I ordered 4 of the WD TB Black drives during the One Day Sale a few days ago, they gave $10 off each drive, not just $10 total.
They came from NJ, and were bubble wrapped and in the middle of the box, filled with peanuts. All 4 drives were manufactured on the 4th of Jun 2009, so you know Newegg has a very fast turn around on drives.
I just got them late this afternoon, and have just about finished formatting the first one. All 4 will get a full format, but of all the drives over the years I've bought from Newegg, they have always been wrapped with bubble pack, and packed with peanuts, and the bubble pack has always gone around the drives at least twice.
I've got to agree that it's the warehouse you get your product from that seems to be the culprit.
They came from NJ, and were bubble wrapped and in the middle of the box, filled with peanuts. All 4 drives were manufactured on the 4th of Jun 2009, so you know Newegg has a very fast turn around on drives.
I just got them late this afternoon, and have just about finished formatting the first one. All 4 will get a full format, but of all the drives over the years I've bought from Newegg, they have always been wrapped with bubble pack, and packed with peanuts, and the bubble pack has always gone around the drives at least twice.
I've got to agree that it's the warehouse you get your product from that seems to be the culprit.
one of the drives I received from Newegg was DOA. I cannot attribute it to packaging for sure but the packaging was not adequate and it made a good deal into a crap deal. I like Newegg but I avoid harddrive purchases on their site since most of the time ZZF or Dell has same or better deals anyway. Almost everything else I get from Newegg.
I just received 2 orders, one for 3 external drives and one for another external drive and a router. Both boxes had the items on the bottom and then peanuts thrown on top. I'd say about 70% of the time that's how I receive my items and it's pretty annoying. Going to write them an email tomorrow to bitch about it, but I'm sure plenty of other people already have and they don't care. It can't take more than 5-10 extra seconds to throw some peanuts in, then items, then more peanuts. They've probably already looked at their RMA rate vs. the time it would take to worry more about packaging and decided the ROI isn't there.
Originally posted by: DisgruntledVirus
Originally posted by: mvbighead
I was thinking about 4 new drives for my RAID 5 array... too bad they limit the discount to $10.
$10 total or $10 per drive?
If it's total, just place multiple orders.
Edit: nevermind, it's $10 total and once per account. So you could create multiple accounts, but might look suspicious having 5 of the exact same drives ordered with different accounts, shipped to the same address.
You should have seent he spreadsheet I had for my Mercata and Value America days...back then it hundreds of accounts all ordering the Voodoo Graphics cards/ Cambridge Soundworks Speaker systems (best resale value on ebay at the time). Their TOS did not prohibit multiple accounts so s few enterprising souls like me made more than one account...that era is over :-(
Talk to Cust. Serv. and they should give you credit back. I did that with my CPU when it dropped in price $12 the week after I purchased it.
For your boot OS drive, for sure get the Caviar Black. For storage, the Hitachi is a good economical choice.
I'm not so sure that the WD Black is any faster than these new 3 platter hitachi drives. Everyone thinks it is but they might be remembering the older 5 platter hitachis. From what I've seen the 7k1000.B might be a better drive than the WD Black.
If anyone has any sources of the black drive performing better please post them.
If anyone has any sources of the black drive performing better please post them.
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Ok for green storage I guess but be aware. This is 5400RPM (their Ecogreen series) and it's not really retail. It doesn't show a retail box in the pics and from the reviews "The drive came in plastic box with 4 screws."
Here's a faster OEM alternative for $45. I might get this one...
http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16822145215
These results are from the same system. The only difference is the WDC drive is on the primary sata and the Hitachi is on the Raid sata but jbod. Only advantage for the WDC is access time.
HD Tune: Hitachi HDT721010SLA3 Benchmark
Transfer Rate Minimum : 55.5 MB/sec
Transfer Rate Maximum : 112.2 MB/sec
Transfer Rate Average : 89.8 MB/sec
Access Time : 15.0 ms
Burst Rate : 167.1 MB/sec
CPU Usage : 4.0%
HD Tune: WDC WD1001FALS-00K1B0 Benchmark
Transfer Rate Minimum : 52.6 MB/sec
Transfer Rate Maximum : 106.2 MB/sec
Transfer Rate Average : 85.9 MB/sec
Access Time : 12.4 ms
Burst Rate : 112.2 MB/sec
CPU Usage : 7.0%
Thank you for that. So, the Hitachi is faster. It's also quieter and uses less power from what I've read. The 2-5 ms advantage of the black is negligible I think. Plus, I'm not sure if the WD Blacks are RAID-friendly, I think you have to buy the RAID editions for that. Though, the WD drives have better support? and 5 year warranty.
This was all in response to the guy above that didn't know which one to buy
I think I'll grab a 2nd 7k1000.B for this price, I haven't gotten a bad drive from newegg, yet. ZZF has it AR for $69, though, and they have great HD packing. Hmmm.
This was all in response to the guy above that didn't know which one to buy
I think I'll grab a 2nd 7k1000.B for this price, I haven't gotten a bad drive from newegg, yet. ZZF has it AR for $69, though, and they have great HD packing. Hmmm.
Yeah I got that Hitachi the other day for $50 shipped. I wanted/was hoping for a retail package so I tried the Samsung. Its just for storage so its all good. Thanks for the post.
I had a bad Sammy drive a lil while back. They have a repair facility in NJ so its real close. Thats my main reason for the sammy choice.
If you are getting the popular 1T WD Black drive for $89 after $10, be sure and check "all the combo" deals available. You can get Acronis True Image 2009 OEM for free. This is supposed to be halfway decent cloning and backup software. Free is good.
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