1TB Buffalo MiniStation Stealth USB 2.0 Portable Hard Drive (HD-PCT1TU2/BK) $60 + Free Shipping

Quote from NewtonFine : Good deal. Unfortunately (for me), I personally have been boycotting Buy.com ever since they pulled a 'bait-n-switch' on me back in late 2004. I ordered three Plantronics bluetooth earpieces and they sent me all Motorolas. I was living outside of the country at the time, shipping to my dad's address. By the time I flew in, unboxed them and called in, they told me "sorry, yada, yada...". Ever since, vowed 'never again'....

You're hurting yourself out of a good deal. SD community is behind this, so if something goes wrong, you're not alone.

Rakuten is the new name of Buy.com. When I purcahsed from Buy.com using PayPal, Buy.com added me to their mailing list without asking permission. I would never, ever have given them the email address I use for PayPal so I know that is where they got the email address from. Now I get spam from Buy.com/Rakuten every day.

I still use PayPal, but I am now even less likely to use it.

OP repped.

Quote from TDMVP73 : I would assume it was used at some point. I don't know how they refurbished it. It could have been the enclosure went out and they replaced it... but since the drive was used they couldn't technically sell it as new.

It said New enclosure w/ Recertified drive.

Quote from steal : wonder why they gave up the buy.com name. rakuten is a little hard to pronounce.

Companies seem to prefer to use names we do not like. I do not know of any other reasonable explanation. I also do not understand why so many TV commercials are so irritating. The only reasonable explanation I can think of is that they are flaunting their superiority over us. I sure do not think that irritating their customers is good business.

Ordered, thanks

How is this for storing media? I read some one star review on Amazon, about how somebody tried to playback movies and music on it, and it was horrible. Specifically, I want to be able to plug it into my ps3 and play movies on it, that's why I am concerned.

Just a quick quote from his review.

"The problem is this thing likes to spin up and down a lot. If you do not access it for about 20 seconds it will spin down. So that means if you're listing to music or watching a video on your computer, or whatever you have it attached to, and it doesn't access it in 20 seconds it spins down. Then it has to spin up again, usually 20 seconds, to a couple mins later(depending on the media) to get more information to continue playing the media. This creates hiccups in the playback. Not only that it is hard on the drive and I don't expect it to last long."

Thanks, I was looking for a backup drive for my wife's photo hobby. This should work nicely!

Quote from eibgrad : Save 5% more w/ ShopDiscover.

Thanks a lot.. you saved me $3..

Amazon has a 3.0 version for $69.99 which is 61% off list price. It's the BUFFALO MiniStation Plus 1 TB USB 3.0 Portable Hard Drive - HD-PNT1.0U3B. I'm not a techie, but perhaps one could explain if this is as good a deal?

http://www.amazon.com/BUFFALO-Min...inistation

Quote from Blindingfury : It said New enclosure w/ Recertified drive.

Then there you go. People asking me questions when I'm mobile.

nice deal....

I'm not sure about these specific drives, but our university uses Buffalo drives for data management in our TV Communications department. Our failure rate on Buffalo drives are about 40 percent. The company has told us we must be doing something wrong because the failure rates are terrible. I'm the supervisor for our technicians in our I.T. department and I assure you we are not doing anything out of normal use for these drives. Just though SD'ers should know.

Quote from Steeldeals : Buy.com was acquired by Rakuten in 2010. I'm sure the Buy.com people weren't too happy about the name change. At least www.buy.com still takes you there.

I received an email message on 1/31/2013 (less than a month ago) saying "Buy.com is now Rakuten.com Shopping". The Rakuten.com Shopping About Us [rakuten.com] page says something about opening the "marketplace to customers globally, as well as introducing merchants and retailers from around the world to its North American customer base". Also note that the bottom of the Rakuten.com pages say "Copyright 1997-2013 Buy.com Inc. dba Rakuten.com Shopping".