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As per description. Not a portable HDD. It is the bigger version with power cord.
Seagate Expansion 5TB Desktop HDD $180 after 20% Discount @ The Good Guys eBay Store
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TomGum on 30/11/2014 - 18:19 ebay.com.au (1223 clicks)
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The one on amazon is the backup plus version. This one is the expansion version.
whats the difference
Backup Plus has preloaded backup software (although it doesn't automatically allow for multiple versions of files to be kept), and a more stylish design. The previous Backup Plus model is sold in Australian stores (I got mine from Dick Smith) and has a more stylish casing than the regular External drives; also illustrated to stand upright. Costs just about $10 more. A nice gimmick is the capacity gauge light on the front.
Additional 2 year warranty for extra 10USD.
So I wonder if the amazon one has 12 month standard warenty.
On my receipt it says 36 months warranty.
what good is warranty if your data is gone
Why would it be gone? And if it does go away, why would you not have a back up of your data?
And where is the guarantee that data wont be lost with any other hdd?
Nothing personal btw. Just some simple questions I asked myself before I purchased this.
They will give you a new hard drive?
They never said how long it will last and they are many reasons why a hard drive can die.@apnamasti: what if that WAS your backup drive
all im saying is that in all my years
HDDs either die and are not worth the trouble to fix or even if they are its usually out of warrantyOr they can be fixed by yourself
either case warranty rarely becomes useful so shouldnt matter whether its local stock or not and certainly not worth paying extra for warranty
In my experience you usually get warning signs before a hard drive is going to fail (errors, slow speeds, clicking noises etc). Before any of my hard drives have failed I have been able to copy everything to a new drive before it completely stopped working.
Of course you should backup any critical data that you can't afford to lose.
@furythree: If that WAS your backup drive, then you'll have the data on your production drive. If it ain't on your production drive, then the failed drive was not your backup drive.
All Seagate hard drive comes with a pack of plugs for world wide so they can just make the same thing, then making it base on per country.
I buffolo seagate 3tb just failed… still under warranty…but cbf doing warranty.
I will give them a second chance and buy this one….hope this one is better?
As an OzBargainer how could you allow $100+ to be lost?
Give them a second change with an RMAToo late…its dismantled. The ccontoller failed the Hard drive still good..I got 3TB of movies& personel stuff* …not going to hand that in to Seagate
i bought 2 3TB hardrives
one started to get really slow and when watching a movie on it would just freeze the video and the other just started to say CRC errors in utorrent
now this happened at the exact same timenow they both just blue flashing lights
took 1 out put it directly in the pc and nothing
the hardrives were taken out of the box placed on a table and never moved@mp3police:
"the hardrives were taken out of the box placed on a table and never moved"Would you expect them to move?
Ah, fair enough. "Personal stuff" can only mean one thing ;)
WARNING SEAGATE DRIVE FAILURE RATE is HIGH
http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/175089-who-makes-the-most…
AFTER 3 year
SEAGATE 73% FAILURE rate
Western Digital 94% FAILURE rateLOL…How do I cancel my Order?
I think you have the figures wrong way around. This is percentage still running
Lol… How do I edit my post so i dont look stupid?
I don't think you can if someone has responded to your post.
I'd like to share my experience with the two brands.
First of all, all harddisks would fail anytime due to manufacture defects or conditions of use and will fail sometime having reached their lifespan.
1) WD: I had a WD 1T harddisk some years back that failed within warranty. RMA was created but I realised that I had to send it to WD's Singapore service address on my own cost, which is normal. However, the estimated postage from AusPost was more than 120% (~$60) of buying a new one (<$50 at the time). I sent an email to them and let them know the shipping cost that does not make sense in the case of warranty service and asked if they had an Australian address to send to. I never received any response from them. The disk is still sitting in my garage.
I hope they would have a local service department now. But anyway I don't bother to find out as I have not bought any WD products since then. The reason I bought that WD disk was because it's a couple of dollars cheaper than an Seagate disk of the same capacity at the time.
2) Seagate: I have two cases of Seagate harddisk failure among dozens of my Seagate harddisks (I have been using Seagate harddisks from the time when 10G was the largest capacity. I have 10G, 20G, 100G etc Seagate harddisks in working order sitting in my garage after retirement.) Shipping a harddisk to Seagate's Sydney service office would only cost me a few dollars. Not having to have the trouble to package it and bring it to Postoffice to send it, I just dropped it to their Sydney service office on my way to do other things and received it back at my door later.
Anyone knows when TGG's 20% discount will end?
Dec 2
I used to buy hard disks in duplicates or more. From past practices, I used to swap pcb /onboard controller of dead hard disk with the good one to extract data. Of course this only works if they are of the same batch (or firmware etc..) and the cause of failure is not mechanical.
thanks OP @$36.00 a TB good deal for local pick up
Tried to price match at Officeworks, after a lot of waiting around no joy. Needless to say have one on order shipped for only $5, will cost the driver that much just to start his van in petrol costs alone.
I'm a little annoyed. Ordered Sunday night.
My local store is literally 5 mins drive from me so wanted to do the local pickup option to save $12.88 in postage (i got 2)
Only to find out my local store is 'Out of Stock'. So with no other option i figured it's still a good deal anyway and purchased with delivery.
So what happens? the order is assigned to and the stock fulfilled by my local store anyway, which was apparently out of stock.
Bastards stole my $12.88 !
Thanks Mate. This ends up being about the same price as ordering from amazon from this deal- https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/171453
But buying from the good guys you get a local warranty and Australian power cable and I assume you can also get another 2% cashback from cashrewards?