Great price on external 2TB drive at Jb Hi Fi online. Will sell fast
Seagate Expansion Desktop 2TB USB3.0 - $79.20 @ JB Hi Fi Online
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Then again I was already at OW and I would pay $20 not to visit another store today.
JB Hi-Fi always has low or no postage- $4.95 to anywhere in Aus on this- thumbs up.
As opposed to OW who sent me an email a while back saying that their standard rate for me is now a flat rate of $25.95, yes $25.95, regardless of cost or weight of purchase. They clearly do not want my business.
I bought this one last year for $79, just wondering why the price is not going down yet?
That's equal to a 10% reduction when you consider AU$ drop from a year ago
Thanks. That's I though but not sure, so this is the best price now.
Any ideas for boxing day discount elsewhere?
Bought 2 of these for $99 at Dick Smith a month ago. No complaints!
Just ordered 4 for pickup (2 x 2 orders). Used gift cards on the Mastercard deal. Makes it effectively $60 each.
So 4 x $80 = $320
$320 - $60 = $260
~$65 eachOk If I buy 2 of them for $160 and use the $30 Gift card and pay rest $130 using master card, do I still get another $30 Gift Card. As per the T&Cs I should get one. That would make 2 X 2TB for 100$ , $50 each :D
I used 4 $100 gift cards (because online you can only use max of two per order).
So I paid $400 in MasterCard. Have $520 total giftcard value. I used $320 of the $520.. Which is 62%. 62% of $400 is $246. So the drives are basically $62 each.
Thats good. What I am asking is piggy backing on part payment using $30 eVoucher from MC Deal and pay rest (more than $100) using MC. So that becomes cheaper than using just Gift vouchers. Of course that is subjective to the MC deal still being valid which looks like it might be. If not I will just return the drives as I will not open them till I get the Bonus $30 Cards.
So 2 X 2TB = $160
Use $30 e-Gift from MC Deal.
Pay Balance $130 using MC
Get $30 Bonus GC in email 3 days later.You realize you just spent $230 in MC cash. In return you got $160 of drives plus $100 item from first purchase and $30 GC, total of $290.
$290 return from $230 real spend isn't very good.
As long as I get another $30 voucher I guess its ok. I dont want the risk of buying some more Gift cards and not getting any of the bonus $30 card. For the HDDs, I can always return them if I dont get the gift card.So thats the idea. I usually never buy from JB because of their shitty PDA and Cost Price policy no price matches.
Their return policy is quite good though
From previous experience-I got a 2TB USB2.0 model of the Seagate Expansion. The design of the new model is almost the same as my old one- lack of ventilation!! Mine died after just 1 year and losing about 1.5 TB of data is devastating. I strongly recommend to go for a higher end model with better ventilation (ie. Seagate Backup Plus).
Do you have it constantly on?
Anyone know the specs of the internal drive?
Thickness and if it has SATA connector with usb bridge board or is the usb connector straight on the drive?bought this about a year ago at 79$ been using almost daily, very reliable , not sure why the price is not coming down.
i think it has 5400rpm drive in it (judging based on transfer speeds)
Can I pull out the drive inside and use it as a internal drive ?
The older model yes, I did just that with two of them. This newer model would be very similar I imagine.
Transfer speed (ie. Throughput) has nothing to do with rotational speed. On all modern drives, only random IOPS are dependent on rotational speed.
If you are going to use an internal drive, I recommend you to buy WD elements 3TB instead of this. For $99(that's regular price at MSY), you get 3TB of data.
Wow, it looks like a great value indeed I'll have a look into that. Thanks motor
Only downside, if you care about speed is it's USB 2.0 only.
To use as an internal drive. SATA.
It's actually a USB 3.0. And this have no effect if using for internal drive. USB is just the interface they are all SATA drives inside.
Just price matched at OW West Gosford. Came to 75.24. Minus 5% paywave = $71.48. They had a big shelf full of them.
Thankyou fellow coastie ;)
Might be looking at this
does any1 know what hdd is inside this?
Just checked the Castle Hill JB
On the shelf it's $99 with smallish post-it-note-style mini ads saying 20% off Seagate drives
So that explains the $79.20Also, the code in the link above is not the product code.
I checked in JB-HIFI and it's the same code as the OW online code.
So I walked to OW and price matched
$75.24 ;)A.c.powered means you need to connect to power point yeah? Does anyone else find this as a burden?
For those people that is interested in this drive (model STBV2000300), the harddisk inside is a ST2000DM001. It is a 2TB, 7200rpm with 64M cache. I certainly can't complain :)
Fuuuuuu- just paid $100 for this not 2 hours ago.