Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex USB 3.0 Port Ext Hard Drive, 1.5TB USD$119.36 Delivered
This was posted 10 months 23 days ago, and might be an out-dated deal
Affiliate~ 114.42 AUD if paying by 28 Degree Mastercard
Price drop of $9 from previous deal.
Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex 1.5 TB USB 3.0 Ultra-Portable External Hard Drive in Black STAA1500100
USB 3.0 plug-and-play drive
Easy-to-use preloaded backup and encryption software
Upgradable to FireWire 800 or eSATA
Access content over the network and on TV when paired with other GoFlex products
cheese510 on 28/07/2012 - 01:33 Comment score below threshold (-20).
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nevermindnosey on 28/07/2012 - 01:53 Comment score below threshold (8).
This is portable… look at the images.
This is an amazing deal. Even better per GB than the DSE 750GB deal.. which I bought today and now wish I hadn't. GoFlex is a model up from the standard range and having 1.5TB on one drive is not something anyone can complain about.
I'm not going to buy because I just bought the 750GB today, but I'll add it to my cart to keep an eye on prices. If it drops further than this later on, I will bite.
+1 votegarratt torlesse on 28/07/2012 - 18:25 ¶I think it's a 12.5 rather than 14.5. Standard are 9.5.
+2 votesTake this with a grain of salt:
"The best information I found so far is from a little reported on report from a Russian Data recovery center that takes broken hard drives and pulls the information off of them. Such a center would have access to a number of drives of different makes and models and be able to diagnose the causes of failure (from user or design) and be able to see how the percent of failed drives matches up to the market share of each brand.
Their most recent report is dated June 2011, and was done from a sample of 4,000 drives. The first finding is that Seagate drives came in at over twice the average rate, considering how big their market share is. Seagate drives are the least reliable, according to Storelab.
The second finding is that Hitachi drives that were repaired were on average 5 years older than other drives. Everyone else averaged from 1.5 to 3.5 years.
The third finding is that out of 200 drives they repaired by Hitachi, none of the drives that Storelab repaired had failed from design rather than user inflicted damage."
camelgrass on 29/07/2012 - 18:12 ¶Don't believe everything you read, least of all on the internets. And certainly don't repost it lol.
I agree completely. That one report on it's own doesn't really mean much.
The fact is any drive can fail at any time. I think keeping 3 copies of your data is best practice. Don't forget to verify your backups from time to time as well.
+1 voteTheir most recent report is dated June 2011, and was done from a sample of 4,000 drives. The first finding is that Seagate drives came in at over twice the average rate, considering how big their market share is. Seagate drives are the least reliable, according to Storelab.
This does not take into account for the harddrives that have failed and not taken to that repair service.
Also note that data recovery from failed harddrives is very expensive with most of the clients that use such services are usually from Govt. sectors, businesses that need to recover sensitive data. The amount of business laptops that use the individual brands also need to be taken into account, as well as this only reflects the area around that Russia data recovery company, where the market share again will be different.
+1 voteI think the general rule these days is not to store anything important on a hard drive without having it redundantly backed up elsewhere.
With the availability of Dropbox, Google Drive, etc. for your 'working documents', and the ubiquity of online backup services such as Crashplan for longer-term storage, I imagine in the future a dead hard drive will be more of an inconvenience than anything else.
+2 votesI purchased one about a year ago for that price too - just before the Thai floods.
It is already DEAD. There are a lot of bad reviews for this model. I personally would not trust it with anything you don't mind losing, or don't have backed up elsewhere. The price is good, the product, not so much so…
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It isn't hard. You just have to send it back. Make an RMA claim on their website. Put the drive in a bubble envelope and send it back via Aus Post. Shouldn't cost you more than $15. I would say less than that. Some people have gotten Amazon to pay for the shipping to them, though I don't know how.
- camelgrass on 29/07/2012 - 20:17 ¶
Consider your parcel (sensitive hard drive) will be "thrown around" by various postal and courier contractors before the item reaches your hands.
From AusPost website:
Parcel weight: 500g - 750g to USA (I imagine with original box and packaging it will weigh AT LEAST that).
$24.00 Airmail
That's not even registered, no tracking or insurance either + add in extra inconvenience for transit times and also how long it takes Amazon to perform the RMA turnaround and get the item back to you.
Make up your own if it's worth the saving or not, compared to dealing with a local vendor.
0ptus_Fail on 28/07/2012 - 15:39 ¶There is no doubt that this is a great deal in $/kb
..but in reading some of the more recent reviews on Amazon with these Seagate drives, one starts to question whether this is going to be a reliable drive and, if there is a problem, what then? door stopper?
Is it worth buying this through Amazon or just get the local 750 GB version through the deal that recently been posted?
At least warranty claims would be easier.
If you do take the plunge and buy this drive, which is cheaper per kb, do you want to have a potential huge data loss on your hands because of unreliability?
+2 votesNimitzHarrington on 28/07/2012 - 23:44 ¶Hmm, everytime there's a bargain post about 2.5" portable USB drive comes up, there's bound to be suggestions of "this isn't a bargain because x unit is cheaper" and inevitably the cheaper unit is a desktop affair. Does the word "portable" confuse people or what? o.O
Anyway, back to the bargain. Does Seagate AU honour the warranty?
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