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Posted at 2:27 PM on Tuesday 05/26/09 by
Ben
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Dell has the Western Digital Caviar Black WD1001FALS 1TB 7200 RPM 32MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive for $96 with free shipping on $129 orders. Covered by a 5-year warranty. [Compare]
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    TexasFury - Posted 2:41 pm PDT 05/26/09 (654 Posts)  Report Spam

    Right before the 5 year warranty ends, drop it on a carpeted floor. Then RMA it for a new drive. Since this drive probably wont exist in 2014, you'll probably get a bigger drive!

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    Plopfish - Posted 3:19 pm PDT 05/26/09 (131 Posts)  Report Spam

    Got it, love it. But this is not really a deal on the price. Also, Dell.com sucks and I will most likely not buy from them again after the 8800GT burp up of Xmas 07.

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    DrumDude - Posted 5:45 pm PDT 05/26/09 (429 Posts)  Report Spam

    Amazon has 'em for $99 now and then. Picked up 2 which I'll be putting in the DNS-323 that I also ordered from Amazon!

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    myanimator - Posted 8:16 pm PDT 05/26/09 (4 Posts)  Report Spam

    DrumDude, any reason you went w/ the D-Link DNS-323 instead of a Netgear ReadyNAS Duo? I was leaning towards the Netgear myself.

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    bphilli7 - Posted 9:12 pm PDT 05/26/09 (26 Posts)  Report Spam

    good enough deal for a 5 year warranty

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    dd - Posted 9:43 pm PDT 05/26/09 (778 Posts)  Report Spam

    If you're going to use this in a raid, check the WD site first.

    Some "black" drives are unsuitable for raid use because they go offline periodically for some recalibration reason, and the raid controller thinks they've died and starts the rebuild process...

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