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Buffalo 3TB Drive Station USB 3 Only $139 @ Officeworks

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Buffalo 3TB Drive Station USB 3 Only $139 @ Officeworks
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Guilty Flamez on 01/02/2013 - 09:33 officeworks.com.au (2189 clicks)
Last edited 01/02/2013 - 14:49

Hi guys,
I was @ local ow store to get a pen drive and saw this buffalo 3tb hard drive for $139. Guy working there told me it was $219 yesterday and he can't confirm how long that price wi last.
Couldn't stop buying even though I have couple of 2tb from previous post.
Hope you guys like it..

Computing 3TB Buffalo Computer Peripheral External Hard Drive

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  • ca6leguy on 01/02/2013 - 09:45
    +7

    Prices has dropped. Don't rush out to get one if you don't need one.

  • anabol on 01/02/2013 - 09:49
    +1

    2 x Seagate Expansion 2TB from DSE for 79$ is better IMO

    • andyken on 01/02/2013 - 10:05
      -1

      care to share the link 2 x 2tb for $79? i saw one from here but it just 1 x 2tb for $79. thx

      • daewoo on 01/02/2013 - 10:26
        +4

        I'm pretty sure he just left out the word 'each' :)

        • anabol on 01/02/2013 - 10:57

          right you are)
          I just ment to say that 4tb for $158 looks better than 3tb for $139

        • Magic Mirror on 01/02/2013 - 11:10

          But the DSE deal is online only, so you have to pay the postage (around $10). So it's really $168 for 4tb v's $139 for 3tb.

        • T1OOO on 01/02/2013 - 11:50
          +4

          nah 2x2tb take sup too many slots and uses more power…

          prefer bigger capacity drivers

        • giu on 01/02/2013 - 12:26
          +4

          Postage is now free on the DSE deal

        • Magic Mirror on 02/02/2013 - 14:27

          You are right!!! Tried to down vote my last comment but couldn't, LOL.

  • dreamerman on 01/02/2013 - 09:49
    +2

    Bought a few external HDDs recently at under $40 per TB, the last one being a 3TB Seagate from JBHIFI at $118.

  • imolared on 01/02/2013 - 10:03

    Bought 2 of these from Harris Technology when they were $180 a few months ago. Disk info shows one have WD Green drive, the other one has Seagate 5900 drive.

  • BhanuL on 01/02/2013 - 10:43
    +4

    For 3TB Seagate

    If you need it urgently, go to jb hifi, quote the $118 sale a few weeks back and they will give it to you for $128 after checking their computer.

    • test123123 on 01/02/2013 - 12:21

      $118 is great price miss that one

  • aussibargain on 01/02/2013 - 10:49
    +1

    Is it USB 2 or 3?

    • dealspider on 01/02/2013 - 10:55
      +1

      USB 3

      • Mixhael on 01/02/2013 - 11:31
        +1

        True. OP should put that in the title.

  • vash12 on 01/02/2013 - 11:47

    AC powered?

    • cvas on 01/02/2013 - 11:54
      +2

      I don't think portable 3TB exists yet on a consumer level? Well especially not for this price anyway…

  • Mitchh on 01/02/2013 - 12:16

    Is Buffalo a reliable company? I might even buy this.

    • Fuzor on 01/02/2013 - 12:20

      Japanese so immediately better than Seagate?

    • howbazaar on 01/02/2013 - 12:37
      +2

      They have a good reputation in Japan. I bought one.

      I have been very happy with my Buffallo portable drive, especially the power management. (It would go into standby when still powered by a usb hub and wake up when the pc connected to the usb hub. Lots of other portable drives don't make the distinction.)

    • chook79 on 01/02/2013 - 13:52

      I bought one of these from Bing Lee about six months ago after being advertised on here. It's ok, but not the greatest. I transferred all of my movie files over to it to watch via WD player and half of them became corrupt on the transfer.

      • llama on 01/02/2013 - 13:57

        I am having trouble with mine as well.

      • naphman on 01/02/2013 - 14:04
        +1

        Ive done up 3tb for friends with seagates that randomly corrupt all the files on WD TV Live.

        Check your Firmware of your player - could also be some of the problem, its how i fixed my mates.

        • effgee on 01/02/2013 - 20:30

          Interesting!!

          I've got a 2GB seagate plugged into my WD TV live streaming, it also randomly deletes files, typically newly-added files only. I always take the latest firmware updates, but the problem persists over 6 months, numerous firmware updates.

          It only happens occasionally, normally just a few files or folders.

          I assume its the fault of the WD. Conspiracy theory suggests WD are deleting non-licensed files on behalf of movie industry, but more likely they're doing something bad to make their index files match up, or just not handling the disk format properly.

  • goamax on 01/02/2013 - 14:29

    $26 shipping to rural Victoria, no thanks!

  • JimmyBargain on 01/02/2013 - 14:37
    -1

    SMART Status: not verified

    i.e. don't bother

    • effgee on 01/02/2013 - 20:31

      care to explain a little more ? Do you mean you can't extract S.M.A.R.T. stats from this drive ?

  • Mitchh on 01/02/2013 - 16:21

    I'll actually buy a 2TB Seagate from Office Works for $75.05, thats only about 3.8c/GB compared to this which is about 4.6c/GB. 17.46% cheaper.

  • b-radicool on 01/02/2013 - 19:02

    Just be wary - I bought one of these a few weeks ago and found that it could not be read by my Astone AP-110D or 310DT media players….. a bit annoying.

    • calkay on 01/02/2013 - 19:24

      Some media players are restricted to read only up to 1TB drives.

      • hollykryten on 01/02/2013 - 19:33

        Well the media player probably can't read the GPT partition table that's found on 3TB external hard drives for starters so it's got no chance.

      • cvas on 01/02/2013 - 19:35

        I believe the Astone specs say that its up to 3tb hard drives that it can support

        • b-radicool on 01/02/2013 - 19:39
          +3

          got a reference champ?

        • cvas on 01/02/2013 - 19:54

          Yeh - Sorry to get off topic everyone

          Specification

          Model name: Astone Media Gear MP-310DT
          HDD Support: 3.5" SATA hard drive up to 3.0TB
          Disc format: FAT, FAT32, NTFS, EXT3
          Subtitle: Chinese Traditional/Chinese Simplified/UTF8/Europe/Korean/Japanese
          Resolution: 1080p HD decoding & output, upscaling, CVBS & YPbPr & HDMI output simultaneously
          Aspect ratio: Pan Scan 4:3 / Letterbox 4:3 /16:9
          Video Interface: CVBS composite RCA Video, YPbPr RCA, HDMI 1.3
          Analog Audio: RCA AUDIO L/R
          Digital Audio: SPDIF, TOSLINK & Coaxial, HDMI
          Ethernet: Gigabit LAN 10/100/1000Mbps (for high performance Full HD streaming)
          Optional Wi-Fi dongle: Astone AW-N290 USB 802.11n Wi-Fi Dongle
          DTV Support: DVB-T, DTV EPG
          DTV Record: DTV EPG / Timer Recording, Pause Live TV, one-touch recording
          Movie Video: MPEG-1 (DAT / MPG / MPEG); MPEG-2 (MPG / MPEG / VOB / ISO / IFO / TS / TP) MPEG-4 (MP4 / AVI / MOV); DivX 3/4/5/6, Xvid (AVI / MKV) H.264 AVC (TS / AVI / MKV / MOV) VC-1 (TS / AVI / MKV / WMV); WMV 9 (WMV); Real Video HD 8/9/10 (RM / RMVB); FLV (FLV)
          ………………………

          Source: downundermedia.com.au

  • Sarah87435 on 04/02/2013 - 08:11

    It looks like the same hard drive is on sale at oo.com.au for $82.95 + postage.

    • sunsindhi on 07/02/2013 - 13:18

      can't find this HDD on OO. Can you post the link???

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