costco has 3TB WD usb 3.0 for $109.99

[hans007]

limit 2. in store only. really great price given the shortage.

 

[Craig234]

I think I need one of these for a Steam directory.

 

[ponyo]

Good post. I saw it the other day and was really tempted to buy it. I thought it was a great price.

Costco is also going to have the Seagate 2TB Freeagent Goflex external drive for $69.99 during their Black Friday sale. Unlike other Black Friday sales, you can actually buy items at Costco on Black Friday without camping out. This isn't meant to be thread hijack. I just want people to know their options.

 

[Craig234]

Good post. I saw it the other day and was really tempted to buy it. I thought it was a great price.

Costco is also going to have the Seagate 2TB Freeagent Goflex external drive for $69.99 during their Black Friday sale. Unlike other Black Friday sales, you can actually buy items at Costco on Black Friday without camping out. This isn't meant to be thread hijack. I just want people to know their options.

Is there any reason to prefer the 2TB, other than if it's the size you need?

I think I'm better safe than sorry with 3TB otherwise.

 

[M0RPH]

Is this 1TB platters like the Seagates?

 

[Throckmorton]

I have this drive and it's giving me a lot of problems. Sometimes after rebooting/starting up my laptop I have to unplug and replug several times before Windows recognizes it. This is on USB 2.0 ports.

 

[Samus]

I have this drive and it's giving me a lot of problems. Sometimes after rebooting/starting up my laptop I have to unplug and replug several times before Windows recognizes it. This is on USB 2.0 ports.

I have the same problem with a Seagate USB 3.0 external from Microcenter (also 3TB model, $99 before the Thailand crisis)

I think it has to do with the USB 3.0 SATA bridge controller used in these external drives. The controllers seem finicky when used in USB 2.0 mode. The drive never has issues when I use it on my USB 3.0 desktop PC, but with my laptop (Core i3, Intel USB 2.0 controller) it occasionally doesn't detect, especially after standby and reboot, requiring me to unplug it and re-plug it. It has also once disconnected in the middle of a file transfer. This does NOT happen with any other USB devices I use on either PC, just this drive.

So it isn't a WD/Seagate problem, its a USB 3.0 bridge problem.

 

[wirednuts]

hey, that would be a great steam drive. you can always move it to a safe location, or just take it to friends house to play your games... and its fast enough to with the usb3

 

[Lanyap]

Bestbuy has it on sale for $139.99 this week if you don't have a costo nearby.

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Western+...&skuId=1261281

 

[akers]

Thanks. Picked up 2. Works great on USB 3 with my Dell XPS 17 and USB 2 on the desktop. I think I am going back tomorrow to pick up 2 more for Xmas presents for my son and daughter. Yeah I know, I'm a romantic at heart.

 

[ImpulsE69]

I have the same problem with a Seagate USB 3.0 external from Microcenter (also 3TB model, $99 before the Thailand crisis)

I think it has to do with the USB 3.0 SATA bridge controller used in these external drives. The controllers seem finicky when used in USB 2.0 mode. The drive never has issues when I use it on my USB 3.0 desktop PC, but with my laptop (Core i3, Intel USB 2.0 controller) it occasionally doesn't detect, especially after standby and reboot, requiring me to unplug it and re-plug it. It has also once disconnected in the middle of a file transfer. This does NOT happen with any other USB devices I use on either PC, just this drive.

So it isn't a WD/Seagate problem, its a USB 3.0 bridge problem.

I have 2 of these as well and read about a lot of issues that seem to point back to the controller. I actually took mine out and plugged them directly into my desktop via SATA and haven't had any issues at all.

 

[Shftup]

what is the best way to pull the hdd from its case?
i want to do this aswell.

 

[cubeless]

take your warranty card and use it to pry the case apart... ;p

 

[Shftup]

lol - of course
that being said, I heard if you have a warranty claim, put the drive back in, and when they say that the 'tabs' are broken, blame it on the shipper, and boom - warranty....

 

[nikkai]

take your warranty card and use it to pry the case apart... ;p

Oh the poetic irony =D

 

[WhipperSnapper]

Would a Seagate Freeagent drive work for a Dish Network DVR box? I was thinking of picking up a 2 GB soon.

 

[Raider1284]

lol - of course
that being said, I heard if you have a warranty claim, put the drive back in, and when they say that the 'tabs' are broken, blame it on the shipper, and boom - warranty....

awesome.. lets keep showing off new ways to defraud companies.... do you have any other techniques? Because I want to defraud companies as well! /sarcasm

 

[Shftup]

awesome.. lets keep showing off new ways to defraud companies.... do you have any other techniques? Because I want to defraud companies as well! /sarcasm

ouch. I apologize if I offended you or any member.

Upon reflection - I should have provided context for my statement...noted below:

Context = WD disabling TLER on your WD 'Green' drives so you cant use them very easily in a RAID array. I had a couple that went back on warranty, and were replaced with new firmware drives whereby TLER could not be enable for my array. WD out for profit so you buy the more expensive RAID drives at more than double the price or their morality?

They got me in the above example, if I can use their own rules to get warranty - I see no harm, I am simply following their lead. WD set the stage. End of story.

 

[Craig234]

ouch. I apologize if I offended you or any member.

Posting a suggestion to lie and steal was immoral, but you responded politely.

 

[Eyeless Blond]

I'd have a problem with the morality issue if these companies weren't busily price-gouging everyone. It's clear that, for a corporation, "morality" means "do whatever won't get you arrested," and in that light lying to get a warranty fulfilled isn't a moral hazard, so much as it is giving them an answer that they'll accept in order to do their job, the one that they're paying them for in the first place. It's the golden rule: treat the person the way he wants to be treated.

OTOH, you have the person in the other thread talking about calling in an "Advanced RMA" in order to get a 2nd hard drive... then "forgetting" to return the original. That's definitely fraud.

That's also why I feel no moral outrage over people who "steal" from RIAA and MPAA members who put draconian DRM on their products, but I go out of my way to pay the Humble Bundle guys even though I haven't even played any of the games in the last one. The former companies treat the world like criminals, while the latter treat people with respect, and ask for respect in turn.

 

[ElFenix]

I
OTOH, you have the person in the other thread talking about calling in an "Advanced RMA" in order to get a 2nd hard drive... then "forgetting" to return the original. That's definitely fraud.

don't you usually have to leave a deposit for an advanced RMA?

 

[Craig234]

I'd have a problem with the morality issue if these companies weren't busily price-gouging everyone. It's clear that, for a corporation, "morality" means "do whatever won't get you arrested," and in that light lying to get a warranty fulfilled isn't a moral hazard, so much as it is giving them an answer that they'll accept in order to do their job, the one that they're paying them for in the first place. It's the golden rule: treat the person the way he wants to be treated.

OTOH, you have the person in the other thread talking about calling in an "Advanced RMA" in order to get a 2nd hard drive... then "forgetting" to return the original. That's definitely fraud.

That's also why I feel no moral outrage over people who "steal" from RIAA and MPAA members who put draconian DRM on their products, but I go out of my way to pay the Humble Bundle guys even though I haven't even played any of the games in the last one. The former companies treat the world like criminals, while the latter treat people with respect, and ask for respect in turn.

I don't find a company selling me a 3TB drive for $109.99 to be gouging me such that they're behaving immorally and providing justification for immoral acts against them.

There's a spectrum of injustice with that good deal way over on the 'good' side, then a big gray area of 'don't buy from them if you don't like it' in the middle.

Now, say you bought a game and the publisher had a broken delivery system - pirating that would be ok.

 

[Throckmorton]

awesome.. lets keep showing off new ways to defraud companies.... do you have any other techniques? Because I want to defraud companies as well! /sarcasm

It's not defrauding them when they provide the drives with awful controller hardware. If I had a desktop I'd use SATA. Some days I can't get it to work at all...

 

[Shftup]

Now, say you bought a game and the publisher had a broken delivery system - pirating that would be ok.

Another example -WD disabling TLER on your WD 'Green' drives so you cant use them very easily in a RAID array. I had a couple that went back on warranty, and were replaced with new firmware drives whereby TLER could not be enable for my array. WD out for profit so you buy the more expensive RAID drives at more than double the price or their morality?

awesome.. lets keep showing off new ways to defraud companies.... do you have any other techniques? Because I want to defraud companies as well! /sarcasm

It's not like WD hasnt done the same if you see my above example. Grey or black and white? Seems to me I was defrauded by WD, getting back non TLER enabled drives. I am quite sure other 'customers' were impacted.

Anyways, this is a good discussion, but not for this thread. To each to his/her own (or whatever the saying is).

 

[wirednuts]

I was thinking of picking up a 2 GB soon.

holy 1998 batman!