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$149 for Hitachi XL3000 3TB Desk Drive

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$149 for Hitachi XL3000 3TB Desk Drive
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supercheap1 on 14/10/2011 - 13:44 estore.com.au (429 clicks)

Hitachi XL3000 3TB Desk Drive
Solid. Ready whenever you are. With the dependable speed of USB 2.0. When you need pure storage muscle, choose a drive that makes backing up your life a little easier. Because nothing should ever get in the way of your memories, movies, music and entertainment. Backed by Hitachi’s reputation for quality, reliability and a world-renowned R&D heritage for advanced hard disk drives used to store, preserve and manage the world’s most valued data.

Product Specifications
Interface: USB 2.0
Form Factor: 3.5-inch External Hard Disk Drive
Capacities: 3TB Includes Hitachi Local Backup(TM) software

System Requirements:
Windows®
Available USB 2.0 / 1.1 port
OS: Windows 7 / Vista / XP
Macintosh®
Available USB 2.0 / 1.1 port
OS: Built for Mac OS X 10.3 or newer

Computing 3TB Computer Peripheral External Hard Drive HGST

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  • dreamerman on 14/10/2011 - 13:56
    -1

    Would 2 x 2TB external Hdd be about $149?

    • UFO on 14/10/2011 - 14:27

      nup… WD Green 2TB are still $82. That's still $164, and internal not external like above.

      3TB internals are still $160+, so above price for external isn't bad at all.
      USB 2 though, so not as fast as 3.

      • dreamerman on 14/10/2011 - 14:48

        Seems to recall BigW and Dick Smith specials for circa $70-$75 recently for external HDD 2TB. I am looking forward to similar specials before Xmas. I think I need a couple more TBs to fill up my collections.

  • pclonan on 14/10/2011 - 15:00

    I don't mean to sound rude, but how is this a bargain? Isn't $149 the going rate anyway?
    Now $129 would be a bargain - or even match the $119 Centrecom deal from a few weeks ago :)
    Yes, I realise the Centrecom disks were Seagate, and these are Hitachi - but still…

    • dreamerman on 14/10/2011 - 15:16

      Yep agreed. $119 would indeed be a bargain. Hopefully we will see that price again before Xmas.

  • llama on 14/10/2011 - 15:20
    +1

    I shudder to think how long it would take to transfer 3TB over USB 2.0.

    Treating a TB as 1000GB etc, at 30MB/sec (which you'd be lucky to get) it'd take… (grabs calculator) 100,000 seconds = 1667 minutes = 27.78 hours.

    Wow, that is not as long as I thought it would be!

    • Postulative on 14/10/2011 - 16:25

      It's a backup drive. You do a complete backup, then incremental. Your incremental backups aren't going to take 27+ hours.

      Oh, and I think you're safe treating a terabyte as 1,000 gigabytes - the HDD makers all cheat on their measurements by doing this.

  • c64 on 14/10/2011 - 15:23

    umart.com.au $148 normal price, nothing extraordinary about this price

  • [Deactivated] on 14/10/2011 - 16:22
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    Not a bargain.

  • davidl2 on 14/10/2011 - 16:58
    +1

    the thing is these Hitachi XL3000 have high failure rates,
    so they are letting it goes at these crazy prices! (notice all 3TB are much much higher?)

    thanks but no thanks! I will rather take the Seagate XT!

  • [Deactivated] on 14/10/2011 - 19:57

    Hard to find a bargain at estore.

  • teyc on 14/10/2011 - 22:31

    Buying external HDDs isn't really a bargain unless you will use it up within the next twelve months, because the next disk is going to be even cheaper. The price has radically dropped nowadays.

    • UFO on 15/10/2011 - 00:20

      this rule can be applied to anything you buy, especially pc gear.

      wait 12 months and everything is cheaper… except power bills :).

  • Jeff Stryker on 15/10/2011 - 14:39

    Reasonable price there, 3TB is a lot of space. But from my experience Hitachi has been dodgy with reliability.

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