Western Digital drives in a range of colors, black 1.5tb drive as linked above seems to be the best value.
Other drives Include: Blue 1tb $95.93
Silver $99.94
Camelx3 shows tis is almost lowest price ever. http://camelcamelcamel.com/Western-Digital-Passport-Portable…
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Does that price include delivery ???
Yes that Is delivered. Pretty good value for 1.5 tb my passport.
My passport seem to be the best for portable drives.
Don't know about the WD, but the seagate one is 12mm drive and fairly chunky for a 2.5 inch.
I think the 1tb were about 0.7 inches and the 1.5 tb 0.8inches thick. If that helps.
It's 1.5tb, USB3, and cheap… who cares if it's a few mm thicker.
People who want to rip out the bare drive and put it in their laptop will care.
Seagate is cheaper :)
how much when you add delivery to australia though ?
$127.22 AUD shipped.
Do 3TB 3.5" sales!!!
WD drive is thinner and smaller in all dimensions. I had trouble finding a case for the seagate.
Which shops did you try? I've got a handful of them from 3+ years ago, with 9.5mm drives in them. At one point MSY stopped stocking the standard ones, as the thicket ones would hold anything. People got grumpy about the 3mm bloat, so they caved. Hell, Seagate even make 7mm drives… but finding a case is 'fun'. My smallest external is a 128gb SSD uSATA in a tiny USB2 case. Waste of SSD, but wouldn't adapt well in SATA laptop.
It may be risky to get hard drives by the mail. Plus, if they fail (which is not uncommon with portable hard drives) then it'll be annoying to send it back.
It may be risky to get hard drives by the mail.
why? they have to get shipped to australia regardless, we don't make our own…
Yes, but when the retailers get them shipped here in the hundreds, I don't think they come here by mail - my guess is its something more secure than that.
I dunno, bulk cargo can be horribly mishandled too :)
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I've ordered a few hdd's from amazon and they always come very well packed, even the corners of the boxes are still in tact, something local couriers can't achieve.
LOL
what boozler said
C'mon man… they're packed + handled MUCH better when there's a large box of them. And using a business channel. Sender and receiver have a 'relationship' with their freight forwarders. Auspost/USPS don't give two shizzles, which is kinda expected when we want post NOW and CHEAPEST (screaming customer).
hdds get shipped to AU some way or another- i take your point but im sure they get dropped in transit/retail stores alot too.
And- have always been cautious to send back something faulty which may have had my personal details burnt into it- paranoid maybe :p
Or if you buy them from DSE, you get a HDD full of who knows what - movies, staff porn - could be anything!
which may have had my personal details burnt into it- paranoid maybe
Is that you Andy ???
http://www.theage.com.au/national/curiosity-a-factor-in-muir…
"Powered directly from the USB port on your PC. No separate power supply is needed." Wow, for a 1.5 TB at that price? Thanks, sounds good!
purchased!
One of the 1.5tb portable WD drives was as low as US$105 + shipping last week. Think the deal was posted here on Ozbargain.
What kind of speeds do you guys get with these drives? I bought one from Amazon last time, and I'm only getting about 33MB/s either way. Yes my ports are USB 3.0. If this is the best it can do, then USB 3.0 seems like dodgy marketing because it can totally be done on USB 2.0.
Depends on your usb controllers/drives. USB 3 has enough throughput for about 125mb/s granted the drives on either end can write that fast. Real world speeds should be 70-90mb/s.
If you're only getting 33mb/s then check your hardware, my freshly formatted usb 2 sustains 60mb/s
I can't even get those speeds copying between internal HDDs through SATA2/3.
Tried that on two different PCs, one is brand new.
I bought 2 and when i regitered them I found out the warranty is "out of the region".
1st one was perfectly packed, not the 2nd one. Tested both of them and seemes to be ok.
Shipping?