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HP 2TB SimpleSave USB 3.0 External Hard Drive $109 @ Officeworks

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HP 2TB SimpleSave USB 3.0 External Hard Drive $109 @ Officeworks
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bender on 21/09/2012 - 16:49 officeworks.com.au (2989 clicks)

Simple and instant plug-and-play data storage!

Attractive compact design with a black glossy finish.

Includes backup software which automatically begins backing up your data as soon as the drive is switched on.

No need to install software-the software automatically finds your data, frequently checking for file changes so your backup is always up to date.

  • USB2.0/USB3.0 compatible.
  • NTFS file system optimised for PC.
  • Eco-friendly drive-Cool, quiet and fan-less operation.
  • 3 Years limited warranty.
  • Dimensions: 130 (L) x 54 (W) x 169 (H) mm.

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

  • An available USB port.
  • One of the following operating systems:
    • Windows® 7
    • Windows Vista®
    • Windows XP.

PACKAGE CONTENTS

  • HP SimpleSave External Hard Drive.
  • USB cable.
  • Power adapter.
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  • ChickenAdobo on 21/09/2012 - 19:49

    Good price.

  • ozb-442 on 21/09/2012 - 20:06

    Anyone know if you can pull out the hard drive?

    • 51ngh on 21/09/2012 - 20:15
      -5

      Why would you bother ?

      MSY have the Hitachi 2TB @ $69 on special

      • gizmomelb on 21/09/2012 - 20:19

        link please.. I've looked on the MSY website and cannot find that price anywhere

        • rentony on 21/09/2012 - 20:23

          me too, where is it, would take one. Hard drive is hard drive, I don't care about brands, just used to store movies and games.

        • furythree on 21/09/2012 - 20:26
          +2

          until it dies

        • MMMan on 21/09/2012 - 21:45
          +1

          Got my hopes up there. Found it in this. Fyshwick ACT. No chance.

          http://www.msy.com.au/Parts/fyshwick.pdf

      • Holmes on 21/09/2012 - 20:22

        Dear geek7899 :Could you please post a link. I would like to buy one if it is true…

        • jonoz on 21/09/2012 - 20:28
          +2

          Generally when someone posts something "amazing price @ MSY" its clearance and 90% of their stores are out of stock.

          Anyway, my process - goto www.staticice.com.au and find out whether the item is a clearance item, it will be prefixed with (STATE Store Clearance) Item eg, (QLD Slacks Creek Clearance) Hitachi 3.5" Deskstar 2TB SATA HDD 5400RPM.

          From there all the clearance PDFs are located at http://www.msy.com.au/clearance.jsp.

          Hope this helps.

      • Peace Maker on 21/09/2012 - 20:24
        +9

        Just think how much MSY would sell if you didn't have to be a certified cryptologist to navigate their website!

        • Cluster on 21/09/2012 - 22:43

          I almost think it's done on purpose. The time consuming customers who come in and spend 15 minutes with staff to buy a $50 item are scared away by the price list.

      • Steptoe on 21/09/2012 - 20:37

        http://www.msy.com.au/Parts/PARTS.pdf

        Not in this price list?

      • ozblocd on 21/09/2012 - 21:54

        MSY??? NO THANKS!!!

        • cozmo on 22/09/2012 - 07:00
          +3

          I have never had a problem with them… if you know what you want they are fine…. even had a warranty issue with a hard drive,went in, they tested to confirm it was RS and swapped on the spot.

    • nandystam on 21/09/2012 - 20:53

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

      Not sure which particular model it is, but the answer seems to be a tentative yes.

      • gizmomelb on 21/09/2012 - 21:51

        from that vid the drive was a WD Caviar Green - the cost of a 2TB WD Caviar Green from MSY is $104 (normal price, not clearance price) so if you're after this just to pull the HDD it is cheaper and easier to just buy the drive.

        • youknow on 21/09/2012 - 22:39

          agreed, and you're not voiding warranty in the process.

        • Cluster on 21/09/2012 - 22:41

          $104 for cash, or add 2% for credit card. $106.08 versus $109 for CC at Officeworks. Want the bare drive? Just buy the drive. Want a drive in a case? This is a bargain.

        • Trance N Dance on 21/09/2012 - 23:40

          Are there any warranty stickers on the HP drive? Couldn't tell from watching the video on mute.

        • Cluster on 22/09/2012 - 00:05

          No stickers, but it looks like a snap lock case with plastic tabs. Opening it without damage may be difficult.

  • isa on 21/09/2012 - 22:39
    +1

    I searched HP's website for this particular drive's rpm:

    http://www8.hp.com/au/en/hp-search/search.html?nores=true&qt…

    Couldn't find anything.

    Anyone able to ascertain the speed please?

    • Cluster on 21/09/2012 - 22:44
      +2

      WD Green, so around 5900rpm. Green drives don't have a set speed as they vary by batch. Plugging in such a drive into SMART utils returns 'undefined' for RPM.

      • isa on 22/09/2012 - 00:57

        When I purchased the Samsung Smart TV, I called up Samsung asking for what type of external HDD it'd be able to efficiently utilise…

        I was told anything up to 1.5 TB. I was also told that it should have 7200 rpm, for faster recognition, or buffer, or whatever it was he said back then…

        Despite this being 2 TB, I was willing to take the risk, as it is an awesome price, and could be used as a nice external for my pc, as a backup drive, if it didn't work on the telly.

        However, if it is a hit and miss (i.e. speeds varying with batches), I think I will scratch this off my wishlist unfortunately. I work with large files, and would really rather the faster revs.

        Ah well… can't have it all I guess.

        • Russ on 22/09/2012 - 02:12
          +7

          Methinks you were read a script by a sales droid.

          Recording and playing back TV is something that even the slowest of slow hard drives should be able to do. Even for a high-def channel at 5GBytes/hour, that's only 1.4Mbytes per second. A class 4 SD card would be able to handle this data rate! Twice and a bit more! Hard drives a much faster at writing than SD cards, so should have no difficulty.

          The only possible case, as far as I can see, where a hard drive would be taxed on a "smart" TV, would be playing back a recorded program while recording another simultaneously. If the recorded program was at the start of the hard drive, and the new recording was towards the end, the seek times could be significant, as the hard drive-head would be forever moving between the two locations. Smart TVs probably have minimal RAM for buffering the video data, so a drive with faster seek time could possibly help. However, hard drives nowadays usually have enough buffer memory of their own to hold several seconds of high-def video, so this argument doesn't seem very plausible.

          I'll stick with my original assumption: you were read a script by a sales droid.

        • [Deactivated] on 22/09/2012 - 12:43

          I dunno alot of TV's encrypt the data which may make it larger or harder to both process and send to the drive… could be an issue with the tv rather than the drive meaning it needs a faster speed.

        • Cluster on 22/09/2012 - 16:51

          Encrypted data is only slightly larger than the original (header, etc), and the drive doesn't care whether you're writing random data to the drive or all zeros. It takes the same amount of time.

  • Cluster on 21/09/2012 - 22:39
    +2

    I bought one (for $119) last week. Can confirm it's a WD Green drive inside.

    The case is rather bulky but that ensures excellent ventilation all around the drive.

  • figarow on 21/09/2012 - 22:53

    is this one better than this seagate for the same price? http://m.dicksmith.com.au/Product/XH9888/SEAGATE-Expansion-2…

    • Cluster on 21/09/2012 - 22:54

      Yes. That's USB2, this is USB3 and backwards compatible.

      • figarow on 21/09/2012 - 23:18

        thanks boss..sending misses to pick up this bad boy tomorrow been looking for a cheap drive for a while ;-]

  • MarkB4 on 22/09/2012 - 01:40

    Looks like a good price for 2TB extra storage and backup.

  • gryphn on 22/09/2012 - 08:15

    Bought one of these a month ago has been hanging of el cheapo BT downloader 24/7 not a single issue for 109 its a darn good bargain

  • ethereal88 on 22/09/2012 - 08:51

    Why get this fat bastard of a HDD? There was a 2.5" WD 2TB that I'm certain your wife would approve of more. I never get why people bother with these - big bulky with a fat adapter.

    • daydream on 22/09/2012 - 09:16
      +3

      I don't think wives are that impressed with 2.5" ones (tiny adaptors) ;-)

    • johnno07 on 22/09/2012 - 09:29
      +4

      If you buy computer components based on "wife's approval" then you're doing it wrong.

    • Cluster on 22/09/2012 - 09:57
      +4

      3.5" drives are cheaper per tebibyte..

  • johnno07 on 22/09/2012 - 09:29

    Very timely. Thanks, bender!

  • uccoffee on 22/09/2012 - 09:30

    these are so pretty if you have a few of them , great buy

  • [Deactivated] on 22/09/2012 - 12:45

    It'd be nice to get like 4 of the 2.5" 500gb hard drives and put them in a raid 0 configuration and just backup that collective drive to this 2Tb every week or so.

  • eagleanthony on 22/09/2012 - 15:25
    +1

    Software is really easy to use. One click, backs up all your files. PDF, JPG, AVI, ZIP, 7Z etc.

    Benchmarks at about 32MB/S over USB2.0

  • bluesuby09 on 22/09/2012 - 16:39

    Thanks-got one today at Penrith. They had a stack marked at $119 but they scan at $109. Need them for a stack of pics and keep separate from all the other junk!!

    • Ace on 22/09/2012 - 17:20

      I'm buying one for my porn collection too.

      • isa on 22/09/2012 - 17:27

        Please keep your fantasies to yourself Ace.

      • ccrap on 22/09/2012 - 17:37
        +5

        I'm buying one for my porn collection too.

        Only one?

  • veeejaysingh on 22/09/2012 - 21:46

    much more reliable than Seagate ones…good price

  • munishluther on 22/09/2012 - 23:27

    is this compatible with mac as well,,,,

    • Alohana on 22/09/2012 - 23:53

      Quote: In order to be compatible with Mac you will need to reformat the device, however, it will earse all the pre-loaded SimplSave software comes with hard drive.

  • Cheap Rich Guy on 23/09/2012 - 01:59

    Can anyone provide a benchmark for USB3 transfer speed?

    • [Deactivated] on 23/09/2012 - 07:35
      +2

      CrystalDiskMark 3.0.1 x64 (C) 2007-2010 hiyohiyo

      Crystal Dew World : http://crystalmark.info/

      • MB/s = 1,000,000 byte/s [SATA/300 = 300,000,000 byte/s]

           Sequential Read :   110.182 MB/s
  Sequential Write :   107.906 MB/s
 Random Read 512KB :    39.234 MB/s
Random Write 512KB :    61.350 MB/s

        Random Read 4KB (QD=1) : 0.505 MB/s [ 123.3 IOPS]
        Random Write 4KB (QD=1) : 1.116 MB/s [ 272.4 IOPS]
        Random Read 4KB (QD=32) : 0.535 MB/s [ 130.7 IOPS]
        Random Write 4KB (QD=32) : 1.123 MB/s [ 274.2 IOPS]

        Test : 4000 MB [F: 25.8% (480.1/1863.0 GB)] (x5)
        Date : 2012/09/23 7:34:19
        OS : Windows 7 Home Premium Edition SP1 [6.1 Build 7601] (x64)

  • jassep on 23/09/2012 - 18:45

    Picked up one of these yesterday - scan at $109 where display said $139. (Osborne Park, WA). Bargain!

  • Trance N Dance on 23/09/2012 - 23:35

    Picked one up today and lol at the WD materials included.

  • johnno07 on 24/09/2012 - 21:53

    Ordered on Saturday and arrived today. Very impressed. And a lovely looking enclosure to boot!

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