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WD Scorpio Blue 750GB 2.5in Drive @ Flingshot $48.00

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WD Scorpio Blue 750GB 2.5in Drive @ Flingshot $48.00
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bentan77 on 20/08/2012 - 09:25 flingshot.com.au (3003 clicks)
Last edited 20/08/2012 - 10:00
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"Bare Drive Only - 12 Month replacement Warranty"

Staticice shows the cheapest 750Gb 2.5" is around $80
http://staticice.com.au/cgi-bin/search.cgi?q=750gb+2.5&spos=…

Specs here - http://wdc.com/global/products/specs/?driveID=815&language=1
It's a 9.5mm drive

The Seagate is also cheaper than most shops
Seagate Momentus 750GB 2.5in Drive $58.00
http://flingshot.com.au/collections/storage-oem-drives/produ…

USB drives are cheap too
Lexar JumpDrive S73 USB3 with free shipping
http://flingshot.com.au/collections/storage-usb-storage
16GB - $12
32Gb - $23
64GB - $59

Read Speed Up to 45Mb/s
Write Speed Up to 20Mb/s

Computing 750GB Computer Component Hard Drive Western Digital

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  • kspec on 20/08/2012 - 09:31

    Wow cheappp..

  • foobar on 20/08/2012 - 09:31

    Great price, nice find!

    $81+ for a hitachi - http://www.staticice.com.au/cgi-bin/search.cgi?q=750+2.5&spo…

    $88+ for the scorpio blue - http://www.staticice.com.au/cgi-bin/search.cgi?q=scorpio+blu…

    This is a bargain.

  • too_much_boost on 20/08/2012 - 09:38
    +2

    Bought 2. Nice deal

  • montemaj on 20/08/2012 - 09:38

    Can someone please post a link on what usb to drive connector I can buy to use this as an external drive to connect to my HD set top box/pvr so that I can record shows into it (instead of buying an external drive for $99). I am assuming I do not need an external power supply for this drive.

  • mskeggs on 20/08/2012 - 09:43
    +5

    Bought 2, and the code for free shipping from the other day still works:
    cheap8gb

    • kspec on 20/08/2012 - 09:44
      +1

      OMG!!! ordered less then 1minute and read this!!! SOOOOOO SADD!!! DAMNIT!!! just wasted $5

    • foobar on 20/08/2012 - 09:44
      -1

      Dammit that'd be right. Oh well.

  • kspec on 20/08/2012 - 09:43

    itunes card is $20 for $15 cheap ass well… 25% off!!!

  • peterlong1952 on 20/08/2012 - 09:46

    Nice deal. Now I can upgrade my old laptop from 160gb to 750gb. Great!

  • bonbon on 20/08/2012 - 09:49

    SOLD OUT

  • foobar on 20/08/2012 - 09:50

    Sold out already by the looks of it.

  • souldout on 20/08/2012 - 09:51
    +1

    and it was in my cart too :'(

    • souldout on 20/08/2012 - 09:54
      +1

      never mind I was still able to checkout :D

  • aristocrat on 20/08/2012 - 09:52

    They must have only had a few. Post was 20 mins ago, and its all gone. :-(

  • Ahan on 20/08/2012 - 09:53

    Damn. any 3.5" drive? I am in the market for the cheap one. $48 is great price!

  • foobar on 20/08/2012 - 09:58

    OP - you could change the deal over to the $58 seagate, still an excellent price.

  • souldout on 20/08/2012 - 09:59

    too bad these only come with a 12 month warranty. They usually come with 2+years……..

  • scud70 on 20/08/2012 - 10:27

    bummer missed out :(

  • danield on 20/08/2012 - 10:43

    Seagates also sold out

    • PainToad on 20/08/2012 - 11:26

      And no one cared because they were Seagate.

        • foobar on 20/08/2012 - 12:29

          Pretty cool, had never seen that before.

        • Domingo on 20/08/2012 - 12:35

          I should have included a potentially NSFW warning on that - starts off with a picture of two girls kissing on a keg at a party. And probably a few swear words.

        • foobar on 20/08/2012 - 12:38

          Hmm perhaps, too late now! Reading that reminded me of this incident.

          http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1m8a4Jl4ZI

          Never found out what happened to him if anything., should do some googling and see if he got a reprimand or lost his job etc.

  • Store Repflingshot @ Flingshot on 20/08/2012 - 10:48
    +19

    Sorry guys we have had these at this price for 2 weeks now. Didn't expect it to get posted here. We will work on getting some more stock in and will repost it then.

    • furythree on 20/08/2012 - 11:40

      same price or more capacity and i will whitney you

    • Bacchus on 20/08/2012 - 11:54

      Any room to move on the Samsung 640gb drives… for those of us that slept in.

      • nandystam on 20/08/2012 - 11:59

        I second this motion.

        • Store Repflingshot @ Flingshot on 20/08/2012 - 13:14
          +1

          I will be another few weeks before we get more stock realistically. But we will see what we can do.

      • Store Repflingshot @ Flingshot on 20/08/2012 - 14:05
        +5

        Just dropped the price down to $58 on those as well.

  • CatmanAU on 20/08/2012 - 12:09
    +2

    Was a good price, but OEM warranty probably means no warranty from WDC.
    It would be provided by a third party, perhaps the rep from flingshot can clarify who/ where/ what?

    • Store Repflingshot @ Flingshot on 20/08/2012 - 13:14
      +1

      Replacement warranty covered by us yes.

  • yacman on 20/08/2012 - 21:49
    +1

    I know the scorpio blue drives are the ones advised for the XBOX360 if you want to format your own drive, does anyone know if this specific HDD is sutible to be flashed to work with the XBOX?

    Please someone who knows about this reply, Thanks in advance!

  • Timothy-Mineworker on 20/08/2012 - 22:02
    +1

    Damn i wish i had of not missed this, i could have a 750gb hdd for my xbox 360, you can use these hdd to make a replacement hdd for the slim 360

  • [Deactivated] on 20/08/2012 - 23:51
    +1

    Samsung 640gb 2.5inch drive is still available at $58 plus postage though..
    (seems like they decreased the price)
    http://flingshot.com.au/collections/storage/products/storage…

  • SaberX on 21/08/2012 - 10:26

    +1 to bringing back similarly cheap deal or the samsung drives please. With sufficient stock for all us hungry ozbargainers :D

  • brake on 21/08/2012 - 15:31

    REP - can you post in this thread too when you get more in? would love one of these, or something similar for my laptop!

    • Store Repflingshot @ Flingshot on 21/08/2012 - 19:10

      We will post a new deal as well.

  • mskeggs on 29/08/2012 - 12:53

    Received mine today, thanks.
    Western Digital supplied free cloning software (a lite version of Acronis) that will help if you are upgrading:
    http://support.wdc.com/product/downloaddetail.asp?swid=119&w…

  • foobar on 29/08/2012 - 17:33
    +1

    Mine arrived today too, neither were in factory sealed bags which was a tad concerning. Both drives also had filesystems present that were created on Sunday the 26th of August.

    • Store Repflingshot @ Flingshot on 29/08/2012 - 22:01

      Sorry about the packaging we ran out of 2.5in static bags so we had to improvise, we didn't want people to have to wait 2-3 days for more to arrive. If there is any issues with the drives let us know.

      • foobar on 30/08/2012 - 05:47

        These drives should have been factory sealed in their own static bags, you shouldn't need to put them into bags yourself.

        In what state/condition did you received them?

        • Store Repflingshot @ Flingshot on 30/08/2012 - 10:44

          Just to give you the whole picture of where these drives come from. We do bulk corp deals on laptops for clients and they almost always want ssd's some order 30 lenovo laptops for example and pull these drives out of the machine and put an ssd in its place. The drives have only had the is Inge cloned we take them as format them to make sure there are no doa's and then we ship them out. That's why we have to offer a one year replacement warranty because the drives are not covered by the standard manufacterer's warranty. Hopefully that puts everyone's minds at ease. These are definitely not fake, but we are happy to offer a refund to anyone who is still concerned. We have about 30 people asking when we will get more stock so I am sure these will go quickly.

          Apologies for any confusion we honestly didn't expect this deal to be posted here and usually before buying people email us and ask what the story is which we explain to them before they buy.

        • foobar on 30/08/2012 - 11:15

          Okay that explains why they're not spanking new and sealed in bags, thanks for the info. I've given the two I received a bit of a quick thrashing, they seem fine so I'm happy.

          Would have been nice to know this info before they turned up but it's all good now.

        • Store Repflingshot @ Flingshot on 30/08/2012 - 11:26

          Yeah they should all be fine. They pretty much sold out before we even realized te deal had been posted so we didn't really have a chance to clarify. If we had posted it we would have made it clear where they came from.

    • souldout on 30/08/2012 - 00:45

      Mine came like this too!

      I hope these drives aren't fakes….

      http://news.softpedia.com/news/HDD-Crisis-Was-Fake-Seagate-a…

      • foobar on 30/08/2012 - 05:45

        Eh? That story is about the fake "crisis" around the floods, no mention of fake drives.

        • Store Repflingshot @ Flingshot on 30/08/2012 - 11:29

          Still a very interesting read! We can definitely attest that the oem's jacked up the prices during this "crisis". Yet they would still mysteriously find cheaper drives laying around wen it suited them.

        • foobar on 30/08/2012 - 13:08

          Fakes are out there, but it'd be hard to fake something like the drive in this post.

          This is my all time favourite fake drive story

          http://blog.jitbit.com/2011/04/chinese-magic-drive.html

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