Was announced on the radio this morning here in WA that the Dick Smith 1 hour sale this evening will be a 2TB hard drive for $79. Seems to be Australia wide. No other information was given on model, shipping etc.
Please note this sale is for 1 hour only between 5pm and 6pm WST.
MOD EDIT Also by email this is available AEST from 7-8pm
http://dicksmith.com.au/offer/1hourdeal?utm_source=edm&utm_m…
Cheers
Mod — Link to the product: SEAGATE Expansion 2TB Desktop Hard Drive
or maybe 9AM-10AM Zulu
pfft… who cares about "WA Time"? Dont they want to secede from the rest of Australia anyway? Let them :).
and for $5 more, you can buy 2TB WD Green's from MSY any time any day (yeah its MSY, but still).
Website says for everyone to come back at a certain time…. hmm, I wonder what's going to happen then ;).
2TB internal drive from MSY =/= 2TB external
This is a pretty good deal. Only USB 2.0 though. I paid $110~ for a 2TB USB 3.0. I can't actually take advantage of the speeds yet, but at least I'm future proofing myself :p
post updated…. when I posted there was no mention of it being an external drive. no brand or anything.
if this is indeed an external seagate, it IS a good deal.
Wow I cant believe the time was added. I live in WA! I write WA time. I hope future posts with AEST in the title will now also include WST…
Or 7pm - 8pm AEST Edit - Beaten to the punch!
Would this be internal or ext? Do they even sell internal drives??
yeah they dont sell internal, my money on it being a dodge brand like samsung though
They're only stock WD and Seagate.
My money is on this one (the cheapest atm)
http://dicksmith.com.au/product/XH9888/seagate-expansion-2tb…
Thats showing free delivery ATM but as always:
"it's only a bargain if you wanted it in the first place"
So I need to think about whether I want this or stay with my decision only to buy USB3 from now on…
Would be cheap either way internal or external. Doubt they would sell internal though.
Weird…. I've been getting "Website maintenance" for the whole week when I type in http://www.dicksmith.com.au
I'd suggest a bad DNS entry. Open a command prompt and type 'nslookup dicksmith.com.au'.
You should be a result saying the IP address is 203.26.178.93.
If it's something different, you can try to run 'ipconfig /flushdns' to remove any cached entries. If that doesn't fix it, I'd suggest calling your ISP.
Cheers mate. Will try that
I'd bet it's an error page your browser is caching. Suggest a CTR+R or COMMAND+R to resolve.
You wouldn't happen to be with aaNet would you? If so, it might possibly be a proxy issue.
Nah.. looks like the google browser cache was having a fit. I just cleared it and it is now working
The deal doesn't mention if this will be online only or instore only offer…
There is a red tab on the right corner. Online exclusive
online only, so the radio says
Someone has insider info knowing the price will be $79 in advance.
Or perhaps it was this?
Was announced on the radio this morning
USB 3.0 would be hoping for a bit much yeah?
Will it be free postage and will you be able to buy more than 1?
Will our discount-seeking heroes get their deal, or will the dastardly Dick Smith dash their plans? And will that little girl down the road get her dollar coin from the tooth fairy?
Find out all this and more in the thrilling conclusion to Deal Quest IV: Dick Smith vs OzB! Tonight 7/5w.
Please don't sandwich an episode of the renovators in between..
Free delivery. I'm pretty sure there is a limit of 2 per customer.
Their site will down during that period of time.
Like COTD.
But this is Dicksmith, owned by Woolworths, the biggest food chain supermarket in Aussie…
If their site is down like COTD… perhaps we should throw rotten Woolies apples at them…
Because they have on and off problem during last weeks.
Um… is this today?
Im assuming so, today is Thursday.
no, it's "this evening" as OP says
Glad you figured that one out, however "this evening" is today. And today is Thursday.
Today is Thursday. Tomorrow is Friday. After that comes Saturday. woo oo yea yea ducks
Party party party?
Fun Fun FUN?
7am waking up
3% off MoneybackCo. Might as well put it in the title. May work for some, may not for others.
Do I need a HDD? Probably not, but I'll be in there trying to refresh the site and grab one.
Also is it a internal or external hdd?
external i believe
Good price, but Not amaaazing. Ie if the websIte crashes I'll give up there and then.
looks great
says seagate expansion 2tb USB 2.0 on the page. Don't think I will bother still have a wd 1tb drive in the cupboard that I bought from dicksmith sale a while back.
Bugger, if only it was the WD with USB 3.0…
Officeworks still have it for $114!
Between 7 - 8 DSE website will be down or very slow - by the time you checkout - Sorry the offer has expired at 8pm :)..
I guess it would just be normal desktop hard drive for $79 - but lets c
u can always open the casing to grab the drive and put it in ur PC
also is this a 2.5" or 3.5"??
im guessing 3.5"
It is a 2.5" solid state drive. NAWWWT. obviously 3.5"…
just got the email confirming that it is today between 7-8pm for $79 so $20 off their current price online with free delivery
product code xh9888web
here is link http://dicksmith.com.au/product/XH9888WEB/seagate-expansion-…
. It's not just easy to use and light weight (1002g), but it's fast and energy efficient too. Enjoy fast data transfer speed with USB 2.0 connectivity and 7200 RPM drive performance. Built-in power management ensures energy-efficient operation.
Capacity and performance
Spacious, quick, and ready to go.
USB 2.0 connectivity.
i know it says 7200rpm on htere but i thought these green drives were 5400RPM can anyone clarify it?
Prefer a couple of the 5900's for the Microserver over a 7200rpm drive.
Its a good deal…
Don't know about you guys but I rathar wait for a bargain on 2TB USB3 - hopefully don't have to wait too long…
oh well im out. needed usb 3.0
hope the warranty is atleast 3 years.
Why? A 2tb hard drive will be almost worthless in 3 years.
Ideally entrust your personal 2TB of data to a decent drive that atleast the manufacturer is confident in. Think of 1 year Elements vs 5 year Mybook Elite, and that drive failure would have you looking at around $2000 for data recovery.
Anyone know what is the actual internal drive model number? Is it possible to take it apart and use it for the ProLiant N36L microserver - cheapest 2TB WD Green SATA3 that I found is $85 from MSY.
2TB drives from MSY were $81 2 weeks ago. AUD shift caused a price rise. If you're patient, the price will get down to $80 in the next month. And there are routinely offers on here for 2TB drives (internal - no screwing around) around and below $80.
But yes, it should be possible to remove it from the case and use it. However, it will void the warranty, obviously. And there might also be a small chance that the connector on the HDD isn't a physical SATA connection, but USB, as some 2.5" models have been found to have..
MSY is selling $109 for same as Dick Smith (Seagate Expansion 2TB) at the moment.
I guess your saying $81 was the internal drive?
hahaha same reason i want this drive…
bought a 2tb yesterday… 3 bays to go…
Looking to do this also, any chance you reckon….thought they changed to a usb interface on the hdd itself?
I think that is western digital
Here is a link to dissambling the unit:
http://skeena.net/blog/Seagate%20ST310005EXA101-RK%209SE2A4-… which is the 1 TB version of this deal.
The drive in that one is listed as model# ST31000528AS and is SATA 7200rpm, specs in link below.
http://www.seagate.com/ww/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=20b92d0ca8dc…
I would expect that the 2TB version would have the same SATA connection, though unable to confirm.
actually the barracuda does not come bigger than 1TB
Good to know, tried to get as much info as I could. Nay idea which drive it could be?
Yet to find any info stating that it isn't a SAT drive though.
no clear shipping information on the page.
This is a really good deal IMO. But if you're buying 2 terabytes of storage you're going to want more than 20MB/s write speeds when backing up 500gb + of data. Its worth paying the extar $20/30 for a 2tb that can get 80MB/s + write speeds.
like what?
USB 2.0 can handle 60MBS and this drive is apparently a 7200rpm im assuming a barracuda so what would be faster a usb 3.0? link?
I have a external seagate 1TB looks the same as this but i thought it had a drive speed of 5400 and found it to be quite slow.
60MB/sec is not achievable with USB 2.0. It's not a very efficient way of doing mass storage - from the Wikipedia USB article:
Typical hi-speed USB hard drives can be written to at rates around 25–30 MB/s, and read from at rates of 30–42 MB/s, according to routine testing done by CNet.[58] This is 70% of the total bandwidth available.
USB 3.0 uses a more efficient protocol as well as 5 Gb/sec signalling, which gives higher transfer rates than any current hard disk can sustain - fastest streaming reads from a modern disk are ~ 120MB/sec. Some SSDs may go faster on 6Gb/sec SATA than USB 3.0.
Someone should start an ozbet website so we can bet on how fast these websites will crash with deals like these :)
Oh well… we'll find out soon. What was your bet anyway?
can we find out how much traffic you get in this hour?
Yeah we'll have a look at what we can share. We usually measure active concurrent sessions rather than visitors.
About 30 seconds- Sorry, we have encountered a problemWe're really sorry, but for some reason we were unable to process your last request. It could be that we are making some site updates or a temporary site glitch.
refresh. it'll come through eventually.
Order Confirmed! :D
There is a throttle to effectively to slow the number of sessions created so people can still get through the checkout. If you refresh you should get in without too many problems.
Sweet I got through after a few refreshes. Thanks
If you open the external box there will be a SATA drive in there that can be used with HP Micro server. Not a bad option.
Here we go..
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yep. Went to finish checkout and it crashed
We're really sorry, but for some reason we were unable to process your last request. It could be that we are making some site updates or a temporary site glitch.
SLOW as hell at 7:02
As far as I can tell, no free delivery
EDIT: THERE IS FREEE DELIVERY BUY IT YOU MAGNIFICENT BASTARDS BUY IT
im in
order confirmed!
Don't know what you're all talking about.. Managed to add to cart, and checkout without any issues.
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There is a throttle to effectively to slow the number of sessions created so people can still get through the checkout. If you refresh you should get in without too many problems.
all good now. thanx.
Just bought one! good stuff :)
I haven't been able to load the page after adding to cart for a couple of minutes now.
me too.
Need to use Internet Explorer. Better than firefox.
I've got one now.
edit: hey..how come I've got negative when it was working with IE than firefox from my end.
works perfectly and smoothly for me
worked fine for me =b
Wonderful, $75.05 with staff discount card :)
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We're really sorry, but for some reason we were unable to process your last request. It could be that we are making some site updates or a temporary site glitch.
done, a few refreshes needed during order but nothing was lost and confirmation had no errors :)
Ordered one too.
Tried again and got it. Good deal
Wouldn't it be a better idea to write AEST in the title? 7-8PM AEST.