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Except I didn't make any assumptions about WD's quality. But hey, if you like hearing the sound of your own voice, I won't stop ya. :shake:
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I got a Hitachi Deskstar internal 2TB 7200rpm / 64 mb cache Sata 3 drive @ Frys last weekend for $99
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COnsidering i've warrenty'd IDE drives in the last year still they shouldn't hold their breathe about those RMA"S not happening
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So, how does one "get all of their data back and wipe their drive clean" when it doesn't work? If the drive suddenly fails, your only method of getting data back that isn't backed up elsewhere will...
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If you already have an SSD and just plan on using this HDD for storage I would get something slower / cheaper. The Caviar Black's are fast (for HDD's that is) performance drives and really shine when...
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I wonder if these would work better than the green's in a RAID 5. I have read that WD has crippled the firmware (on these blacks) so that they won't do as well as they could when RAID'ed
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I don't feel like a 1tb drive is good for a boot drive.... maybe an SSD + a few 2TB is good.
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I think people are buying this as their main hard drive or use it to load up apps as it can be pretty fast. If you are just using the hdd for storing movie and music, I think it is better that you...
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Except that it doesn't actually mean the drive is any more reliable, just that the manufacturer is willing to offer replacements on it for a greater length of time, and they have that figured into...
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Microcenter has the same unit in store for $110. I might just be it right now even though it's $10 more....
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Tough choice between this and the 2TB 'green' drive at the same price...
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I already have a 120gb ssd for my boot drive. I could use this drive for my games and programs....
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You're right. The warranty doesn't imply anything about reliability. The reliability study that ranked the 1TB black among the most reliable 1TB drives does though.
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Bad sectors are normal, are not a "defect", and are not covered by warranty. The drive is not "broken" just because it has bad sectors - ALL hard disk drives have bad sectors. The controller...
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For performance, I have to go with black. I'll keep my green 2TB drive for backups.
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well bad sectors make a drive broken but you can still recover data off it.
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Great drives but I have a hard time believing that I paid ~$30 more ($129.99) almost 4 years ago for the slightly older version of this drive (w/32MB cache, etc).
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Awesome, my SAMSUNG Spinpoint F3 HD103SJ 1TB 7200 RPM failed on me just shy of 2 years (hurray for chase extended warranties!) so I picked this WD up from microcenter for $110 last week after taxes...
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Considering pulling the trigger on this. Yay or nay? Will I regret not getting it? Will be putting all my games and programs on here, keeping my 120gb SSD half full.....
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Finally someone posts something that is sensible on this forum!! I definitely prefer the black drives for the OS. I bought a caviar black (1.5 TB version) a year ago on Amazon for a really good...
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That 5-year warranty is sexy.
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Well, sure is a good thing that Western Digital will send a replacement drive to you in advance so that you can recover all your data now, isn't it? You get all of your data back and you can wipe the...
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1 you can retrieve data manually if you know what you're doing
2 you can wipe data manually if you know what you're doing
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I got a pair of these same Hard drives for $70 each almost 2 years ago, and use them for raid 0 all the time, they have spinup for 4225 hours according to SMART.
Actually, the sustain/random...
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Chase Freedom 5% cashback @ newegg.com during month of August knocks this down to 95$
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True, IF the drive is working.
I think his point was that you cannot recover data from a dead drive - and why would you return a drive for warranty repair if it is working?
FWIW, the way they...
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I use a green drive for my file server as the storage (not the OS) and it works well for that, but the 5400RPM would be undesirable for running an OS & programs. The black drives are about as fast as...
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If I'm just gonna store music and video on a HDD does it matter if I got for the 2tb Caviar Green that's at the same price?
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A little off topic. I had to decide between the 750GB caviar black and the 750GB momentus notebook hard drive 2 months ago and I chose the WD one for two reasons. First is the reliability of WD...
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I was a Seagate fan for years. Then I had a number of drives begin to fail on me, including drives for two different clients. All were Seagate, and I haven't touched a Seagate product since. Now, I...
