Looks like we’ve got a good old fashioned price war going on at the moment for hard drive space. Not long after Officeworks broke the $100 barrier for a 1TB drive, Dick Smith Electronics is offering 1.5 times as much for only $30 more.
The WD 1.5TB drive is pretty bare bones – not much in the way of bells and whistles. It also looks kind of chunky. But for the asking price that’s less than a good night out on the town, it sure is a lot of storage.
The $128 price tag ends today, after which it jumps up to $138 – which is still a pretty decent price, I guess…
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Aaron
Monday, May 24, 2010 at 4:25 PMYeah…it’s BIG, but it’s a WD, which kind of kills it for me. Had nothing but trouble with their products. Your mileage may vary though.
Pear
Monday, May 24, 2010 at 5:41 PMOpposite experience.
Seagate: problems
Hiatchi: problems
Samsung: mild problems
Western Digital: No problems
Still rather spend $160 and get a 2TB internal drive.
Mike Biggs
Monday, May 24, 2010 at 4:58 PMAnyone know what speed these are? 5400rpm or 7200rpm? 15,000rpm SCSI perhaps? :P
Xheis
Monday, May 24, 2010 at 5:53 PMUSb and Sata? USB 1, 2, 3? Anything?
Ray
Monday, May 24, 2010 at 6:29 PMunfortunately most of them are 5400rpm….
Chris Lowery
Monday, May 24, 2010 at 8:38 PMthe elements are just cheap 7200rpm drives.
Mordd
Monday, May 24, 2010 at 9:32 PMElements is their budget range, it will be 5400rpm drives with 1yr warranty from memory, don’t doubt the quality of the drive will be the cheapest possible that WD sell.
Peter Simpson
Tuesday, May 25, 2010 at 9:38 AMWD have a 3 year warranty covering their entire range, aside from their WDTV gear, unfortunately.
Mordd
Tuesday, May 25, 2010 at 12:36 PM@ Peter – you are right, Elements is a 3yr warranty in aus now, however you are wrong on the blanket “all WD stuff has 3yr warranty” as a quick look at their table of worldwide warranties shows:
http://support.wdc.com/warranty/policy.asp
Troy MacDonald
Monday, May 24, 2010 at 11:09 PMFor some reason I doubt they’d be 5400rpm, that seems kinda slow for a modern day drive. Though saying that, it is 1.5tb.
I’d be keen to get one just to take it out of the case and put it in my PC. Havnt checked lately but thats a good price even for internal.
Eugene C
Monday, May 24, 2010 at 11:47 PMIt was on sale for $168 in Feb, I thought that was a decent deal back then, and I bought one.
I was doing my research and found: http://forums.seagate.com/t5/Other-External-products/Seagate-Expansions-producing-loud-clicking-sound/m-p/30962
It basically outlines the 1TB+’s which were also the cheapo ones JB HiFi had (iirc, 1TB for $129) have a fault which can result in data loss and drive failure.
Peter Simpson
Tuesday, May 25, 2010 at 1:49 AMAnd now they beat competitors by 10%, even online ones, though shipping price is inclusive.