ebuyer are scum and their customer services department are the worst people I have ever dealt with. I had a coolermaster power supply from them. It had a 5 year warranty and was about 18 months old. Coolermaster said to return it to the seller on their site for a replacement, so i did. however eBuyer gave me a REDUCED refund because it was older than 6 months, apparently it wasn't possible to repair it or replace despite them having it in stock and it having years of warranty left. If i had sent it directly to coolermaster it would have been replaced in no time, but I trusted eBuyer. I even told them i dont want the refund and to return it too me, but they apparently had destroyed it before i had agreed to anything. They even gave me the refund as credit to start with as if i would sent a penny more with them.

If we are lucky their CS department will be killed off and replaced with competent members of the human race. Then I might go back.

I would wait until Amazon reduce it again.

Out of curiosity, I have been waiting for further comment but there has been none.

Being unfamiliar with RMA statistics, I'm not sure how those RMA figures are supposed to reflect on eBuyer.

ebuyer are scum and their customer services department are the worst people I have ever dealt with. I had a coolermaster power supply from them. It had a 5 year warranty and was about 18 months old. Coolermaster said to return it to the seller on their site for a replacement, so i did. however eBuyer gave me a REDUCED refund because it was older than 6 months, apparently it wasn't possible to repair it or replace despite them having it in stock and it having years of warranty left. If i had sent it directly to coolermaster it would have been replaced in no time, but I trusted eBuyer. I even told them i dont want the refund and to return it too me, but they apparently had destroyed it before i had agreed to anything. They even gave me the refund as credit to start with as if i would sent a penny more with them.

If we are lucky their CS department will be killed off and replaced with competent members of the human race. Then I might go back.

I would wait until Amazon reduce it again.

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As a video editor, I'm just waiting for a NAS enclosure that can house half a dozen of these 1TB drives, they should be much smaller than current NAS enclosures and not need as much air ventilation or noisy fan!

Well, now the code has expired but when I tried it before posting earlier, it still worked.

I almost posted a screenshot and wish I had now.

I don't know why, perhaps having had difficulties with eBuyer in the past, but I'm wondering if this will actually be honoured.

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yes i did apply ssd code

Ended now
Back at £199.98

Are eBuyer returns free? I am not sure if I want 1 or 3 of these drives so was thinking to order 3 then send the ones I don't require back next week...

WORTH buying! If you really want to get a bargain this is it.

Depends which direction you measure, I'm on Virgin superfast cable so can send data to the cloud fast enough, but the best I can get from anyone else is 1.9Mb upload, it might have a headline figure as 38Mb download, but you've still got to get your data to the cloud, so if you write as well as read a lot of data, cloud is not going to be anywhere near as effective as local storage, especially so cheap as this.

I'd also be interested in seeing any cloud offerings with this sort of capacity at anywhere near this cost, I suspect you'd end up paying for the drive more than once a year, so could probably afford to keep a backup and replace regularly, without ever having to worry about Ebuyer customer support.

The only reason stopping me from buying one is the fact I shouldn't need the space, but somehow I do spend rather too much time keeping my drives clear, but I certainly couldn't live in 120GB, pretty much the minimum is 480GB.

mike

yes as a few have said, i wouldn't want to put out this much money on a storage device from ebuyer, they really have a crappy returns process where you pay return postage and they threaten to get you to pay all sorts of admin charges if they can't reproduce the failure. i've had similar problems with scan, and no way would deal with aria (used to be watford electronics!)

amazon pick it up for you and give you an instant refund/replacement most of the time, no questions asked.

saying £199 - worst luck in missing out on these and I'm looking 3/4 times a day for 1tb deal.

No idea, but from the traffic here, I'm guessing that a lot of people have media severs or nases on their networks with TB drives in them.
Bandwidthwise, I'm guessing again, that a large proportion of people don't have fibre (it's got to be in their road) otherwise they'll probably be restricted to a single figure megabit connection which is useless IMO for large scale online storage.

You did, but why mention 4tb drives then.
3-4mb?! Again, that's not the majority is it.

Yes, that's why most people don't need a 960 GB drive! (I thought I had already said that)
And cloud storage is not a useful answer if you only have a 3-4Megabit connection

What are you hoarding!? The majority of people could easily EASILY get away with 120gb on a laptop these days, especially with how easy and cheap cloud storage is. I am talking about the majority, not gamers, or people downloading mass amounts of videos/music.

you do know these are used in pc's too? I have 3 of these in my personal rig . SSD's are just a faster alternative to HDD's .

Price now £199.98 :disappointed:

I wonder how RAID-zeroing two of those feel like?

Are returns free if you change your mind?

Blimey, I remember when these first came out and were about £500. The times, they are a-changin'!

that was a joke dude :wink:

That would require 4 SATA ports... but if you've got them going spare do as you wish.

you can buy 4 Crucials 240 GB (each 39.99) http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B016JREGAC/?tag=ho01f-21 and you would be 3p better off!!! :smiley:))

Only 1 left in stock. Doubt it'll still be there if I swing by tomorrow. :disappointed:

It's showing at £199.98 for me! :confused:

Pardon?

It'll end up a few quid more expensive at Aria, you have to add shipping to it :stuck_out_tongue:

Even better! - Thank you!

Would avoid Ebuyer if at all possible - due to numerous issues previously and having to argue to get a faulty item replaced. Is anyone else selling at a similar price ?

apologies does still work with the code ssd!! woohoo!

Some are 9mm and others are 7mm thick, though. That's a very important figure with new, thin laptops that mostly only accept 7mm

Its cheap as chips, so voted hot, but in reality that's a hellova lot to pay for a laptop drive, for instance, considering that the laptop itself may have only cost £200-£300. Personally, I would fit a much smaller drive. Other uses excepted :smiley:

Bargain! And at the moment they are giving Free Saturday Delivery (on top of the usual Free Delivery option) so you can get it tomorrow!