1 Hour Sale (Sunday 12-2-12, 8-9pm AEDT)-2TB Seagate 3.5" Internal Hard Drive SATAIII-$110

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  [Deactivated] on 11/02/2012 - 11:05

  -1

  By the time you receive it, the prices will probably be under $100 locally.

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    Store RepShoppingExpress @ Shopping Express on 11/02/2012 - 11:08

    we have stock and dispatch most of our products either same day or within 24 hours.
    what makes you think you will get delay on the shipment?

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      dealhunt on 11/02/2012 - 11:25

      I think he said the prices will drop for sure it doesn't matter on how long it takes to be delivered.

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        Store RepShoppingExpress @ Shopping Express on 11/02/2012 - 11:48

        i am quite interested in knowing how you end up with the forecast… as it seems to be the other way round according to this month's forecast?
        http://www.computerworld.com.au/article/414056/seagate_short…

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        dealhunt on 11/02/2012 - 12:22

        +4

        Yeah there is some speculation around that Seagate intentionally claimed difficulties so to take advantage of it by rising the price of its production and stock too.
        We know merchants are ready to anything to raise their profits.

        The article is good just for now (also they should write about something otherwise they waste their time) but like shares the prices will change and specifically regarding drives prices will drop for sure.

        I understand you must sell these drives very quickly fearing a price drop, this is marketing, you may not change the way.

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        Store RepShoppingExpress @ Shopping Express on 11/02/2012 - 21:00

        Hi Dealhunt,

        This is a deal that was voted to be on as our epic hour by our customers. The idea is to give them something they want at a good price. We are not fearing a price drop at this stage, and if we need to sell them fast, we will not Limit it to 1 per customer.

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  photonbuddy on 11/02/2012 - 11:17

  I'm not quite sure why people see this as a bargain.

  Over the last 2 months I've bought 2 external Samsung 2TB hard drives for $99 each.

  I had to laugh when seeing the same internal drive on offer for $141 at one of the cheaper online stores. Felt like going back and buying all the externals and selling them on e-bay as internals 'with a free gift'!

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    tonyjzx on 11/02/2012 - 11:36

    you must admit that $99 2tb externals are pretty damn rare though…

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      CH on 11/02/2012 - 13:20

      Not quite $99 but for $109-$115 I would much prefer a 7200rpm Hitachi 2TB 7K2000 thats inside the Lifestudio Desk external.

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    eug on 11/02/2012 - 11:39

    +3

    From where?

    This deal is for an internal drive too - there's zero warranty if you extract the drive from an external drive. 2TB drives at Umart and MSY start at $131.

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    llama on 11/02/2012 - 11:46

    +1

    There was a post here or on Whirlpool forums about a retailer who sold an internal drive that still was formatted and named "Elements" or whatever the external drive name was.

    Apparently there was Caviar Blue or Black drives inside some of the external enclosures - the retailers were stripping them to get the $300 drives out of them, but it was a "lottery".

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  morpheu on 11/02/2012 - 11:57

  internal? you could have knocked me over with a feather about that "Spin Speed (RPM) 5900 RPM" part! looks more like a hdd for an external enclosure, unless you consider this a 'green' drive

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    cyssero on 11/02/2012 - 12:53

    5900RPM is perfectly normal.. I bought the same drive (5900RPM) internal for $78 many moons ago.

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      xlr8 on 11/02/2012 - 13:49

      I too bought a couple of the Seagate 2TB "green" internal drives that run at 5900rpm a while back for around $80 each. I bought them for storage only but found in testing that they actually have read/write speeds faster than some of my 7200rpm WD drives. Not quite as fast as the Blacks, but still great performance. Cool and quiet too, which the WD blacks certainly aren't.

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        cyssero on 11/02/2012 - 15:07

        Agreed, this was one of the main reasons I bought them - speed. I looked at quite a few benchmarks beforehand and due to the aerial density of platters it was a very quick drive. For those curious, this has 3x666GB platters instead of 4x500GB platters older drives had. Detailed review here: http://www.storagereview.com/seagate_barracuda_green_2tb_rev…

        I found it was close in performance to my 1TB Samsung HD103SJ (F3) which is a 7200RPM 2x500GB platter drive.

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  rehab on 11/02/2012 - 12:01

  Can someone point me in the direction of a link as to how I pull apart an external HDD and put it inside my pc?

  And Im a bit of a noob here, are they EXACTLY the same drive?

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    imaximax1 on 11/02/2012 - 12:07

    yes. Almost all of them (i have a HP thats not).

    All external enclosures are different, and some are quite hard to pull apart (they dont have screws).

    Just google the specific drive, its pretty simple.

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    dealhunt on 11/02/2012 - 12:12

    Nowadays manufacturers put junk in side the cases, they are slow outdated drives old stock for sure.

    If you want a good one, you should buy drive and case separately, but if you don't care about quality and only look at the price, then go for packages like this one.

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      rehab on 11/02/2012 - 12:26

      Cheers thanks, sounds like its better to get a dedicated internal hdd

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      syl on 11/02/2012 - 13:29

      Hi dealhunt

      Could you recommend a good enclosure?
      I bought a thermaltake 1.. Was around $50 at that time and only lasted 5 months :(

      Frds bought one from eBay and lasted for yrs… No brand!!!

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        dealhunt on 11/02/2012 - 17:40

        @syl, it depends on what you need and how much you're willing to spend, do you want to connect it through usb, firewire or sata, what internal drive are you going to use?

        Generally speaking Vantec are quite good and prices are competitive, as an example here is a usb enclosure and very versatile, it also has an internal cooler (fan): http://www.vantecusa.com/gl/product/view_detail/381

        I would prefer to use a sata drive and a enclosure with firewire or sata connection or both.

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      llama on 11/02/2012 - 13:31

      +1

      they are slow outdated drives old stock for sure

      What a load of absolute rubbish.

      In fact, since the floods companies like WD have sometimes been putting full-spec Caviar Blue and Black drives in their external cases, simply because they don't have enough stock of the cheaper green drives!

      The drives inside external drives are brand new, and exactly the same as the products that are sold "retail". They are the EXACT same models, sheesh!

      The main consideration is that the externals usually include GREEN drives because they run cooler. Since the interface is often only USB 2.0 (maximum transfer rate of about 25MB/sec) it doesn't matter that the Green drives are a bit slower than a full speed 7200rpm one. You get up to 90MB/sec from a green drive, which is not that slow really (and heaps faster than IDE 7200rpm).

      If you want cheap, low-power storage, then a green drive is the best choice anyway - that's why people specifically buy them for their computers' internal drives rather than the faster 7200rpm drives!

      If you are using it as a boot drive / primary hard drive, then a faster 7200rpm or 10,000rpm drive would be a better choice. But they cost more, and you wouldn't scab the drive out of a external drive to get one.

      Anyway… if you grab an internal 7200rpm drive and put it inside an external case, you may have heat / relaibility issues, since they are not designed to be used that way (no ventilation). And why bother… an internal drive is more expensive than an external at the moment.

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        CH on 11/02/2012 - 14:20

        +1

        It seems some companies have been putting high spec drives into their externals well before any floods, the 2TB Hitachi LifeStudio Desk has had 7K2000's in it since at least Oct 2010, even though its only USB2. You can get the non plus version (no usb key) for ~$115 from Umart.

        http://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/review/servers_storage/hitachi…

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        dealhunt on 11/02/2012 - 17:21

        @llama, I just replay to one of you incompetent admissions also all others have the same feeling eg. green drive yet it's slow as I said, anyways:

        "if you grab an internal 7200rpm drive and put it inside an external case, you may have heat / relaibility issues, since they are not designed to be used that way (no ventilation)"

        You might want to know that there are ventilated enclosures available since many years ago, some of those cost nearly the same price of the drive from this thread and even more.

        I wouldn't mind about your replay and could just "pass" because it's obvious that you're not informed or if you prefer you don't know what you're talking about, but calling my replay "rubbish" that labels you not only incompetent also rude.

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      eug on 11/02/2012 - 14:33

      packages like this one? This is an internal drive!

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  mrsnrub on 11/02/2012 - 12:14

  +2

  A bit hard to stock up on these drives when you are limited to only purchasing one!

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    Store RepShoppingExpress @ Shopping Express on 11/02/2012 - 21:07

    I did mentioned: Good Chance to stock up a 2TB storage :P
    This has to be limited to 1 per customer to let more people get this product at a special price.

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  hippo2s on 11/02/2012 - 19:44

  Arent seagate 5900rpm famous for their clicks of death problem? or are these a different model?

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    eug on 11/02/2012 - 20:39

    +1

    dunno about the 5900rpm ones, but their 7200rpm 1 and 1.5TB ones were awful. I just RMAed a 1.5TB one two months ago. A month after I received the refurbished replacement, that one died as well. Yeesh.

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      dealhunt on 11/02/2012 - 21:30

      Same experience here, I bought 2 drives 7,200rpm for a new computer to discover only late the annoying click click click all the time, it remembered me the old first drives for computer.

      Since then no more Seagate in my list, maybe I just was unlucky, maybe now there are no problems, but I'm not gonna waste my money again.