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Wester Digital Caviar Black 1TB 3.5" SATA 32MB 7200RPM $119 Including Shipping! 5yrs WTY!

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Wester Digital Caviar Black 1TB 3.5" SATA 32MB 7200RPM $119 Including Shipping! 5yrs WTY!
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Store Repcamione on 14/10/2009 - 13:04 store.9289.com.au (1236 clicks)
Last edited 15/10/2009 - 22:06 by 1 other user

Cheapest found on StaticICE $123

High Performance Electronics Architecture

  • Dual processor - Twice the processing power to maximize performance.
  • 32 MB cache - Bigger, faster cache means faster performance.
  • Rock Solid Mechanical Architecture
  • StableTrac™ - The motor shaft is secured at both ends to reduce system-induced vibration and stabilize platters for accurate tracking, during read and write operations.
  • NoTouch™ ramp load technology - The recording head never touches the disk media ensuring significantly less wear to the recording head and media as well as better drive protection in transit.

5 Year Limited Warranty

  • Massive Capacity - WD Caviar Black SATA drives are available in capacities up to 1 TB.
  • Compatible - We perform tests on hundreds of systems and a multitude of platforms in our FIT Lab™ and Mobile Compatibility Lab to give our customers confidence that our drives will work in their systems.

Ideal For

Power computing applications such as multimedia, video and photo editing, and maxed out gaming computers.

More Specials

2.5" Seagate 500GB (ST9500325AS, SATAII, 5400RPM, 8MB CACHE) $109

https://store.9289.com.au/index.php?main_page=product_info&c…

2.5" Western Digital Black Elements 320GB USB2.0 (WDBAAR3200ABK-PESN) $89

https://store.9289.com.au/index.php?main_page=product_info&c…

3.5" Seagate 1TB (ST31000528AS, SATA II, 7200rpm, 32MB Cache) $99

https://store.9289.com.au/index.php?main_page=product_info&c…

Cheers!

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  • jv on 14/10/2009 - 13:21

    i purchased one about a month ago for around $140… :S

    Disks are getting soooooooooo cheap this days…

    • cactus68 on 14/10/2009 - 14:43
      +1

      and they will get even cheaper as the aussie dollar gets even better against the greenback!!!

  • furythree on 14/10/2009 - 14:22

    wow good deal i got mine for $125 but i had to go pick it up

  • StewBalls on 14/10/2009 - 14:33

    Yup, nice price for the black indeed! Very tempting…

  • cyssero on 14/10/2009 - 14:56

    Good deal. For a second I read 1.5TB shipped for $119, hah.

    • StewBalls on 14/10/2009 - 15:19

      Lol, me too! Must be that time of the arvo for my nanna-nap! ;)

  • dy4me on 14/10/2009 - 15:00

    MSY has one WD for $103. is that the same one?

    • Kuric on 14/10/2009 - 15:08

      MSY sell cheap drives and never the black editions.
      Worse is that they have WD Blue and Greens mingled, so it's roulette for each visit.
      Don't buy hard drives from MSY, it's not worth the headache.

      • furythree on 14/10/2009 - 22:00

        wudnt it be commonsense to check it when u get it

  • yoshi on 14/10/2009 - 15:08

    hey guys.. im looking for a 3.5 hdd. i was wondering, what's the diff between the 'black' and the others? and any suggestions on which hdd to get?

    cheers!

    • Kuric on 14/10/2009 - 15:10
      +5

      Black is performance - 7200RPM
      Blue is your Standard - 7200RPM
      Green is slow, but power efficient - 5400RPM

      If you are connecting SATA then get a Blue or Black.
      If you are sticking it in a power efficient HTPC or 3.5" Enclosure with USB then get the Green.

  • yoshi on 14/10/2009 - 15:18

    ah, ok. but when u say performance, what does that mean in terms of a hdd (besides the 7200RPM)?

    • StewBalls on 14/10/2009 - 15:35

      From the specs above:
      * Dual processor - Twice the processing power to maximize performance.
      * 32 MB cache - Bigger, faster cache means faster performance.

    • jv on 14/10/2009 - 16:33
      +2

      5 year warranty says it all…

  • drexxx on 14/10/2009 - 15:25

    Physical Specifications
    Interface: SATA 3 Gb/s

    Is this sata II?

    thanks

  • yoshi on 14/10/2009 - 15:40

    Thanks so much guys! i think ill get one! :)

  • superforever on 14/10/2009 - 15:46
    +1

    Or Seagate $99

    • StewBalls on 14/10/2009 - 15:52
      +1

      Now I'm a mega-tightass, so this is a big call; but I would spend the extra twenty bills to get the WD! Not so much for the performance, more for the reliability, the caviar blacks have a good reputation! ;)

      My recent experiences with Seagate have not been positive; and that WD 5yr warranty is nice! :p

      • theguru1 on 14/10/2009 - 16:19

        Have heard that Seagate has been less reliable than usual of late. WD seems to be the current pick. And, the 5 years warranty helps.

        Funny how Seagate seems to have slipped since removing their 5 year warranty.

        • skinny on 14/10/2009 - 18:42

          given so many people have complained, they should be looking at buying a courier company to reduce costs!

          • StewBalls on 14/10/2009 - 19:46
            +2

            @skinny: The Seagate delivery trucks would probably crash too! ;)

            • skinny on 14/10/2009 - 21:36

              @StewBalls: Don't tell me they need to buy RACV as well!

  • [Deactivated] on 14/10/2009 - 16:20
    +1

    avoid seagate unless you love losing 1000gb of data :)

    • fufufu on 14/10/2009 - 16:47

      Agreed. My 1TB Seagate became unreadable on XP, only worked on Vista (6 months after purchase). After I spent many MANY hours backing it up - transfering back and forth between my laptop (with vista) and desktop (XP). I reformated and it worked fine…for 3 days. Now it is corrupt and unreadable on BOTH XP and vista.

      I'm filing a restraining order against seagate hard drives.

      • jv on 14/10/2009 - 18:16

        might have some bad sectors…

        you can try spinrite… http://www.grc.com/spinrite.htm

        it will find and flag all the bad sectors so the disk ignores them… it's a good long term investment for all your disks

        • StewBalls on 14/10/2009 - 18:36

          Wow, talk about polarised opposites!

          Those who love this product (and Steve Gibson apparently) do so fervently (genius gets thrown around a bit); but those who do not seem to be utterly scathing of the man (fraud gets a run here) and his product (snake oil also gets a guernsey); and never the twain seem to meet! :?

          The former seem to be in the majority, so it definitely warrants further investigation at the very least IMHO! :)

          • [Deactivated] on 15/10/2009 - 12:10

            @StewBalls: Steve Gibson is a 1st class tool and troll, but spinrite is pretty decent even according to detractors that loathe his tongue ;)

        • fufufu on 14/10/2009 - 22:14

          Oh goody, I can pay $89 USD to (maybe) recover a drive that's worth just as much (currently).

          Thanks, but no thanks.

          I'd rather spend that money on a new WD or Samsung.

          • StewBalls on 14/10/2009 - 22:55

            @fufufu: The fun part is the standalone DOS program's actually only 169.12kb! :o

            Yeah, you wouldn't get it for one drive unless you really needed the data off it! I had a colleague once forego my offer to help attempt resurrect her data; only to pay some company in Sydney $400 only to be told it was gone, something like this would have made sense then, but not to anyone with backups! ;)

  • morphio on 14/10/2009 - 16:57

    hmm the 1.5tb samsung for 124.95 or this?

    • cyssero on 14/10/2009 - 18:48

      This is probably faster, good for a daily use PC with a lot of installs/uninstalls, games, etc.

      The 1.5TB is slower, but quieter and much better suited to HTPC tasks or archiving tasks. Both drives are great value.

    • tsimop on 14/10/2009 - 19:10

      damn you got me all excited with that $124.95 - but I'm in SA and it's $11.60 for cheapest post.

  • NimitzHarrington on 14/10/2009 - 19:16

    Guys,

    Tempted but never bought from them before. How good is their packaging? I'm especially concerned about getting HDDs shipped.

    Thanks.

    • voter1 on 14/10/2009 - 20:07

      $123 @ istore in melbourne if that concerns you.

    • cyssero on 14/10/2009 - 21:24

      Very good packaging, wrapped in thick bubble wrap + cardboard box. HDDs are quite hard to damage unless they're on and being transported :)

  • Phatass on 14/10/2009 - 21:46
    -1

    Lol I hate seagate.. i bought a 1tb seagate drive and in the disk partition thing it says the drive totals to 931gigs. wheres the other 69gigs D:<

    • NimitzHarrington on 14/10/2009 - 22:01

      Every drive you buy will be the same, regardless of brand. HDD Manufacturers count 1GB = 1000MB / 1TB = 1000GB whereas Windows and other OSes count 1GB = 1024MB / 1TB = 1024GB.

    • fufufu on 14/10/2009 - 22:05

      I LOLed.

      • furythree on 14/10/2009 - 22:17

        i loled too, but its understandable everyone has this question when they first learn about hdds. but funny nevertheless

        you should also mention that the filesystem and other stuff take a bit of space as well when you format them. but yeh its mostly because of the different units

        • StewBalls on 14/10/2009 - 23:02

          Well there you go, now I feel about two inches tall!

          I usually get my parts online delivered by mail, so I was assuming those thieving basterds at the Post Office were stealing the extra 69GB outta my 1TB drive packages! :p

    • jase13 on 14/10/2009 - 22:07
    • jase13 on 14/10/2009 - 22:07

      are you serious?

      this is true for ANY 1tb drive:

      http://www.datarecoverytools.co.uk/data-recovery-vocabulary/…

      • slowmo on 15/10/2009 - 02:51

        and the following comic is worth a mention :D
        http://xkcd.com/394/

        on a serious note, i was looking at the WD1000EADS just days after they announce the no credit/fees/ship promo.. and was $99, somehow it crept up to $109, and is now $103.

        Wanted to get 4 of those disks.. but with that price 'flactuation'… sigh.

  • constantly L8 on 18/10/2009 - 16:31

    wanted to order one (last day) but no more :P
    so looked at static ice and lots of stores have matched the price ($119) but have to pick it up. so yeah this was a good deal with the free delivery

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