Found this at Netplus, $76 seems decent for the particular model. I think there was a similar deal posted a few weeks ago at $79. Don't know when it expires though so be quick.
EDIT just checked it, delivery is $19, kinda kills the deal. Can someone delete this?
EDIT hehe looks like someone beat me to it
Mod edit - well for those in WA it might be a deal. So let it stand. We can be kinder than those who negged the Staples deal for not being available to those in WA
completely agree. bought this drive for $95 from MSI (pickup) about 6 weeks ago. but as already mentioned in edits, good for WA folks… they can finally get PC equipment for a reasonable price :).
ignore posts below saying this drive is noisy. its not.
if you mount properly in a modern case with rubber washers, you cant hear it at all.
I really recommand pay extra $15 for a samsung HDD, this WD Green are noisy, can be hang when reading and writing, most important thing is it is not reliable at all, only bought 2 WD HD in my whole life and both are disaster.
I've always (since early 90's) bought WD drives and only recently had my 1st one fail… and i was able to recover the data before i trashed it…
His point re: noise is valid however - the WD Green's are the least 'green' drive around. They use more power, generate more heat and are noisier than pretty much every other drive on the market.
My pick goes to the Samsung first, followed by Seagate. Paying a little extra, but their power usage and temps are worth it.
Edit: Oh, and the WD Green's performance isn't as good as the other 2 either. ;)
Oh, but is there much of a performance disparity between the samsung and seagate drives? I think my backup drive is dying and I need to get another one, don't know if I'd buy a samsung though. Wasn't even aware they made HDs.
His point re: noise is valid however
WD Green
Idle mode 24 dbA
Quiet seek mode 25 dbA
Performance seek mode 29 dbA
Segate Green
Acoustics Idle 2.1 bels (~21dbA) Winner
Acoustics Seek 2.3 bels (~23dbA) Winner
Samsung Green
Idle 2.45 Bel (~24.5dbA)
Performance Seek 2.80 Bel (~28dbA)
If you want quiet then buy Segate then WD then Samsung
They use more power, generate more heat and are noisier than pretty much every other drive on the market.
Power draw in watts
WD Green
Idle 3.7 Winner
Read/Write 6.00
Segate Green
Average idle power 4.5W
Average operating power 5.8W
Samsung Green
Idle 3.7 W Winner
Read/Write 4.9 W Winner
Seek 4.6 W
If you want low power buy Samsung then it depends if your drive will do more Idle or Read/Write time.
Each to their own, horses for courses.
I got a 2tb WD green on Monday, its dead silent. Its working together with a 1.5tb and 1tb green WD, never had an issue, no hangs. On the other hand, i have a 2tb Hitachi 7200rpm, that is do damn hot and noisy as hell, but works fine otherwise.
I've had a Samsung 1tb black die, and my mum's 500g Samsung died.
My mate had 3x seagates die on him within a year.
There is a report somewhere on the internets with real failure data that proves nothing.
I love the Hitachi's because they are the quickest and are reliable but they are a little noisey…
I also have no issues with WDs and I think they are quiet.
Unfortunately I'll never buy another Hitachi Deathstar :)
nicky everyone has different experiences with different HDDs - i've personally bought samsung, western digital and I don't know but have had many different brands HDDs and never had an issue with any of them.. BUt you'll always find people who have had x many bad experiences for samsung or WD etc purely subjective
GOod deal for WA'ers tho!
I have 3 of these in my system and they sound the same as the 3 samsung F4 that are next to them. So I dont see what your on about.
I have 4 of these in my pc and they are brilliant!
Much of a muchness. Luck of the draw really, people love to chalk up one dead drive as though it's a life experience.
Personally I use all three brands, and they've all been great.
I have an offline drive duplicating every online drive. Always two different brands so that a dodgy batch or model doesn't knock out both the original and the backup drive.
I have a personal preference to avoid WD for two reasons:
1) You have to send it to singapore to RMA after 12 months. It's not acceptable to me to not have an RMA centre in Australia.
2) They mess with TLER so that raid won't work in many hardware configurations. Sometimes it's ok, often it isn't. Why? So they can charge a bloody large premium on "raid capable" drives. No other HDD manufacturer does that.
BUT this is all really whole-of-life cost stuff. All drives work well in practice.
delivery = death :(
Just bought a Black 2GB a few weeks back… I can't believe how noticeable the performance difference is between the Black and the Green drive…
2GB isnt alot of capacity tho
i have 4GB of green drives in a QNAP NAS…
You mean 4tb right? if you didn't get that asa79 was pointing out you put GB instead of TB.
lololololololol
You mean 4tb right?
Ooops… yep…
(Don't laugh… i still remember 10Mb hard disks…)
(Don't laugh… i still remember 10Mb hard disks…)
And they got down to a bargain consumer affordable price of $500. ($1300 in today's money)
No more floppy-shuffling!
I'll buy that for a dollar! , good deal~
And the limit of 1 cancels out any potential to claw a bit back on shipping.
Limit of 1? I see no limit.. ?
Let me order 2 for $76ea. Hopefully no problems with these guys.. ;)
It says it twice no less…
2Tb WD Caviar Green WD20EARS SATA 3Gb/s 64Mb Cache Limit 1. Otherwise $84
Notes : Limit 1. Otherwise $84
They might cancel your order, or charge you $84 for the second one, or you might get away with it. Anyway the intention is clearly there.
There are reports of firmware issues with the Seagate SATA3 drives, so I guess buyers should exercise some caution.
Had a wd 1tb. It broke, sent back to wd at my own expense ($23 postage) in malasia or whatever country it is, they sent me back a new one, put it in, was broken too, told them about it and requested they pay for postage this time as it was their mistake, they said fuck you, so I am never buying a WD again. A lot of people talking about their reliability, well, if one does happen to break, their customer service is shit.
HINT: Samsung's RMA service is in Australia.
Agree. Friend just paid $30 to send a 1.5tb WD hdd to singapore for RMA.
Seagate and Samsung just get sent locally so alot cheaper and quicker to get RMA returned.
Exactly what I just said above.
WD's RMA is in singapore. So after 12 months when you can't return to the place of purchase, this becomes expensive.
Seagate is in Sydney. BTW, when seagate sends back, they pack WELL. Custom box and foam, uber protected.
I think Samsung has centres around australia, but that isn't as useful as it sounds. I think they use Camtec in WA, who basically mail anything they can't handle to the real RMA service. So in WA at least, it's pretty crap.
I'm sorry mate, but based on my experiences with HDD manufacturers, that story sounds like a complete & utter fabrication.
I've never had to pay a cent for shipping on any HDD RMA I've done; and I've had a couple fixed out of warranty for nix too…by WD no less!
IME they give you a freepost local hub to send it to, they ship it to their tech HQ in whatever country, then it gets shipped back to you! I dunno how you guys are going about RMA, but it must be the wrong way…I only just got a 2.5" HDD back from Seagate, so I've got recent experience to draw on here! ;)
Its true.
I've just RMA'd my drive. $34 to be sent to Singapore
Flextronics Manufacturing Singapore PTE LTD
c/o - Western Digital
750B Chai Chee Rd, #01-01
Technopark Chai Chee, 469002
Singapore SG
Painfully expensive shipping. They FEDEx'd it back to me. Well packaged etc.
If you can find friends to RMA your drives together, this is where you'll save the cost, but then again, who'd want to be hope to have many drives fail to save on shipping to repair…….
Whatever retailer/wholesaler you purchased the drive from has to honour the manufacturers warranty. Any retailer that disagrees with this and claims they can honour a warranty length of their own choosing is doing so illegally. Tell them you're contacting the ACCC about it and then regardless of whether they then capitulate, contact the damn ACCC and tell them these people are breaking the damn law.
Nothing to do with the deal, but for those who don't know Western Digital bought Hitachi 2 months ago, and Seagate bought Samsungs HDD operations last month.
These drives are painfully slow shit. I don't know know why people are choosing to go backwards in HDD performance.
Simple, in a confined space, you squeeze 3 or 4 green drives together for 24hrs and feel the temp. Now try that with the same with 7200rpm drives. Far from painfully slow, unless your used to using only SSD's these days. Perfect as media drives, in low spec'd media centers.
If the drive is only for backup/mass storage the speed is not as important.
Or if they are used in a media computer or confined space they are good because they make less noise and run cooler.
They would not be as good for OS use (Although laptop drives are the same speed as 'green' drives)
Laptop drives are still slower though.
Same rpm, but smaller diameter spindle. So the amount of data read per one rotation of the platter is lower.
This is for sequential speeds anyway. As far as the tiny read/writes from your operating system, the difference may be less pronounced (not sure).
These green drives have data packed densely enough that read speeds are still good. I'm not sure what anyone complains about, it's fast enough for any practical need.
I have a personal preference to avoid WD for two reasons:
1) You have to send it to singapore to RMA after 12 months. It's not acceptable to me to not have an RMA centre in Australia.
2) They mess with TLER so that raid won't work in many hardware configurations. Sometimes it's ok, often it isn't. Why? So they can charge a bloody large premium on "raid capable" drives. No other HDD manufacturer does that.Mod: Removed Spam
The TLER thing pisses me off when trying to mdraid. Sync always fails because of that!
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Copy/paste of my earlier post :p
It asmuses me that there's two +ve votes on it.
Well that's depressing - I paid $150 for a 1.5TB Green last year…
The biggest depreciation of hardware on a PC is probably the storage disks first and the GPU second. Good to buy at today's price because you get awesome performance and value but don't try to recoup your investment in 12 months time!
Reading all the posts I have come to the scientific conclusion, based on the evidence above being truthful in all respects, that buying a hard drive means I have about a 75% chance of failure with Seagate/Samsung and a 25%chance of success with a WD/Hitachi, and anyone buying any drive mentioned on Ozbargain is bound to have a drive failure within 6 months. The net effect is that if I prefer one, then its going to fail before the one I didn't prefer.
…yes. Having said that I did have my WD 1.5TB drive die on me fairly quickly, but the replacement has been fine for well over 6 months. I've also had a WD 250GB IDE and WD 160GB SATA for years and never had any sort of problem.
Haha, I'm protected from your statistical conundrums by the dulling power of codeine pete…Panadeine FTW!
There was a great link in a comment here some time back to an actual longitudinal scientific study on HDD reliability. Like the Notebook study, it might've been by SquareTrade too…bah, I can't remember.
I had saved a copy of the paper but lost it when my Westung Digitachigate HDD crashed! :p
Seriously though, the conclusion was that average failure rates were indeed essentially identical between every brand!
hahaha, nice :).
maybe all these 'haters' are too young to remember 5.25 floppies (or worse yet, C64 tape drives).
now thats a true definition of high failure rate :).
sigh, remember spending hours TYPING out 2-10 pages of code out of a comp mag, only to have the god damn tape player chew the tape. Even worse after modifying it for a week & having all these cool new subroutintes & not having it recorded (by writing notes down in pen in the mag). Thank god for floppies.
Delivery price of $19 is ridiculous. They are losing customers by doing this.
Good price, but $19 delivery kills it (delivery to Melbourne)