Some more nice price drops before the CTECHIE deal ends tonight. All prices include free shipping.
Kingston 8GB 1600MHz DDR3L $45.60
Kingston 8GB 2133MHz DDR4 $45.60
MSI GEFORCE GTX 960 Gaming Video Card 4GB GDDR5 $324
MSI GEFORCE GTX 970 Gaming Video Card 4GB GDDR5 $448
Seagate Archive 8TB 3.5“ 6GB Internal HDD $287.20
Thanks to EC for the original CTECHIE eBay 20% off deal post
are these suitable for a SOHO NAS ?
edit: oh bugga. maybe next time. will stick with REDs…
Seagate does not recommend it for NAS.
Archive HDDs are not intended for surveillance or NAS applications, and you may experience lower performance in these environments. For these applications, Seagate NAS HDDs and Seagate Surveillance HDDs are suggested for better performance and reliability.
They'll work. They'll just be slooooow.
Slow, and possibly unreliable. They are rated for 180Tb a year, and warranted for 3 years, so under heavy use product lifetime could be an issue. Negative reviews on Amazon mentioned below point this way too.
@oztonyau: 180TB/year is quite a lot for a SOHO. That's filling up then formatting and filling up the 8TB drive again completely almost once a fortnight.
At the drive's speeds, it might even take a whole week to fill up 8TB worth. ;)
The warranty is more like a car warranty.
x years or Y km. Whichever happens first.
This model is three years or 8760 hours powered on. Which equals one year.
@eug: On the Seagate spec sheet attached to the page.
Under reliability/Data integrity heading. Power on hours.
It's a fairly common practice. It's the same with Western Digital Green drives.
@andyD101: That just says it's rated for 24x7 operation (=8760 hours). It doesn't say the warranty is limited to 8760 hours. It states the warranty is 3 years.
The WD Green PDF also does not say anything about a POH limit. It simply states the warranty is for 2 years.
Shipping a hard disk within Australia is one thing, shipping a bare drive from Hong Kong is another!
Outdated link.
They've been selling it here for $325.80 which comes down to $260.64: http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/172105732878
They put one up every couple of hours it seems - I've finally snagged three for my NAS.
hi Broden
IS the archive drie something you wouldn't want to read/write to alot? I have plex media server running on my PC and my drive is almost full, would this be suitable to dump some of the older shows/movies I watch less frequently on, or better off going with a NAS drive?
Check the negative amazon reviews: http://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Archive-6GBps-Internal-ST8000A…
Might just be a few duds, but enough of them to make me avoid the drive at this early stage of its life.
Enjoy peace a mind with a drive engineered for 24×7 workloads of 180TB per year
Seems not.
I would say yes - that's what I'm using mine for. Just bought another 3.
Something you won't want to write to a lot.
From wikipedia:
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Conventional hard disk drives record data by writing non-overlapping magnetic tracks parallel to each other (perpendicular recording), while shingled recording writes new tracks that overlap part of the previously written magnetic track, leaving the previous track narrower and allowing for higher track density. Thus, the tracks partially overlap similar to roof shingles.
""
A visual representation:
http://www.storagereview.com/images/SMR%20shingled%20technol…
The downside is if you want to make a write earlier on the track, you will erase the next part. So the entire slab has to be written again. Greatly increasing the write time.
Similar to what I would need one for for my Kodi setup, but with all these mixed reviews I think I'll wait another year or so, I can manage with smaller capacities until then, unless someone can give me a solid reason to jump on at this price point? (which seems good if it worked similar to a 5400RPM WD Green drive for example), but my understanding is it won't and it won't last nearly as long either so there's no long term point? although bulk writes will only be 10-20GB at a time once every few days and speed withing a half hour to transfer a 10-20GB file would not be a hindrance to me if thats the only real issue?
i cant believe the price of the 970 GTX which is 2 years ago hasn't gone down since it came out :(
It has gone down, but so has our dollar.
Just wait for Pascal GPUs, that and maybe our $AUD to improve.
That's when I will be purchasing my GPU.
That's what I keep hanging out for, too. Well, at least the AUD finally got back up to 75 USD. It's a start.
Do we have any dates on Pascal though?
Maybe in mid year
Everyone keeps saying "just wait for pascal" but if you cant afford $400 for a 970, itll be hard for you to afford a pascal card that will.be $800+ when it comes out.
Maybe prices of existing cards will drop then?
Second hand cards will drop as well.
You're getting the wrong idea.
Wait til Pascal GPUs come out, and the prices of the GTX 960/970 will drop.
I have no interest in Pascal.
He never said he couldn't afford a 970, there's also going to be 0 chance that the 970 replacement would cost $800+. If you've seen the past couple generations of video cards it should be pretty obvious that Pascal/Polaris would offer better price/performance than what's available now.
Serious? I paid $530 for that MSI 970 exactly a year ago (back when our dollar was less terrible). Now its $448. This was (by a significant margin) the most expensive 970 available at the time i bought mine. Great card.
So given our dollar has died, an $82 drop is decent.
Nice deal, fyi when buying the 970 there is a promo for a copy of The Division assuming this is local stock. You'll need to claim by registering your card with MSI and supplying s/n and purchase invoice.
http://www.geforce.com/games-applications/pc-games/tom-clanc…
I know because I bought the same card but paid $489 :(
Cheers my gigabyte g1 970 arrived today was hoping for this any other games too?
I think there's an ASUS specific promo for FarCry: Primal too
Or you can get the "Gigabyte GeForce GTX960 4GB GDDR5" for $276 from Futu. Any reason to go with the MSI at $324?
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Gigabyte-GeForce-GTX960-4GB-GDDR5…
It looks cooler
hahaha - more DPort outs.
That's a pretty reasonable price. 4gb is a waste of time for the 960, but at that price why not?
I'm tempted, my 6970 is a tad loud these days!
Yea - I`m waiting/wanting to pull the trigger, running a 650ti at the moment.
I thought the 4GB was good for console ports that use heaps of ram?
$300+ is not a good price for a GTX 960 in my opinion. The R9 380 also beats the GTX 960 in performance for around the same price.
Thanks for making it more complicated! :P
The R9 is also double the TDP. Horses for courses.
GTX 960 can be silent due to low power usage. Nice if you're not always gaming
Sad about the NUC6I3SYH price, $499 futu_online $429 shoppingexpress.
Does the NUC memory need to be non-ECC or ECC?
ECC is generally just servers… the NUC's need low voltage RAM however… 1.35v vs the standard 1.5v
Sorry, slightly off topic, does anyone know the cost of 20% off price is covered by eBay, store, or both?
I am sure seller pays eBay some fees when a sale is made, just that how was the discounted honored?
Love to know more.
eBay covers the full discount.
Is anyone having problems with eBay purchasing from futu_online with PayPal?
I just tried doing 2x separate transactions and once I confirm payment I end up with a "Your payment is still being processed" message with no email/record of transaction in PayPal or eBay.
Don't want to try again in case it triple charges me lol.
I got the same thing twice just earlier with futu and ebay - once using my girlfriend's ebay account (2 get 2x 500 gb ssd), and then using my own account (to get a 8th archive drive). But then i used my account to get a 250gb ssd, and it worked perfectly.
And I can't find anything in the purchase history on Ebay to indicate that the purchase is even going through their system.
Yeah I had the same thing but was able to change my card and it worked.
Happened to me last night when dust settled had 3 x i5 i5 6500 cpu had to cancel 2 this morning said payment declined 30 mins later I had 3 cpus
Yes. Happened to me today and yesterday!! not sure if I would re-purchase again as tonight is last chance.
Are they easy to comumicate/cancel if double ordered?
FUTU NUC'S ARE OVERPRICED.
WHAT?
nuc's from futu store is over priced, shopping express is much cheaper but unfortunately discount code doesnt apply with them still makes futu cheaper
futu store is over priced
But then
still makes futu cheaper
Yes they are
currently using R9 270 Dual-X. Is it worth to upgrade to gtx 970? was looking for 980ti but i'm not using 4k monitor so nah.
Do you feel the 270 isnt pushing the frames/detail levels you want?
If yes, then get the 970 :)
but it's pretty old though. i'm afraid a new one will release soon and the price will drop like crazy
I had the same issue, coming from 270x to 970. I'm loving it now I have it.
Tom's hardware always says just 2-3 tiers if you can, and the 970 is 3 above the 270x iirc.
You'll be getting ultra (last years games, and bf4) and very high (new games like hitman) with 60fps, dips to 58 sometimes.
What FPS do you play, whats FPS of screen?
edit: not sure if ebay deal still going, but cheaper cards from Kogan (evga international warranty)
@ozbjunkie: last AAA game that I played was Witcher 3 but the fps is not that good. that's the only concern as the upcoming games will require more than what i have now
I'm thinking of selling my 270x (sapphire, vapour). (note the links below are not mine… i read no private selling on the comments).
ebay has some ones going cheap if you have crossfire - i read that 270x in CF can compete with 970 if you dont need the extra RAM.
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Sapphire-Radeon-R9-270X-2048-MB-P…
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Sapphire-Radeon-R9-270X-2048-MB-P…
Would be nice if it was notebook memory…
Ordered the DDR4 RAM.
Was looking for a cheap stick to test a system where I'm getting a ton of memory related BSOD's yet Memtest is returning no errors…. Figured I'd rule it out just in case.
That's a real good price for the Seagate 8TB!