[Comp] CC: Western Digital Caviar Green (WD20EARS) 2000GB (2TB) SATA for $119.88

[mapleleafs89]

I remember when I got this drive 2 years ago for $100. Something about me won't let me buy another (mine is full) until they are back to $69-$79 range.

[mrG]

This isn't too bad. I'm just happy the prices are becoming a little more reasonable again

[CDN_Blizzard]

Be warned, WD decrease the warranty on all their green drives by a year. To me that screams increased failure rates!

It'll be my second time RMA-ing a WD Green, and I'm monitoring a third Green which is acting funny...
My deskstars are surviving longer.

I used to be a WD loyal user.

[sengook]

It'll be my second time RMA-ing a WD Green, and I'm monitoring a third Green which is acting funny...
My deskstars are surviving longer.

I used to be a WD loyal user.

Ya my wd20ears has been acting funky since I bought it never thought much of it though. i think the oldest hdd i have is an hitachi possibly from an 166mhz that my dad used and upgraded from a 486... i think no real clue though just a bunch of random drives in a drawer lol

[kay188]

No $69.99 2tb no care

And this is why I bought a couple when they were that price back then... I thought I was wasting money... turns out it was a good choice. -brag brag brag-

[Shimapan]

If you can wait another year to save $30, great, if not this is a great price for now, $10 less than boxing day/week price when I got mine.

and if you can wait 2 years you can probably get 4TB for the same price.

[Hello-]

WD RMA was pretty painless for me. Shipped broken drive to mississauga and refurbed drive back to me in about 3 weeks round trip. If you're worried about data loss do a basic raid-1 across 2 drives or duplicate important files manually.

[andriykoua]

wouldn't buy the green drives period. especially for this price. not worth it. buy SSD

[spinbot]

wouldn't buy the green drives period. especially for this price. not worth it. buy SSD

People looking for a 2TB Green drive have zero interest in a SSD drive, as one is meant for mass storage, the other meant for optimal performance. Try building a 16TB media server out of SSD drives!

Everyone's concerns over reliability of one brand over another are just a handful of person experiences. What they all come down to is that it does not matter what brand of drive you buy as anyone of them could fail tomorrow. What matters is how important your data is and in turn, what measures you are taking to protect it as best you can afford. Raid is an option, but I found it not practical for a media server as it would require excess expense that would have proven better used towards increasing capacity. I've gone with UnRaid, allowing me to currently only require 1/12th of my storage to be sacrificed for data protection (one parity drive, 11 data drives). Is my data 100% safe? Absolutely not, as I this does not protect me against theft, flood or fire. What it does do is protect the data so that I can lose any one drive and restore the lost data, to the bit, within a day.

The quality of one's power supply, the air flow in your computer, the type of enclosure, the controller, can all be factors resulting in hard drive issues. If you are starting to experience multiple failures, I would start thinking the problems isn't necessarily the drive. The drive may just be the symptom caused by a deeper problem.

My 2 cents on the topic!

I you look through one of the other threads, there are links to various different External 2TB drives, all around the $120 price that have Seagate, WD or Hitachi drives inside ( 2 of them were at Best Buy ), so those that have a hate-on for one brand can just buy the other and rip the drive out!

[Jimboski]

No $69.99 2tb no care

No ASharp no care.. Oh wait wrong company!

[ficklen]

Waiting for 7200rpm for my little d link sharecrnter

[townie22]

it's now in-store only, no online sales due to limited stock. of course it's today when my HD decides to start failing, crap

[kuothebest]

Im ice cold deal

[townie22]

not when the next best deal i can find is a refurb 750 GB for $99 . it is still available in some Ontario stores though, but that's no good to me.