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robotartfashion

Mar 26, 2009, 08:07 PM

I thought about what forum to post this in, and almost did so in the Mac Pro section, but I thought this might be best for us in the ever shrinking empty space on drive media group :)

Best Buy has the WD 2TB Green drive on sale for $237.99 in store through Saturday. This is the first time I've seen this on sale and if you can find them you're usually paying $299.99 for them, so just thought I'd bring it up.

They have the sale online but they are back-ordered, most stores have them in stock though.

With tax in VA where I am it came up to $249.something or other

enjoy!

azdunerat

Mar 26, 2009, 08:17 PM

Wow two of those in a sansdigital raid encloser and you could have a 4TB raid for less than 600! Thats a steal

robotartfashion

Mar 26, 2009, 08:21 PM

Wow two of those in a sansdigital raid encloser and you could have a 4TB raid for less than 600! Thats a steal

ya, i'm VERY excited about it! I figure I can last with just one though for the next year or so (i have about 6.5 TB's worth of storage with internal and external drives so that puts me at 8.5 TB's now!!!)

In about a year I'm sure they'll be more at the $200 or less price point

Pick one up people!

mohanman

Mar 26, 2009, 10:10 PM

A deal? I don't know about that. You can get 1.5 tb for 100.00 online, go to www.techbargains.com , I think its at tigerdirect. 1.5 tb x 2 for the same price.

Are you including tax on your final price too?

Mo

azdunerat

Mar 27, 2009, 12:06 AM

I havent heard really stellar reviews of the 1.5TB. So far it seems that the 2tb has avioded the firmware dissaster of the 1.5

uraniumwilly

Mar 27, 2009, 01:46 AM

On 3 separate occasions I ordered two 1.5tb drives. Never spent more than $106 each. I just google from time to time and find sales. Tiger Direct has the occasional sale. Dealmac works too. All the drives perform flawlessly.

Rich1963

Mar 27, 2009, 12:12 PM

The 1.5 TB drives that echibited severe problems were Seagate. The western digital green power 2 tb drives are totally different. I'm running a few of the 1 TB green power (ead model) and they are quiet, cool, and fantastic. Can't wait to change over the array to the 2TB models.

Mr Kram

Mar 27, 2009, 12:33 PM

do these drives have FW?

MovieCutter

Mar 27, 2009, 06:23 PM

Thanks for the tip. Just bought 4 more...WOOT

mohanman

Mar 27, 2009, 06:43 PM

Thanks for the tip. Just bought 4 more...WOOT

You bought 4 2 tb drives or 4 1.5 tb drives?
Just curious
Mo

MovieCutter

Mar 27, 2009, 07:03 PM

You bought 4 2 tb drives or 4 1.5 tb drives?
Just curious
Mo

2TB, I had $400 in Best Buy Gift certs and cards to use up

robotartfashion

Mar 27, 2009, 09:48 PM

do these drives have FW?

These are not external drives, they are internal :)

(WD has recently launched their 2TB Studio external drives with esata, fw400/800, and usb 2.0)

robotartfashion

Mar 27, 2009, 09:50 PM

2TB, I had $400 in Best Buy Gift certs and cards to use up

haha, nice, i wish i had that much in best buy gift cards just lying around

i did have a $50 one though :)

besides, so far i've got enough storage to last me until the end of the year or so, so i'll wait to buy more

congrats though!

MovieCutter

Mar 27, 2009, 10:12 PM

haha, nice, i wish i had that much in best buy gift cards just lying around

i did have a $50 one though :)

besides, so far i've got enough storage to last me until the end of the year or so, so i'll wait to buy more

congrats though!

Thanks, I just hit 20 TB of storage capacity

Mac Pro 1: 4TB
Mac Pro 2: 8TB
Drobo 1: 8TB
Drobo 2: 4TB
3TB in other random drives

I think I'm set for a bit

srl7741

Mar 27, 2009, 10:27 PM

I will have to stop by BB tomorrow and see if i can find a few of the 2TB drives. They are a pretty good price and would really help out with my storage issues.

rspeaker

Mar 28, 2009, 12:31 AM

Had to grab one of these harddrives while they're on sale.

I could definitely use it, but I am considering returning it or selling it to a friend. Might reconsider if I can find a fanless, single- or dual-bay enclosure with FW for cheap, but I'm having no luck. Suggestions?

jb60606

Mar 29, 2009, 08:27 AM

robotartfashion

Mar 29, 2009, 01:41 PM

OWC makes a few. I have one, fanless with USB, FW800 and eSATA.

I've heard bad things about the OWC ones, or maybe its just the drives they include if you get the all in ones, i've heard about them failing

Has yours been pretty reliable?

BTW everyone, new deal

NewEgg has 1 TB WD Black drives for $99 w/free shipping through today

jb60606

Mar 29, 2009, 02:51 PM

I've heard bad things about the OWC ones, or maybe its just the drives they include if you get the all in ones, i've heard about them failing

Has yours been pretty reliable?

BTW everyone, new deal

NewEgg has 1 TB WD Black drives for $99 w/free shipping through today

I've been using the OWC Mercury Elite Quad Interface (http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Other%20World%20Computing/MEFW934AL1K/) for over a year straight, without any problems (hourly backups). I'm using it with a 1.0TB WD Enterprise RE2-GP drive, via eSATA, that I purchased separately and installed myself.

On average, it runs about 10-15 degrees hotter than my internal drives and the blue light is annoyingly bright (but can be unplugged internally). Over the past 6 months I've occasionally received Time Machine errors, but they appear to be a known problem with TM. These errors seem to coincide with the drive being full or writing out huge files while a TM backup is taking place.

P.S. Those enclosures are also available in black.

Thanks for the Newegg info. I'm going to snatch up a few of those.

DjAmTraX

Mar 29, 2009, 07:37 PM

I refuse to give BB any of my money.

I bought a Adcomdata 2 TB hard drive with Firewire 800 for $230 shipped. Inside this unit are two 1 TB Hitachi 3.5" hard drives.

MovieCutter

Mar 29, 2009, 09:18 PM

I refuse to give BB any of my money.

I bought a Adcomdata 2 TB hard drive with Firewire 800 for $230 shipped. Inside this unit are two 1 TB Hitachi 3.5" hard drives.

Not...QUITE the same as a single 2TB drive :rolleyes:. I don't mind giving Best Buy my money since they're likely selling these drives at a loss. I need the max capacity inside my Mac Pro, hence why 1TB don't do me much good when I can put 8TB inside of that beast.

Cynicalone

Mar 29, 2009, 10:46 PM

This week they are at $269.99 USD still a great price. Good food for the drobo. :)

Here is a link http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=9234465&type=product&id=1218064150518

elcid

Mar 29, 2009, 11:19 PM

Wow two of those in a sansdigital raid encloser and you could have a 4TB raid for less than 600! Thats a steal

You like that enclosure? I am looking for something but not sure if I want to pony up for a Drobo.

azdunerat

Mar 30, 2009, 12:14 AM

From what I have seen it is one of the better build to order enclosures

chrisandersen

Mar 30, 2009, 09:32 AM

What about this drive, 2T USB
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=9234429&type=product&id=1218064150735

robotartfashion

Mar 30, 2009, 10:03 AM

What about this drive, 2T USB
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=9234429&type=product&id=1218064150735

i usually don't buy all in one enclosures, i'd prefer to buy a separate external enclosure and put my own internal drives in it

i just had a bad experience with a passport wd drive and i'll never go back

miTunes75

Mar 30, 2009, 07:01 PM

Doesn't WD support their product at all? Did you happen to get any kind of resolution out of it?

i usually don't buy all in one enclosures, i'd prefer to buy a separate external enclosure and put my own internal drives in it

i just had a bad experience with a passport wd drive and i'll never go back

robotartfashion

Mar 30, 2009, 11:16 PM

Doesn't WD support their product at all? Did you happen to get any kind of resolution out of it?

this was a couple of years ago

and no, i was very busy at the time with some family issues and travel and after it failed i just said screw it

i still have it, somewhere, but it had issues seizing up within the first 2 weeks that i owned it

no big deal at this point, but I just prefer to know that i can pull the drive and put a new one in

plus, with my MacPro, I've had a habit of rotating drives in it, so it just makes the whole thing easier for me

just my 2 cents

robotartfashion

Apr 1, 2009, 02:14 PM

just in case this is helping anyone, another savings alert

$89.99 for WD Green 1TB drives (internal) on Newegg under the daily deals!

:)

great drives

NightStorm

Apr 1, 2009, 03:00 PM

just in case this is helping anyone, another savings alert

$89.99 for WD Green 1TB drives (internal) on Newegg under the daily deals!

:)

great drives

Figures, I bought 4 of them from Newegg a week or two ago (for $99.99).

robotartfashion

Apr 1, 2009, 03:47 PM

Figures, I bought 4 of them from Newegg a week or two ago (for $99.99).

ya, that's one thing that can be frustrating with newegg

still though, $99.99 wasn't bad for such great drives :)

hexonxonx

Apr 1, 2009, 04:04 PM

I may have to pick one of these up! Last June I paid this same amount for one 1TB WD Green drive.

Rich1963

Apr 2, 2009, 07:16 AM

Just grabbed two of those guys at $89.99. It might date me a little, but I remember my first 286SX intel PC had a 20 MB hard drive and that was quite large. I always figured that once we hit 100MB, there would be no reason to make them any larger. What would you store on that much space? :D

robotartfashion

Apr 2, 2009, 07:49 PM