warm deal: staples WD elements 2TB drives for $79.99

[twelveparsex]

http://www.staples.com/Western-Digital-Elements-2TB-External-Hard-Drive/product_884865

there's a $25 off $75 purchases on slickdeals too; i've bought 4 of these from target 2 during black friday last year and 4 a few months ago and they were all WD black hard drives and 1 enterprise edition. There's still a 1 year warranty on them if you take them out of the case...but some people weren't that lucky and ended up with WD green HDDs

 

[Crotan]

haha people aren't going to check this, when it says 2GB

should read 2TB

 

[SJetski71]

haha people aren't going to check this, when it says 2GB

should read 2TB

Those who can't figure it out on their own don't deserve to know

 

[CommanderFrank]

Fixt for the Byte impaired.

 

[Notleh]

In for 4.

 

[alphaqforever247]

what are the advantages of goin external HD vs goin internal HD with a docking station? i have a thermaltake docking station and been using this for years but i have now seen external HD about the same price as Internal HD.

 

[NickJames]

what are the advantages of goin external HD vs goin internal HD with a docking station? i have a thermaltake docking station and been using this for years but i have now seen external HD about the same price as Internal HD.

Portability, it's harder to go around with a seperate HDD and docking station than it is to just carry around an all-in-one.

 

[Solitude]

Is it possible to pick these up at a store?

 

[NickJames]

If only it was USB 3.0

 

[chimera991]

I wish someone could confirm if these are Caviar BLACK drives.

$79.99 is a damn good deal for 2tb Caviar Black!

 

[NickJames]

I wish someone could confirm if these are Caviar BLACK drives.

$79.99 is a damn good deal for 2tb Caviar Black!

The chances are slim. There was a batch of Blacks last year but all the new ones seem to be Enterprise drives.

 

[Mackowitz]

With a $25 of $75 coupon i had, this was impossible to resist. You can never have too many externals, except right now I think I may have too many externals.

 

[twelveparsex]

The chances are slim. There was a batch of Blacks last year but all the new ones seem to be Enterprise drives.

enterprise drives are even more expensive than blacks...

 

[PanzerBoxb]

Is it possible to pick these up at a store?

Shows as delivery only but you could have it shipped to store and pick it up.

 

[SJetski71]

enterprise drives are even more expensive than blacks...

And i had thought the Enterprise drives had similar performance as the Black drives if i'm not mistaken (?)

 

[alphaqforever247]

Portability, it's harder to go around with a seperate HDD and docking station than it is to just carry around an all-in-one.

any difference as far as transfer rate? or any other difference?

 

[twelveparsex]

any difference as far as transfer rate? or any other difference?

umm these are limited to USB 2.0 speeds?

 

[[H]ocusPocus]

I checked yesterday and it was listed as OOS. Today it looks as if the link is dead.