10. Split purchase with ING Visa paywave for 5% off $99 brought it under $165. Thanks very much for the prompt.
QV Officeworks pricematched 2 for me. $169.10 each
Or get 2 x 2TB for about the same price ($89 x 2) at the post office.
Defiantly better if you want to use RAID 0 or 1
You want to raid usb drives?
Jackwoz defies your USB, man!
(probably he means crack it open and put it in a desktop PC, though most of us will never raid 1 or 0 large storage disks)
Sorry guys, you are correct. I was going to take them out of the enclosure
If you've got 2 2TB drives in a RAID 1 configuration it beats the hell out of a 4TB drive in my opinion.
can rip out the drive to stick in a n40l right?
yeah here's a youtube video on how to rip it: http://youtube.com/watch?v=11obHqzx_bw, it's the 3TB model but similar enclosure.
Yep, and if you are careful you can reuse the USB 3.0 case again.
I have 2 x 3TB drives installed in the N40L and they work perfectly running Ubuntu 12.04LTS
Note: if anyone is wishing to rip these out for internal use or in your NAS use this deal http://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/103901 - means you will still have it covered under warranty - same price/deal
Not the same deal. That one is a horrible seller with no pickup option.
Ah right thanks for the clarification
they pricematched dicksmith's price lastweek to avoid losing 5% based from this previous deal. http://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/103261
must…resist…urge…to buy…4
Resistance is futile !
What drive is inside the enclosure? I want to check that it works with my QNAP.
Grabbed three this morning from OW, opened one up so far and it's a ST4000DM000-1F2168 with firmware revision CC51.
More information - this is a 5900rpm drive - the 3TB are 7200rpm.
Slightly slower throughput according to websites than the 3TB, but given its in a QNAP, the limitation will be the network.
Theres a 4TB Buffalo on sale at the moment on ebay for the exact same price (Shipping included)
http://groupbuy.ebay.com.au/deal?itemId=360655795784
Someone said in a previous post that a Hitachi 4TB is inside that. StorageReviews has 4TB Hitachi as best if that means anything to you guys. shrug
Just a heads up~
Anyone know which is probably better to get? My 1GB one is almost full.
Edit: Just read the rest of your comment. So this one is better than the Seagate?
If you've only used 1GB you could probably just buy a USB thumbstick or start using a rewritable DVD.
:P Obviously meant 1TB. However I use to copy all my files to DVDs… then I started to get lazy.
Doesn't look like an AU unit tho
just ordered one . Thanks.
I'm getting around 55MB/s continuous transfer via USB3 on an XP system with this drive.
I like how these drives are still usable with XP.
It's $167.15 USD inc delivery on amazon.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00BFFQN3M?ie=UTF8&force-fu…I think the OW one after the JB price beat may still be better though unless the AUD suddenly improves.
I just went to JB HiFI shop at Chatswood Westfield and bought one for $169. here is my receipt link: http://goo.gl/XxdF8, hence maybe your chance to price match it @OW for $160.55
Just open my box and found below detail:
Hardware id:ST31000528AS_CC46. after a quick check, there is a 7200rpm harddriver
Outside the box: STBV40003000 4TB, MODEL,SRD00F2, ASSEMBLED AND PRODUCT OF THAILAND(HDD)
Looks not badST31000528AS is a older model 1TB drive, are you sure on that number?
Yes. you are right, I have a big mistake. This hardware id is for my local hard disk not for the USB driver ：（
Anyone know what the reliability is like.
I bought a seagate 1tb over a year ago, and it died, along with the 700gb of data I had on it.I'd hate to lose 3tb of data.
Drives can and do inexplicably, randomly fail: it's why one should always have a backup strategy for the data.
Plus, even if a drive fails under warranty, it still generally takes a while for it to be replaced, so it can make sense to have a spare handy.
Agreed, if it's important, back it up at least once if not twice or even more if you really want to protect it.
All manufacturers have gone through bad patches but at the moment I think it's all much of a muchness, haven't heard any recent horror stories about mass drive failures. Last one was seagates 7200.11 fiasco which they seem to have well and truly gotten past.
thanks foobar.
Meant to hit the plus, but my fat mouse fingers missed.
negative vote revoked (by me), but now I can't re-vote.So have a virtual '+' vote.
I'd feel nervous about putting my eggs in such a big basket as 4TB, unless raid / mirrored in a NAS.
I'm using one to back my 4T media NAS onto. BTW, I got it three weeks ago for $169.00 at my local OW. Pricing error maybe?
But even at $179.00 it currently seems good value.
Dropped to $178 to match JB so no more pricebeats, boooooo.
yep, i went to buy and it didn't have the price so i said i want to price match JB and the guy smiled and said it is $178
ditto @ Alexandria… grrrr…..!!
I did the same thing at Officeworks Milton this morning. It scanned at $178, but their catalog that comes out tomorrow was sitting on the counter showing it as $179. I argued the point as it was still showing at $179 on their website (now showing at $178), so they gave it to me for $169.10.
Does anyone know the legal implications of this ? If they have a current published catalog price and published pricematch policy, are they allowed to sell it $1 cheaper to avoid honouring their pricematch guarantee ?
hmmm seems dodgy on the face of it but look at it this way. They say they have the lowest prices and will match their competitors even if they have a catalogue that comes out with a higher price. Most people would be happy they get a lower price than the catalogue not everyone is an ozbargainer so I'd say +1 to officeworks on actually keeping to their promise
Got one for $150 at JB @ Nunawarding today. The staff easily give this discount there and don't need a tough bargaining at all.
bylife can you take a picture and post it up so we can price match it with OW?
Here is the receipt.
BTW, I tried OW before paying this. And I was told that the advertising price could be matched only, not receipt. http://i387.photobucket.com/albums/oo312/bylife/20130524_114…
It's a $1 cheaper here http://www.jbhifionline.com.au/computers-laptops/computer-ac… so maybe you can price match and get an extra 5% off.