$259 1tb western digital hard drive

thought of that too , great deal !!!
But how come that BB seems to be the only one who got this drive ??? Didnt find it on any known etailer , and its not even listed on WD homepage :confused:
 
Not bad, how big is a 1tb drive after format?
 
From what I can find, it has a 3 year warranty.
 
Its SATA too. Just saw that. I dont think you can find a better deal on Mass Storage than this.
 
DryFire said:
$120 more is just a little? You could buy a 500GB drive for $120.
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True, but these don't really look all that comparable, except in size. The seagate is an ES model, with server grade reliability. Along with the bigger cache (which had a BIG impact in the hitachi models Tom's hardware tested), the seagate has better seek/lower latency. Also, doesn't look like the WD has NCQ,

Still, the price makes the WD an interesting alternative.
 
I never said the seagate was a bad drive, but a little more it is not. If you're using it to store media files does the performance difference matter much?

The WD has half the idle power consumption when compared to the Seagate (4W to 8 W) and slightly better read power draw. Since I'd be using it in an area where airflow around the drive will be pretty poor (adding a fan is not an option) and it'd be sitting at idle most of the time I consider that a big plus.
 
rustman said:
Nice deal, thanks. Anyone know what the warranty is for these?
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I don't see it on a quick look through WD's website, but I'd have to assume that it's 3 years. WD refers to it as a desktop drive.
 
logan1 said:
lol wtf do you guys store on you PC that requires 1TB?
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Lets see:

My entire DVD collection
My entire music collection
Pictures
ISO images of all of my MSDN stuff
Ghost images of all my machines
Back ups of VM's.

You would be surprised how fast thoes GB's get gobbled up.
 
I drove accross town, found one store which had two left... picked them both up :)

I am one VERY happy camper, so is my media center :D
 
I would love to pick up two of these but i've already spent too much this month and I hate Western Digital drives.
 
its a pretty good deal , but 1Tb drives are still too expensive , for less you can pick up 2 seagate 500 Gb for $ 99 each in the same store .
 
game14 said:
its a pretty good deal , but 1Tb drives are still too expensive , for less you can pick up 2 seagate 500 Gb for $ 99 each in the same store .
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Yes, two seagate 500 gig drives that takes up DOUBLE the physical space and consumes 8 times the amount of power than one of these drives ;)
 
Ockie said:
Yes, two seagate 500 gig drives that takes up DOUBLE the physical space and consumes 8 times the amount of power than one of these drives ;)
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BINGO!

I already have 5 other drives, I can actually use this to replace 2 of the drives (300 PATA & 250GB SATA) leaving me with 1x 1TB 3x 400GB. More space, cooler running, less power FTW.
 
sc0tty8 said:
Not bad, how big is a 1tb drive after format?
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Your space doesn't disappear in formatting. Your NTFS $mft actually takes up space from your recognized capacity. It's really just differing math. Disk manufacturers go by the 1000 rule and operating systems go by the 1024 rule. Thus:

1 TB Disk drive = 1,000,000,000,000 bytes according to your disk manufacturer

Take that number and divide it by 1024 three times and you'll see that your OS will identify it as roughly 931.3 GB
 
found one at my local best buy and picked it up. It'll save me a ton of power and space as I can now get rid of the server with 10 180gb drives.
 
cant believe how cheap these are!
just doesnt seem to long ago i scored a killer deal
on a 4GB drive for $400.
thank god the good ole days are long gone! LOL
 
Tangential to this deal, but I really think it is past time for HDD manufactures to move to the measuring standard that actually makes sense. At the terabyte level, the difference is damned near 10%, ie 1024GB becomes ~930GB. I'm fine with the price levels and I'm not complaining about being "cheated," but it'd be nice to be able to add up rated capacities and get a relevant answer without having to adjust it.
 
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