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1tb Hard Drive
Topic Started: Apr 1 2010, 09:29 PM (651 Views)
EviLClouD
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$99 from Dicksmith...probably all sold out at Dicksmith, but if you are really want one, here's a tip.
Go down to your local Noel Leemings, and ask for a price match :P
Most likely will have stock, and will sell for $99 as i just purchased earlier today :D

Happy easter everyone!
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Cheers for the heads up - $30 less than cost price for me. Might get some for a backup at work - been meaning to do that...
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Not bad,
AUD$92 over here at the right places for seagate or western digital drives, so i guess with the exchange rate that works out alright :P
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Who makes the HDD?
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I paid $159 for mine about 4 months ago!
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Western Digital...its one of their 'green' drives inside. Still an awesome price though since the cheapest 1tb green on pricespy is about $120 xD
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Just a word of warning with these high capacity "green" drives. They are cheap for a reason, over the last two years I have had 6 out of the 8 "green" drives I have bought die, only the high capacity (1TB/1.5TB/2TB) ones seem to die quick. Have switched to using the WD black drives and they seem to have much better life in them, they just cost a bit more.
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Yeh also had a green drive fail SMART fairly quick. think 14 months or something.

Im a big big fan of the samsung F1 drives, they are quite and very quick. never had one die.
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Yeah Samsung are the best, I got two Samsung F3s 1TB.
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I just bought a new Seagate 7200.12 1TB for $137, with a 3yr warranty.
WD Green drives are at the lower end of their spec range.. and personally wouldn't buy any of the green drives.
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this deal at DSE is cos its been discontinued got one from PB tech for $78
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wheres this $78 from PB tech?
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I want external ones! :D
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lonestar,Apr 3 2010
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I just bought a new Seagate 7200.12 1TB for $137, with a 3yr warranty.
WD Green drives are at the lower end of their spec range.. and personally wouldn't buy any of the green drives.

Yet you buy a Seagate that when it fails will be replaced with a refurbished hard drive which will be lucky to last two weeks?

We've replaced maybe a dozen Seagates that have come back with refurbs, and all of them have failed inside a month or two.
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Seagate did have a big batch of failure in the 11 series, so stay away from those. Otherwise I've always bought Seagate and they they last longer than the life of the computer.
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I'm looking at upgrading the HDD in the laptop with one of these http://pbtech.co.nz/index.php?item=HDDSE4322 Should be sweet? Can only find good reviews online. Also looked at a WD black but PB's is out of stock at the mo

I've also got a 1TB Seagate external which is running fine. Although it's only a few months old so only time will tell I guess.
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E910,Apr 7 2010
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I'm looking at upgrading the HDD in the laptop with one of these http://pbtech.co.nz/index.php?item=HDDSE4322 Should be sweet? Can only find good reviews online. Also looked at a WD black but PB's is out of stock at the mo

I've also got a 1TB Seagate external which is running fine. Although it's only a few months old so only time will tell I guess.

Should be alright as its not one of the later models with the high failure rate.
Maybe try these guys if you're after a WD black?
http://www.computerlounge.co.nz/components...asp?partid=9624
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I'm looking at upgrading the HDD in the laptop with one of these http://pbtech.co.nz/index.php?item=HDDSE4322 Should be sweet? Can only find good reviews online. Also looked at a WD black but PB's is out of stock at the mo


Should be fine as long as your existing laptop hard drive is sata not ide, and if your running xp you will need to have sp1 or higher (which is pretty darn likely).
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Yep it's SATA but not sure if it's 3Gb/s but from everything I've read it should be backwards compatible with 1.5Gb/s. Running Vista SP2 as well :ph43r: Should give the old girl a new lease of life.
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everything I've read it should be backwards compatible with 1.5Gb/s


Yup you will be fine.
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1TB - wow can't imagine how i would come close to using all that data storage :)

has anyone come close to even half that???
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tikboy2007,Apr 7 2010
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has anyone come close to even half that???

Me me me :P

Got about 12GB in photos since whenever I got my first digital camera
475GB in movies and about 128GB in music :P (Damn silly iPod Touchs only 64GB!)
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I have 5.5TB in my desktop alone :| its sitting at 95% full as well.
Lets not get into the server >.<
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LOL 3tb here, i know someone who has a bit of data lol
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Hehe, just checked how much space I have left...

I have quite a few Spinpoint F3 1TB's, I won't say how many because its just depressing, but I can't recommend these drives enough.

But WD is quite a reputable brand.
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