Most current deal on the 1TB Western Digital External USB 2.0 HDD.
High-speed USB 2.0 - Preformatted for immediate use. *External power required.
Colour of actual product may vary from online image.
It never did. The 5% discount was only if you had a discount card.
I picked up one of these today. If you bring the total transaction up to $200 you get a free 1 GB flash disk!
A 1GB flash disk only costs about $4-8 these days though….., and isn;t this deal only $1 off the normal price? So first you are saving $1, then having to spend an extra $23 to get a free $4 item? It might not be a savings….. MIght be better off just going in and buying a $4 flash disk and feeling better about that! :-)
But I got a Scanner + Printer for $49 :)
I bought one of these HD but am so disappointed as my DVD player doesn’t recognize and can’t watch movies through it.
Though I have WD passport (60 GB) HD and the same DVD player recognize it and works fine?!
YOUR DVD doesn't recognize this hardware have NO CONNECTION regarding to this bargain. Can ppl stop whinging and call the product's respective companies for technical support? Rather then making some comment that is NOT RELATED of this product? If you have difficulties, you can use whirlpool or the forum section of ozbargain for H.E.L.P. than here to W.H.I.N.G.E.
English quite probably is not your first language. But his post was very appropriate, most USB DVD players will NOT recognize this drive. My Xbox doesn't, my DVD player doesn't.
It's only for PCs, basically.
if you want to use your HDD as a DVD storage box,
the WD TV from officeworks at $200 will do the job instead of a DVD player.
it only requires an external HDD to work, but it will play back all sorts of modern video files.
you might have to convert the files yourself, but that shouldn't be too much trouble.
genius, you may need to reformat the drive to a FAT32 file system in order to work with your dvd player… (as opposed to NTFS).
Genius, as Vandelay said, you will need to reformat the drive as FAT32 File System. Windows can do this however it will not allow you to format 1TB to Fat32.
If you google a program called SwissKnife V3.22, this will allow you to format the entire drive as FAT32.
Note: I recommend you do half FAT32 and half NTFS. That's if you have files which are over 4GB. Fat32 has a file limit of max 4GB.
Vandelay & Iplau, appreciate your response and thanks for the recommendation.
You’re right and file format can cause this issue but the drive already came with FAT32 file format!
Any more advice would be appreciated. Also anyone else bought this drive; what file format was it at the time of purchase?
FAT32 can't be 1TB in size Genius and work with the DVD player. Partition it.
All drives except mac formatted drive should be FAT32 by default.
You can format FAT32 to any size you want, like 1 partition of 1TB is ok you just need to use a program to do so instead of Windows.
I think your DVD player just can't recongise drive that is too large in capacity, try to plug in a smaller one like a 2.5" ~160GB to try it out first.
My Seagate external 1TB drive came formatted as NTFS. Can't hurt to reformat the drive.
From a performance perspective, is NTFS faster than FAT32?
on USB2, not much performance difference, eSATA/SATA would be more reliable. and more expensive.
the upside of NTFS is, you will be able to store more actual files, in more folders, and be able to store files over 4gb in size.
the downside of NTFS for externals is that NTFS has file permissions for security, and some files may not be easily deleted/read as the security tags won't translate across between windows versions. worst case, you won't be able to delete files off the external without resetting the security for the files on that drive.
otherwise, NTFS is fine. if you're taking the external to another PC or aren't sure what you want, format for fat32. you can always convert from FAT32 to NTFS later.
NTFS has indexing??
Mine was formatted with Fat32. I converted it to NTFS using the Convert command since I didn't want to move my files out of it, format and move the files back in again. There is a /NoSecurity switch in the Convert command that removes any security so other computers can access the contents without a problem.
I just bought one from OW @ North Ryde and they have a shit load. Only a few white/silver drives but a whole wall of black ones. $177
Just bought a silver one. So far, so good! Really easy to use.
It comes preformatted FAT32 (with a 4GB file size limit).
ntbackup.exe creates a single backup file, and mine amounted to 12GB so I couldn't save it on this drive!
So I'll be reformatting it to NTFS.
best thing to do is disable Power down on all USB root Hubs in device manager, otherwise this drive if accessed a few hours of no use will take AGES to kick in again.
The Good Guys have these advertised for $175 at the moment.
http://upload.ozbargain.com/2009/03/11/1421_wd_elements_1tb_…
It's $1 cheaper than last weeks deal http://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/9211 and this one also had 5% off if you used fly buys. Does this still apply?