complaint to groupon about maxtor drive being sent they have credited my groupon account with the £15 credit.
not the best place to buy hardware items but credit is welcome

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How to get £92.50. Does this price include TCB ??

I got a Samsung D3 station, it has a Seagate Barracuda ST5000DM000 inside I believe (will check later)

Not sure but it has been in constant use last 48 hours reuploading all my computer backups back to the cloud after my backup software couldn't get its head around the change of drive..... Doh

​thanks Resonate, i will return my old drive and get 6tb instead also do the temperature always go over 57 degree's on 6tb model.
5tb model stay arund 52 degree's

128mb cache, 7200 RPM. Its a Seagate ST6000DX000

Drive Review

I ordered 5TB and got Maxtor

​hey man, can you please check what is the cache memory of your 6tb samsung harddrive and whats the spin speed. i am considering returning my 5tb maxtor and get 6tb instead if its performance is better

​I ordered 5tb but got maxtor instead. still waiting for Groupon to respond back to my email :/

My 6TB just arrived and its deffo a Samsung D3 Station :smiley: No update on order status on Groupon, just turned up. Are the people that are getting the Maxtors ordering the 5TB? The one thats now showing out of stock?

From the reviews of each I read (plus what adnanasif has said), the Samsung version has a larger 64mb cache and spins at 7200rpm - it is a seagate baracuda drive with fast (>100MB/s) read write speeds. In stark contrast, the Maxtor drive which is cheaper on Amazon) isn't. Much smaller 16mb cache and spin speed (<6000rpm) resulting is poor reviews when it comes to speed. If Groupon advertised a Maxtor drive and send a Maxtor drive, that would be business as usual. They can't be allowed to sell Samsung and ship Maxtor, that's like selling a Porsche and supplying a VW. No reply from Groupon yet, I'm launching a PayPal complaint in 24 hours. Might get to keep the drive and get my money back..... now that would teach Groupon not to lie and cheat and con the general public.... especially if we all did it!

Update - Maxtor brand has a Seagate Archive drive inside it. Shingled Magnetic Recording, which is h0r$e $h!+.

Mine isnt even showing anything apart from order received. What size did the guys who got the wrong drive order? Thinking to cancel.

After googling looks like the samsung and maxtor branded drives are in identical cases. Come from same factory and are identical at a guess.

They have supplied a Maxtor product to me. Nothing on the original webpage to suggest anything but a Samsung drive was up for sale. If I wanted a hard drive and they sent me a Cadbury's Cream Egg, I'd be more p!$$ed, but I'm pursuing them through PayPal. I refuse to deal with charletons.

From what I've read, Maxtor drives have 32MB cache and 5400 spin speeds, whilst Samsung branded ones spin at 7200

£8.18 tbc still pending though.

​hey man,
received mine today but its maxtor d3 statiom did you receive samsung or maxtor ?

still waiting for the delivery, does it say dispatched on the website for anyone or does it just show up with no tracking.

​ :smile:

Anyone got a dispatch yet?

Ohhhhhhhhh took me a while! Forgot its not 1995 :smiley:

has any one received this yet

I did, although the invoice doesn't match the PayPal charge. Actual charge is for the lower amount (hurray!) and invoice is for the £162. Weird, but relieved that I didn't lose the £40 :smiley:

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​5 gigs for £92.50?

Will this blast?

Good price, but groupon has to be cold - it is one of the worst businesses out there.

Yeah I can see they are doing it now, I guess there has been a limit all along?

I think the price quoted in this post includes the cashback from tcb which some people frown on as "cashback isn't guaranteed" so most people write the price sans cashback.

I didn't get an error when trying to check out and did it a few hrs ago, I got the 5TB (about £82 with tcb) as its basically £40 extra for 1TB more with the 6TB. What does the error say?

I'm getting £132.47 total, is your price of 119.99 + 2.49 including the topcashback? Or have they capped the code now to £30?

Why? It's by far the best capacity per £

got 5gb for £92.5, 6tb working out to be to expensive for me

It's a regular sata drive, there are tutorials on youtube on how to dismantle :smiley:

Does anyone know if they are 3.5" drives inside, and can they be removed easily?

Have ordered, but been charged VAT on top of price. Total for 6tb is £162 pre-£10 top cash back :/

Good price. Have some heat.