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Great for HTPCs but not for a gaming system.
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I'd never heard of a "system pull" drive and so looked to see what the hell that was. Here's the explanation from EagleBit's page:
"What is New Pull?
Item was never used but is not factory direct. New pulls are usually taken apart from new, unused units (such as a hard drive taken out of a brand new computer). This is not the Refurbished hard drive, NO "Refurbished" or "Recertified" on the hard drive label. And it has one year warranty from EagleBit.com."
Sounds a little dodgy to me, and at 17.8 cents a gigabyte, this unit is no bargain anyway.
I will never buy a drive with a WD label ever again. Been burned more than once.
I got this one 2 weeks ago and was happy with the price until I got the drive and found it was DoA. There RMA system is nice enough and I got an advance replacement a week later but I still had to pay to $14 to ship their old PoS drive back so my total was not a hot deal. To bad they don't do any Quality assurance before the actually sell there products, but then again, you get what U paid for...
"#4 techsupport - Posted 2:41 pm PDT 05/19/08 (1184 Posts)
I will never buy a drive with a WD label ever again. Been burned more than once. "
I've been burned by them all so to speak. The more drives you buy, the more likely you are to get burned. I agree with #2: "All hard drives will fail. It's a fact."
The last time I lost a drive I lost my entire music collection. I don't even really care since these days its easy enough to replace, and if you're actually at a computer, to just steam the music instead of downloading it. However, that said, I've lost more than enough drives, from Seagate, Quantum, Maxtor, Western Digital, Samsung, whoever. I'd say if its important enough to back up, then back it up. In the meantime, buy with long warranties, and no return shipping charges.
Keep in mind that this is a very slow hard drive. It does not spin at 7200RPM like the vast majority of other desktop hard drives. The Samsung F1 1TB hard drive is about 60% faster than this one.