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| Thread ID: 113070 | 2010-10-04 06:47:00 | Is this a good deal from DSE? WD Elements 1TB Desktop Hard Drive | tuiruru (12277) | Press F1 |
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| 1141500 | 2010-10-05 00:47:00 | The code number is XH1210 in case anyone wants to check out the HDD on the DSE website. | Renmoo (66) | ||
| 1141501 | 2010-10-05 00:48:00 | agree, might go get one myself tomorrow actually....are they 7200rpm drives?? i bought a free agent 1TB external HDD ages ago and it only has 931GB capacity when i plug it in my computer, not impressed.......will the same thing happen here?? i knw that they advertise 1TB but that is a rounded up number.. :( Agree to Erayd's explanation on the apparent discrepancy. 1GiB ≈ 1.074GB, for your information. (Source: Wikipedia) |
Renmoo (66) | ||
| 1141502 | 2010-10-05 02:18:00 | Thanks for all the input people It's ordered :banana |
tuiruru (12277) | ||
| 1141503 | 2010-10-05 08:15:00 | Agree to Erayd's explanation on the apparent discrepancy. 1GiB ≈ 1.074GB, for your information. (Source: Wikipedia) 1 gigabyte = 1024 megabytes |
mikebartnz (21) | ||
| 1141504 | 2010-10-05 09:39:00 | 1 gigabyte = 1024 megabytes Indeed, but only when abusing SI units (which to be honest, means everybody except drive manufacturers). The rest of the time, one gigabyte = 1000 megabytes. 1KiB = 1024B 1MiB = 1024KiB = 1,048,576B 1GiB = 1024MiB = 1,048,576KiB = 1,073,741,824B 1TiB = 1024GiB = 1,048,576MiB = 1,073,741,824KiB = 1,099,511,627,776B |
Erayd (23) | ||
| 1141505 | 2010-10-05 17:57:00 | agree, might go get one myself tomorrow actually....are they 7200rpm drives?? :( Most likely. In general laptop drives are 5400 and desktop 7200. Unless it's a Raptor or something. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 1141506 | 2010-10-06 02:38:00 | Either DSE's software is incompatible with my new computer, or the special has ended as I had to search on the stock number to find it, and all branches showed out of stock. I ordered online anyway, and that went through OK (free delivery too!) so here's hoping. I was getting a blank screen with a grey ball in the centre where the main product image should have been for most items I checked, see image below. Cheers Billy 8-{) |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 1141507 | 2010-10-06 05:22:00 | Billy T - I had the same issue just put XH1210 in the search box at the top | TeejayR (4271) | ||
| 1141508 | 2010-10-06 09:43:00 | DSE a good deal? (link won't load so can't shed any light but from what others have said you might get the picture about this...) Edit: NVM, but the XH1210 in search. Surprised, DSE is normally rip as. |
icow (15313) | ||
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