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Western Digital 2TB Hard Drive - 3.5

Western Digital 2TB Hard Drive - 3.5", SATA-3G for $99.99

Western Digital WD20EARS Caviar Green Hard Drive - 2TB, 3.5", SATA-3G

Rebate amount $40

@ tigerdirect.com

by cnorborg
added 2 years ago

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Wow. What a price!!

I've heard that the WD green drives sometimes have trouble 'waking up' when they haven't been used in a while. (That's one thing that makes them green: the fact that they spin down when not in use.)

But I'm thinking about getting a couple to use with an ESATA HDD Docking Station I have (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817153112), where that won't matter so much.

Thanks, OP. +1.

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The reviews are giving me pause....

Wait, Newegg reviews are much more favorable for the same model number:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136514&Tpk=WD20EARS

And they've got 76 reviews, as opposed to only 4 on TigerDirect. Plus, I think the user knowledge is probably greater in the Newegg reviews. Feeling better now....

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anotherhiggins
2 years ago

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FYI - what he was referring to, on NewEgg it says

"Review Summary (read all 76 Reviews, write a review)
5 54%
4 20%
3 8%
2 5%
1 13%

Overall Product Rating of 4. Total Reviews: 76

Here is a snippet from one well informed reviewer there:

" Reviewed By: swiftcoder on 5/7/2010
Rating + 5
Tech Level Tech Level: high - Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg

Pros: High capacity, virtually silent, produces almost no heat, and impressive speed: sustained 100MB/s on both read and write.
Cons: Doesn't make coffee in the morning?
Other Thoughts: These drives are not slow! The reviewers claiming so have likely messed up the partition alignment - EARS drives are advanced format with 4k blocks, and you have to make sure that your partitions are aligned with the 4k blocks."

cnorborg
2 years ago

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Original price is up to $149.99 which puts the end price at $109.99, same as newegg had a couple weeks ago (but still a great deal!)

I got newegg's last week and I've been pretty satisfied so far; just make sure you're using it mostly for sequential reads/writes, not for accessing lots of data all over the place at once, since it has slow seek times. Great for storing, say, a movie collection.

opollak
2 years ago

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I got one off newegg and it died after 2 days. RMA'd it Friday and Newegg should have it any day now... I've never had a WD drive fail on me like this. but as it seems to go: if the hard drive lasts 2 months it will last 2 years

jdenn
2 years ago

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And to think I bought a WD terabyte drive about a year ago for this much.

fishyfishyfishy
2 years ago

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They changed the price on this deal to $109.99, but they posted another deal that is $99.99 again?! Here is a link to the new one!!

http://deals.woot.com/deals/details/37d765d2-9e7a-425b-8c0b-b18a2e137b68/western-digital-2tb-hard-drive-3-5-sata-3g

cnorborg
2 years ago

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