WD 4TB My Book Essential USB 3.0/2.0 External Hard Drive $197 @ OW, $198 @ HN, $199 @ JB

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  Borris on 04/04/2013 - 22:13

  +1

  Also in Harvey Norman for $1 cheaper…
  http://www.harveynorman.com.au/western-digital-mybook-extern…

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    unity1 on 04/04/2013 - 22:27

    +4

    $193 after using welcome5 code

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    1bug on 04/04/2013 - 23:18

    +1

    Thanks. Have included Harvey Norman in post.

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  nfr on 04/04/2013 - 22:14

  +3

  I'd wait for Amazon's Seagate 4TB deal again, much cheaper and comes with a dock.

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    georgesc on 04/04/2013 - 22:31

    how cheap? or ozb link please?
    thanks

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      turna on 04/04/2013 - 22:43

      http://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/96919

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      samba on 04/04/2013 - 23:30

      +1

      $153 including shipping I got mine for.

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  djglenmcbride on 05/04/2013 - 08:23

  +1

  What's the consensus with the reliability of 4TB drives? A lot of reading here and whirlpool doesn't fill me with confidence.

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    ElWircho on 05/04/2013 - 09:03

    Well, a good judgement for me is the ratio of Amazon's reviews with 5-stars to 1-stars. If more than half of the number of 5-star ratings has only 1-star (like in this case, ratio above 0.5) it's a sign for me to say NaaahAaaah.

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    TR3V0R on 05/04/2013 - 16:15

    @djglenmcbride.

    You should Google WD's 4TB MyBook range. People have had some serious problems with it, especially data recovery. Something to do with something that's been installed on it. I can't find the weblink sadly.

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  Draxxx on 05/04/2013 - 08:36

  Saw in store they are also doing a 3TB Seagate for $148
  http://www.jbhifi.com.au/computers/storage/seagate/expansion…

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  CYMA on 05/04/2013 - 09:07

  hardware encryption

  I never knew there was such a thing:
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware-based_full_disk_encryp…

  Interesting.

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  uccoffee on 05/04/2013 - 11:02

  CAN this be format for osx?

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    ryanhunt on 05/04/2013 - 11:04

    +3

    any hard drive can.

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      Gav on 05/04/2013 - 11:38

      +2

      Shhhh, Apple don't want their users knowing this! That way they can overcharge 500% for an exact same item in their own shiny cases. (Time Machine anyone?)

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        muskawo on 05/04/2013 - 13:23

        pretty weird that apple sell WD drives on their site if they don't want people using them…

        http://store.apple.com/au/browse/home/shop_mac/mac_accessori…

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        FirstNameLastName on 13/04/2013 - 11:05

        Well the prices there do seem high, the cases do look very shiny, and they do put 'for mac' on a lot of the hdds.. as if perhaps to say that if you buy them elsewhere perhaps they won't really be 'for mac'.

        they also don't want their customers knowing that by australian consumer law there's a two year warranty on their expensive products, but I'm sure you'll also find this mentioned on the website too.

        http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/apple-keeps…

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  1bug on 05/04/2013 - 12:24

  Officeworks have reduced their price from $199 to $197 (I guess so they don't have to beat lowest price by 5%).

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  Cheap Rich Guy on 05/04/2013 - 14:05

  Anyone know the model of the drive inside? They wouldn't dare put the Caviar Blacks in them and I don't think they make a Caviar Green drive in 4GB size yet so what could it be?

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    robbiey on 05/04/2013 - 16:03

    +2

    Pretty sure its a Hitachi (now owned by WD) 4tb drive.

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    demod on 06/04/2013 - 13:23

    +1

    I just picked one up at office works. Was going to grab the Seagate version, as I am not super keen on the Hitachi. It is definitely a Hitachi - HDS5C4040ALE630

    Anyways they were out of the Seagate. Have cracked it open. Very easy to do with an old credit card. If it dies I'll have no problem getting it back into the case and it looking like it never left. I'm not running it in a NAS or anything, so I hope it will run ok.

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  1bug on 05/04/2013 - 17:10

  +3

  If anybody intends to use this drive to create System Image backups via the Windows 7 Backup and Restore feature (and possibly Vista), then you need to REFORMAT the drive using the WD Quick Formatter for Windows. If you don’t reformat, you'll get backup errors (0x8078002A and 0x8007045D) when you run System Image backups (this is a known Windows problem on 2.5TB and larger external drives).

  Link to WD Quick Formatter for Windows:
  http://wdc.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/search/1/a_id/386…

  Note the warning about ALL THE DATA ON THE DRIVE WILL BE LOST, so back up any data before you format (you may also want to back up the WD supplied folders and EXEs). It appears the "Factory Default" Configuration option has changed, so select the Most Compatible (Vista or later required) option.

  I have reformatted the 4TB drive and created a System Image successfully.

  For background info, see below…
  http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-p…

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  cucumber on 06/04/2013 - 23:22

  +2

  went to JB Hifi this evenening, picked this up, asked for a better price and got it for $190. :)

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    rumham25 on 09/04/2013 - 20:47

    can you post your receipt?

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  sparemywallet on 26/04/2013 - 12:33

  I just picked one up from OW price matched and 5% beat down to $188.10 against HN @ $198. OW are currently selling them for $269