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1TB Orico Portable Hard Drive $50 (Was $100) at Harvey Norman Broadmeadows VIC

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1TB Orico Portable Hard Drive $50 (Was $100) at Harvey Norman Broadmeadows VIC
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Pthemightyboost on 19/06/2016 - 14:28 files.ozbargain.com.au (1937 clicks)
Last edited 20/06/2016 - 07:32 by 2 other users

They ran out of 500GB Seagate hard drives, so now they have this deal going. I have no idea about the brand. I was told it's USB 3.0

Edit: unsure about stock levels, there were at least 7 more there when I left around 2pm.

Double edit: Hard drives may be used or refurbished, currently unclear. They are not advertised as such, be wary

Nice commenters below (thanks fleet and olokon) have pointed out the drives may not be of such a high quality, see the comments for more detailed/technical information. It does work fine for me though.

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  • Marx on 19/06/2016 - 14:30

    when did you go there? can you confirm there are more than one unit on sale?

    • themightyboost on 19/06/2016 - 15:02
      +1

      7 left when I was there about an hour ago

  • cdaddy on 19/06/2016 - 14:31
    +2

    "Leading technology" yea ok yet no one even knows who you are

    • avgbowlofpho on 19/06/2016 - 14:32
      +1

      Ever since its founding in 2009

      this is why

    • furythree on 19/06/2016 - 18:35
      +1

      plenty of people know orico, they make usb hubs and enclosures

      so they are probably are using their own enclosures and combining them with seagate drives

  • PJC on 19/06/2016 - 14:43

    OP is this a portable or desktop hard drive? Even www.oricoaustralia.com.au doesn't seem to offer any hard drives. Lots of enclosures and docks, though.

    • themightyboost on 19/06/2016 - 15:03

      Sorry it's portable, I'm none too educated on the subject. Will update!

      • PJC on 19/06/2016 - 15:39

        Many thanks.

    • furythree on 19/06/2016 - 18:34
      +1

      orico makes peripherals, hubs and enclosures

      only the big hdd manufacturers make hard drives, everyone else just buys WD/seagate/hitachi drives etc and sticks them into the enclosures to resell

      given orico makes enclosures, they are doing the same thing here with their own enclosures and seagate/wd drive inside

  • TheOneWhoKnocks on 19/06/2016 - 16:24

    What is with this abrupt surge of portable hard drives going on sale?

    • themightyboost on 19/06/2016 - 17:01
      +1

      end of year sales, plus hard drive technology gets outdated pretty quick would be my very uneducated guess

  • Olokun on 19/06/2016 - 16:32
    +2

    Orico make external enclosures. I wonder if this is a DYI job by the store.

    • PJC on 19/06/2016 - 16:52

      Would the store make 7 of those? You may be right, because their Australian and Chinese websites omit them, and none of us have heard of Orico hard drives.

  • imcold on 19/06/2016 - 16:45
    +1

    Be nice if you can give us some CyrstalMark Info on HDD make/build

    • themightyboost on 19/06/2016 - 17:03

      Can you elaborate?

      • fleetfeather on 19/06/2016 - 17:52

        He's asking if you can download CrystalDiskInfo (a free software) and take some screenshots of the information given for the Orico drive you bought.

        http://crystalmark.info/software/CrystalDiskInfo/index-e.htm…

        By taking some screenshots of the info provided by CrystalDiskInfo, you can give more experienced users some more information as to what they're getting for their $50.

        Something like this would be great: http://crystalmark.info/software/CrystalDiskInfo/manual-en/i…

        • themightyboost on 19/06/2016 - 18:06

          http://imgur.com/47hYWJx

          Actually this would be handy if anyone could tell me if this is of adequate quality.

          No idea why there is anime girls included in the program… I swear

        • Olokun on 19/06/2016 - 18:12

          @themightyboost:

          Looks unhealthy and possibly used…….

        • themightyboost on 19/06/2016 - 18:19

          @Olokun: do you mean by the power on count?

        • Olokun on 19/06/2016 - 18:26
          +1

          @themightyboost:

          There is that, as well as

          • WD website saying that the drive is not covered by warranty
          • Model looks to be from ~2014
          • Detected errors

          You should do a full scan of the drive using a problem like HDTune and ensure that it is healthy before putting important data on it.

          Edit. You probably should also do a full scan of your primary drive while you are at it from the looks of it.

        • themightyboost on 19/06/2016 - 18:35

          @Olokun: Cheers for the info mate, my main drive is kinda crappy and I've used HDtune on it before to no avail. Just gets real hot.

          Weirdly it loads as two devices (F: and G:)

          All the above info points to maybe a crappy product. I'll edit the summary

        • Olokun on 19/06/2016 - 18:36
          +1

          @themightyboost:

          Weirdly it loads as two devices (F: and G:)

          Yeah I forgot to comment on that. Probably a recovery partition left over from the laptop they ripped it out of.

  • [Deactivated] on 19/06/2016 - 18:30

    Apparently I heard a sales staff member at HN Broadmeadows tell a customer that the internal hard drive is a 1tb Seagate. There is adequate quality when I last visited the store 3pm Sunday. Nobody is buying them.

  • itr on 19/06/2016 - 20:00

    what brand of hard drive it is when the white cover is removed?

  • hasselbladsnapper on 19/06/2016 - 21:21
    +1

    Have purchased a number of Orico products, often through AliExpress … all items are some of the best quality of anything I have ever bought… card readers, usb hubs, drive bays.
    As a tip if buying on Ali, look at the top lhs of the page … you can see IF it is direct from the Orico factory. If so that is the best place to buy from, but there are many other's on Ali selling their products!.

    Orico often have sale items on their DIRECT Ali webpage, often 30 - 50% off.

    • derek324 on 19/06/2016 - 23:39

      Same here. Bought a few Orico products in the past, was always surprised by very high quality.

  • krunchymoses on 19/06/2016 - 23:24

    The fact that this is a repackaged laptop hard drive is incredibly dodgy. I would like to see this one go to fair trading, tbh.

    • derek324 on 19/06/2016 - 23:38
      -1

      Using your logic it is incredibly dodgy that Dell, Lenovo, HP, etc., etc. put inside their laptops hard disks manufactured by someone else, right?

      • gummibear on 20/06/2016 - 00:02
        +2

        Did you see the link provided? http://imgur.com/47hYWJx

        The power on hours is =69hrs
        The Power count = 44 count

        I wouldn't expect any new drive in a external case, bare, or shipped in a computer to have these kinds of run times. I think what krunchy was referring to was this possibly coming from a used computer, hence the drive is actually 2nd hand.

        • derek324 on 20/06/2016 - 08:32
          +1

          I missed CrystalDisk reference. Two points:

          1) this may be totally incorrect. Google it, there are many warnings that one should not rely on non manufacturer tools to report properly. For example: some drives increment the power-on hours count at other than 60 minute intervals, some drives come with an invalid power-on hours count, etc.

          2) drive manufacturers often distribute re-certified drives, which go through extensive testing. If anything, I would prefer to have such tested drive in my laptop/external drive, I would consider it to be more reliable.

          Finally, assuming that "power on hours" is indeed 69 hours, why worry? I would possibly worry if it was 69,000 hours :)

    • themightyboost on 20/06/2016 - 07:28
      +1

      You think I should contact Harvey Norman? Or go over their heads?
      It was plastc sealed and was in no way described to me as used. A bit dodgy ey

      • derek324 on 20/06/2016 - 09:56

        It is a bit like buying a brand new car with 1km on the clock, and considering it dodgy, because it was advertised as brand new.

        The disk in your enclosure statistically defines load/unload 600,000 cycles. MTBF (Mean Time Between Failure) is not specified for this model, but it is probably around 1 million hours. You may also start worrying about another parameter: non-recoverable read errors per bits read is only <1 in 10 to power 14. Yes, it may suddenly and unexpectedly corrupt your data from time to time! Google silent data corruption (AKA "bit rot"), and start worrying ;)

        Seriously: you bought an excellent disk, in excellent enclosure and electronics, Orico is pretty good, the price you paid was excellent (no, I do not work for HN). Do not over analyse, use it, enjoy. It is more then likely to serve you well for many, many years. It just stopped raining (finally!) - go for a walk.

        • themightyboost on 21/06/2016 - 10:19

          Okay cheers mate, the data all looks like heiroglyphics to me!
          If it does what I bought it for (to use on a games system) then I suppose I shouldn't worry

  • PJC on 20/06/2016 - 00:37

    I would neg if I could because the vendor has deliberately avoided indicating this is a used (44 times), re-packaged hard drive. Full respect to the OP, who is basically the victim here and was trying to be helpful.

    • derek324 on 20/06/2016 - 09:01
      +2

      Hardly a victim. Assuming that the drive was indeed used "44 times" in total for "69 hours" (it may be incorrect, but let us say that it is correct), it has statistically lower chance of early, 'infant mortality' failure. It is more reliable. Expected life of hard drive varies, but is measured in years. When hard drives are brand new (used hours: 0) they are more likely to fail.

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