High performance drive with 7200RPM The only downside is no SATA cable or mounting screws with this OEM version
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hora
11 Aug 17#1
High performance drive with 7200RPM The only downside is no SATA cable or mounting screws with this OEM version
teggl97
11 Aug 17#2
Awesome price :smile:
jamgin
11 Aug 17#3
Get one whilst South Korea is still able to make 'um
Gentle_Giant
11 Aug 17#4
I have FOUR of these; internally the ones I have read as Hitachi; VERY reliable and really good price. Two of these were used in my NAS for several years, but now being used as local storage in a couple of PCs.
Edit: Actually my bad - looks like 1-3week waiting time with Amazon - Hot :smile:
GwanGy
11 Aug 17#7
I have one (actually 5tb) of these and while they're good drives , they are noisy when seeking. God knows how you got away with using two of them in a NAS
GearJammer
11 Aug 17#8
I have two of these 3TB drives and they are utterly silent in operation.
dewonderful
11 Aug 17#9
Amazon slaying the competition - price matched and a penny cheaper at £70.97!
Come on ebuyer, don't get kicked around - sell this drive for £60 and show amazon who is boss - unless you really are losers like amazon say you are :relaxed:
thenormalone to dewonderful
11 Aug 17#11
If you want a working drive, stick with ebuyer. Amazon currently have no stock and don't know how to pack hard drives. They regularly send them out like this
dewonderful to thenormalone
12 Aug 17#12
And if you want to be stuck with a broken hard drive, stick with ebuyer ( :poop: ) who rewards their staff for rejecting returns and not issuing RMA's for fault goods. At least amazon will take back anything they packaged badly, good luck with these sleazy chancers. As I always say - #ebuyerbeware!
littlejimmy to dewonderful
12 Aug 17#14
Wow, was considering this, not now. I hope they've lost loads of business from this photo getting out
Picard123 to dewonderful
12 Aug 17#15
Ebuyer don't 'reward' staff for rejecting valid RMAs. All they're doing is tracking statistics. All businesses have BIS that are specifically designed to do that. Even with Amazon, if you have a sufficient high return rate above their designated threshold, they close your account.
I can say that I have been contacted by Amazon CS due to high return rate and basically warned my account would be closed if it continues. I replied with a spreadsheet containing data of every item I had ever returned and the reason for return. I don't know if they even looked at it but I've not heard from them since (years ago now). Still it does make me think twice about buying big ticket complicated items from them.
captainbeaky to K1LLER_HORNET
12 Aug 17#22
Couldn't you just create another Amazon account?
K1LLER_HORNET to captainbeaky
12 Aug 17#30
Perhaps I could but I'd lose anything attached to my account. Prime, apps, order history.
Stimpington to Picard123
12 Aug 17#20
Colourful or bold boards on office walls tend to be used for advertising the success/win rate by employees within that department, and not for the tracking of statistics for administrative/analytical purposes. Statistics are more commonly reserved for spreadsheets shared among the relevant members of
staff only.
On such sales/win boards, the person achieving the highest rate of success is usually moved to the top. We can only see the first 2 or 3 rows in the example of ebuyer, but from this blurred sample it appears to be the case.
Ebuyer may well have cleaned up their act in the 7-or-so years since I had to contend with this department to accept a legitimate return, arguing with them while they tried to imply they had no legal duty to accept it and that I would need to contact the manufacturer direct. But at the time, the forums were rife with people complaining about the company's resistance to issuing full refunds and accepting returns.
These were not long term ebuyer customers who had been successfully manipulating a refunds system, as referenced in the articles you linked regarding Amazon.
Amazon have an exemplary refunds service, which runs borderline to no-questions-asked. That's why when they finally cut you off, it's no-answers-given. If those statistics were made public, it would be easy for customers to game the system, which is another reason Amazon won't have a board in their customer services departments, as ebuyer did.
Picard123 to Stimpington
12 Aug 17#25
Amazon can probably afford to authorise a few more returns given that they pay practically no UK tax despite having £billions of UK sales.....
thenormalone to dewonderful
12 Aug 17#17
Amazon is my go to place for most things these days and I agree, their returns procedure is second to none but like a poster above said they've closed accounts with high return rates. I've read stuff about ebuyer rejecting RMA's too and haven't used them in about 10 years other than a CPU cooler 4 years ago. When I RMA'd stuff with them in the past, they were pretty slow with their ticket system but this was 10 years ago.
mickrick to dewonderful
12 Aug 17#26
And not forgetting their rip-off delivery costs to Northern Ireland. I think it was them who invented the term "mainland UK".
VladTheImpaler to thenormalone
12 Aug 17#13
Yep, recently received a Seagate IronWolf "packed" just like that from Amazon.
After installation it took over a minute to do a quick format, transfer speeds were all over the place and it chucked up a load of "command timeout" SMART errors (SATA cable and motherboard ports were checked and known good). It may or may not have been related to being tossed around and damaged in transit, but that's the last HDD I'll be getting from Amazon until I see evidence they've upped their game.
:grin:
Ebuyer will never live this one down, but to be fair I think it would be a bit naive to believe that other online retailers don't operate similar schemes.
As long as you know your statutory rights as a consumer you shouldn't have anything to worry about, at least when you're buying from a UK-based vendor.
taras to thenormalone
12 Aug 17#16
BT aren't much better, mine was like that but will some extra padding
popolou
11 Aug 17#10
Was just looking at these too for my Gen8 earlier today. They've been lower but this is a good enough price frankly.
GwanGy to popolou
12 Aug 17#19
I would go for proper NAS drives or 5400rpm as mine (5tb) is noisy (used in a gen8!) they do E and N drives which would be more suitable. Maybe these (3tb) are re-labelled/older Hitachi drives , maybe theres a software util that can quiet them down?
Silverwolf to GwanGy
12 Aug 17#23
Amazon do have the Toshiba E300 3TB currently at £79.74 which are slower performance but designed for use in a NAS
popolou to GwanGy
12 Aug 17#24
@GwanGy agreed for a NAS. Running a esxi box so do have a need for speed :grin:
Rubber grommet them? Use more padding under the rubber feet?
Pops
Stimpington
12 Aug 17#21
hot for the price.
mickrick
12 Aug 17#27
How are these compared to WD reds?
Tim.Royle
12 Aug 17#28
Does it work in a MacBook pro
jezzery
12 Aug 17#29
Would this perform any better plugged into an Xbox one rather than a bog standard drive. Would you notice the difference in read/write times?
Could someone advise whether this would be a good choice. Thanks
encaser
13 Aug 17#31
Got this. Runs noisy and hotter than WD, for example, so placed at top of stack to not heat up other units and used dampening material. Good price though if either aren't of concern to you.
konraddrozdz to encaser
16 Aug 17#32
Got one myself, It's only 3 degrees hotter than my old Samsung, not much noisier if not the same, Very good price
popolou to konraddrozdz
24 Aug 17#34
Agreed. Ran a long SMART test on my two drives in parallel and (other than zero sector failures) they were hardly noticeable over my trusty WD500GB Blacks. Transfers are impressive.
Pops
babaz
19 Aug 17#33
nice find, immediately available for shipping from Amazon UK at 70.97 price They advertise it as a 2.5" unit, which is clearly a mistake I'm going to bite.
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The only downside is no SATA cable or mounting screws with this OEM version
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The only downside is no SATA cable or mounting screws with this OEM version
Edit: Actually my bad - looks like 1-3week waiting time with Amazon - Hot :smile:
Come on ebuyer, don't get kicked around - sell this drive for £60 and show amazon who is boss - unless you really are losers like amazon say you are :relaxed:
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I replied with a spreadsheet containing data of every item I had ever returned and the reason for return. I don't know if they even looked at it but I've not heard from them since (years ago now).
Still it does make me think twice about buying big ticket complicated items from them.
On such sales/win boards, the person achieving the highest rate of success is usually moved to the top. We can only see the first 2 or 3 rows in the example of ebuyer, but from this blurred sample it appears to be the case.
Ebuyer may well have cleaned up their act in the 7-or-so years since I had to contend with this department to accept a legitimate return, arguing with them while they tried to imply they had no legal duty to accept it and that I would need to contact the manufacturer direct. But at the time, the forums were rife with people complaining about the company's resistance to issuing full refunds and accepting returns.
These were not long term ebuyer customers who had been successfully manipulating a refunds system, as referenced in the articles you linked regarding Amazon.
Amazon have an exemplary refunds service, which runs borderline to no-questions-asked.
That's why when they finally cut you off, it's no-answers-given. If those statistics were made public, it would be easy for customers to game the system, which is another reason Amazon won't have a board in their customer services departments, as ebuyer did.
And not forgetting their rip-off delivery costs to Northern Ireland. I think it was them who invented the term "mainland UK".
After installation it took over a minute to do a quick format, transfer speeds were all over the place and it chucked up a load of "command timeout" SMART errors (SATA cable and motherboard ports were checked and known good). It may or may not have been related to being tossed around and damaged in transit, but that's the last HDD I'll be getting from Amazon until I see evidence they've upped their game.
:grin:
Ebuyer will never live this one down, but to be fair I think it would be a bit naive to believe that other online retailers don't operate similar schemes.
As long as you know your statutory rights as a consumer you shouldn't have anything to worry about, at least when you're buying from a UK-based vendor.
Rubber grommet them? Use more padding under the rubber feet?
Pops
Could someone advise whether this would be a good choice. Thanks
Pops
They advertise it as a 2.5" unit, which is clearly a mistake
I'm going to bite.
Thanks