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wd refub 250 gig hard drive for $49.99 !!at woot!1

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yingyan

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At woot.com!!
They have 250 gig western digital refub hard drive for $49.99
$5.00 shipping!!
6 month warranty!!
2mb cache!!
good store hard drive!!
get it before it is gone!!!
http://www.woot.com/
Woot : One Day, One Deal
 
Is it a good idea to buy a refurbished hard drive?

And what's the likelyhood of being able to recover the previous owners porn?
 
LOL that would be pretty interesting... but then again I seem to remember writing zeroes to one of my drives and then running my drive recovery programs on it... found absolutely nothing 🙂
 
Originally posted by: mugs
Is it a good idea to buy a refurbished hard drive?

And what's the likelyhood of being able to recover the previous owners porn?
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if you have access to a data recovery center place

I read somewhere.. that they bought a lot of HDDs from ebay.
They recovered financial informaion etc.

I would buy Refurbished drives only if they carry manufactor's warrenty
 
Ouch, this seems to be a pretty old drive. No black top, 2MB cache.

Although, for 55 bucks, it wouldn't be bad for an XBox upgrade... hmm...
 
Originally posted by: AsianriceX
Ouch, this seems to be a pretty old drive. No black top, 2MB cache.

Although, for 55 bucks, it wouldn't be bad for an XBox upgrade... hmm...
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I think I'd rather buy something with a rebate than risk it on a refurb
 
55/250 = 0.22cents per gig (and probably tax free for many of us)
definitely cheaper than the most alternatives with rebates. In this day and age, isnt just about every drive fast enough for storing mkvs, mp3s, flacs and whatnot? I might bite on this one.


EDIT : haha, spoke too soon (or too late). tis all sold out anyway 😱
 
i got two of those the last time they had it. i knew i was buying refurbs and taken a chance. well, both drive were bad. just my experince with wd drives from woot. so, next time i just do the rebate thing.

and the drive were not under manufacturer warranty due to the fact that they were sold to some firm prioir to me getting them.
 
Originally posted by: mugs
Is it a good idea to buy a refurbished hard drive?

And what's the likelyhood of being able to recover the previous owners porn?
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lol dunno about the first part but i have a 400 gig sata seagate that was refurbished and works great 🙂. just remember even new drives will fail. the likelihood of each new and refurb failing is probably about the same.
 
Originally posted by: mugs
Is it a good idea to buy a refurbished hard drive?

And what's the likelyhood of being able to recover the previous owners porn?
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you're going to roll a $50 pair of dice in hopes that you get something owned by someone as perverted as you eh? 😛

i'm somewhat skeptical of these to be honest. have you seen the quantity of these that would has sold in the past year? well over ten thousand. you face the same dangers with any hard drive to be honest, generally it's motor failure. moving parts are your worst enemy with everything on a pc: fans, hard drives, optical drives; moving parts failing are always a common source of problems.

generally the woot staff gets annoyed because people clamor for these drives and then complain about them when they list them. it seems that there's quite a few people that get drives with the click of death.

i would consider doing it if you need a lot of data storage that's not especially critical like in a pvr box or possibly a mirrored raid array that has an extra drive just in case. but i wouldn't trust these things to back up data you can't afford to lose personally.

i know there's actually one guy on woot who's bought six of these and has them in a 1.5 tb array
 
Originally posted by: Ninjaneer
Originally posted by: marincounty
Uh, I just bought a Seagate 250 gig ide drive, 7200 rpm, 16 mb cache, for $109 minus $50 rebate=$59.99 at Northern Calif. Frys stores.
New with a 5 year warranty.
http://www.netaffilia.com/ad/electronics/frys/i/2006/03/24/15952.html
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that's a good price...if you live in No. Cal.

...for us commoners though, we'll have to deal with this one.
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Here is that drive he is talking about, for $69.99 after rebate.
http://www.outpost.com/entry?site=op:mfe021006&sku=4596257
 
I bought one in the last WOOT offer a few weeks back. I used it in a USB box to store archieval files - photos, old docs, music, etc. Works fine!
 
I bought two of them in a previous Woot. They were the black top drives. I use them in RAID in my HTPC for recording TV. No problems after 4 months of use.
 
I received a dead drive from Woot a few deals ago. I emailed them, and they immediately cross-shipped (unsecured!) another drive that is still working perfectly to this day... Take the plunge next time around!

 
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