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Posted at 11:09 AM on Saturday 11/28/09 by
Ben
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NewEgg has the Western Digital Caviar Green 2TB 32MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive (WD20EADS) for $140 shipped. StableTrac helps reduce system-induced vibration and stabilize platters for accurate tracking, during read and write operations. [Compare]
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    hurl3.0 - Posted 1:17 pm PST 11/28/09 (2471 Posts)  Report Spam

    if youre worried about data loss, you can create 2 1gb partitions on this bad boy and mirror the data over to eachother.

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    nerdnac - Posted 1:52 pm PST 11/28/09 (13 Posts)  Report Spam

    That's great advice #1, but I have a better idea, just pop the lid off and use your digital camera to take a picture of the platters. Since the camera is digital it will store all the information it sees.

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    hurl3.0 - Posted 2:07 pm PST 11/28/09 (2471 Posts)  Report Spam

    #2. thanks for the tip.

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    airhooo - Posted 2:41 pm PST 11/28/09 (111 Posts)  Report Spam

    whats the rpm on this ?

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    zilym - Posted 4:36 pm PST 11/28/09 (284 Posts)  Report Spam

    #4: 5400RPM.

    Surprised this is still in stock hours after being posted. Lowest price on the WD GP 2TB I've seen. In for one here. Maybe everyone is waiting for a $130 Hitachi 7200RPM 2TB again or a Seagate 2TB...

    I've been very pleased with how cool and quiet my previous WD GP drives performed. Seagate LP was an improvement over their scalding hot 7200RPM 500GB drives, but still not as cold as WD GP. Since I live in Arizona, it's not just the power the drive consumes that I'm dealing with -- it's also the power and A/C fan noise required to dissipate any heat put out by my computer. If you live in a cool climate, maybe a heat producing brand is good for you.

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    cmcf - Posted 5:55 pm PST 11/28/09 (213 Posts)  Report Spam

    If it's reliable, this looks perfect for the price.

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    Elpee - Posted 6:21 pm PST 11/28/09 (1345 Posts)  Report Spam

    What? Waiting for a $130 Hitachi 7200RPM 2TB? Still expensive!
    I bought it from Dell $115 AR + FS.

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    ThoreauHD - Posted 7:20 pm PST 11/28/09 (477 Posts)  Report Spam

    #1 gets the 2009 Darwin award.

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    zilym - Posted 8:47 pm PST 11/28/09 (284 Posts)  Report Spam

    #7: Nice job.

    No rebates on this deal... Prolly see it for less later on (maybe the week before christmas?), but I'm ready to use this right now.

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