Credits go to asiandragon and yourpalcliffy
He/she/THEY seems a little shy to post itthem. So, here it isTHEY ARE!
Please do not forget cashback from cashrewards!
Original CVALENTINE20 eBay deal
5TB They might restock them in the morning!
4TB
3TB
Some of you may qualify for this student deal Jimmy007
I wonder if these can be removed from the case? It's a better deal than the 4TB's for $185 from FUTU using the same deal.
yes they can. as a bonus apparently it has a WD Red in them!
Not all of them, some have Green and last time there was no consistency i.e. you cannot simply deduce them from the serial or other markings from outside
would it be a safe bet that 2 would have the same?
@Sage:
https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/214565
Comments from past deal on what people have got after they de-shelled it
@payton: You're right, there really is no consistency. I would have thought 2 drives would be the same.
Yeah would be good to know what drive is inside. Red or green
is cashreward paid on the ebay listed price
or after the promo code at $191?
pre voucher cost
$191.20 After 20% off used code CVALENTINE20 at checkout and claim 2% cash back.
What is up with all these storage devices getting up voted? What exactly are ozbargainers storing that they continue to buy more and more storage?…wait I don't want to know!
Surprisingly enough, a lot of "legal" stuff. Photos and videos from holiday trips, Backups of home computers, …
Great deal for the HDD!
we all have a NAS storing 5-20TBs of "linux iso's"
Photos and videos from holiday trips,
Backups of Backups of photos….
photos of Mrs JV
including NSFW photos.
No reason to Not purchase if you are a true ozbargainer. Buy all the bargains!
Yes look at how much we save buying all this stuff cheap we don't need! :-)
exactly! True ozbargain house is full of stuff they don't need.
Scanned copies of Enelop receipts
+be love the eneloop reference
Buying and filling a 20/32 bay NAS is in my bucket list
check out archive.org for some legal tv/movies
Linux ISOs.
I shot a colleague's retirement lunch on my Nikon DSLRs. 294 images. When I burnt them for him the RAW files were over 2 DVDs. The out of camera JPG another DVD and a third on a processed set of images. All up 16GB for a 1.5 hr event and I wasn't shooting full time.
Now if we were shooting video I'd probably be talking 10 times that.
PORN! there i said it!
For a cosy and romantic night in with your special spouse partner (pc)?
If your saving raw images from a dslr or even raw video from your 4k video recorder you can chew up storage quickly as well as backups too
bro. does it matter if its a bargain :)
Extra space for the ladies this Valentine's day?
How's the internal hard drive in this? I can't find much information about it.
How?
What - Probably a WD Green. Maybe a Red, or a long shot a Purple.
You seem confused. I'll break it down to an elementary level for you, 'how's' is short for 'how is'.
How u talkin bout?
That comment has no price
It's fine. Probably just looking forward to getting some fresh air out of the box.
Nothing says "I love you" more than 5 terabytes of high speed data storage.
PCIE or GTFO, USB Pleb.
You might think it's high speed, but once you start transferring, it's like, maybe I'll sleep first and wake up tomorrow to see if it's done. 1.3Tb took me over 4 hours :/
Chicks dig hard…..drives
better than a floppy disk
Thanks. Been in need of some hard drives to do a full proper back up of my PC.
Bought 2. Ended up being $384.55 including 2% cash rewards and posted to Melbourne.
Bought what was apparently the last four
sold out
out of stock :-(
I added to my cart and it was gone after I added another item… power of ozbargain
I'm glad it's out of stock because I don't want to spend $190+ on something I don't need.
Decided to have dinner first and…………….
it's gone!
those who missed out…
good price for 4tb and 3tb too…
5tb - $0.0373/gb - sold out
4tb - $0.0400/gb Limited Qty
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Western-Digital-WD-Element-4TB-US…
3tb - $0.0416/gb More than 10
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Western-Digital-WD-3TB-Elements-3…
Added and credit acknowledged at the top of the post.
Good stuff but you should probably remove the 5TB from the title.
No because then you won't be able to find this post compare with future posts of 5GB HDDs to see if it is a good price or not.
8TB Seagate 'Archive' HDDs = $295.20 (reg $369): http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Seagate-Archive-8TB-3-5-Internal-…
So tempted! Perfect to setup as a mirror RAID in a simple NAS. Hmmm.
nah those 8TB archive drivers are crap for that stuff.
Don't be tempted. It plays Russian Roulette with your data.
Secondly, they were cheaper previously (with cashback), so that's not even a good price for the 8TB Archive HDD. The going rate has been $300 since mid-2015. That "regular price" hasn't been seen in months.
Lastly, they are not meant for anything other than cold storage. Given how friggin' frail these things are, I would not push it with 24/7 power-on hours. I still have mine but it spends most of its time in a HDD case, on a shelf, being powered on only to copy a week's changes and then immediately going back into storage. The NAS drives I leave to HGST, who actually make drives than run longer than a few months.
SMR by all accounts is not a consumer-ready tech, or Seagate really screwed the pooch with their first ever implementation of the tech (which is to be expected).
Cheers for the info guys. I have a friend who got one last year via an OzBargain deal and hasn't reported any problems except for the expected low write speeds. Oh well, fingers crossed someone releases a decent 8TB drive soon then.
Good deal, perhaps not as good as the $55 for 38.4 litres of Lionel Ritchie beer, or the $5.40kg lamb but good none the less. If you do better than $40 a terabyte you're doing OK.
These are Western Digital Greens, I popped mine open a while back. The externals are always green anyway
Nothing new there. Elements enclosures have housed WD Greens since the Elements line first launched. Barring some rare batches here and there of MyBooks/My Book Lives that were WD Blues and Blacks or even Reds, pretty much all WD external HDDs are Greens sadly.
Nahh I just opened one, 4tb its a WD Blue.
If anyone has a 4Tb version can you please let me know how many amps it uses @ 12 Volts. thanks very much. Don't want to carry power supplies from room to room. Tried googling unsuccessfully.
The PSU is rated for 1.5AMP.
Beautiful, thanks very much meatgasm.
IS warranty void if opened?
Yes
thank you
Just bought 4TB
Thanks OP for a great bargain
Was looking for 1 for months in a good price
Grabbed 5 tb last might time to consolidate those pesky 1 tb drives
From what I've read the usb to sata connector can sometimes be soldered on in some cases anyone know? Also it acts as a decryptor for the hard drive to be read, has anyone had any issues just taking it out and installing it in their pc?
Damn, 1 more 5TB drive popped up and it got pinched during checkout!
just bought one 5minutes ago
Thanks OP
man that is a lot of terrorbytes sold :O
Have any of you successfully received CashRewards tracking email from this purchase?
I have not. Was wondering if it is worth chasing up. Since its rather off-topic, I asked in this post : Cashrewards - Will "Click History" Section Come to The Rescue?
Blue sky
Received rewards email yesterday $4.10 on $204.99 purchase for the 4tb one
Thanks for your reply. Pleased to say I eventually received tracking email yesterday also.
I'm really not happy Jan. My 4Tb just arrived in a box about 4 times as big as the HD box. Absolutely no padding. The HD is free to move around in the box. Wondering if I should return it. I would neg the deal if I could. Ridiculous.
It's pretty common. I've heard lots of people complain of the same thing from amazon. I don't think it actually increases the risk of a damaged hard drive though.
Yeah, same here. Wonder why they don't just put some padding around it. Fortunately, within the WD box itself, it is quite well packed.
From http://archive.techarp.com/showarticle112c.html?artno=84&pgn…
Myth : It's okay to drop a hard disk drive as long as it is not running.
Truth : Yeah, right… You just dropped your friend's hard disk drive, didn't you? It's an outright lie and you know it.
Although hard disk drives are a LOT more robust when they are not running, they are still mechanical devices that can only take so much shock.
Even when they are not running, most 3.5" hard disk drives can only withstand shocks of 250 G to 350 G. That may sound like a lot, but acording to Mike from Western Digital, 300 G is only about a 3" (7.6 cm) drop to a hard surface, so it doesn't take much to damage a desktop hard disk drive.
The smaller 2.5" hard disk drives used in laptops are more robust and can take up to 900 G. Even so, you do not need me to tell you that it is not a good idea to drop them, even from a height of "just a few inches"."
If the WD box itself is dropped, the HD would be getting most of the force, the only padding is the cardboard packaging which will yield a couple of millimetres but that's all. I don't think Futu Online would be happy if I went into their shop and started dropping the WD boxes onto the floor, which could be happening in the back of the truck and the sorting area etc.
I am very surprised there was no padding, which I get with other non-breakable items as standard. A $200 HD deserves some padding.
Well, thank goodness, mine ran OK out of the box. Novice on such matters- if a hard-disk has sustained shock, but it does not seem damaged at the beginning, wonder whether the shock will still cause detrimental effect on the drive down the track?
Also, will it "die" quickly in the early stages, so perhaps warranty can cover it? Thanks in advance.
Would have been better if they just put the address sticker on the WD box and posted it like that,instead of putting it in a big empty box so it would slide around and get bashed every time the driver braked our accelerated, or every time they moved the box.
I spoke to WD and they said I should not accept the HD as it definitely should have padding around it.
Wow … Too late, out of box and using! :-(
These guys should revamp their packing practice - which could happen if many people does the same as you, to return them!
cool deal though better than mine