I am in the market for a 1.5TB or 2TB external hard drive and saw that I missed the $128 1.5TB drive from DSE a few weeks ago :(
They are now selling the drive for $138 with free delivery or you can just pick it up in store for that price too.
I will be picking mine up from a DSE store unless someone spots a better priced 1.5TB or 2TB external drive that can be picked up from near me or includes delivery.
For external drives ?
Why neg it because of warranty? if it is better price than anywhere else why does it matter, 12 months is okay, more the better.
So you think the drive would fail after a year? What brand external drive shoul I be getting and how much does it cost?
When I see a good deal with negative, I am always interested in what the explanation of the neg.
I know that Asus motherboard, notebook carries 3 years warranty from Asus, but the shop, such as OfficeWorks, Austin only offers 1 year. The rest of the 2 years falls back to Asus. Maybe this WD Elements also does the same?
If Austin or any other retailer is saying that, they're wrong.
Similar to the mwave issue that got them in a hell of a lot of trouble with the ACCC, but just pushed back a year.
They have to serve at worst as intermediary with the manufacturer.
That being said it's a lot quicker and easier to deal directly with the manufacurer on things like monitors, printers and laptops.
Im sure it has a WD Green drive in it which has a 3 year warranty anyway.
Does it have a proper sata connection inside?
Officeworks has the 1TB one for $95… this seems like normal pricing?
EDIT $128 at Umart.
This is bog standard pricing, a little more expensive than some other places. Why is it a deal?
Thanks for the post tantryl DSE now sell it for $128 after price matching umart. I can't go to umart as it is not near me and postage doesn't make it a good deal anymore.
$138 and not having to pay postage is still a good price if you search staticice.
The drive also has a 3 year warranty unlike what the person above stated.
Vote down as price is not really at a bargain level
not a bargain.
when usb 3.0 becomes universal, these usb 2.0 devices will go down in price like crazy. Dont buy a hard drive unless u really need it. If you just care about the space and not the speed, then wait a month or two.
It is going to be an easy choice between a cheap USB2 drive and an expensive USB3 drive
Then you are going to need a new PC to use or at the very least a USB3 PCI card which not everyone will be able to fit without voiding their warranty.
yeah same. i dont mind the time as i dont move large volumes of files regularly between HD. i think we'll see 2tb for ~120-130 very soon.
finger cross! i hope you are right i will wait :)
This might be on sale because I can't find it listed on Seagate for Australian region anymore.
I realized it might be an EOL product as I was searching to see how many years for warranty.
AFAIK, Seagate Elements - 1year, Freeagent - 3years(current models), 5years(last years model and before).
It's not Seagate Elements, it's Western Digital Elements. It definitely says 3 year limited warranty on my box, not 1 year which was pointed out to me by the DSE salesperson when I questioned the 1 year warranty.
Though it does say 1 year for America here http://www.wdc.com/wdproducts/library/AAG/ENG/4178-705026.pd…
We must be getting extended warranty in Australia.
chyawala on 03/06/2010 - 14:47 Comment score below threshold.