4TB Western Digital My Book USB 3.0 External Hard Drive $116.99 w/ VISA checkout

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4TB Western Digital My Book USB 3.0 External Hard Drive (WDBFJK0040HBK-NESN)
$116.99 + Free Shipping w/ VISA Checkout ($129.99 w/o)
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[Ricochet]

Thank you. Can't have enough storage for por....I mean family videos.

 

[Heloperator]

Gross, family videos?

 

[midwestfisherman]

The reviews on that unit are not very favorable overall.

 

[Samus]

Basically any external drive is only good for cold storage (archiving) or occasional storage at best. They just get too hot for heavy use. Even copying a batch of files to them in one block could cause the temps to become unreasonably high in 20 minutes.

I use drives like this in rotation for server backups (MTWThF) where differential data is only a few hundred MB's daily. They're totally adequate for that.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Basically any external drive is only good for cold storage (archiving) or occasional storage at best. They just get too hot for heavy use. Even copying a batch of files to them in one block could cause the temps to become unreasonably high in 20 minutes.

I use drives like this in rotation for server backups (MTWThF) where differential data is only a few hundred MB's daily. They're totally adequate for that.

You would think that the drive mfg's would think a little, and put at the very least, some ventilation holes in the plastic drive casing. Poor little HDDs, encased in their little thermal tomb.

 

[mikeford]

Seems like it would be ideal for storage of modest sized rarely accessed type stuff, or partial backups for all the systems in an office.

 

[exar333]

Can you take the drive out and just toss out the enclosure?

 

[VirtualLarry]

Can you take the drive out and just toss out the enclosure?

Not with Seagates, they bork the firmware so it only works in their enclosures. I don't know about WD. At the very least, it voids your warranty.

 

[ImpulsE69]

Not with Seagates, they bork the firmware so it only works in their enclosures. I don't know about WD. At the very least, it voids your warranty.

That's not true, I have 3 external 3TB seagates I've been using for 1-2 years in my PC. I never even turned them on in the enclosures. It is very well known you can do this (even Techbargain mentions it every time one is on sale).

 

[Maverickbcp]

That's not true, I have 3 external 3TB seagates I've been using for 1-2 years in my PC. I never even turned them on in the enclosures. It is very well known you can do this (even Techbargain mentions it every time one is on sale).

I too just got done doing it to some new 3TB and 4TB Seagate externals I purchased towards the end of last year.

 

[exar333]

I too just got done doing it to some new 3TB and 4TB Seagate externals I purchased towards the end of last year.

:thumbsup:

This is nice deal, definitely. Hoping HDD makers migrate more of their drives to 2.5 options for lower-power. The best passive external HDD I can find is a 2TB, and it's 2x this price. :/

Grabbed a few 1.5TB WDs a number of years back from clearance-out WD mybooks at Target. At the time, they were dirt cheap and the drives still work today.