Western Digital My Book Essential 3TB Desktop External Hard Drive w/ coupon code for $129.99 + free shipping
$199.99 - $50 instant savings - $20 w/ coupon code EMCJNNA22 = $129.99
USB 3.0, 2.0
6.5" x 5.3" x 1.9"
Automatic, continuous backup
Password protection and hardware encryption
Using 'comparable' and 'Casio' in the same sentence seems like an oxymoron.
Running two 2TB WD externals and a 6TB WD external "Cloud" drive right now, never had so much as a single glitch from any of them. 2TBs have run non-stop for over a year, 6TB for the last 7 months, all have survived multiple "power blips" so common in my area - could not recommend these any more highly.
Comparable? I didn't know Western Digital made musical keyboards and cheap watches? ;-)
Why, oh why, doesn't this have an ethernet port?!?! Wanting a NAS drive.
Bummer! I bought the comparable Casio on Friday for $137.
$139 with free prime shipping on Amazon. Decent reviews for a HDD (they all seem to get lower ratings that other types of electronic items). ~3.5 out of 5 stars.
http://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Expansion-Desktop-External-STBV3000100/dp/B00834SJU8/ref=pd_cp_e_0 Seagate Expansion 3 TB USB 3.0 Desktop External Hard Drive Price: $129.99 & this item ships for FREE with Super Saver Shipping.
@pleepleus: Sorry, I meant "Canvio" not "Casio", Canvio is by Toshiba.
2-year limited warranty...
I bought this last time it came up here (a month ago?) and it's fine so far though I do hear some clicking from it. Should I be worried?
This also makes the cheapest price for an internal hard drive. So buy one, take it out of the enclosure, and you have a brand new internal hard drive.
And then you can put your old hard drive into the enclosure and still have an external hard drive out of the deal.
friend and I had these and they stopped working with windows7 computers. I sent it in, they sent me another, again didn't work right. The enclosure has some hardware 'security' module for the encryption/password.
So removed it, bought a cheapo usb/esata enclosure, and it's worked fine since, even in extreme Afghani dust for a year.
@pleepleus: I did not understand! Why oxymoron! Casio with same/similar specs!
@bogus: It's because the biggest 2.5 externals use the thicker 12.5-13.5mm drives that allow room for an additional platter. But, these don't fit in the 9.5mm slots in most laptops.
@bogus: Where did you see 2.5"? This drive is 3.5" just like a regular desktop HDD.
@birniei: Nice, but sold out, and the 2TB version is still $170+.
USB 3, right. ~ 200 MB/sec throughput? No? WHY NOT!!!!!!!!!!!!
@omnichad: Question is, how good is the drive? I can't speak for this but 2.5" externals routinely have capacities larger than any internal drive currently on the market which would suggest that someone's cutting corners.

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