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Happy new year buddy!
Happy New Year guy!
I'm not your buddy, guy.
Wasn't this posted not that long ago? Same deal?
This is a few dollars cheaper I think
This one is a few dollars cheaper than the last one, and the others are expired or out of stock.
Not sure why others have negged you.
That deal posted was the Amazon boxing day, and if I had to choose between the 2, it wouldn't be this deal.
The other deal was AU stock, meaning you wouldn't have to ship back to the US for warranty, and you'd be covered by Australian consumer law.
Throw that away for $5? Tell 'em they're dreamin'!!
Seem to be a few neggers here lol.
Sending the product back to Amazon Au for warranty would be faster in comparison to Amazon US. However products purchased from Amazon US still come under Australian Consumer Law.
You win the 'Risky Potential Typo of The Day Award.' Congratulations!
However products purchased from Amazon US still come under Australian Consumer Law.
Do they? I can see ACL being enforceable against Amazon Au but if you purchased it from Amazon US wouldn’t it come under US law?
@Icecold5000: If you buy it from the amazon.com.au domain name it counts, you can even get it from the Amazon.com, but it’s a harder and longer process.
Amazon and consumer affairs have confirmed this to me.
@liveish: It’s not the domain that counts but where the company you brought it from is registered. Amazon.com.au is a Australian company while Amazon.com is a US company. Australian laws to not generally have extraterritorial application except in certain extreme cases and ACL enforcement may not fall under this.
@Icecold5000: https://www.amazon.com.au/gp/help/customer/display.html/ref=…
Specifies that Amazon US and Amazon UK are the "Global Store".
https://www.amazon.com.au/gp/help/customer/display.html?node….
"This Policy does not affect additional rights you may have under law."
When asked in chat with rep, they confirmed they were referring to the ACL in this clause.
I've made multiple returns to Amazon UK outside the 30-day window, when I found out about this policy.
The 30 day window is for the automated returns function.
Outside of that, you have a minimum 2 years according to the Rep, and just need to open a support ticket / chat to process the return.
Would help if you had personal experience or read the documentation and talked to Amazon reps before spreading your fairy tale.
Amazon Global Store products are sold by international Amazon entities such as Amazon US or Amazon UK and are made available for purchase on amazon.com.au.
That’s not the question i was asking. It was if you order something from Amazon.com are you covered by ACL. The page you are pointing to states that you need to order from Amazon.com.au not Amazon.com which proves my original point. I’m not sure why this is hard to understand. You still need to go through an Australian registered corporate entity to have ACL coverage.
That’s not the question i was asking.
Yes it bloody was. Here's your statement:
It’s not the domain that counts but where the company you brought it from is registered.
The company is Amazon UK/US, registered in UK/US. The domain is Amazon.com.au (i.e. Global Stores) as referred to in this article. This deal post is about buying from Amazon US via Amazon.com.au (aka Amazon Global Stores). No one was talking about going to Amazon.com and buying it, so that argument is irrelevant/your strawman setup.
You're just wrong dude. Give it up.
@Icecold5000: I'm not the confused one dude.
That deal posted was the Amazon boxing day, and if I had to choose between the 2, it wouldn't be this deal.
The boxing day deal was domain: Amazon.com.au, Seller: Amazon AU.
The current deal is was domain: Amazon.com.au, Seller: Amazon US.
Sending the product back to Amazon Au for warranty would be faster in comparison to Amazon US. However products purchased from Amazon US still come under Australian Consumer Law.
Clearly, based on context, the OP is talking about the seller Amazon US, when ordering via Amazon.com.au.
Do they? I can see ACL being enforceable against Amazon Au but if you purchased it from Amazon US wouldn’t it come under US law?
Clearly, someone doesn't have the mental capacity to be able to follow the chain of conversation, or is ignorant about the Global Markets policies. I had initially given you benefit of doubt and assumed the latter. It's now clear it is actually the former.
Your buying from amazon.com.au you are covered by Australian consumer law.
Also the last warranty item I got from the USA the return label was to Australia
Would I experience degraded performance if I install my games here?
Compared to a ssd yes. If using a mechanical hdd already and assuming you are using usb3 probably negligible performance difference.
Degraded performance in what, exactly? It's hard to say without any additional information.
like read/write speeds etc. I have a mechanical HDD for my games but it's about to run out of space. How does USB3 and the speed of this harddrive compare to a recent mechanical HDD?
You seem to have a neg fan. Have an up vote.
I have the WD My Book (white label red drives, same as this one.), And get write speeds between 80-150MBps, and read speeds of 130-155MBps.
So easily sufficient for your needs.
The speed should be the same - read speeds will be about 150MB a second (or higher, depending on where on the drive you're reading from), and I don't believe these are those slow writing shingled magnetic recording drives. USB3 is likely to be a bottleneck, though - the theoretical bandwidth should handle those speeds, but they're always much slower in my experience.
If you've got a spare 3.5 inch bay in you're PC, and are at all handy with a screwdriver, it's possible to shuck these out of their case and use them as a regular 3.5in drive. Just have a look on Youtube for "WD shuck drive", and make sure you give it a burn-in test before opening the case (and voiding your warranty).
Source: I have an Unraid server with a lot of these in there.
@iJebus: Search for "Hard Disk Sentinel" here on OzB. There might still be a premium free version available.
Run Write Surface test:
https://www.hdsentinel.com/help/en/61_surfacetest.html
This may take a day or two as it writes and then read each block on Hard Disk. You're limited to a single test on this version of Sentinel.
If you use Linux, you can run badblocks utility (free) for the same surface test.
I did a surface test on all four 12TB hard drives simultaneously to speed up testing.
@vrsac: Thanks, linux is no trouble so I'll go that route if I get a drive.
Suppose bad blocks turn up, is that a legit reason to return as far as Amazon is concerned?
@iJebus: Yes. A brand new Hard drive must not have any bad blocks.
Make sure you do the badblocks check before shucking the drive.
@vrsac: how i just got hddsentinel for free.
search hddsentinel on here, expired shareware on sale free license. download, click through the installer that also tries to download crapware. skip the crapware of course. once it's ready to install the app, click save to downloads folder.
click next, it'll fail and say the promo has expired but saves the installer to downloads folder.
disconnect from internet, set date to September 2017.
run installer from downloads.
after installed connect to internet and set date to normal.
its an old version but the scan is running now.
Is this the helium one?
Can either be air or helium pretty sure
Think reports from prior deals have largely moved over to non-Helium drives for the 10TB models.
Does it come with an AU power adaptor?
No, but you can register the drive with WD and open a support ticket and get them to send you one. Mine took 3 business days as it was DHL'd from Vietnam.
How do you open a support ticket? I have registered my drive but can't find the link to open a support ticket.
I bought one with the deal on boxing day and it came with an AU adapter
Was the seller Amazon.com or Amazon.com.au?
Did you check the model of the drive inside?
Was it air or helium one?
If you bought under the boxing day deal that was AU stock, and most likely will be He filled as AUS stock moves comparatively slower (although from local retailers air filled stock are starting to show)
This deal is sold via amazon.com.au but is US stock, so North American Plug and high chance that it's air filled as NA stock moves at a significantly higher pace.
it came in like 2 days so must of been .com.au & the drive inside is a WDC WD100EZAZ
16tb @ 399 or bust.
The seagate 16tb has been less than $370 which considering the drive inside (exos) is a really good deal.
Shuckable detz please
Very
Golly that was a good deal!
I always prefer to buy the largest drives possible, as there are finite USB, SATA, PCI express connections.
Any recommendations or best practices when handling big drivers? I'm looking for one but I'm worried I'll be "putting all my eggs in one basket" in case something fails. Not sure if maybe creating partitions would help or keeping it powered off while not in use?
You could always buy two drives and set up a RAID incase one fails, however if they are both at risk of corruption, theft, damage, fires etc.
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what do you these for?
I wasn't fast enough to pick this up last time but would definitely buy next time it comes up (hopefully).
Dumb question but if I don't have prime does this qualify for free shipping cos it's over $49?
I think it doesn't only because it is shipped from the US and not from AU. Happy to be corrected though.
Without Prime it will not get free shipping as it's from the US
What's up he difference between Elements and MyBook?
MyBook is higher level product, has auto backup or other advanced features.
But if I'm shucking it, and just putting the drive into a RAID setup, for a NAS or something, would it make a difference?
@Watanabe1995: yeah i figured it's shuckable, but is there any difference between Elements and mybook, WITHOUT considering bundled software or advanced features? As in, the sata drive itself, after shucking?
Hi, sorry to ask a stupid question. Is 10TB too big ( therefore too slow) for my laptop which is i7, 2.4 Ghz with 16BG ram. win 10?
No question is ever stupid if you learn something new!
Larger HDDs won't run more slower, or make the laptop run slower.
The engines (Processor, CPU.) of laptops and PC's are so fast that the performance impact is negligible.
If you think that you'd be able to use 10TB of storage then this is definitely a good deal to jump on!
You should also be asking what sort of data you're storing on it and what contingency plans do you have in the even that the drive fails. It's a lot of data to lose, and a lot of data to back up.
It's physically too big if you're asking if you could replace a laptop drive.
In terms of performance, the size generally has very little effect and you wouldn't see a difference between a 6TB, a 10TB and a 14TB.. (i.e it doesn't get slower as the drives get more capacity)
No Type-C port for this device? :/
There's no reason for manufacturers to put type C plugs on these things yet. It costs more and there's no speed benefit (the hard drive won't saturate even the slowest of USB 3 speeds).
Yeah I get the cost consideration. Still bit disappointing because it means simpler cable collection as well as a possibility of skipping the separate power plug.
Hopefully the parts cost will go down as Type-C ports become more popular and the microusb port becomes harder to source.
Plus, reversible connector!
Showing as 257 + delivery for me now.
happy nuu year friend