500GB Western Digital SATA 300 MB/s hard drive - Fry's $229.99

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tweekah

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* 7200RPM
* 16MB Buffer
* 8.9ms Seek Time
* Retail Boxed Hard Drive (Installation Kit Included)
* 1 Year Warranty (misrepresented by frys/outpost)

Update 1: might not be 5 year warranty, I pulled info from outpost.
Deal also online with free shipping for those w/o a store nearby.

I haven't had chance to confirm 5 year warranty, can someone with the physical unit confirm this?

Link to Outpost

Update 2: Went to the Fry's today. On the store price label it was marked 5 year warranty like it was online. However on the UPC provided by WD, it was clearly marked 1 year. Clearly a valid reason for return if you purchased one assuming the 5 year deal. Don't expect Fry's/Outpost to honor this.

Update 3: 299.99 online now
 
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Sepen

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I bought one on Outpost yesterday at 229.99, they upped the price today to 299.99. I printed out the screen because it did say 5 year, and Zipzoomfly says the same thing. Mine will arrive Monday, then I will know. Excellent deal.
 
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Dug

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Originally posted by: mooseracing
TigerDirect also has them for 229.99 with MIR
Seagate / 500GB / 7200 / 8MB / Ultra ATA-100 / EIDE / OEM / Hard Drive http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications...chTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=1723262
Seagate / 500GB / 7200 / 16MB / ATA-100 / OEM / Hard Drive http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications...chTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=2073419
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Those are Seagates you linked to not WD. Not only that but they aren't SATA.
This is the new WD SATA 16MB drive that just came out with 125GB platters. Faster, quieter, and cooler than the Seagates
 
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AdamsJabbar

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Originally posted by: Dug
Originally posted by: mooseracing
TigerDirect also has them for 229.99 with MIR
Seagate / 500GB / 7200 / 8MB / Ultra ATA-100 / EIDE / OEM / Hard Drive http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications...chTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=1723262
Seagate / 500GB / 7200 / 16MB / ATA-100 / OEM / Hard Drive http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications...chTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=2073419
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Those are Seagates you linked to not WD. Not only that but they aren't SATA.
This is the new WD SATA 16MB drive that just came out with 125GB platters. Faster, quieter, and cooler than the Seagates
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Plus the OP was WITHOUT rebate. For me, that is a HUGE difference.

By the way, it is available for $229 at Outpost:
http://shop3.outpost.com/product/4812430?site=sr:SEARCH:MAIN_RSLT_PG
 
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Question: will it work with my motherboard? Asus P4C800e-Dlx? Which has support for SATA, but nothing mentioned about SATA2!
(I'm kinda confused about the various SATA specs)
if so, I'm in for one.

Thanks
 
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cmetz

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According to Western Digital's customer service (just got off the phone) the WD5000KS retail drive kit has a ONE year warranty. Not five. Outpost/Fry's is listing incorrect information.

Too bad, too. That's the difference between me buying and not.
 
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nippyjun

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If having a 5 year warranty means it's a better quality drive then i'm all for that, but otherwise if my drive dies and it's under warranty i still wouldn't sent it in as i'd be too afraid to have sensitive/personal information lifted by the company that i send it to.
 
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cmetz

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nippyjun, so all your data is so important you wouldn't want anyone else to get it, but not important enough that you emphasize reliability in your selection criteria?
 
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Odeen

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Originally posted by: cmetz
nippyjun, so all your data is so important you wouldn't want anyone else to get it, but not important enough that you emphasize reliability in your selection criteria?
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Well, it's like deviant n0rp. It hurts if you lose it, but it'd hurt even worse to be busted for piracy, have an attractive female prosecutor badger you on the witness stand, and then go to federal prison where you're the pervboy. There are some hard drives you just shouldn't send to data recovery.
 
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AdamsJabbar

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http://support.wdc.com/warranty/policy.asp#policy
1 year warranty standard, BUT from the link in that table:
http://websupport.wdc.com/store/extwarranty/index.asp?lang=en
You can extend it to 3 years for $14.95. The wording is vague in that it says "Only retail-packaged EIDE hard drives with a current 1-year limited warranty are eligible for extended warranty." However, this extended warranty link was next to the listing for their SATA disks. My guess is by "EIDE" they mean "not SCSI or fibre channel."

So, this is a fair deal. Most of us will probably end up waiting for the Seagate 500GB drives to come down to this level since they have the 5 year warranty.
 
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Odeen

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Originally posted by: AdamsJabbar
http://support.wdc.com/warranty/policy.asp#policy
1 year warranty standard, BUT from the link in that table:
http://websupport.wdc.com/store/extwarranty/index.asp?lang=en
You can extend it to 3 years for $14.95. The wording is vague in that it says "Only retail-packaged EIDE hard drives with a current 1-year limited warranty are eligible for extended warranty." However, this extended warranty link was next to the listing for their SATA disks. My guess is by "EIDE" they mean "not SCSI or fibre channel."

So, this is a fair deal. Most of us will probably end up waiting for the Seagate 500GB drives to come down to this level since they have the 5 year warranty.
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The thing is, with the small amount of users likely to choose this option, there's no incentive for WDC to make the drives that will live up to the warranty. Call me a conspiracy theorist, but I have a feeling that manufacturers saw it fit to drop the quality of retail-packaged drives. Maybe they're even binned, like CPU's, where the worse performers get shipped off to Fry's and Best Buy in retail boxes, and the better drives are sold to system manufacturers, or as OEM drives through resellers with longer warranties..
 
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cmetz

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Odeen, Seagate has the 7200.9 500GB, and the NL352 500GB. Western Digital has the WD5000KS (Caviar SE16) and the WD5000YR2. The differences between the "desktop" and "nearline" drives are primarily the MTBF, and in WD's case the warranty. I would not at all be surprised if some binning process was involved with this, and if it doesn't today, it's only a matter of time.

I do know as a fact that many drives are already subject to binning.
 
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pe3046

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outpost does not show the 5 year warranty anymore (not showing any warranty info)...already ordered it then went back and it was changed.
 
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Ghettocowboy

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3-5 yrs warranty is the norm unless it is refurbished. If you guys worry, go to WD website and check on their warranty. The warranty is manufacture warranty and thus is the the same for all retailers assuming they are WD authorized resellers.
 
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AdamsJabbar

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Originally posted by: Ghettocowboy
3-5 yrs warranty is the norm unless it is refurbished. If you guys worry, go to WD website and check on their warranty. The warranty is manufacture warranty and thus is the the same for all retailers assuming they are WD authorized resellers.
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Except in this case where it is only 1 year standard.
 
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Thanks OP, I ordered Friday and spent the extra 12 bucks for overnight delivery since they use Airborne Express and I know AE delivers on Saturdays.

I am in a unique position since I purchased the OEM version of this drive from Newegg a week ago. I benchmarked them to see if there is a significant difference: link.

Performance seems pretty much the same, and they have identical firmware versions. Personally, I think they have a one year warranty on retail versions for just one reason: to sell an extended warranty.
 
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