Purchased the 2TB hard drive from BigW for $98, it crapped out a few days ago and I couldn't get an exchange (without them adding on $40 for the same hard drive with only USB2.0 rather than 3.0). Hoping to replace it for a really similar price.
2TB External Hard Drive under $100
Bernhard on 30/11/2011 - 17:45
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what exactly do you mean by 'it crapped out a few days ago…"?
No exchange possible at BigW, so got money back on hard drive.
If anyone is wondering I found a "Seagate Expansion External Hard Drive 2TB" for $99 at Dick Smith, Liverpool (Westfields), the tag scanned $189, but it's $99 according to the shelf sticker (the guy might have removed it).
A new shipment of the same Seagates are, apparently, arriving at OfficeWorks all around the place the next week or so, for $109.
What was the brand? Seagate and Western Digital for example have a 3-5 year warranty on their drives, it is simply a matter of going onto their website, entering a serial number, getting a return authorisation and mailing it to them (Singapore?) for replacement, usually a factory refurbished drive with the remainder of your warranty. Should only cost you $10-$15 for tracked postage.
I realise 60% or so of the worlds hard disk manufacturers factories were flooded recently, causing a global shortage of new drives, I'm not sure how this affects their refurbishing operation or how much stocks of replacement drives they have.