HP AMD A8 Notebook (8GB RAM, 2GB VGA) - $699 (Save $600), Imation 1TB HDD $79 @ Warehouse Stationery

Bobs on 09/02/2016 - 17:32 warehousestationery.co.nz (76 clicks)
Last edited 09/02/2016 - 17:41 by 1 other user

Up to 2.4Ghz AMD A8-6410 Quad Core Processor
15.6" Display
8GB RAM
500GB Hard Drive
2GB Dedicated AMD Radeon R7 M260 Graphics

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Toddy47 on 09/02/2016 - 18:47

Personal experience with the Imation drive has been terrible, had 3 of 3 fail within 3 months.
- Jaxson on 09/02/2016 - 19:18
  
  I was going to say this also. For HDD I'd stay with the main two nowadays, Seagate or Western Digital.
  - Avantime on 10/02/2016 - 00:02
    
    Avoid Seagate like the plague:
    
    https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-reliability-stats-…
    - Kiwi on 10/02/2016 - 00:14
      
      Interesting you refer to that blog post. If you look at their most recent one there is a noticeable drop in failure rates of 2015 model Seagate drives, as shown at the bottom of their post, and they are infact showing as more reliable than the WD drives.
    - Avantime on 10/02/2016 - 22:08
      
      @Shaw: I think the late 2015 results were better because there were more 4TB+ Drives around, compared to previous years. The reliability statistics for the most popular Seagate drives (1TB to 3TB) are still pretty bad, and those drives are by far the most popular because they're in the sweet spot in terms of affordability and price per GB.
      
      Also external storage drives tend to be made from the cheapest drives, and some stock can be quite old.