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TOSHIBA Canvio 1.5TB USB 3.0 2.5" HDD $102 Delivered @ DSE (3 Years Warranty)

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TOSHIBA Canvio 1.5TB USB 3.0 2.5" HDD $102 Delivered @ DSE (3 Years Warranty)
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[Deactivated] on 07/11/2013 - 11:54 m.dicksmith.com.au (1535 clicks)

Toshiba Canvio 1.5TB USB 3.0 2.5" HDD $102 Delivered @ DSE (3 Years Warranty)

Canvio Basics 3.0 Plus products have been designed and manufactured in accordance with Toshiba's high quality product standards, incorporating the latest technology and user-interface, while ensuring best-in-class performance, quality and workmanship.

With Toshiba's Canvio Basics 3.0 Plus Portable Hard Drives, you'll enjoy portable storage space for even the largest digital libraries.

Each Canvio Basics 3.0 Plus Portable Hard Drive includes an internal shock sensor and ramp loading technology to help keep your drive safe.

Key Features

  • Storage for your computer made simple.
  • Canvio Basics 3.0 Plus Portable Hard Drives are an ideal portable add-on storage expansion solution that makes your storage easy and simple.
  • Extremely portable with a compact design, the sleek looking and post card sized Canvio Basics 3.0 Plu Portable Hard Drives are an ideal travel companion.
  • Canvio Basics 3.0 Plus Portable Hard Drives offer plug and play ease of use that's ready to go out of the box with no software to install. Just connect it to the USB port on your computer and you are good to go.
  • Whether for work, school, or digital entertainment, Canvio Basics 3.0 Plus Portable Hard Drives accommodate large digital files with spacious storage capacity. You can rest assured that there is a Canvio Basics 3.0 Plus Portable Hard Drive that meets your storage needs and your lifestyle.
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  • hashtagbargain on 07/11/2013 - 11:56
    +1

    This is a pretty great deal, esp with 3 yr aussie warranty.

    Wait dont portable HDDs always come with 3 yrs warranty?

  • mily on 07/11/2013 - 12:39
    +4

    $3 more than previous deal, I will leave it again.

    http://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/119809

  • kaikor on 07/11/2013 - 13:22

    They must have lots in stock, but should make it cheaper than the older deal …

  • alirt on 07/11/2013 - 14:43

    i have been tossing up between a 4th desktop drive and a second portable for the last couple of days.. maybe this is a sign!

  • Mugsy on 07/11/2013 - 15:14

    I have a 750Gb Toshiba portable HDD that's still kicking along great. Would grab one if I didn't have so many portable HDDs already.

  • troyww on 07/11/2013 - 16:24

    Toshiba warranty is a joke . Unlike every other brand in Australia , they don't keep track of serial numbers so you will have to keep your receipt . Seagate , WD , etc you just pump the serial number into an online webpage and it will tell you what the warranty status of your drive is . Toshiba has a warranty status page just not for people living within Australia . I was staggered to be told this when my laptop drive died prematurely and despite quit a a bit of noise making , found no love with Toshiba Australia . I'd never bother again .

    • naira on 07/11/2013 - 16:50

      Well my WD died and WD support said I need to ship it to Malaysia and they don't have local site to ship it to. If Toshiba's warranty allows you to ship it within Australia as long as you have the receipt then I would just go with them.

      • naira on 07/11/2013 - 19:08
        +2

        Update: I called Toshiba support and they told me, if your HD fails and is still under warranty, you return to the shop you bought it from (receipt needed). I then went to DSE and asked them how does the warranty work, the guy told me the same thing as what Toshiba support said. So I bought this one from DSE.

        • NimitzHarrington on 07/11/2013 - 23:00

          Thanks for the info naira, good stuff!

        • andy911 on 08/11/2013 - 17:46
          +1

          Under Australian consumer law, you always have the right to take it back to the place of purchase for any warranty claim. The shop may swap things over for you there and then as Bunnings do with their home brand items that have an exchange warranty. Or, as in most cases they will send it onto the manufacturer.
          If it's quicker/easier whatever to deal with the manufacturer (eg Apple) then you can do so. But when a shop tries to fob you off, just insist and state that they have to process and pay for the shipping themselves under the law.
          (EDIT: fix typo)

        • cheapy on 08/11/2013 - 23:20

          Dat Consumer Law talk always gets me hot and sweaty!!! wink

  • mshanann on 07/11/2013 - 16:26

    Is anyone using a portable drive like this with a media player such as WD TV?

    Or is better to get a powered drive for such use-cases?

    • dqtl74 on 07/11/2013 - 16:28

      Aside from less storage I don't see a problem.

  • tyler.durden on 07/11/2013 - 16:30

    I don't think toshiba are as reliable as seagate or WD ..

    what do ppl think?

    My own experience
    last time i got imation from officework
    it failed within one year

    And it contain toshiba hdd

    • Ahan on 07/11/2013 - 17:04
      +1

      Lots of Macs have toshiba drives in them.

    • [Deactivated] on 07/11/2013 - 18:36

      cross off seagate then too.

      • tyler.durden on 07/11/2013 - 18:48

        but worldwide

        seagate and WD are biggest hdd makers..

        so they would have more experience..and better
        R & D etc…
        bigger factories

        • Bob81 on 07/11/2013 - 21:51

          Your missing the point with hard-drives.

          The hard-drives that we as consumers buy, compared to say server hard-drives costing many times more are ALL JUNK.

          They're made as cheaply as possible to the lowest possible standard.

          Saying that one brand is better than the other is just plain gullible.

    • [Deactivated] on 07/11/2013 - 18:55
      +3

      I think people make way too big a deal out of their (generally limited) personal experiences in judging the reliability of hard drive manufacturers — having one or two drives fail is way too small a sample size to draw any reliable conclusions.

      Any modern drive made by WD, Seagate, Toshiba or HGST will be fine. There's been a huge amount of consolidation in the sector over the past few years, too; WD now owns HGST, and they also own Toshiba's Thailand manufacturing facilities.

      • snorbert on 08/11/2013 - 07:38
        +1

        well, I've seen failure rates on Seagate's enterprise variant of their dreaded "moose drive" - Google for that or Barracuda 7200.11 to see the sad history - in a data centre installation of 1200 1TB units, and after about 3.5 years the failure rate was roughly a third of all the original drives. These things are in a fairly well controlled environment but it is true that they are worked much harder than any home usage pattern - think 3 solid years of constant seeky data access.

        In any case with that sample size, it's pretty clear that that model was a disappointment. The very frequent RAID rebuilds under heavy load did help a co-worker uncover a data corruption bug with Linux MD RAID-6 rebuild (very sporadic 4KB blocks of zero bytes written instead of rebuilt data), so it's nice to know that is now fixed for everyone… =:^)

        The big thing I would say is, don't expect consumer drives to work well outside standard consumer usage: a year or so later, as an experiment we bought 12 each of Samsung consumer 1TB and Seagate and Hitachi enterprise SATA drives for some 1RU servers. The Seagate and Hitachi drives worked well, but the Samsung drive performance was all over the place due to vibration. You could take a node out of the rack and the drives would act fine, but back with all the other nodes and their screaming little 40mm fans the Samsung drives could not reliably keep their heads positioned. The emphasis in enterprise SATA drive datasheets on extra accelerometers for better vibration compensation is well founded.

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