Office works is having a sale on their Western Digital external drives.
These are very good quality hard drives and demand a little price premium, but at these prices they're very good value.
You may find better deals online but not when you add postage etc.
I've been looking for a hard drive for months and this deal made me decide to finally get it.
Available online and in stores too - I bought mine in a store.
$10 for the convenience of getting it now, i'll take the officeworks deal.
Why would you pay $10 more? Have officeworks primematch the cheapest on SI. Pricematches are not bargains though so this is not a deal.
I guess it depends where you live, my local officeworks usually don't pricematch interstate.
if you are in melbourne you can pricematch the 1tb seagate 3.5" from msy.com.au they're selling them for 69 so youc an get them for 65.5 after pricematched with office works
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These are not "very good quality hard drives and demand a little price premium", they are the budget range of WD. I've heard negative reviews from their previous versions of the WD Elements, poor casing, heat up too hot, and they're not even made by WD (at least they used to not be).
From the same store, on the same website, you can get for $5 more than the 1tb elements, a 1.5tb WD Essentials external drive. 50% more storage, and better build quality, for $5.
http://www.officeworks.com.au/retail/products/Technology/Dat…
Also, $84 for a 1tb 3.5" external drive is ordinary. You can get a 1tb 2.5" seagate for $79 from JB HI-FI:-
http://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/41877
This deal is a dud, sorry.
I actually strongly recommend the WD Elements over other external ranges (even the more expensive ones). The case looks like it's useless (no ventilation) but actually monitoring the temperatures of the drives using SMART, it seems to very effectively heatsink the drive. My two WD 1.5TB Elements drives are as cool as you're going to get in a fanless enclosure.
BTW, that JB deal is a misprint and you'll be very lucky if you can get them to honour it.
That said, the price is nothing out of the ordinary and there have been deals for $99 other brand USB 2.0 drives recently. I'd happily save myself $30 for a slightly worse enclosure.
Have had 2 of the previous model WD's die on me.
I went the samsung with HN xmas sales.
price pinching on a low budget drive , typical o/w draw card to get you into store .
these day 2TB=$128 is hardly a bargain, you need to shop around
At North Sydney, OW have 2 other brands of 2TB at $117 and $118 - both are USB2
You can get USB 3.0 2TB Samsung Story from Ebay for $134 delivered
its a pretty decent deal worth noting and yeah I would rather just pay the $10 extra to get it at my local office works down the road immediately then wait a week or worry about shipping, insurrance or what im gonna get it.
Not the cheapest. Not a bargain.
Since when is a bargain only the 'cheapest'. Surely if this 2TB drive was $99 at OW and $98 at MSY, then they would both be bargains? Not just MSY?
I will admit though it is fairly standard pricing
Possibly but in most cases, no.
No bargain to be found here.
WD is crap and i would not trust my data to it, whenever we have a drive fail 90% of the time its a WD also these cheap (green) drives are no good for video streaming or anything requiring good transfer rate.
Has anyone had experiences with the Samsung drives? I am cautious to venture away from Seagate or Hitachi.
Didn't want to be the bearer of the bad news but:-
2TB
http://www.staticice.com.au/cgi-bin/search.cgi?q=2TB+western…
1TB
http://www.staticice.com.au/cgi-bin/search.cgi?q=1TB+western…
/ + for effort!!!