What's the deal with the W.D. SPECIAL EDITION Hard Drive?

[DDDavey]

Just the fact of an 8MB buffer? Because I can save $11 by getting a "non-special edition" one

 

[MLLK]

I know that if you buy it now, the special edition has a 3 yr warranty where as the non S.E. has a 1 year warranty.

 

[BentValve]

Yeah not much difference other than cashe and $$ and the SE drives carry a 3year warranty instead of 1.

You can purchase 2 addtional years from WD for $20 .....so if the price difference is $11 then you would be better off with the SE drive.

 

[Hanpan]

Besides the 8 meg buffer which offers in some cases a sizeable performance increase, the WD sepcial edition drives also feature a 3 year warrenty versus the standard one.

 

[DDDavey]

Excellent, thanks for the quick responses! SpecEd it is