Western Digital 250GB Retail Hard Drive Kit $99.99 after MIR

[gsbe]

Oupost has the WD2500JB at $154.99 with $55 MIR.

LINK

This deal expires on Oct. 5. Two per household allowed. Rebates must be postmarked by Nov. 5. Glad this is back again...

 

[BustaBust]

I bought this drive about 6-9 months ago from CC and it came out to the same price.
Do they not give you a 5 year manufacturer's warranty or am I mistaken?

or is the 5 year for the WD2500JBRTL(?) ?

 

[Arcanedeath]

It's a 3 year warrenty on this drive fyi and I paid 150 for this drive and the Promise PATA card that came with in last year from Cusa on the day after thanksgiving sale, wasn't as good as the 120GB maxtor for $50 or the 200GB maxtor for 100 but I needed the controler card and the drive had a longer warrenty so for a mere $100 bucks after rebate this is an excellent drive, just be warned as it's not a fluid bearing drive it tends to get lound and produce some bearing wine after it ages a bit.

 

[BustaBust]

The drive may have been under promotion or something at the time.
Didn't WD extend their 3 years to 5 at one point? (for certain drives?)

EDIT-- I too received a Promise Ultra ATA II card or named something similar

 

[gsbe]

This series of drives has always fared well at the StorageReview website. I have a number of them (5 - 120GBs, 1 - 80GB, 1 - 160GB, etc). They have all served me well, although my brother recently had problems with two drives failing in a RAID consisting of 7 - 200GB WD 8MB cache drives. Bummer.

 

[Pothead]

Lot of misinformed information

Bare Drive/Retail Kits
Protégé & WD Caviar® 1-year/1-year
WD Caviar® SE 3-year/1-year
WD Raptor 5-year
External Drives N/A 1-year

 

[Imyourzero]

Originally posted by: gsbe
This series of drives has always fared well at the StorageReview website. I have a number of them (5 - 120GBs, 1 - 80GB, 1 - 160GB, etc). They have all served me well, although my brother recently had problems with two drives failing in a RAID consisting of 7 - 200GB WD 8MB cache drives. Bummer.

I've been hearing about more and more WD drives failing recently. Perhaps it's just because they are so popular...but I'm sticking with Seagate until I have a reason not to. WD has been reliable for me in the past, but the 5 year warranty from Seagate is sweet for peace of mind (and also one reason I bought a Raptor).

 

[rugby]

for $14.95 you can extend the warranty on the WD drives from 1 year to 3 years. Information is in the box, there's a website you go to and type in your serial # and then pay for the added 2 years.

 

[djsynthesis]

anyone know why the retail kit's warranty is shorter than the oem version's? seems like it would make sense to have a longer warranty on the better-packaged version.

 

[claffeyb]

Maybe they figure that those buying oem kits know what they are doing and those buying the retail kits don't.

Also, the fact that the retail drives come with their own box and impact-resistant packing probably gives a false sense of security to the retail store clerks who don't cringe if they knock over a whole stack of them The oem drives, on the other hand, I've seen many inserted into a single styrofoam box that had individual slots in it for each drive. I think everyone would tend to handle a box of these oems packaged this way a lot more gingerly haha

My last WD 120 SE drive with 8Mb cache I didn't even get replaced after it failed... Even though the sticker said it was in warranty, online it wouldn't accept it and I decided I have so darn many sub-250GB drives that I didn't want another around, so I just unwrapped another 250GB drive I hadn't used yet and stuck it in it's place. So 5 yrs warranty vs 3 yrs vs 2 yrs doesn't mean a lot to me unless it included free data receovery, which of course it never will. Drives are so cheap - you want peace of mind that it will work upon arrival and last for months upon months, but sooner or later technology passes that old drive by. Under warranty-replacement you always seem to get a reconditioned unit from Singapoore or Ireland or wherever, and the replacement drive always only has a year warranty on it so there is small satisfaction in that. I don't want a refurb with a 1 yr warranty!

 

[ender7777]

Does anyone still have the link to the $55 rebate? I didn't print it right away and now it's become a $25 rebate.

 

[scorp00]

I wouldn't take it if it was free. I have had 3 western digital drives fail on me. 120, and 200 x 2. I had my 200gb die twice within the same month! Western digital will also bend you over when it comes to the warranty. Mine went from 2.5 years to only 4 months when I got my replacement. Another thing my replacement was a recertified drive too.