Western Digital My Book Essential Desktop Hard Drive
$88.00 Each (Save $50)
Starts 28 October - Ends 10 November
One low price. 1TB. 3.5". What it holds. Up to 440 hours DVD or 250,000 MP3s or 200,000 JPGs.
I think these are about $90 at MSY, so for $88 at BigW is pretty competitive for a large chain.
Could officeworks refuse the price beat because bigW's model is different to there's as seen here? http://www.officeworks.com.au/retail/products/Technology/Dat…
Ahh missed that obviously thanks though.
I think DSE beat by 10%
I went to DSE, no price beat for me. Just a price match. Funny enough BIGW and DSE are owned by the same group but both have different price tag.
damn cheap
Wow, great deal.
Hah nicely spotted, maybe it will make a good Christmas present.
note, starts in 2 days. don't try OW price match just yet
also note: this requires AC adapter for power (included)
Yep, it's a 3.5" drive that requires more power and a 12V supply rail that a USB cannot supply. Not sure why some people get confused about this, but they do. Of course, a 3.5" drive is usually heaps faster than a 2.5" laptop drive, and likely to last a lot longer too.
2.5" would last longer, they are generally built with durability in mind since people move them around a lot
This looks like USB 2.0, so the 3.5 drive will be as slow as a 2.5.
Great Deal :D
…too bad the finish is glossy..
…oh well, it just a hard drive I guess.
Is there an on/off switch on these?
Yes.
Only the old ones(the one with a round button) doesn't have switch.
And its cheap but most OW won't price match.
Don't quote me but I think the round button was the switch and it is these ones that dont have a switch. But the ones with a round button definitely could be soft turned off.
I had both.
The round button was not a power switch. It was a "backup" switch.
The round button model also had no power button.
The new one does.
I can;t reply to grizz directly for some reason. ozbargain bug??
We must have different drives. This is the one I have: http://www.amazon.com/Western-Digital-Essential-External-WDG… and the button switches it off and on.
Any idea what kind of HD is in the box? 7200rpm? 32MB cache?
It's a WD Green. 5400RPM
I bought one of these once but didn't use any of the features.
I dropped this one so I just bought an Elements drive.
Good choice. Elements have no crap backup software on them.
mln has the iomega 1TB ext HDD for $77. It's 7200rpm drive.
For media playback or rec this is fine. Faster drives are hotter and noisier.
Can this one be used with TiVo?
i got mine on COTD Iomega 1TB for $49+5.95 =$54.95 :)
One of the lucky ones
Bloody website kept timing out!!! :@
Went to OW they'd put the price down to $88 so no price beat for me :( still saiz $129 on there site though.
Was off to Officeworks for a price match less 5%, butt seems they've wised up!
BIG W is selling IPAD and IPHONE4…
Cheapest on Staticice is $95
Officeworks should beat $88 by 5%? So that's $83.60 at OW