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Posted at 3:48 PM on Sunday 05/30/10 by
Ben
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MWave has the Western Digital Caviar Green WD10EARS 1TB 32MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive (Bare Drive) for $60 - $5 off with coupon code MEMORIAL + $2 shipping = $57 shipped with free "M" Club membership. These drives use less power and operate at lower temperatures and acoustics than standard desktop drives. [Compare]
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    techsupport - Posted 4:35 pm PDT 05/30/10 (5348 Posts)  Report Spam

    Meh.. not a hybrid HDD.. this deal doesn't rock my diapers.

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    grumpydog - Posted 4:45 pm PDT 05/30/10 (1649 Posts)  Report Spam

    you ask a lot for $57, #1

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    techsupport - Posted 5:34 pm PDT 05/30/10 (5348 Posts)  Report Spam

    It's not me. It's the diapers. They're not rockin'.

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    Anonymous - Posted 5:57 pm PDT 05/30/10 (16776922 Posts)  Report Spam

    We know #3 - that's why you GF is rockin' with everyone on Ben's.

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    jessewh - Posted 6:37 pm PDT 05/30/10 (638 Posts)  Report Spam

    This is great for a backup drive.

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    penyos - Posted 7:09 pm PDT 05/30/10 (63 Posts)  Report Spam

    I cancelled my order becuz it got a sux reviews

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    Ross - Posted 7:29 pm PDT 05/30/10 (1226 Posts)  Report Spam

    Really #6? It got a sux reviews? May I move my dogface to the banana patch?

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    tjm14 - Posted 8:38 pm PDT 05/30/10 (28 Posts)  Report Spam

    #6, I got one of these drives in October and it has worked fantastically as a primary drive in my computer. It runs way cooler than my WD Caviar Black drive and is just as fast (both are 1TB and have 32MB cache.) For $57, if it dies, you might as well buy two so you can backup your backups.

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    AELITA - Posted 8:44 pm PDT 05/30/10 (750 Posts)  Report Spam

    # 8
    your computer may be too old or HD set as IDE. That is why you may not see any difference.

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    lightbulb42 - Posted 9:43 pm PDT 05/30/10 (459 Posts)  Report Spam

    This is a good drive to use as secondary storage or to put in a USB box or a NAS. You'll want a good 7200 rpm (or 10,000 rpm) drive as your primary boot drive.

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    BG_AUS - Posted 9:48 pm PDT 05/30/10 (28 Posts)  Report Spam

    is $58.98 ...not $57 in for one.thank you

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    techsupport - Posted 7:33 am PDT 05/31/10 (5348 Posts)  Report Spam

    This is half the price of 2TB drive. I'd rather get 2TB and get more data density.

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    samijubal - Posted 7:52 am PDT 05/31/10 (1105 Posts)  Report Spam

    The 2TB drives also have a much higher failure rate than 1TB drives. If you don't care about your data buy a 2TB and take your chances.

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    hsn - Posted 8:24 am PDT 05/31/10 (77 Posts)  Report Spam

    Looks like these drives cannot be used in raid. Please correct me if I am wrong. I have been wanting to try raid-5 using three of these (for a media center with lots recorded TV shows), but keep reading reviews where people encountered total data loss due to the lack of Time-Limited Error Recovery (TLER). Basically this drive will try longer to recover data in the event of a disk failure and the Operating system will think that the drive is not responding anymore.

    Western Digital had this feature enabled in their older drives (like EADS series). This is one of those companies who spend more money to cripple their product to make it cheaper.

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    blautens - Posted 9:59 am PDT 05/31/10 (6 Posts)  Report Spam

    I ordered one for a cheap single drive NAS. But I don't know where the $2 shipping mention came from. After MWave membership (-$10.00) and $5 coupon code it was $54.99, but $8.32 more for shipping - a total of $63.31. Still a great deal, though.

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    Trollsprinkler - Posted 10:11 am PDT 05/31/10 (528 Posts)  Report Spam

    To #15 the deal has changed now. Shipping was 1.99 yesterday.

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    dave_c - Posted 4:12 pm PDT 05/31/10 (17707 Posts)  Report Spam

    AELITA wrote:
    # 8
    your computer may be too old or HD set as IDE. That is why you may not see any difference.


    Actually newer computers hide drive speed differences better because they tend to come with multiple times as much memory for caching I/O.

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