WD Elements 2TB USB 3.0 Hard Drive $87.30 Delivered @ Amazon AU

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Definitely not the cheapest ever for the hard drive, but it is the cheapest so far on Amazon as confirmed by camelcamelcamel. Enjoy!

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  impoze on 25/02/2019 - 22:17

  +4

  seagate option for $71.20

  https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/440049

  OW price beat to $67.64

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    XeKToReX on 25/02/2019 - 22:41

    +5

    Seagate looks to be SATA too so can be extracted.

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      teereb on 25/02/2019 - 22:51

      +2

      Yeah, had a WD portable elements die on me last week.
      The frustration and anger at the loss, primarily my fault for not backing it up more recently, ruined a morning.

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        juxjux on 26/02/2019 - 04:51

        +1

        My 4tb died about a week ago. Now I struggle in life with only my 500gb SSD.

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        Sharp324 on 26/02/2019 - 08:19

        My 2TB WD Elements drive died a couple of weeks ago too. But it lasted ~6 years so there's that. Still worried there might have been something important that I forgot to backup.

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      Agret on 25/02/2019 - 23:03

      +4

      Yep, never buying WD portables again with their soldered on BS. When portable drives fail it's often the control board and you can just pull out Seagate or Toshiba drives and connect to a SATA cable or put into a cheap drive enclosure to get your data back. WD if it fails you lose everything.

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        ssquid on 26/02/2019 - 01:58

        +1

        Only problem with Seagate is their USB controllers masquerade the drives as having 4KB sectors (for compatibility - a lot of devices can't properly talk to a USB drive with >2^32 sectors) when they're actually 512B, so the partitions can look all messed up when you connect them directly.

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      philmarcracken on 26/02/2019 - 07:59

      They can be extracted but theres some evidence floating around they poison their firmware if its not in the external drive. They don't want anyone using them in raids etc.

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        teereb on 26/02/2019 - 11:19

        Yeah it died the day I flew out. Will have a look when I get home again. It's getting power, sounds like it's about to boot up and then doesn't. Tries a few times before just going silent. Not spinning, there's no vibration, but still power to the light.

        I'll play later

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        hollykryten on 26/02/2019 - 12:06

        Are you sure that this doesn't have the USB port soldiered directly onto the internal drive as drives from WD portable enclosures generally do?.

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    thecheapskate on 26/02/2019 - 12:14

    Many officeworks in Sydney North seem to be out of stock as of yesterday :(

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  paulaus on 26/02/2019 - 09:12

  Paid 95 delivered for 3tb a little while back from computer alliance I will wait for a similar deal.