2TB Seagate/Astone External Hard Drive - $299 + FREE DELIVERY at City Software!

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AssociatedFAlonso on 22/09/2009 - 05:43 citysoftware.com.au (321 clicks)
Last edited 23/10/2009 - 18:50 by 1 other user

Hey Guys,

Just got my email from City Software and it looks to be a good one. It's a 2TB Seagate Hard Drive installed inside an AStone enclosure, with USB 2.0 and eSATA. Price is jsut $299 and you get FREE delivery thanks to the "over $200 and under 5kgs" clause.

Cheapest I could see on S-ICE was $328 from PC Meal for the same thing, and $316.80 on Shopbot from EYO, but they don't have free delivery either.

Looks like a pretty hot deal - never seen a 2TB external drive that cheap!

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  ben1680 on 22/09/2009 - 08:55

  +1

  Just be careful of this Seagate 2TB, they have a fairly high failure rate. Average failure rate of this drive are 50%, means that for every 2 drive being sold, 1 are being returned back for RMA.

  Sorry FALonso, no offence intended, just info for everyone to consider…

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    HueyData on 22/09/2009 - 10:56

    A link always helps.

    If the failure rate is actually 50% - which is astronomical - then there'll be plenty of reports on it.

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    StewBalls on 22/09/2009 - 12:04

    AFAIK the 2tb models aren't affected! I'm not defending Seagate per se, hell I'm 2/2 RMAing my Seagate 1tb 7200.11 drives, but as I recall only certain models with capacities up to 1.5tb were affected with this known issue! ;)

    http://seagate.custkb.com/seagate/crm/selfservice/search.jsp…

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  Davo1111 on 22/09/2009 - 10:51

  +1

  why not just buy 2 * 1.5TB hard drives for the same price?

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  [Deactivated] on 22/09/2009 - 11:34

  Thanks to FAlonso for posting this thread. You can find this 2TB product at this link: http://www.citysoftware.com.au/Browse/D2C01C0894F149618BA07E…

  We also have the same combination in 1.5TB capacity for $188.80 (we are cheapest on Shopbot at this price - In Stock Now - image and proper text will be up ASAP too): http://www.citysoftware.com.au/Browse/72e5f00640cf4fabbcd0fd…

  Thanks again for your support.

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  ben1680 on 22/09/2009 - 12:45

  Sorry, it is actually around 30% - 40%, which is still exceedingly high.
  StewBalls, you are right about firmware update, but it seems that this problem actually affect all 702.11 series drives, regardless of size. If you can, make sure that you didn't get the affected batch to avoid headache later due to important data loss.
  Here is one of the article: http://www.ninjaforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=1089
  There is also couple more article from engadget, inquirer, tomshardware, etc…

  Also for people that will use this as a RAID drives, there is also an article in seagate own forums that contain some info about this 702.11 series keep dropping out of RAID array:
  http://forums.seagate.com/stx/board/message?board.id=ata_dri…

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    StewBalls on 22/09/2009 - 14:04

    Sorry Ben, but these are not 7200.11, they are 5900.12, completely different series! Also, the model number (ST32000542AS) doesn't appear in the list at Seagate or the link you gave either!

    Please, you really should have looked a bit closer before jumping to conclusions dude, there's enough confusion concerning hard drives going about ATM without you contributing with FUD!

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      BarginHunter on 22/09/2009 - 19:30

      There are some interesting reviews of the seagate drive at http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148….

      Overall majority seem positive but there are a fair few who have had problems too.