Under $100 AUD for a quality 2TB portable drive… has to be a great deal.
Lowest price ever according to the 3 Camels, and $37 cheaper than anything on Staticice
Note: To get this price, you need to pay with a 28 Degrees card (or similar). You'll pay around 3% more if you use Amazon's conversion rate.
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What do you mean Amar? This deal works out at 4.9 cents per GB. And totally confused about your $1 per GB comment.
Maybe on a 28 Degrees card, on the right exchange rate day, it does. I think after conversion and all that, it's probably $105 for most, if not more.
That deal I linked to was local stock (and plenty of it; can't put a price on that), excellent value, and still hasn't been beaten by a local retailer here since. Arguably a better product too; if you ask the Seagate flame-squad.
Amar, the USD exchange rate has been steady (~1.075847) for at least 2 months. I'm assuming anyone with intentions of buying from Amazon would have a 28 Degrees CC or something similar to avoid transaction fees. Even if they didn't, and elected to pay with a 'normal' CC, the most they would pay delivered is around the $102 AUD mark. Cheers.
@tightarse: Not of all us subscribe to the enough-cards-to-play-Texas-Hold-Em school of thought and hinging a bargain on a good exchange rate isn't really a bargain; it's just coincidence.
Anyway, this is a good buy, but I'm lamenting at the fact that local retailers are totally stagnant and regressive in hard drive pricing. We shouldn't have to go overseas for a sane price on a fairly pedestrian, non-luxury item like this.
Cheers.
@Amar89: I found out about 28 degrees cards from oz bargain and now have one. I'm sure many are in the same boat as me.
You only need two cards in your hand to play Texas-hold-em …
Op. Thanks for the post.
$1 per GB? Where have you've seen 2TB drives that cost over $2000?
What the "PC + Mac Ready PC Only" means?
Probably just referring to.formatted NFTS.
any suggestions for a well priced 4TB?
Add 2 to cart?
Just in case anyone was confused, works seamlessly on my PC and my fiance's Mac.
if format to FAT then can use both on PC and Mac but only transfer up to 4GB .
Just use exFAT and you get the best of both worlds: Both PC and Mac compatibility with no file size restriction.
thanks bro
Not sure if it's an external hard drive or the monolith from 2001: A Space Odyssey..
Format to exFAT, work with both PC and Mac without 4GB limitation
is it metal like the slim version or only plastic
plastic - definitely not safe from drops imo (I own one)
Anything else I should order at amazon?
The Sandisk extreme pro 128 GB is still $99
My X230T need a 7mm HDD, but it seems the largest model is only 500GB. Wish they produce 2TB in 7mm, then I will get a mSata for OS.
The WD My Book's $14 more at $98, think it's worth it for the +1 year warranty? I'm on the fence right now about which brand to go with. On one hand the Amazon rating for this is pretty good, on the other hand there's the Backblaze post a while back showing Seagates as the least reliable compared to WD and Hitachis http://lifehacker.com/the-most-and-least-reliable-hard-drive….
Warranty is my biggest concern as well. Economically its not feasible to ship back, so it boils down to russian roulette. I prefer to buy local stuff with 3 year warranty but damn, these overseas deals are so appealing.
In the last few years there have been a lot of (more than there should be) 'bad' hard drives from most if not all the major manufactures. I'm still on the fence on this one.
Guys if you have local stuff, do everyone and yourself a favour, check your hard drive for the signs of failure a couple months before the warranty runs out and if you have bad sectors and/or an increasing 'relocated or pending sector count' send it in for warranty. Higher warranty returns may encourage manufactures to deliver consumers better products.
How do you test for those mentioned signs of failure?
Use the manufacturer's utility program (from their website) to check the drives recorded smart data.
@King Tightarse: Nah, stuff their half-baked utility programs. Just use Crystal Disk Info, Speccy or HD Tune.
All free and brilliant. (HD Tune has a paid version but it's not necessary if you're just checking the S.M.A.R.T data).
How do you test for those mentioned signs of failure?
Have a look at the S.M.A.R.T statistics with those programs above and check the following attributes regularly:
Any number other than zero in those attributes, for a brand-new hard drive, is unacceptable and warrants immediate refunding.
For a 2 - 3 year old hard drive (any hard drive with a power-on hours count of over 15,000 hours is generally "old" and has chewed through many reads & writes by average user standards), you may potentially have low, single-digit values in some of those attributes, due to things like blackouts, crashes, hardware instability, etc. They may in some cases affect the hard drive's seek times and transfer rates.
Past 2 - 3 years into the average HDD's life; as long as you're regularly checking those attributes and there are no dramatic increases in any of them over very short periods of time (2 reallocated sectors increasing to 3 over the span of a year is fine; 2 going up to 50 in a week is bad), your hard drive will generally last the life of it's mechanical components.
(For SSDs these variables will be different or not applicable depending on the manufacturer/model; but reallocated sectors on an SSD are also a bad sign, though due to the nature of flash memory manufacturing, most SSDs come with bad memory blocks out of the factory but they have hefty reserves of spare blocks to cover that.)
Thanks for the info Amar. Apologies it's taken this long to read this and reply.
You mentioned the manufacturers utilities were half baked - so you think using a 3rd party program like crystal disk info, speccy, or HD Tune are better at reading the SMART data from a HDD? Or it's just they offer other more advanced options?
I just received the hard drive from this deal a few days ago, collected it from the gf now and am thinking of testing it. Given you gave three recommendations, is there any in particular out of crystal disk, speccy or hd tune you'd recommend for the newbie, that clear and plainly shows those dot pointed Count areas you posted above?
I thought speccy was a program used to give you system stats though as I remember using it to find out what RAM I had a short while back?
Edit: So just basically wondering if these tools are diagnostic tools that only work on SMART data given back after doing some data copying, read/write, so they won't help as much on new drives?
Or are these utilities which actually do read/write tests, aka stress tests to test the drive? Don't really know what programs do this but I assume it would be more safer and reliable for a software test that actually tries to stress the hdd's usage, than just read the current SMART data (as i assume new HDD = there won't really be much smart data/statistics to date? Or am I incorrect in my thinking?)
Now $89.99
Paid $90 + ship less than a week ago. :/
Great price! I paid USD99+shpping about 2 and half weeks ago, only received it yesterday.
Get Amazon on chat. They will likely refund you the difference :)
can this be used for ps4?? I'd like to purchase this just to upgrade my ps4 hd. If anyone know please share
I doubt it. This is be a 12.5mm HDD, which is presumably too thick for a PS4.
Forgive me if this is a silly question but will you need an adaptor being as it's from overseas?
No. Portable HDDs get their power from the USB port. USB is the same interface all over the world, so no power adapter is required.
it's now AUD 108.60 delivered. still might be a better price than elsewhere.
Daaaaaamn thats a good price :D But I'm still looking for a good deal on a 1TB..