Fantom Drives?

[Katalysis]

Newegg is currently running a 10% off hard drives sale, and I am in the market for an external eSATA hard drive. I've always been a Western Digital guy, since I've never had a problem with their drives, but these Fantom Drives externals are at 1TB for $75-85AR depending on the model, whereas the My Book 1TB is $149 (Ouch).

Anyone have experience with Fantom Drives? I can't find what hard drive they use, but I'm guessing the Green Drive models use a WD green model.

 

[Ockie]

I think they just use whatever is cheap and out there. I think green drives are their most common.

 

[Cholula]

At my work we purchased a dozen fantom drives a couple years back. They looked real nice and worked for a few months then started dieing. Took some apart and found remanufactured hard drives in these. Some had seagates some had WD. I cant remember who the remanufacturer was but it was some company that specilized in them. Of those original drives only 2 still work.