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Posted at 1:43 PM on Thursday 07/29/10 by
Ben
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Newegg has the Caviar Green Western Digital WD20EARS 2TB SATA Hard Drive on sale for $120 - $20 off with coupon code HDDWDSALE2TB [Exp 7/31] = $100 with free shipping. Features 64 MB cache and SATA 3.0 interface in a 3.5" form factor. [Compare]
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    mattb123 - Posted 2:00 pm PDT 07/29/10 (1183 Posts)  Report Spam

    Nice.

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    samijubal - Posted 2:11 pm PDT 07/29/10 (1066 Posts)  Report Spam

    I've got the 1TB version I use as external storage for a Dish Network DVR. The drive is very quiet and runs considerably cooler than the Hitachi I use for the same purpose.

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    nightowl - Posted 2:15 pm PDT 07/29/10 (1027 Posts)  Report Spam

    5 cents per GB... damn.

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    2133 - Posted 3:48 pm PDT 07/29/10 (953 Posts)  Report Spam

    Perhaps I can even store my **** unzipped.

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    ffireflyy - Posted 5:41 pm PDT 07/29/10 (195 Posts)  Report Spam

    Almost jump in for 1 but after reading the review. I'll pass.

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    Same_Guy - Posted 6:49 pm PDT 07/29/10 (177 Posts)  Report Spam

    Yeah, the 1TB are the only ones of this series that have decent reviews, hence why this one is so cheap. What surprises me is that WD hasn't fixed whatever it is that gives the 1.5TB and 2TB EARS such horrible reviews.

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    samijubal - Posted 7:46 pm PDT 07/29/10 (1066 Posts)  Report Spam

    Over 1TB is where most HDDs start getting bad reviews. I think there's bugs above that size they haven't worked out yet. That's why I went with the 1TB.

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    mattropolis - Posted 11:26 am PDT 07/30/10 (370 Posts)  Report Spam

    Yeah - I have 4 2tb drives, and run them all in raid setups. And as #3 said - at 5 cents/mb - there's NO reason not to run RAID on a system you really care about the data.

    Running raid saved my bacon 3 times with the latest 1.5tb drive debaucles. Not just with lost data, but also with the half-day I would have lost each time if I'd had to re-install everything.

    Do yourself the favor of running raid now that things are cheap.

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    dave_c - Posted 1:05 pm PDT 07/30/10 (16755 Posts)  Report Spam

    mattropolis wrote:
    Yeah - I have 4 2tb drives, and run them all in raid setups. And as #3 said - at 5 cents/mb - there's NO reason not to run RAID on a system you really care about the data.

    Running raid saved my bacon 3 times with the latest 1.5tb drive debaucles. Not just with lost data, but also with the half-day I would have lost each time if I'd had to re-install everything.


    That's why you make backups to a different drive that you keep offline - so you also have protection from malware or windows crapping itself.

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