500Gb HP 2.5" Portable USB 2.0 Hard Drive $99 Free Freight [Promotion Ended]

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  gabbyh on 26/03/2010 - 10:53

  What brand hard drive do these units contain?

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    You and Me on 26/03/2010 - 14:38

    +1

    Western Digital.

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    This is a very good price. (http://staticice.com.au/cgi-bin/search.cgi?q=HP+Simplesave+5… )

    The drive is well-received by 32 customer reviews here: http://www.buzzillions.com/reviews/hp-simplesave-500gb-hard-…
    Although, there is a long, unimpressed review here: http://astore.amazon.co.uk/Electronic0d6-21/detail/B002L0BN3…

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    DigitalStar has few scores to go by on Whirlpool (0 good, 1 bad) http://whirlpool.net.au/wiki/?tag=AusPC_NSW
    However, there are a number of mixed threads, including one from DEC 2009: http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&hs=2a… Their website communicates their trade policies well (shipping times, surcharges, payment types): http://www.digitalstar.com.au/AboutUs.aspx

    ABN info: http://www.search.asic.gov.au/cgi-bin/gns030c?acn=082414453&…

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    General drive reliability information: http://serverfault.com/questions/7952/what-brands-of-hard-di… including this statement:

    "The issue with this question is that there are good drive models for a manufacturer and bad drive models."
    "For example, there seems to be a high failure rate for the Seagate 1tb & 1.5tb drives, but their 250gb & 320gb drives are solid. Yet the Western Digital 1tb, 1.5tb, & 2tb drives seem more stable, but there have been issues with their 500gb drives."

    Google's 2007 study has comprehensive information, and claims that the manufacturer is significant - yet, it does not name them.
    PDF: http://labs.google.com/papers/disk_failures.pdf

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      gabbyh on 26/03/2010 - 15:28

      issues with their 500gb drive

      Does that refer to 3.5" or 2.5"? That is not quite clear.

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        chansthename on 27/03/2010 - 10:13

        seeing that 2.5" are only available up to 500gb it is mostly 3.5" drive but the same may apply for the smaller versions from the respective brands.

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          zhenjie on 27/03/2010 - 16:34

          +1

          @chansthename: only upto 500gb? This isn't 2006 anymore…

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  b1ackmai1er on 28/03/2010 - 01:48

  Can I connect this to a FreeBSD machine and reformat to another file system? I don't need any special "backup" feature. Just a plain, cheap, big, 2.5" drive for my music on my squeezebox server.

  Thanks.