Must choose Sold by Amazon.com from Other sellers section
Great price when factoring in the free game. Far Cry primal is worth around $30 as per previous deals on ozbargain
Use promocode SEAGATE3 to get Far Cry Primal for FREE
Hard drive is on backorder
Cheapest on staticice is $228 Delivered without the game.
Enjoy
If someone believes something is a deal, they are well within their rights to give it an upvote.
Maybe you should use the Ozbargain.com.au/deals site so you can see deals chronologically instead of by popularity
last year i tried getting a free game with a purchase of a samsung SSD. After the SSD arrived, i heard nothing about the free game, so i contacted Amazon who said that i didnt qualify because my IP address was from outside USA. Luckily the helpdesk person was awesome and refunded $60 to make up for losing out on the game
I dont know if the T/C are the same, but to be on the safe side use a VPN with a US ip address.
would love a $60 refund instead of the game lol
i know! i was pretty chuffed, brought the price of the 500Gb SSD down to $150 AUD which was pretty amazing 1 year ago :)
It's still very good now for a samsung drive.
Still pretty good even today
Lucky :)
Does SEAGATE have an international warranty ? You can get this drive for $218 at MSY and a little cheaper at others. FC Primal might be nice but if I have to return the drive overseas it will make the offer pointless.
Probably easier to return in overseas than to explain to MSY that they have to do the warranty claim for you.
I'd rather deal with Seagate locally though
International warranty is managed by a contracted courier on Australia . After you RMA the drive, Seagate would give You a Sydney address to ship the drive to. The courier then ships it to Singapore and send you a replace my drive
So Seagate does provide international warranty on their drives ?
Yes as far as I'm aware . Use the RMA tool on the Seagate website . Also Amazon provides 1 year warranty with return shipping paid by Amazon
Tempted, since I'm building a new PC - but I honest to god have no idea what I would fill in 2TB, let alone 4!
And that's what I said about 8 terabytes ago.
Porn
Who 'downloads' porn anymore?
people pay money just so they can say something cool at the water cooler at work
"Guys, we need to add 10% to the price of this hard disk"
"I know, let's call it a "gaming" hard disk"
"Yeah, that's a great idea, people will think this does something special for games"
I get the "gaming" satire, but this does have a 8gb SSD cache that would make it better for gaming (and everything else in general).
Whats the actual performance difference between HDD, Hybrid and SSD? on a scale from 0 being HDD to 10 as SSD would hybrid be in?
So long as the files you're using are on the cache, it's identical to an SSD. The trick here is what is on the cache. So the hard drive will figure out what you use the most and put those files on there, like Windows startup files, programs and games that get loaded. 8gb isn't much but it does notably improve from a HDD. SO I'd give it a 5.
Slight improvement really, that's all. The drive manages the data and basically puts the more frequently accessed stuff into the SSD "section" of the drive. EG, not the entire game directory, but say, the exe files or something along those lines.
I've got a 1TB Hybrid. I've seen it throw data out at 150 MB/sec sustained.
That wouldn't fit most games these days..
The cache doesn't store a game, just commonly accessed files.
If you're in a game that loads between areas it might still have some textures or model data from a couple load screens ago in the NAND cache that it can access quicker while the hard drive loads independently.
It's not a terrible solution, it's just the performance benefits have a real narrow range of cost effectiveness for most users.
Indeed.
If you want to risk it, the ST4000DX000 had a big failure rate at backblaze.
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-failure-rates-q2-2…
The "big failure rate" was for a relatively tiny sample size. Increase that sample size (based on their cumulative table) from tiny to small and the failure rate drops. And even then, there's too little data with which to draw any clear conclusions.
But until we see those figures the failure rate remains unacceptable
Sea gate has a reputation for higher failure rates than other companies
i tried the SSHD drives, its a pathetic imitation of apple fusion drives.
do not get sucked into this SSHD speed thing - its bollocks.
will never buy SSDH again - once was enough
SSHD are like 10% faster then a normal HD and around 90% slower then an SSD :) .. its an improvement but not enough to replace the need for an SSD waste of money if you ask me.. i only buy 2.5" drives these days.. you can get them up to 4TB's
I got a 1Tb 2.5" SSHD which has 32Gb flash memory (same brand and HD series) with this game bonus for about A$159 shipped.
They had one with 8Gb of flash for quite a bit less, but they reckon the 32Gb one is 25% faster.
Come on Savas, give the voting system a break… It is kind of hard to quickly see if the deals are worth buying (my actual goal) when users such as yourself are up voting everything that is posted.