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Western Digital Elements 640GB Portable HDD $80 at Newegg

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Posted at 5:29 AM on Wednesday 04/28/10 by

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Newegg has the Western Digital Elements 640GB USB 2.0 Portable External Hard Drive (WDBAAR6400ABK-NESN) for $90 - $10 off with coupon code 24HRSALE428C [Exp 4/28] = $80 with free shipping. 2.5" portable drive works with PCs and Macs and measures 0.6" (H) x 3.1" (W) x 5" (D). [Compare]

Western Digital Elements 640GB Portable HDD $80 at Newegg

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yoFu - Posted 5:55 am PDT 04/28/10 (222 Posts) Report Spam
Not a deal. Why? Check the warranty period. It is 1 yr on this.

1) Buy a 640GB 2.5" drive for $80 - with a 3 yr warranty http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136459
2) Buy a 2.5" enclosure for $15 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817392019
3) 3 minutes of work to slide the drive into the enclosure and screw 2 screws in.

Done.

Would you pay $15 more for a 3 yr warranty instead of a 1 yr warranty on a portable disk drive? I would. Especially on a portable. Personally, drives fail so often that anything less than a 3 yr warranty is just crazy. I still try to always get a 5 yr warranty.

Other offers may also provide 1-click backup software, this one doesn't. That SW could be worth it for 1 out of 100 people. The rest of us can just use free tools like Windows7 Backup or xcopy or rsync or rdiff-backup or . The list goes on and on.

Win7 Backup included with Home Premium and above is really excellent. It is the first time that MS has included backup software that is worth using, IMHO.

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