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(Back to $149 now) $139 each WD caviar green 2TB 7200/64mb cache at ple computers WA

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(Back to $149 now) $139 each WD caviar green 2TB 7200/64mb cache at ple computers WA
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LOp54 on 02/08/2010 - 14:52 ple.com.au (305 clicks)
Last edited 03/08/2010 - 16:09

PLE computers in Wangara or Bentley in WA are selling the WD 2TB green drives for $139 each (64mb cache, model WD20EARS). Limit of 1 per person (I went with my wife and we got one each). The WD promotion $20 Myer voucher deal is still on, and we submited our scanned receipts to PDF and the WD site accepted both scanned receipts (So hopefully they have not run out of the $20 cards). With the $20 off this brings them to $119 each, but if WD have run out of vouchers $139 is still OK with me.

We also nominated the sales person for each disc to WD promotions too, as this should get them a $10 Myer voucher each too. So everyone is a winner. And why not?

They do courier too for people not near Perth Metro area, but I do not know their prices on that (Online orders)

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  • Mikinoz on 02/08/2010 - 15:01

    About 3 places selling for same price , should be easy to price match for further discounts

    http://www.staticice.com.au/cgi-bin/search.cgi?q=WD20EARS+&s…

    Edit: you joined just to post this deal, kinda hardly worth it , more likely sockpuppet at a guess

    Edit2: Neg vote away on this post , if you think you need to neg vote a logical point of view thats fine, the votes do jack for me anyway i am not a politician and there's no prize for voting ;)

    • Op54 on 02/08/2010 - 17:03
      +1

      Thanks Mikinoz
      I am not worried that you have nothing positive to add. I only posted as I thought this was a good deal over here in WA (Large area and small population). I have had many good buys from peoples info posted here, and thought that it was about time I put something back.
      As for sockpuppet? You really have some chips on that shoulder don't you. I did not post this for any benefit for myself, and as for PLE, I generally buy from NetPlus.
      Hope that things improve for you when you graduate from Kindy

      • Mikinoz on 02/08/2010 - 18:06
        -4

        This wasnt a personal attack, but hey now you have the ball rolling.

        Looks like you took it personally so maybe i was close eh, i did say guess, and i have been wrong before.

        Positive to add no not really just reality when compared to other deals, dont care who you are and dont intend to be insulting but hey take it how you like.

        Ps not all of us live in happy land and have postive things to say this for me was clearly neutral

        Kindy lol, thats the best you have? wow hardly worth replying to that.

        I have heard of WA by the way usually the people are cool and have half a brain….

        • Op54 on 02/08/2010 - 20:45
          +4

          Mikinoz

          To be honest I should not have replied like that in the first place. And I appologise for the reply as it was juvenile of me.

          And I love all the states of Aus. I think we are very lucky and blessed to be able to live here, which ever state we live in.

          Sorry again. My last line of my reply as it was a cheap shot.

          • Mikinoz on 02/08/2010 - 22:21
            +1

            @Op54: No problem, apology accepted and i am sorry for my reply aswell.

            Hope to see more bargains from you and sorry if i came off a bit strong there seems to be flood of unwanted deals here lately and i guess i am a bit oversensative.

  • wisc on 02/08/2010 - 15:03
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    same price as others on static ice cheapest you can get so far though…

    139.00
    Western Digital WD20EARS 2TB 3.5" CAVIAR GREEN INTELIPOWER 64MB SATA II HDD
    D&D Computer Technology (NSW) | www.ddcomputer.com.au | updated: 31-07-2010

    also:

    WD20EARS is 5900 rpm not 7200!

    • BargainMyMiddleName on 02/08/2010 - 16:26

      From memory, I think WD20EARS is 5400rpm while the Seagate 2TB is 5900rpm.

      • Mikinoz on 02/08/2010 - 16:55

        The poster listed it as the wd20ears model , so maybe thats wrong.

        Interesting that is says WD 20 EARS , somehow i think they are listening with all those ears hmm

        • Rezguise on 02/08/2010 - 22:49

          WD20EARS is "Intellipower" aka "fixed, somewhere between 5400 to 7200rpm, though almost always 5400." However, I am pretty sure WD20EARS is said by WD to be one of the few Intellipower HDDs spinning at 5900rpm, as opposed to others like the WD20EADS spinning at 5400rpm.
          Its all really confusing thanks to WD and their deceptive claims of such "intellipower" in the RPM department. The use of the term simply makes non-RPM factors appear to be RPM, claiming that variables such as power consumption, transfer rates, and cache size all factor in to WD's "newfound" RPM advances.

    • Op54 on 02/08/2010 - 19:20

      Sorry about the "7200" in the title, it is a straight copy from the PLE advert. I thought that cut and paste from their Advert was the way to do it. The drive itself does not show the RPM (That I can see), and the WD homesite appears to just talk in transfer rates. I am sure it would be sluggish for use as C drive, but for storage I am happy with the speed they work on eSATA so far.

      I have certainly learned a lot since posting here this morning. Thank you.

  • jv on 02/08/2010 - 15:03

    So regular post is free !!! :P

  • Click_It on 02/08/2010 - 18:51

    Are the WD Green 2TB's still bad news for RAID5 arrays? There was problems with them in the early days, my samsungs are going great guns but its amazing how cheap these have become.

    • wisc on 03/08/2010 - 09:08

      there are apps you can use to change some settings which make them much more suitable… ill see if i can dig up the info on it from the last post…

      found it:
      +7 votes HSV_GTS on 28/07/2010 - 13:30 ¶
      The Western Digital Green uses a feature called Intellipark that will park the read head after a set idle threshold. On the drives, WD15EARS, the threshold was set to 8 seconds. In raid configurations, this can lead to excess LCC (load cycle count) very quickly. Some people believe this will degrade the drive as the LCC increases over time. This wasn’t a specific problem related the the new 4K sector drives as it was first discovered with the Green drives first released by Western Digital two years ago. Luckily, Western Digital, after much complaint from general users, released a small tool called WDIdle3.exe that will disable (set the threshold to a longer period of time) the Intellipark feature. The tool works on the WD15EARS drives and I currently know of people using these drives SUCCESSFULLY in RAID 5 configurations.

      actually the TLER (Time-Limited Error Recovery) looks like it can also be an issue: more info here:
      http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1510493

  • WhiteEvo6 on 02/08/2010 - 18:57

    as mentioned the price isnt a deal as such, a few places have it. Good first effort thanks for posting anyway.

  • AlexF on 03/08/2010 - 00:03

    There seems to be a flood of discounted WD's "EARS" drives on OzBargain - is WD trying to get rid of them? Replacements coming?

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