Western Digital Elements External Hard Drives: 1TB Portable USB 3.0 HDD $64, 2TB USB 2.0 HDD $84, 3TB USB 2.0 HDD $104 After Rebates

I want to get it but the rebate is a serious killer. Especially from semi-scammy TD

Quote from Genius4sho : You could buy a PCI USB 3.0 card to give you ports on the back of your motherboard

Assuming the computer in question is a desktop. With a laptop, you're usually out of luck (though there may be a pcmcia usb3 card out there, I don't know).

Quote from guppeeh : good deal but as many others have said, the rebate and recent $90/3TB deals does not make this a must buy, unless you need storage badly.

Where did you find $90/3TB deals?! Please inform.

Do I really need another TB of portable external storage? Mm... nah. But thumbs up and repped OP

How is a USB 2.0 "up to 480 Mbps"??

$120 after shipping and tax minus rebates for a USB2 drive? Hmm, not as good as it sounds anymore

Quote from gordgeck : How is a USB 2.0 "up to 480 Mbps"??

What's wrong with that? 480 Mbps is roughly 40 megabytes per second. That's exactly how fast it is

Quote from pooster.online : did a quick search on google and didn't turn up much, but does anyone know the difference between a WD elements and WD Mybook?? which one is better?

http://www.wdc.com/en/products/external/desktop/

MyBook would be the premium version with some software and security measures, higher capacities and faster connections.

Quote from dymutaos : When did this deal happen? Sounds like an awesome find.

was an accident... maybe cheat, you could say... LOL
got greedy and try to order 500 AMD 4GB USB drive at $0.97 each i think, saying, hey, i'd like to be ebay seller... so i put that membership in cart as well, which can justify the cost for 500 flash drive...
the membership got started immediately after my order; but it turned out they didn't have that many flash drives in stock, obviously... so the whole order was canceled and i didn't even get the record on my CC yet,

leaving the membership running till now, 5 months i guess?
i'm waiting for my pay-back day right now, LOL

Quote from pooster.online : did a quick search on google and didn't turn up much, but does anyone know the difference between a WD elements and WD Mybook?? which one is better?

The 1TB Elements drive is a portable external hard drive, whereas the MyBook is a desktop external hard drive (the 2TB and 3TB Elements drive posted above are also desktop drives).

"Portable" and "desktop" refers to the external hard drive sizes. In general, another popular term is "ultra portable," which is the smallest of the three; "desktop" drives are the largest.

Hope this helps,
Tofu Vic

Quote from celeritini : definitely, once you opened the case, whether you break any clips or brackets on the enclosure or not, your warranty is gone, usually, manufacturer would put some sticker at one or two screwers or connection edge between two pieces of the case, or somewhere that if you need to open the case, you are gonna break that little sticker/seal. that's usually how they know whether you cracked your case or not. even in your case, you just called them up, and even you give them the right SN # or something, when claiming the warranty, usually the drive needs to be mailed back or returned to retail store, so.... they'd inspect it before issuing you replacement

On the Seagate drives, the plastic clips they use are pretty much 1 way. Once they close the enclosure, you would have to crack the clips in order to open the case. I opened 5 already and it's still impossible to open it without cracking 1 or 2 clips in the process

Quote from Genius4sho : You could buy a PCI USB 3.0 card to give you ports on the back of your motherboard

yea, technically, yes,
but once i justify the time saved on transferring files, even it's like 500GB files?! nah, no difference for me, cuz I'd leave it transferring while i'm away... right? as for fast transferring on large files, either USB 3.0 or 2.0 sucks anyway. you are supposed to use server and then 10Mbps ethernet port to do that, in company, school, and any institute.

put it another way, investing that kind of money to a consumer desktop or even some gadgets for a laptop, doesn't really improve the performance that much. Simply saying, it's not worthy, at least not for me.

Quote from V0RT3X : On the Seagate drives, the plastic clips they use are pretty much 1 way. Once they close the enclosure, you would have to crack the clips in order to open the case. I opened 5 already and it's still impossible to open it without cracking 1 or 2 clips in the process

yep, you are right, happened to me as well,
i was just saying EVEN IF you didn't break anything, the warranty will be void, just because of some stickers. Manufacturers aren't fools,

really good deal on the 3TB but hate dealing with rebates... but i could use one... hmmm

It would be nice if they had a sale on a 2TB Western Digital Portable for under $110.