Anyone have enough storage yet??
$177 from officeworks - free delivery plus bonus Cool Wine Cooler Bag!! product code: Q69-PRWNBAG
Western Digital 1TB Elements Portable Hard Drive
Product No. WDE1U1TB
WHILE STOCKS LAST
So many USB/eSATA drives.. when are NAS prices going to plummet??
Good deal - wonder if Officeworks were responding to any particular competitor offer.
I may be being pedantic here, but the use of so many exclamation marks gives me the rage.
wtf ???
Whoops, neg given by mistake.
that's the revoke neg- function if you need to :) lol..
maybe I was getting too excited :)
@elcheapo: It is pretty easy to mistakenly vote for one or the other actually. But I believe you can't take back the negative and vote positive for some reason.
@cacbm: Yes. It's a "feature" to prevent people who cannot make up their mind, i.e. vote -1, ops! revoke, vote +1, hmm no, revoke again, vote -1, d'oh!…
I quite like excalmation marks. in the digital world where your meaning can really be misinterpreted alot, things like exclamation marks and question marks can be useful.
I mean you can tell more about what I really mean with
happy! (happy) v's happy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (obvioulsy really happy)
what? v's what????? (what the F*****?)
and it's much easier to just push the same button down for a while to express the emotion rather than write some long winded crap like this! :-)
I hope this helps your get over your irrational pedantic irk with the repetitive use of exclamation marks.
P.S. No, I'm not crazy, just bored this morning!
this is a great price. wonder what a wine bag is?
anyway. I have a 640GB version of this (coincidentally $139) and they are extremely quiet and responsive.
oops forgot to put in the code for the wine bag :(
How long is the warranty?
Nice find.
Wonder what HDD are in these? As in several places its listed as being a 7200rpm HDD inside - which would mean it'd have to be the 1tb Caviar Black wouldn't it? As I thought WD's other 1tb drive was the 5400rpm GP? Excluding the top end RE2's.
And the Cav Blacks are $200+ by themselves.
I'd figure the enclosure'd get pretty hot though - but good basic storage - and maybe even worth pulling open for a cheap HDD.
Nice deal. Was thinking the same thing Nikko. Cheapest WD 1TB Green Power (without case) on staticice is currently $165. Would really like to know if it is a GP or a Black inside.
Can't be a GP - as several places state these are 7200rpm HDDs and the GPs are sold as 5400rpm HDDs - atleast I'm pretty sure they are now.
I don't think the elements cases are easy to open though - nothing on the net I can find about them. Might be something a thread at WP or similar would solve.
Good point Nikko. In fact WD make a point of not officially stating the RPM of the GP drives at all yet citing 'intelli-power' instead. Some independent techies however asserted that they were indeed 5400rpm after running some sound tests.
Sold out
Good price!
i'll wait till it's below $100
U might need to wait for 1.5 year
I think it'll happen in 6 months as computer products drop every quater (3 months).
We actually have 1TB drive for a while, and are still waiting for the 2TB version. Although the spec of storage grows faster than the CPU speed, I think there is still some physical limitation…
Maybe storage provider will move onto multi-drive or pack more platers, just like how CPU vendors adding more cores.
Seagate's 2TB HDD is coming out next year.
http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/30/seagate-to-jump-into-the-…
Apparently some officeworks store still have them (Glebe for sure).
i tried to order one but apparently is not available anymore.
Is the wine bag full or empty?
i got the wine bag today but not the drive lol
Not sure if they've got new stock or whether its a state thing, but I ordered one yesterday and it arrived today (in Qld). Thanks for the bargain!
Great bargain. +1
Did anyone find out what drive is used in these?
When I plug in my external drive I am able to see the model number in XP sometimes…so can anyone post any details if they already got the drive?
i bought this recently. i got a free picture frame. they dont have the wine cooler anymore.
Cool deal thanx
add $3.95 handling fee though.