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Park@82
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*ex vat
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Question of the day ~ Do you queue to fill up your car before the fuel price increase every month?
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Ho3n3r
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But it's easy to work it out on a calculator before we get happy, so there's really no fooling us.
Ho3n3r
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Where are you getting these prices which are excluding VAT? Takealot only shows prices including VAT.
D4N
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I was gonna ask the same thing, but I think he's trying to illustrate that the Esquire deals aren't really that special
He did it to make it comparable with Esquire, if I understand correctly.
i.got~issues
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^^ This ... yup, I just displayed them ala Esquire style for an ex VAT comparison. As soon as you ad VAT, Esquire's prices seem less special.
Hi Guys, Im looking for a 2.5" 2TB HDD... anyone know any deals
http://www.takealot.com/computers/wd-elements-2-5inch-2tb-portable-drive-black,29924357
R1399 Today only.
D4N
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That's actually a very decent deal
akescpt
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Sorry man.
I got one
Regular pricing applied. Back to R 1,629
check the dionwired site. sure I saw that on promotion. but I don't think it was 1399.
PostmanPot
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Which study is this?
Sorry man.
I got one
Regular pricing applied. Back to R 1,629
Fuuuuu!
MagicDude4Eva
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Perhaps I am unfortunate that I had massive amount of failures in SANs and NASs with WD server drives. Have not had any issue ever switching to Seagate. My home-NAS dropped 5 WD server drives within 2 months (only 18 months old) whereas the replaced Seagates have now been running for solid 3 years.
We have had the exact opposite issues on our DVR systems using NAS devices to store video footage, been replacing Seagate drives with WD, the failure rate on the Seagate drives has be very high.
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This one:
http://www.pcworld.com/article/2089...eals-the-most-reliable-hard-drive-makers.html
Actually, Hitachi has a better non failure rate.
MagicDude4Eva
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Remember that there is a difference in reliability of "green" drives vs regular drives. If you read the report about BackBlaze you will find that they are quite happy with the Seagate ST#000DM001 drives. The desktop drives I used in NAS environments were Seagate ST2000DM001 (2TB) and ST3000DM001 (3TB) which are rock-solid. Also remember in a business model like BackBlaze (providing cloud storage) there will always be a trade-off between failure rate and price. I would think that they have opted to go with some Seagate models as those where cheaper and it was acceptable to have a higher error rate. Also remember those are desktop drives being exposed to usage patterns your regular PC or home-NAS would never experience.
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