First post (Please advise if I've made a mistake. Ta.)
Office works is selling the hard disk at $129. Centrecom is selling it at $119. I took the Centrecom printout and ask OW to price match. Got it at $119 - 5% = $113.50.
Not a bad deal for a WD drive even though it only supports up to USB 2.0.
Update:
Changed price in title to $119 as suggested.
price matching is not a bargain. put the price at 119
Them's the rules.
its confusing. op links to centrecom but has officework's matched price in the title
and he did ask for advice if a mistake was made
Thank you all. Sorry, I'm still new at this.
Yes, I wanted to post two links but am not sure how to do it through the Ozbargain website.
For the same price product, I would prefer to buy from OW as they have stores everywhere and it would be easier to return something if it goes faulty. That is why I put this post in.
Don't think it's such a good bargain. HN has stickered price of $119.99.
Some months ago the HN Auburn, NSW store was doing a "external HDD promo". I think they were mainly trying to flog off their Samsung 2TB drives - going then for $89(I think?). I went with a friend to get two drives, spoke to their staff, and managed to get this same drive (manager-type guy says it's a once-off) for $85!
Guy at checkout had to confirm with manager, said he was going to get one when he finishes his shift.
will wait till they hit 80 bux wont b long now
May take a while because of possible worldwide shortage of HDDs. Floods in Bangkok has affected the WD factory based there. Looking at my box, this 2TB drive comes from Thailand.
Really?
http://wfoster2011.wordpress.com/2011/11/07/thailand-floods-…
http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/after-flooding-wester…
http://2bangkok.com/inside-wds-flooded-thai-factory.html
http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2011/10/27/wd_flooded_facto…
EDIT: I meant to have said "floods in and around Bangkok" above…
No doubt some HDD manufacturing is affected by floods, but I wouldn't put it past any corporation to use a disaster to prop-up perceived demand and price.
Gotta wonder where these 4TB babies will be coming from http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Hitachi-4TB-HDD-Internal-Dr… in January?
You're right about greedy corporations…
I thought Hitachi has factories in Mexico and China, don't know if they manufacture HDDs in Japan anymore.
BTW, WD is just waiting for approval from regulatory bodies to complete the acquition of the Hitachi HDD division.
For those wondering how the world has ended-up with a duopoly - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_defunct_hard_disk_manuf….
With only a handful of memory manufacturers, I wonder if SSD supply will end up the same way.
So much for competition.
But OOS..
~110 seems to be the going price the last I saw it some weeks ago.
When they do have stock, might cost more,
..or you might get some extras: H2O, TB, … :) [only joking]
Come to think of it, when they do get new stock in, they might be USB 3
And, of course, new price (like their portable drives)
Anyone know what drive is in these? WD WD20EARX
Green?
able to take the driver out or they don't have the standard controller?
Hi, if we are talking about price matching, I managed to get a 2TB 3.5" Seagate Expansion for $100 at Officeworks, might help some people considering the crazy original price of $180.
That's excellent deal! Well Done, cheongk. Keep up posting good deals!