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I believe this is the best price in NZ history for portable 2TB hard drive.
Best price in 2015
If you have managed to obtain the Warehouse Money credit card, you'll get further 5% off
2TB Seagate Portable Hard Drive $129 @ The Warehouse
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bigbosssnake on 13/11/2015 - 13:42 thewarehouse.co.nz (130 clicks)
Last edited 16/11/2015 - 19:35 by 3 other users
Last edited 16/11/2015 - 19:35 by 3 other users
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Yea, it's more or less a game of chance, I'm the opposite, had terrible experiences with WD drives.
I have about 5 dead Seagates, and 1 dead WD. With 1TB+ Seagates it's very much down to chance when your drive would fail. 1 Seagate DOA'd, 4 Seagates failed randomly, while the WD failed due to excessive load cycles because of intellipark - a power saving feature that prematurely wears out the drive if used in a desktop. (Pro tip: Don't use WD Greens for anything other than archival purposes)
I would only consider buying WD hard drives from physical shops with no-hassle RMAs, and use hard drive monitoring software e.g. Hard Disk Sentinel. When HD Sentinel begins to warns of an impending failure I immediately pull the hard drive off, get a new one, and transfer data using a USB hard drive dock.
Seagate reliability have really fallen off a cliff here, perhaps precipitated by the Thailand floods a few years ago. I still have a 10+ year old 250GB Seagate as NAS storage and it's still running strong. When it eventually fails I'll probably replace it with a MicroSD Card.
Thanks for the report link, Avantime. Sad to see my experiences with SG being reflected significantly in the overall stats for drive failures. Big capacity drives = big losses. Emphasises what we already know about importance of backups etc. Never really thought highly of drive health software but will give HD Sentinel a trial. Thanks again
Https://www.cheapies.nz/node/697 - Was cheaper, I remember because I went to get one and they had no stock!
Still a good price though, with the currency the way it is.
Oh wow $99 is a good price! Didn't know about cheapies then.
Ha yea it was nearly a year ago, have been ~4,000 deals posted since then!
Was in OZ during the summer then. Found OZbargain and was sooo addicted to it..every minute refreshing those pages as there were constant deals prior to Christmas..
Dont have my laptop on at the moment, is anyone keen to test if the 5% off is still working?
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Would bring it down a little, and to about $115 if both it can stack with the credit card 5%.
FP5T49EB isn't working :/ - "The provided coupon ' is not yet issued by the shop or has been withdrawn by the shop".
Have you also tried incognito mode on chrome out of curiosity?
Just checked with a private window on Safari, no dice sadly.
2tb 2.5" for $129 is a great price.
I don't feel there is a significant difference between WD and Seagate. I used to only buy WD as a matter of habit, however these days Seagate have larger capacities. Eg WD 6tb vs Seagate 8tb.
Yeah, had no issues with seagate nor western digital. The only time my hard drive failed was when i lent them to mates and they drop it - back in 2006. Since then, no other issues.
Was hoping for a 5% price beat at the warehouse stationery. But they have it for the same price. http://www.warehousestationery.co.nz/is-bin/INTERSHOP.enfini…
Warehouse stationery has it with 3 year warranty. Wonder if it's the same at the Warehouse
Pretty sure that is a standard SG warranty rather than store warranty….
definitely, but just not advertised which is a appealing factor.
For anyone interested PBTech have one for $125 shipped tonight, so maybe could try your luck at WS and see if they'd price beat it today.
yeah thats the cheapest now.
I know everyone has their own preferences and story. But I've had so many failed seagate drives over the years. (As compared with no failures with WD drives) Still have SG drives in storage to eventually attempt data retrieval. Great price but I personally be loathe to trust 2T's worth of data to a SG drive.
Then again, have heard others tell the opposite story with multiple WD failures. So personal preference, I guess.