Western Digital WD1001FALS Caviar Black 1TB Hard Drive $103.99 w/free shipping

[beergeek]

Back up to $106.99 at ZZF

 

[Bl0cks]

And now its back down to $103.99 lolololol

 

[Arcanedeath]

In for a couple at the 103.99 price My as well replace my pair of 400GB drives w/ these

 

[coloumb]

Hrm.. other than power savings - any significant difference between these 2 drives? They both cost about the same with free shipping [one is zip zoom, other is newegg].

WD Caviar Green

WD Caviar Black

 

[WT]

I'm currently using a Seagate 500gb 16mb cache drive, and I'm questioning whether I should buy two Blacks from this deal and RAID0 them, or will one be sufficient ?? MB used is an eVGA 750FTW. The HD is clearly the bottleneck on my main rig, and I want to futureproof it, but I've only built one RAID rig in the past (and it screeeaammsss) so I thought I'd toss out the question.

PS - don't worry about the chance of RAID0 data loss, I have a WHS that has covered my butt many times over in the past year.

 

[zposter]

Originally posted by: coloumb
Hrm.. other than power savings - any significant difference between these 2 drives? They both cost about the same with free shipping [one is zip zoom, other is newegg].

WD Caviar Green

WD Caviar Black

Significant difference in speed.

 

[Arcanedeath]

The Green drive also only has a 3yr vs the blacks 5 yr warrenty in addition its much slower access time wise as it's a 5400 rpm drive vs the blacks 7200rpm, the Blue series only has a smaller 16mb vs the blacks 32mb buffer so its performance is very similar to the blacks, but the Green's are noticably slower

 

[jkresh]

some of the greens (all of the 1.5 and 2tb ones but some of the 1tb) have gone to 500gig platters so while they are 5400 rpm (so seek is much worse then the black) the platter size means their peak bandwidth is close. I am seriously considering picking up a bunch of these for raid 5 (probably start with 4 on an adaptec 5805) but 1.5tb caviar blacks with the new larger platters would be really nice.

 

[Zap]

Originally posted by: ericlp

Originally posted by: Woofmeister

Originally posted by: EKKC

Originally posted by: Zap
Foam HDD coffins FTW!

lol, were you being sarcastic? i can't tell

i thought the coffins are much better than the way newegg ships theirs.

Actually thinking of going with a foam coffin myself--saves on funeral expenses.

So ZZF packs all their drives well eh?

No, being serious. I bought two Samsung 750GB drives from ZZF and was duly impressed with how they package them. My most recent drive purchase was from Tiger Direct, and was seriously underwhelmed by how they packed the drives. In fact, I was downright pissed off with how little (as in ZERO) protection they gave the drives.

Originally posted by: Woofmeister
Edit From a review on the Amazon site:

I will start by advising that if you are purchasing an OEM drive, choose a vendor other than Amazon. Allow me to describe the packaging they used: drive in anti-static bag placed on bottom of box, air-filled bag-type cushioning placed loosely on top of drive. The drive was therefore totally unprotected on the bottom side, and the wear on the anti-static bag showed it. In what alternate dimension is this an acceptable means of protecting a hard drive? They're supposed to be protected from vibration. Duh!

I say buy from ZZF even if you have to eat the tax.

Wow, that's as bad as Tiger Direct, only difference is TD puts the bagged drive into a sealed blister pack (which doesn't protect it from shock) and uses wadded packaging paper on top instead of air cushins.

 

[Stoneburner]

I got this drive from amazon and the packing was very good. The HD was place between two foam pieces and wrapped in a smaller box, then placed in a larger box with large air bags.

 

[GundamF91]

Yes, buy from ZZF, I got mine packed in a nice foam containier inside a cardboard box filled with foam peanuts.

Just thinking the possible damage from an underwrapped HDD. Of course you have the warranty, but would you really want to risk losing data and using the warranty unless you have to?

 

[Arcanedeath]

Well I just received both my drives today, They were packed extemly well w/ foam boxes around the drives and peanuts in the box to make sure the foam didn't move around. Still in the Process of formating the 2nd drive but It seems to work fine thus far. and the first one is humming along. Gotta register them at WD.com .

Also note the drives are back at 109.99