ANYPC One Day Special from 6PM 29/09/2010 to 6PM 30/09/2010
2TB (2000GB) WD Western Digital Caviar Green Hard Drives SATAII 3Gb/s, 64 MB Cache
$119 (Australia Wide Shipping $9.95)
They've dropped to $132 lately.
Cheapest on Staticice is $128 +shipping
$129 at local MSY.
Good for those who do not have access to stores (espec those not in capital city)
Received via Email. Website looks like its yet been updated
$129 is the Seagate one for MSY, which I wouldn't touch with a 10" pole
10 inches? i personally wouldn't touch it with a 10' pole
Whoops lol
it's alrgiht, i think i know which 10" pole you were talking about ;)
people are still going ape over seagate drives?
people are also going ape over AAC WD drives
and then people say that samsung drives are the most unreliable of the 3
so basically you cant buy anything
Normal Seagate drives (ie the normal 7200rpm ones are fine) it's just their 2TB 5900rpm one that I wouldn't touch
Samsung has been pretty good for me
care to share whats wrong with the 5900rpm drives? mostly seagate haters just say "dodgy firmware"
the samsung thing was from people working at computer stores saying that samsung is definitely the most returned drives for rma
@voter1: Their rated life is much lower than the Samsung and WD equivalent. Due to the technology they use to park the heads.
With the firmware thing, I believe that Seagate would have fixed it by now or else they'd be crap so high….
@Trance N Dance: are you sure its seagate - WD also has the head parking feature on their EARS drives.
@voter1: That's something else altogether, it was something to do with how quick it parks after inactivity or something with the WD.
@voter1: It's much more than just "dodgy firmware" mate.
If you owned one of the many models affected by the firmware you would know the long period of time it took Seagate to release a new firmware, which was also glitched. They then released a few more firmwares before they got it right, at which point most of the people affected had replaced their drives countless times (and no doubt lost valuable time and information).
To this day no recall was performed and Seagate has not apologised to its customers. Last time I checked there was not even ACKNOLEDGEMENT of the issue by Seagate themselves.
I know most manufacturers will have a bad run at one stage or another, but it's the appalling handling of the situation that has changed me from an "all HDD manufacturers are the same" guy to "Thanks Seagate, now I have one less brand to consider when I need to buy a HDD".
@fufufu: I know most manufacturers will have a bad run at one stage or another, but it’s the appalling handling of the situation that has changed me from an “all HDD manufacturers are the same” guy to “Thanks Seagate, now I have one less brand to consider when I need to buy a HDD”.
I wish there was a way I could click "+" on that comment a few thousand more times! ;)
Hitachi drives seem ok. They are 7200rpm for ~$148 - 2TB
only 10 inch pole?
Is this one of the advanced format drives? I understand they cannot be used in WHS?
Paging Dr. Freud.
Pole envy? :p
hahaha i just bought 2 x 1.5TB samsung drive for $79 each!!!!
way cheaper than this!
Yeah the 1.5TB drives are still the sweet spot, but with the 2TB drives u have the convenience of 2TB in one drive.
And it won't be long til 2TB become the sweet spot with the 4TB drives due out latter this year
WHERE?!?!
Woah, the website is so aesthetically pleasing I almost want to buy everything.
Great Drive Highly recommended very quiet operation
Ok deal, free shipping is better than nothing.