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WD Element 1TB External 3.5'' HDD @ Amazing. $95 @ Officeworks Retail/Online Nationwide

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WD Element 1TB External 3.5'' HDD @ Amazing. $95 @ Officeworks Retail/Online Nationwide
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AssociatedLDrag0n23 on 21/04/2010 - 21:26 officeworks.com.au (2621 clicks)
Last edited 26/04/2010 - 08:33 by 1 other user

Wow just to let you guys know theres a price breakthrough at Officeworks retail and Online store, there are HEAPS available of the WD elements 1tb hard drive!… get in soon OR it will sell out really fast as u can expect at that crazy price of $95!!!!!!!

OMG reduced from $99…. i feel a hard drive war going on guys!! haha…

Stocks available at all stores in VICTORIA saves at least $4.95 handling fee if ordered ONLINE, not sure it will be the same for other states in Australia, please confirm if anyone knows!

UPDATE****** yes available at all states in Australia, as Officeworks deliver nationwide! go grab 'em boyz 'n galz! =)

Mod: Updated price from $99 to $95 as this price reduction has been confirmed by several members.

THANKS mod. didnt have time to update posting, cheers mate!

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  • aussiedogga on 21/04/2010 - 21:34

    Can't believe I just bought the 500GB one from DSE a week ago for $99 thinking that was a bargain…

    Good find though. Certainly will sell out fast.

    • AssociatedDrag0n23 @ Officeworks on 21/04/2010 - 21:43
      +1

      ahh.. i think you must have brought the WD Element portable with USB powered right?
      Well this deal is on the WD Element 1tb 3.5inch 'desktop' hard drive, meaning it will need external power source, so its not USB powered! Hope that clarifies any doubts. cheers!

  • leyeon on 21/04/2010 - 21:45

    This is a 3.5" compared to the 500gb which was a 2.5" unit, so both are good deals.

    Stock was withheld until today so ALL stores will have heaps btw, oh and these are supposed to be for tax time sales, can't remember if its going to be replenished much if at all so pick one up before they run out. $94.05 for mine was pretty decent :)

    • AssociatedDrag0n23 @ Officeworks on 21/04/2010 - 21:49

      This drive will no doubt be their 'hero' item running right thru to tax time crunch!

  • mutantjohn on 21/04/2010 - 21:46

    I bought the same thing at dicksmith on a 'sale' for $119 :(

    • leyeon on 21/04/2010 - 21:49

      This is alot cheaper than other drives of this type by about $20-30, so most people who bought a 3.5" recently would be feeling the same thing!

  • alfy on 21/04/2010 - 21:49

    Will get onto this tomorrow, seems a great price.

  • SrMoure on 21/04/2010 - 21:59

    Good offer

    • AssociatedDrag0n23 @ Officeworks on 21/04/2010 - 22:00

      ahh.. i think you must have saw the WD Element 500GB portable with USB powered right?…Well this deal is on the WD Element 1tb 3.5inch ‘desktop’ hard drive, meaning it will need external power source, so its not USB powered!

  • AssociatedDrag0n23 @ Officeworks on 21/04/2010 - 22:03

    At this price, certainly won't last too long… btw, cheapest on Ebay is for $108 plus a ridiculous delivery of $19.95!! LOL wat theeeee….

  • AssociatedDrag0n23 @ Officeworks on 21/04/2010 - 22:05
    +1

    just a heads up… staticice.com.au has lowest @ $104.90 !! POW! beaten!

  • realsniper09 on 21/04/2010 - 22:10

    Yeah, awesome price if you are looking for a powered external HD!!!

  • snow36009 on 21/04/2010 - 22:11

    Got this drive for $95 3 weeks ago.
    It was on sale at JB for $115, got them down to $100, and got officeworks to price match and -5%

    • jason101 on 28/04/2010 - 08:44
      +1

      How did you get Officeworks to price match an un-published already haggled price ??

      They always give me a hard time when I have a legit price match with documentation…..

  • zac on 21/04/2010 - 22:13

    What's the difference between this and the WD 1TB My Book essential?

  • peter787 on 21/04/2010 - 22:16
    +1

    essential comes with smartware software. the warranties are the same, not sure if the build quality is different. eg the essential and elements have different casing

    • AssociatedDrag0n23 @ Officeworks on 21/04/2010 - 22:20

      yes peter787, also the Essential range has password protection aka encryption software as well, good if u need those confidential data private and away from unauthorised access, offers 3yrs limited warranty, but Officeworks usually just exchange them for new! =)

    • zac on 21/04/2010 - 22:23

      Ah cheers. I have the 1TB Essential which I got for $140 from OW a few weeks back, the software is bloody annoying can't get rid of it. Paying $40 less and no software would have been awesome.

  • thao18 on 21/04/2010 - 22:23

    warranty??

    • AssociatedDrag0n23 @ Officeworks on 21/04/2010 - 22:37

      offers 3yrs limited warranty, but Officeworks usually just exchange them for new within the 3yrs with invoice! =)

    • AssociatedDrag0n23 @ Officeworks on 21/04/2010 - 22:24
      +1

      offers 3yrs limited warranty, but Officeworks usually just exchange them for new within the 3yrs with invoice! =)

      • peter787 on 21/04/2010 - 22:36

        r u sure bout that, they still need to assessed by wd who usually replace the hdd once fault is verified.

        • AssociatedDrag0n23 @ Officeworks on 21/04/2010 - 22:40

          Yes, as long as you have the OW invoice from where u got it from, then theres NO problem exchanging them, as long as there is a actual fault with them. OW have top class 'return logistics' in place for WD drives! =)

          • peter787 on 21/04/2010 - 23:23

            @Drag0n23: sorry mate but your wrong, they will be sent to wd. it is not classed as a replacement warranty.

            • AssociatedDrag0n23 @ Officeworks on 21/04/2010 - 23:50

              @peter787: IF brought from Officeworks, staff there checks and verifies fault by testing it on the spot, they then photocopy your invoice, scans the box's barcode to verify if is returned via their internal returns logistics, which is most of the time OK, as the official WD supplier is Synnex. Faulty unit is then exchange on the spot within the Officeworks store. Obviously, staff there knows if its been physically damage, in which it is not covered under WD's 3yrs limited warranty.

              • peter787 on 22/04/2010 - 21:18

                @Drag0n23: not all stores work that way, that is not a normal ow policy, more stores are sending them to wd for fault verification.

  • _Dan_ on 21/04/2010 - 22:23

    Don't leave these plugged in 24/7 as the power supplies have a high fail rate, besides that issue it's a good deal.

    • AssociatedDrag0n23 @ Officeworks on 21/04/2010 - 22:25

      certainly GOOD advice there Dan man! =)

    • applebyte on 21/04/2010 - 22:28

      do these newer elements also have high rates of power supply failure??? my gen 1 had a power supply failure, and to get a replacement power supply I had to search for small computer stores that still had stock of the old model elements! (WD did not have any to give me!)… lucky I found a store (I had to buy another drive) to retrieve my data

      • AssociatedDrag0n23 @ Officeworks on 21/04/2010 - 22:32

        this element has been out for awhile now but havent read any issues with them at this stage, hopefully WD have learnt from their mistakes for the 1st Generation Element and fix those power issues ay!! I have the WD 320gb portable element drive and have NO issues with it at this stage, that was 3mth ago.

    • titus on 21/04/2010 - 22:35

      Good advice. I heard about the high failure rate of the power supply too. I have a 1TB Elements drive I bought from OW about 18 months ago now (with the rubber protection at each end) and had it plugged in 24/7 up until about 2 weeks ago. Luckily no failure, it's still good as but I don't want to take any chances. So now it sits unplugged until I need to use it. This is a good price.

      • AssociatedDrag0n23 @ Officeworks on 21/04/2010 - 22:48

        rememba to keep or photocopy your invoice, as it is printed on 'thermal' paper and is known to fade! Your warranty is still valid for another 18mth bro!

  • Rich on 21/04/2010 - 22:47

    What do others think? Would this be a better deal or would a 1TB My Book Essential for $129 at DSE (before OW price match) be better?

    • AssociatedDrag0n23 @ Officeworks on 21/04/2010 - 22:51
      +1

      1TB My Book Essential as 'Zac' said has annoying internal backup and encryption software, if you need the software than Essential is a better deal. if not, save abit of $$ and get the Element! for me it'll be the Element for sure! :)

      • Rich on 21/04/2010 - 22:54

        True that, but the Essential has a lot of lights :) and the current version has a on/off button unlike the superceded version I have. Does this one have an on/off button?

  • dipde1985 on 21/04/2010 - 22:58

    does anyone know if this drive can stand on its side with any stability (ie to take less table space)?

    • AssociatedDrag0n23 @ Officeworks on 21/04/2010 - 23:03

      Yes, this drive can sit on its side and save some precious space on your desk. most drives inside your average desktops these days are place vertically inside.

      • dipde1985 on 21/04/2010 - 23:07

        cheers. must get one tomorrow.
        Hope this insane response from ozbargain does not eat up all the stock in that time.

  • urandack on 21/04/2010 - 23:03

    Great deal, but external drives of this size really need to start having the esata interface… with USB, it will take ~11 hours to transfer 1TB of data.

    • AssociatedDrag0n23 @ Officeworks on 21/04/2010 - 23:06

      yes true true! but it all comes down to price, which is the driving force for most retail outlets out there! USB 3.0 would be awesome to the max ay!

  • pais on 21/04/2010 - 23:08
    +2

    It's a good deal — I wouldn't say "amazing". It's not exactly the first 1TB external to drop below 100.

    • AssociatedDrag0n23 @ Officeworks on 21/04/2010 - 23:12

      Its amazing as it is coming from a popular internationally known brand as Western Digital aka WD, but then again I might be mistaken if in past there was a deal greater or equal to this deal, my apologies in advance if thats the case. =)

      • pais on 21/04/2010 - 23:22

        It's a good deal (and I'm not suggesting otherwise) - I just wouldn't hype it up the way that it is :)

        There've been a couple 1TB @ less than 100 and 1.5TB at less than 150 floating around before.

  • m0tyrider on 21/04/2010 - 23:18

    Anybody know if the internal Drive is SATA? Because thats pretty cheap for a 1tb drive in general, Free enclosure :P

    • browser on 22/04/2010 - 01:40

      What else are you expecting? You ain't gonna get SCSI drive for that price. 1TB IDE/PATA drive doesn't exist.

      • pais on 22/04/2010 - 01:43

        The interface on many external drives are no longer SATA, but rather proprietary USB jacks. I'd assume that's what he's referring to.

  • furythree on 21/04/2010 - 23:55

    pardon my ignorance, but werent WD OEM drives being sold for like $84 or something a few weeks ago…i know this comes with a case and all, but i have a hdd dock so it wud still be more worth it for me to buy plain drives right?

    • pais on 22/04/2010 - 00:19
      +1

      Yeah, no real reason to buy an external if you have no need for the case.

    • browser on 22/04/2010 - 01:42
      +1

      No, you would be better off buying this one and use the enclosure as paper weight.

  • freddy on 22/04/2010 - 01:09

    A warning that this has 4K sectors, but the USB reports 512B.
    Beware repartitioning it with XP or Linux. Unless the partitions are aligned on 4K boundaries, you can get horribly slow writes.
    Vista seems to be OK with it.

    HN had these for $98 a few weeks ago.

    • Foma2 on 22/04/2010 - 12:07

      So, is it OK if I reformat it to 16K NTFS clusters ?

      • freddy on 22/04/2010 - 12:36

        Reformatting is not a problem. Partitioning is the problem.
        I wanted a to add a FAT32 partition that media players can see.

        However you format it, the hardware still has 4K sectors, but on USB the computer does not see that.

    • klif-e on 22/04/2010 - 13:44

      Any idea how to correctly partition this under OS X?

      As you say 512 Byte sectors are reported by USB to OS X.

      On Western Digital's site they have some instructions on how to format their drives but they don't look to be specific to the newer 4 Kilobyte sector drives

      http://wdc.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/wdc.cfg/php/enduser/popup_ad…

      • freddy on 22/04/2010 - 14:06

        On linux, you can use fdisk and 'u' command to display sectors rather than cylindars.
        Then create partitions starting on sector numbers that are a multiple of 8. (Not sector 63!)
        Does OS-X have similar?
        Or you can just partition it on another machine, then use OS-X to change the partition type to HFS or whatever, and format it.

        Blame Windows-XP for the stupid 512B emulation on the USB. :-)

  • 2stroksmokr on 22/04/2010 - 06:29

    would I be able to just remove it from the casing and chuck it in my pc?

    • timhn on 22/04/2010 - 08:50

      Would it be better to get the bare drive instead? Price probably less and warranty can be 3-5yr. You probably get a faster drive too.

      • ozblogger on 22/04/2010 - 09:47

        Yes warranty (3yrs) is the reason you should DIY (buy internal & case separate)

    • freddy on 22/04/2010 - 12:37

      would I be able to just remove it from the casing and chuck it in my pc?

      Yes, it is a SATA "green" drive. But they are cheaper bare, e.g. $82 here for the same drive:

      http://www.netplus.com.au/product/HD4/HDWE72RSATBA010R/Hard-…

      • [Deactivated] on 26/04/2010 - 22:15

        Only cheaper if you can pick up. To buy two of these and have them shipped it would cost more than to walk in and buy two externals, which is exactly what I am going to be doing later this week.

  • Orgazmo on 22/04/2010 - 12:50

    not sure whether to buy this or wait for the 2TB to be <$200

  • G5 on 22/04/2010 - 13:31

    For anyone interested, Bing Lee have the 1.5TB version of these for $139

  • iSamurai on 22/04/2010 - 16:47

    I went with the 1.5TB one and it looks better too. Comparing the capacity this one is $20 more expensive than if it were 1TB x 1.5 but I think it's worth it because you don't need 2 units of 1TB and 500GB.

    Shipping to Brissie is "free", they charge a $5 handling fee (well it's better than me forking out $3 by bus to and from the nearest Officeworks and save time anyhow).

  • Orgazmo on 22/04/2010 - 17:22

    do you have the link to this? I only saw $159 price listed

  • Livert on 22/04/2010 - 17:30

    How would the performance of this compare with a 1tb drive in an e-sata enclosure?

    • stumo on 22/04/2010 - 19:28

      Are you kidding? esata will wee all over this USB only enclosure. To quantify weeing all over… Esata is at least twice as fast as USB in real world usage.

  • yauipop on 22/04/2010 - 17:42

    Went to three stores in SA today (Prospect, Trinity Gardens and Keswick) and they all have stacks of them in stock.

    • [Deactivated] on 22/04/2010 - 19:27

      Did you buy one from each store?

      • yauipop on 23/04/2010 - 07:55

        LOL I was looking for the Metro.Fi 150v.

  • InLikeFlynn on 23/04/2010 - 12:57

    Thanks for the post - just bought mine. Cheers.

  • MjayD on 23/04/2010 - 17:30

    Just dropped into Officeworks Chadstone VIC to pick one up and they have a big stack of them for for an even lower $95.00, must be to beat the Harvey Norman weekend special for $96. With Coles Staff Discount of 5% it was only 90.25, what a steal…Until they are probably $89 somewhere else within a week, seems to be a lot of competition on these at the moment…

    • stumo on 23/04/2010 - 17:58
      +1

      Yeah, I'm waiting until they are being given away in a packet of cornflakes, won't be too much longer I reckon.

      • AssociatedDrag0n23 @ Officeworks on 26/04/2010 - 08:37

        haha lol,,, dream on BRO!

  • peter787 on 23/04/2010 - 17:30

    been marked down $95 as a result of the $96 hn weekend price

    • bragains on 23/04/2010 - 17:32

      Can confirm this. Just bought one.

  • Orgazmo on 24/04/2010 - 12:54

    still weighing up whether to wait for a 2TB price drop

  • Nashu on 25/04/2010 - 20:48

    I just bought it today plunged into Laptop let the drivers install then restarted and it now says that the external HD [elemets default name i think] has only 931GB! I understand that a certain amount is needed to run the interface but isnt 69GB missing too much? Is this normal?? I searched around the next and havent found any info…

    • AntMan76 on 25/04/2010 - 21:12
      +4

      A 1 TB hard drive is 1,000,000,000,000 Bytes according to HDD manufacturers.

      =976,562,500 KB (1 KB= 1024 Bytes)
      =953,674.32 MB (1 MB=1024 KB)
      =931.32 GB (1 GB=1024 MB)

    • AssociatedDrag0n23 @ Officeworks on 26/04/2010 - 08:36

      apparantly that is right, the more and more higher u go in TB, the more space is required for TOC, aka table of contents, which makes computer find things and list them on your computer, hope that simple explanation helps. cheers

      • G5 on 27/04/2010 - 02:33
        +2

        I don't think there's such thing as a hard drive TOC, however any effects of the larger drive size on drive overhead would be negligible compared to the amount you "lose" due to the manufacturer's definition of a terabyte.

  • AssociatedDrag0n23 @ Officeworks on 26/04/2010 - 08:38

    Thanks for the update guys, didnt have the time to come back and update the pricing on my posting! cheers. :)

  • T Man on 26/04/2010 - 09:48

    got a bit of a problem, does any one know the amp rating on the PSU for this hard drive, bought one, and the PSU looks exactly the same as my old one, but i unplugged em both and they are actually different amps. one is 1.5A and one is 2.0A

    • G5 on 26/04/2010 - 21:32

      I have the older style one which has a 1.5A supply.

  • quackster on 26/04/2010 - 20:50

    Got one today. Thanks!

  • Wampus on 27/04/2010 - 14:06

    Got one on the weekend, good stuff

  • surat on 28/04/2010 - 12:12

    I went to HV and told them to price match MSY for $133 1.5tb (it is samsung story) but he can give it to me $133 1.5tb wd element but I didn't buy it in the end because they didn't want to price match the cordless phone that I want to buy as well.

    Hard disc can go down fast but this cordless phone is a lot different price and I still have 200gb left so I can wait.

  • G5 on 30/04/2010 - 17:00
    +1

    Just picked one of these up at OW for $90.25 after team member discount. Opened it up, the drive inside is a WD10EARS. Cheapest on Static Ice for the drive alone is $84, so this is a fantastic price.

    Also the power supply is the 1.5A variety.

    Edit: Just tried a Seagate SATA drive with the WD's USB interface. No dice. I'm guessing it's firmware-locked to only WD drives (or even WD10EARS).

    • punk on 14/05/2010 - 16:54

      could i just whack one of these into a desktop computer if the enclosure for some reason or another was damaged?

      • G5 on 16/05/2010 - 15:14

        Yep

  • Gnostikos on 04/06/2010 - 00:20

    For ANYONE still interested, this offer is still going strong as of June the 3rd.

    Just grabbed one. Stacks of them on offer in WA folks. Osborne Park store was packed to the rafters with them.

  • ragflan on 04/06/2010 - 00:28

    yeah can confirm that this deal still is active. Went to price match the 500gb seagate portable today and they had heaps of this drive in stock in Melbourne CBD OW.

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