Western Digital 3TB Green w/PCIe controller $130 AC FS

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http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136764

Western Digital Caviar Green WD30EZRSDTL 3TB 64MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s

$189.99
-$40 instant discount
-$20 coupon code EMCKEHC35 (exp.5/30)
FREE shipping
=$129.99

Seems like a decent deal on a 3TB drive. Best prices have usually been around $120-130 shipped. This drive includes a PCIe SATA controller. A couple notes about this... it is Advanced Format. Also, reports about incompatibilities with 3TB drives of various brands and SATA controllers so probably a good thing it comes with its own. Also, this is not SATA 6G, like the Hitachi drive. WD "Green" is of course 5400RPM.

 

[bankster55]

As far as being a bargain, yes it is, good find as always.
The $15 Highpoint card is crap, and uses Long LBA, so if you have any UEFI mobo, not needed
http://www.techarp.com/showarticle.aspx?artno=703&pgno=0
http://www.techarp.com/showarticle.aspx?artno=702
As I mentioned and linked in another thread here WDC announced its green drives all have a fatal flaw when transferring large files that will need a frimware update
http://forums.ninjalane.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=2680
WDC bought Hitachi Storage
Seagate bought Samsung HDD
And Seagate just announced the first successful 1TB platter,
which means 3 platter 3TB drives coming (and 4 platter 4TB and 5 platter 5TB)
http://www.guru3d.com/news/seagate-first-to-debut-hdd-with-1tb-platters/

This WDC drive is kinda old school especially with the new AV-GP WDC 3TB drive
http://vr-zone.com/articles/western-digital-introduces-new-hard-disks-and-a-mobile-app/12329.html#

 

[VirtualLarry]

As I mentioned and linked in another thread here WDC announced its green drives all have a fatal flaw when transferring large files that will need a frimware update
http://forums.ninjalane.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=2680

That link does not support your accusation.

That's just the well-known "WD Idle" head-park thing. It has nothing to do with issues transferring large files.

 

[zposter]

All I know is that I've had 2 2TB WD Green drives die while transferring large (over 10GB each) files to them in the last couple weeks.

I replaced them with Hitachi 5K3000 2TB drives and they have no problems. I only bought WD drives until this happened.

 

[bankster55]

That link does not support your accusation.

That's just the well-known "WD Idle" head-park thing. It has nothing to do with issues transferring large files.

Yeah you are right. I am just a stupid ignorant bastard - I freely admit it. I am so ashamed.

But I was born that way, so I really cant help it.

I beg your forgiveness.

Wont ever happen again - will restrict my posts to "looks like good deal"

 

[jjmIII]

Yeah you are right. I am just a stupid ignorant bastard - I freely admit it. I am so ashamed.

But I was born that way, so I really cant help it.

I beg your forgiveness.

Wont ever happen again - will restrict my posts to "looks like good deal"