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I agree, thanks I will give this a try...can't hurt to argue that point.
True, chances of DOA are much lower getting a refurb back from WD. In fact, it is highly likely that I am getting a...
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All my recent shipments of drives from Newegg were quality. Each drive was in a separate cardboard box, suspended in end-caps. Those individual boxes were place in a shipping box, and the dead space...
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You're right in your more careful reading of the article and thanks for the link.
I run a pair of NAS boxes, each with multiple non-RAIDed hard drives. One of them is the main server and backs...
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4TB or bust!
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Guys, please take a moment and think. Newegg reviews are full of DOA reports (157 reviews, avg 3 eggs). Amazon reviews are mostly 5star (233 reviews, avg 4.5 star). One could take this information...
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Sadly this is incorrect. You should NOT use this as a single drive as at a hardware/firmware level this drive has been configured to "fail quickly" if it has an issue reading data from a sector,...
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If there are dents in drive(s), that would be physical damage, maybe. I don't think the guarantee will cover this.
Been seeing alot of complaints about Newegg and how they pack them. Some...
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this price has been on for a while. I bought two a month ago, also from newegg, with $10 off $50.
this is not a hot price, but still decent
correction: the price was even cheaper in January: 2...
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Link
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The Red series seems to be designed to operate in RAID arrays, multiple drives interconnected to act as one unit. Some older WD drives were notorious for dropping out of the array and weren't...
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Will Fry's pricematch this?
Thinking about printing page with product in cart with promo card added.
Never price matched anything at frys, are they easy going or fight till the death like best...
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I concur. I've ordered 4 of these from Newegg and a few from Amazon. I never found any difference in shipping and packaging between the two companies. This "packaging sucks from Newegg" reminds of...
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In reviews such as the one linked to below, they highlight TLER as a feature that makes WD Reds good in RAID configurations but also test/recommend it for use in single drive NAS applications.
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submit lower price to Amazon
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B008JJLW4M/ref=mp_s_a_1?qid=1361639887&sr=8-1&pi=SL75
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they were always fairly easy going with me
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Yes, that is one of the downsides of hardware RAID. I am a big fan of using software RAID with ZFS. Rock solid and performance can exceed hardware RAID in the right circumstances.
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My concern with RAID was that I might not be able to recover the data if the NAS SATA controller died on me and, in any case, the continuous uptime that RAID provides was not critical in the home...
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All storagereview.com says that the drive performed well in a single drive configuration - which they needed to do to benchmark the individual drives performance. They did not recommend it for...
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I can't imagine using 3tb drives in anything other than some kind of raid.
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3TB Greens don't even go under $100
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is this drive overkill for using it as storage drive like viewing vid, photos etc? or should I get a cheaper green drive
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It was more like only for 2/23.
It was their 24 hour sale
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What's the 3 day burn-in that you did?
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Except that the RMA/refurb (if it is a refurb) from WD still has a 3-year warranty and it was refurbished (if it was) by WD itself. Your luck at that point even with a refurbished drive from WD is...
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Been using the 1TB WD Red in a Synology DS213, and it's performing just fine, so yeah. I do plan on putting another TB for RAID soon.
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I've had no issues with Fry's price matching. They do verify by going to the site and stuff, but it doesn't take too long.
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I requested a PM from amazon, and it seems they lowered their price from $162 to $156 today... Here's to hoping they come all the way down to $140
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Seriously guys, if its DOA send it to newegg and get a replacement. Thats a no brainer. you have 30 days, just chat with them. WD is going to give you a re-certified drive, screw that.
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Glad someone else finally came to this realization. That being said, I bought 5 anyways. Will report my findings... gl to me.
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Newegg makes you pay return shipping, WD gives you refurbs. Screwed either way if you get a bum drive.
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sell me your bum drive then
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is this 7200rpm?
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Repped, exactly my question. This reminds me the 4 WD green 2TB 5400rpm from newegg I bought two years ago, in a RAID it runs faster than the seagate RAID of 4 x1.5GB, that's how I became impressed...
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What program do u use for testing?
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I use badblocks: http://linux.die.net/man/8/badblocks
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No they dont. If its defective, you ask them for a prepaid label. I do this with all online retailers (amazon, buy.com, newegg, etc.).
It's not my fault is DOA and therefore I am not paying to...
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That would be great. They did do this on the WD Red 2TB deal Newegg had, and I bought from them. Mainly because Newegg in the middle of the promo, jacked the price up so the promo was pretty much...
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The Newegg packaging complaints are outdated. The drives I've received from them in the past few months have been meticulously packaged.
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This drive has specific features that make it a bad choice for being a single-drive. It should only be used in multi-disk arrays in a NAS device or with a hardware RAID controller
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Straight from the manufacturer:
http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.aspx?id=810
Click on the NASware tab. For some reason the direct URL to it, does not work.
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