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1TB WD GreenPower SATA drive OEM $160 +ship

Newegg review of that acomdata drive:

Cons: Died after a month, just outside of Newegg's return policy. Acomdata's support is nonexistent - you submit a request, and there is no response. Don't depend on their warranty to cover you. Specifically you can plug in the drive and it's recognized as a disk with no partitions, and you cannot read to or write from the drive (tried on six dfferent computers, Mac and Windows).
 
That's 1-2 out of 27. I'll admit that the enclosure cooling sucks but if you keep it in contact with another large thermally conductive body or have just a little airflow over it, you should be fine. You wouldn't run a >= 7200rpm drive thermally isolated with no forced convective cooling in a case, would you? 😉

Also, it's a standard WD GP drive inside with its own 3 year warranty, so you're basically getting a free eSATA/USB case. Have 2 on the way from newEgg since I missed the Seagate 7200.11 1TB for $150 shipped deal at Dell and will let you folks know how it looks.
 
Nice price. I'm planning to buy several GP drives for my fileserver (sooner or later) so it's nice to see price coming down on these. What would be even nicer is if these were 00d6b0 revision that uses new three 334GB platter design. Anyone knows if these are 00d6b0?
 
If the case sucks, why buy it? Not even to save the $1 would I buy a crappy case and let a manuf. think they had a sucky product they could sell.
 
Originally posted by: Old Hippie
How do you know this? Have you taken one out of the case and checked it's warranty on the WD site?
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Based on a lot of newEgg reviews and some Googling. I can verify it once I get the two that I ordered yesterday.
 
Originally posted by: fleshconsumed
Nice price. I'm planning to buy several GP drives for my fileserver (sooner or later) so it's nice to see price coming down on these. What would be even nicer is if these were 00d6b0 revision that uses new three 334GB platter design. Anyone knows if these are 00d6b0?
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Just picked the 1TB GP drives from my local microcenter. They are the newer 00D6B0 333GB/platter drives

 
Originally posted by: Braxus
Originally posted by: fleshconsumed
Nice price. I'm planning to buy several GP drives for my fileserver (sooner or later) so it's nice to see price coming down on these. What would be even nicer is if these were 00d6b0 revision that uses new three 334GB platter design. Anyone knows if these are 00d6b0?
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Just picked the 1TB GP drives from my local microcenter. They are the newer 00D6B0 333GB/platter drives
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Good to know that 00D6B0 are filtering down to retail channels. However, my local Microcenter only had retail drives and I looked all over the box and couldn't find anything that said which revision was inside so I decided to pass on it.

Does anyone know when the sale ends, I may make another trip before it's over, maybe they'll get OEM drives?
 
Originally posted by: ChaosDivine
Originally posted by: Old Hippie
How do you know this? Have you taken one out of the case and checked it's warranty on the WD site?
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Based on a lot of newEgg reviews and some Googling. I can verify it once I get the two that I ordered yesterday.
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Any news abount the warrantys C.D.?

Inquiring Old Hippies wanna know!
 
Originally posted by: Old Hippie
Any news abount the warrantys C.D.?
Inquiring Old Hippies wanna know!
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Aack... a little busy with work until Friday. Will only be picking up the drives from UPS then 🙁
 
What is the cache size on these WD "green" drives? Saving a few pennies a month on electricity is not worth a significant performance hit.

Oops, I'm a lazy dumbass who didn't read the link. They are 16 meg cache drives. I will stick with the 32 meg cache Seagate drives I got at Fry's the other day.
 
Originally posted by: Old Hippie
I just hate those four letter words! :laugh:
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Yup, ugliest four letter word 😛
Sorry for the delay, just picked up the two drives from UPS this evening. One is as expected - a WD 1TB GP with 3 year warranty. The other was a Samsung Spinpoint F1 - will be taking it apart in a little bit to run its serial #.
 
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