This 3TB desktop hard drive has a 3 year warranty, a nice assurance above some of the other drives with only 1 year. Deal may stack well with 5% Woolworths employees card and 5% Infinite Rewards Pre Paid Wish Cards, to discount it to $143.50.
Postage is $9.95 to Sydney/ store pick up free. Expires Mon 27 Feb.
The drive can be removed to use as an internal; a Seagate Barracuda 7200 rpm model ST3000DM001, reported by Coops.
different brand & different shop.
oh snap…. yep, fair enough. roll on the negs :).
JB's is WD, not seagate, but otherwise yes, its the same. Incidentally I went to Officeworks to price match on the WD and they were out of stock, so this is a good alternative to get the 5% discount on price match at OW.
In addition to stacking the other discounts 2.63% cash back may bring it to $140.09, using starthere.com.au
The WD has only 1 year warranty so not really the same as this. You at least want the manufacturer to be confident in their product especially when entrusting it with so much information.
Personally I'm more confident with WD drives than Seagate. Had way too many Seagate drives fail on me. But thats just me.
The WD is also 3 years, just so you know.
You're right. Sorry other sites including cnet stated 1 year. Is this confirmed on the product box, or could it be a JB typo as Elements have usually been 1 year?
WD vs Seagate.. I'll stick with the WD one I think.
But either way lets hope this is the start of some price drops now unit volumes are getting back up.
me too… but different strokes for different folks. for every horror story drive failure in one brand, there's another for a competitor brand. but i've never had an issue with WD.
ok, who's the seagate fanboi who negged me :) ?
Yeah, I would stick with WD for the same price too.
However, I have been using the 2TB version of this for almost a year now and I have another 2TB WD for a year and both work perfectly.
So either one, however, WD seems to have the better reputation.
Is this 3 platter or 4?
Seagate® Barracuda® XT inside?
I doubt it, the $299 4TB Goflex @ Officeworks are XT though, I'm pretty sure.
Confirmed as an ST3000DM001, so not an XT, still has 64MB cache though - whats the real difference?.
sux being usb2.0
bought similar one from amazon for same price or even chaeper and it's usb3.0
australian retailers are so behind sorry dse
But if bought locally, you may be able to get some GST credits back, so theoretically, minus 1/11th of price.
How do you get back GST credits? Does everyone get this?
But still Id never buy a HDD which has USB2.0, esp when USB3.0 is wayyyy faster
"How do you get back GST credits?"
If you are a GST registered business (i.e. with an ABN). You claim the GST on eligible purchases back as an input credit on your BAS.
Dont have a business so Cant do this.
USB3.0 is only theoretically 10x faster;I've heard that in practice it is twice as fast which is definitely good but if you were going for speed why not get an S.S.D. with ~500mb transfer speeds for the data that is used most and supplement it with something cheap and large for video files, etc. I guess I'm just saying this is still a good deal.
If you got kids at school can claim it back on education tax.
Fairly similar to the amazon deal 2 weeks ago, althought that was usb 3.0, I got one and ripped out the HDD for internal use. I too would recommend WD from previous experience but $160 for 3TB isn't too bad
OW didn't have Seagate in 2 different stores in Melb CBD, I got the WD one, new price at OW is… surprise surprise $159! No more 5% price match discount :(
USB 2.0. Nope
I tend to agree with others $159 for 3TB is a good price (nice to see hdd prices falling… finally) but transfering via usb2 is going to take ages….
+ve from me
only used seagate hdd and none of them failed
question.. does the wd exteral hhd come with the virtual CD? like the passport series???
my bro has 1 and you can't remove it
Yes the WD comes with the virtual CD that you can't remove.
However, I actually find it useful.
you can just reformat the drive
you can't on the passport series… 650mb is stuck there..
you only hide it
I have a 500gb and 1tb passport's and had no issues removing all wd software
5% Infinite Rewards Pre Paid Wish Cards
Someone able to give me the cliffs on these?
Through Infinite Rewards and maybe elsewhere/ebay, it is possible to buy discounted Wish Cards to be used at Coles/Myer, or Woolworths/DSE
On my way to JB to get the WD and thought I would stop off at DSE, luckily saw the Seagate @ $159 and bought it. Just popped the bonnet and found the Seagate Barracuda 7200rpm - http://www.seagate.com/www/en-au/products/desktops/barracuda….
Took a couple of minutes to remove from the external case and is now an internal drive, GPT converted and formatted to 2.72TB :). Happy as (well my son is!)
Model is ST3000DM001
done this too!
for those who dont know how to remove the gpt partition(what you will see is a 2tb and 0.7tb GPT partition in Disk Management), here is the guide i used - http://blog.paulgu.com/windows/delete-gpt-protective-partiti…
i can breathe again! (for now…)
How did you open it Coops?
flat bladed screwdriver twisted along all of the the top edge, lift top of unit up from back(its on a hinge at the front), lift out internal metal enclosure, remove 4x screws/rubber from sides, remove tape holding drive to the metal enclosure, slide drive out the back, voila you have the internal drive. I have put a 1TB spare back in and it works fine. Note: the plastic clips holding the top down do break as you twist, you can't stop this.
I ripped the cover off with my hands, starting at the front. I agree with you that breaking the clips is inevitable because they are inaccessible once the case has been assembled. Waiting on a molex to sata power adapter from Ebay now - my old P4 box only has 2 sata power plugs!
Tough choice, not sure if i should get the seagate or the wD.
Does anyone know which would one would be faster if used as an internal HDD? This Seagate or the JB WD deal?
Apparently the Seagate should theoretically be faster as its the faster model compared to the WD.
This model of Seagate is faster, but WD is consume less power when not on load. I will go to buy 4 of Seagate for my new NAS. This is an absolutely bargain compare with umart and msy.
gotta say; was going to buy the 2TB today @ 139. decided to check OZB on the way to the store; and saw this. They didn't have the 3TB on display so I would have totally missed it. So an extra TB for $20 more. :) Props to OP.
I hate Ozbargain!! You made me lose $159.. I guess I will just use this HDD as my dinner til next week!
so that will work about to roughly $51 per TB. Not a bad deal. WIsh I had a way to get USB 3.0 connection. because my laptop only has USB 2.0
Just a quick comment to be aware of the 2.1TB threshhold on older systems, where you require a driver for this to work or you can upgrade the drive if you're only on newer windows systems.
Check seagate.com for more info on this to make sense of my post.
I got the ST33000651AS XT with the USB2 vesion from DSE. I bought the 3TB USB3 version from JB and got the ST3000DM001. The XT seem to be more expensive but is it better?
Both are same price as each other.
Nice score, XT would be better I reckon. Mine was "Product of Thailand, Assembled in China". China/China is suppose to be the 5400 version.
quacka
What date of manufacture was your Seagate expansion 3TB that you got the XT drive in.
And as Coops1 pointed out what was the Product/Assembled countries.
Cheers
No idea mate. I put it into my NAS and dont want to take it out now.
The local DSE here (Highpoint) had run out and wasn't doing rain checks
JB HiFi downstairs from DSE had their 3TB drives for $179 and flat out refused to price match, so I didn't buy them.
In the end both stores lost my business.
You could always pay the extra $10 and get it delivered before the special runs out.
Pretty sure you will get one with either of the two 7200rpm drives mentioned above as I can't find any information
that Seagate has a 3TB 5400rpm green model drive, I could be wrong and maybe someone has better information.
UFO on 24/02/2012 - 12:48 Comment score below threshold.