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Weekend Sale - OCZ 128GB - $89 Free SteelSeries Gaming Mat, Toshiba 1TB 2.5" Portable - $89

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Weekend Sale - OCZ 128GB - $89 Free SteelSeries Gaming Mat, Toshiba 1TB 2.5" Portable - $89
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Store RepShoppingExpress on 17/06/2012 - 08:51 shoppingexpress.com.au (1249 clicks)
i. OCZ Octane 128GB at $89 + Shipping with a Free SteelSeries Gaming mat:

OCZ Octane 128GB:
http://www.shoppingexpress.com.au/buy/ocz-128gb-2.5-inch-sol…

Free Mat:
http://www.shoppingexpress.com.au/buy/steelseries-qck-catacl…

Other OCZ & Sandisk SSDs with the Free Gaming Mat in link:
http://www.shoppingexpress.com.au/shop/weekend-only-deals/We…
For the deals below, prices apply after you add the product to cart and put your postcode into the shopping cart :

ii. 1TB Toshiba USB 3.0 Portable Drive - $89 + Shipping

http://www.shoppingexpress.com.au/buy/toshiba-1tb-canvio-bas…

iii. Toshiba PSK2ZA-004001 L750 Core i5 with 8GB memory, 1GB Video, Winodws 7 Professional

http://www.shoppingexpress.com.au/buy/toshiba-satellite-l750…

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  • Kill Joy on 17/06/2012 - 09:16
    +1

    the $89 SSD is good value, but be sure to cross reference its performance with others to confirm its right for you :)

    • nucgaek on 17/06/2012 - 09:21

      Is the $89 including or excluding shipping? I think there was a similar deal earlier this week but with free shipping.
      Either way, seems like a decent price, reviews seem to say they're unreliable but no one can expect crucial/intel quality at this price.

      • Store RepShoppingExpress @ Shopping Express on 17/06/2012 - 09:31
        -1

        This excludes shipping. We do give out a SteelSeries Gaming Mat instead :).

        • foobar on 17/06/2012 - 09:54
          +2

          Why not give the option of a free gaming mat or free shipping.

        • StewBalls on 17/06/2012 - 10:22
          +2

          It's called value-adding foobar, that way they're not out of pocket for the shipping costs but customers still get something…which is slightly better than nothing! ;)

          The SE freight prices are very reasonable anyway IME.

        • foobar on 17/06/2012 - 10:26
          +3

          My bet is that some distributor dumped a heap of free or very low cost mouse mats on them and this is the only way to make them go away without dumping them. Chucking them in as a no cost freebie that almost no one actually wants whereas free shipping is something that pretty much everyone would prefer.

          I just wanted the rep to reply, see what story they came up with but you've gone an spoiled that now! :)

        • StewBalls on 17/06/2012 - 11:01

          My bet is that some distributor dumped a heap of free or very low cost mouse mats on them and this is the only way to make them go away without dumping them.

          Agreed. I think that should actually become the new textbook definition for value-adding! :)

        • fawze on 17/06/2012 - 12:59

          Give me the option of free shipping instead of the game mat and ill buy one

        • [Deactivated] on 19/06/2012 - 15:26

          hi rep. any chance to grab the toshiba 1tb usb 3.0 drive for 89 now? cheers

    • Store RepShoppingExpress @ Shopping Express on 17/06/2012 - 09:28

      hi mate,

      will do :).

      • Kill Joy on 17/06/2012 - 09:46
        +2

        This was more directed at potential customers who mistakenly buy the drive expecting 500mb/s + speeds so you don't get too many returns :)

      • [Deactivated] on 19/06/2012 - 15:27

        hi rep. any chance to grab the toshiba 1tb usb 3.0 drive for 89 now? cheers

        • Store RepShoppingExpress @ Shopping Express on 19/06/2012 - 17:22

          Sorry bamsegod,

          The deal is over for the moment…

  • fujitsu on 17/06/2012 - 10:15
    -2

    The Toshiba USB 3.0 Portable Drive is $119 on your site. Not $89.

    • foobar on 17/06/2012 - 10:18
      +1

      $30 discount is applied when you add it to the cart.

    • Store RepShoppingExpress @ Shopping Express on 17/06/2012 - 10:19

      add to cart, put in your post code, price will change to $89 in your cart, make sure it is $89, then checkout.
      Hope this helps.

    • kommy on 17/06/2012 - 10:19

      need to add it to the checkout and the discount will be applied.

      • fujitsu on 17/06/2012 - 10:29

        Thanks for that. It changed to $89 after adding to the cart. I bought one.
        It does not say anything about $30 off anywhere on the page.
        Maybe you should highlight it so others will know its $89 and not $119.

  • Twodogs on 17/06/2012 - 10:53

    Good price for a 128 Gb ssd .
    Review for it here http://www.anandtech.com/show/5272/ocz-octane-128gb-ssd-revi…

    Speed increase in the new firmware for it here http://www.storagereview.com/ocz_octane_ssd_128gb512gb_revie…

    And when ssd's are so fast that programs seem to start instantly , is there really that much difference between them ? " outside of benchmarks i mean " in real world usage ?

    • foobar on 17/06/2012 - 11:04
      +1

      I had a Kingston SSDNOW 128GB in my PC, wanted to get something for the laptop so I bought a M4 for the PC and moved the Kingston to the laptop.

      The M4 benchmarks a whole heap faster, but that's the only noticeable difference. Real world, the PC doesn't feel any different to use with the M4 in it. The partition is aligned, it's on a SATA3 port etc, everything is right but apart from benchmarks, there's just no noticeable difference.

      I'd say that even though this cheap SSD doesn't bench all that well, it'll still be a huge leap forward from a mechanical drive. If I needed any more, I'd happily get one to try.

    • StewBalls on 17/06/2012 - 11:07

      And when ssd's are so fast that programs seem to start instantly , is there really that much difference between them ? " outside of benchmarks i mean " in real world usage ?

      That's a very good point. Synthetic benchmarks are fantastic for a spectrum of objective quantitative data, but in many cases with solid state electronics of any kind (RAM, buses, chipsets etc) then all else being equal the qualitative practical differences visible to the end user without instrumentation/software are often negligible! :)

      • Kill Joy on 17/06/2012 - 15:36

        Its more a reliability thing for me :)

        • StewBalls on 17/06/2012 - 15:48

          That's good to bear in mind, but it isn't necessarily related to Twodogs' original question. ;)

        • Kill Joy on 17/06/2012 - 21:52
          +1

          Well it does in a way..people are saying the only difference is speed which is not really distinguishable outside of benchmarks, which kinda seems to ignore reliability as a factor in purchase :)

        • StewBalls on 19/06/2012 - 15:51

          Fair point I suppose in the bigger picture, all I read between the lines of the question though was an enquiry about pragmatic performance differences.

    • mudguppy1 on 17/06/2012 - 11:24
      +1

      thats not the s2 its the s3 review

    • netsurfer on 17/06/2012 - 21:42

      Indeed, OCZ sent the SATA III series of the Octane to Anand for review (not the SATA II drive).

      OCZ quoted the following for Octane SATA II 128GB.
      Max Read: up to 275MB/s
      Max Write: up to 175MB/s

      Octane SATA II series uses Hynix NAND Flash, whereas the SATA III one they sent to Anand uses Intel NAND Flash.

  • StewBalls on 17/06/2012 - 11:18

    It's worth having a look around for stuff you want at SE whilst you're there, as a lot of specials never make it to OzB! I grabbed a couple of dual-band USB wifi adapters for $18 each a couple of weeks ago, score! :)

  • siuol on 17/06/2012 - 11:34

    Is pickup available?

    • siuol on 20/06/2012 - 09:22

      No replies to potential customers' enquiries. Speaking of Customer Services being a rep

      • Store RepShoppingExpress @ Shopping Express on 20/06/2012 - 09:32

        Hi mate,

        Sorry i missed your post totally. We do not offer pickups.

  • tomo88 on 17/06/2012 - 11:51

    is there much of a performance difference between these being SATA II compared to a SATA III? Whether it is worth saving up for a SATA III model?

    • StewBalls on 17/06/2012 - 12:33

      If you have sata3 support then I would say it is worth going down that path; however, if your mobo or laptop is limited to sata2 then stick with a cheaper sata2 drive provided that the overall performance is decent.

    • netsurfer on 17/06/2012 - 21:30

      For OCZ Octane 128GB, the SATA III series is faster. However, the price is also different.

      So far, my personal experience, if the SSD has the new Sandforce chipset, it is best to have SATA III (My Sandisk Extreme SSD performs much better using SATA III). Also, as StewBalls pointed out, if you have SATA3, it is worthwhile using it.

  • nataz6 on 17/06/2012 - 15:22
    +1

    I was looking at the ssd and free mouse pad thinking its a pretty good deal, then I saw on PC Case Gear that they are selling the ssd for the same price.

    The $16 free mouse pad is only $6 from PCCG. Maybe overpriced retail at $16?

    If the rep will do a deal on shipping to make this more attractive I will buy the ssd and the 1tb toshiba portable drive.

    Maybe free shipping over $100 spend?

  • grog on 17/06/2012 - 16:43

    Questions, all replies appreciated.

    1. Is this an australian mainland registered company.

    2. If so what city are they in?

    3.Is all the stock advertised actually in stock in australia at the company site.

    4.Has anybody purchased from them in the past?

    5.Any thing else about them i should know?

    thank you

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