are these refurb? Why would the warranty only be 90 days?
techtoysavvy
Geeky member
posted: Oct. 16, 2009 @ 12:07p
I just bought 2 at Fry's in Bay Area before 9:00 I can confirm they are WD6400AACS Caviar Green. The manufacture date is 24 JUN 2009 The drives are not marked as REFURB. I ran a warranty check on the serial numbers and it expires 10/29/2010. "WD6400AACS-00G8B1 In Limited Warranty 10/29/2010†"
techtoysavvy said: I just bought 2 at Fry's in Bay Area before 9:00 I can confirm they are WD6400AACS Caviar Green. The manufacture date is 24 JUN 2009 The drives are not marked as REFURB. I ran a warranty check on the serial numbers and it expires 10/29/2010. "WD6400AACS-00G8B1 In Limited Warranty 10/29/2010†"
Available online as well. In for 2. Will put them to RAID1 with the el-cheapo enclosure I got from the other deal. Thanks OP.
techtoysavvy
Geeky member
posted: Oct. 16, 2009 @ 1:20p
Folshack said:
Do you happen to know if they have more left?
I did not check quantity but the stock numbers on the screen when the CSR pulled it up were 2 digits. I was not paying as close attention to see the numbers. My eyes are not as good as they used to be.
The 1TB for $60 and 1.5TB for $80 sold out quick in the past 2 weeks. The 1TB was gone by 11:00 am in Sunnyvale 2 weeks ago.
fchild said: Available online as well. In for 2. Will put them to RAID1 with the el-cheapo enclosure I got from the other deal. Thanks OP.Thanks for the link. Got 1 for ISPU
pigtail111
Member
posted: Oct. 16, 2009 @ 3:19p
just grabbed one from Frys B&M. There is no package, no cable, nothing... It is in sealed bag. just like those OEM from Newegg. I was told it is not refurbished or returned.
none at San Jose/Brokaw. guy tried selling me the Seagate 1.5TB 7200rpm for $100 (the 5900rpm is $90).
speaking of which, the shelf was out of the 1.5TB 5900rpm and the 1.5TB 7200rpm was sitting next to it. but they have 5900rpm in the back (i saw someone ask for it.)
I got one at the Industry Fry's. It is indeed a Western Digital. While 640GB for $40 is cheap, I recalled a couple weeks back there was a 1.5TB for $59 at Fry's? Man, I didn't know why I passed up on that one. That would have been a better deal in my book. Or did I misread the ad back then? I also bought the SimpleTech (re)drive 1TB for $78. Not sure if that is a good deal and not a lot of retailers offer it other than Fry's... Hmm...
what type of enclosure do you guys put this drive in? Will it run hot so I'll need a SATA enclosure with a fan? Is plastic ok or do I need an aluminum one? I'm used to installing HDD to a desktop, not as a standalone external drive. All the ones I see on eBay supports up 500GB. What do I need for a 650GB HDD?
techtoysavvy
Geeky member
posted: Oct. 16, 2009 @ 11:49p
shallot said: ... All the ones I see on eBay supports up 500GB. What do I need for a 650GB HDD?
I have never seen a problem with putting in a larger drive since the LBA48 issue was put to rest. In plain english, if it supports 500G it should work with your 640GB or larger drive.
techtoysavvy
Geeky member
posted: Oct. 16, 2009 @ 11:50p
deal dead online. new price is $60. $57 for 750G is a better deal now.
TheSpyder
Member
posted: Oct. 16, 2009 @ 11:52p
Seagate 1.5's are also $89 on sale.
I can confirm for Wilsonvile OR, WD640 Green. Bought 2
TrueKnight said: While 640GB for $40 is cheap, I recalled a couple weeks back there was a 1.5TB for $59 at Fry's? Man, I didn't know why I passed up on that one. That would have been a better deal in my book. Or did I misread the ad back then?
It was 1.5TB for $80, and it sold out at a lot of stores within hours. They have Seagate 1.5TB 5900rpm for $90 and 7200rpm for $100 now.
mo5les said: fchild said: Available online as well. In for 2. Will put them to RAID1 with the el-cheapo enclosure I got from the other deal. Thanks OP.
It's $59.99 now, am I missing something?!! Yup, they raised the price online.
These drives are fast, I bought one months ago for a raid backup solution in case my raid 0 array failed. Then today when I saw the sale so I bought 4 more of them today at Fry's and have them in raid 0 stripe already, here are the test scores, nice drives for $40.
Q6600 4gb ram, Windows Xp with raid 0 striped, 4-Western Digital 640GB drives from Fry's today are getting 212.6MB/s average with HD TUNE. And getting a drive index of 361.51.MB/s in Sisoftware Sandra with burst up to 420MB/s. To compair a single raptor gets 93MB/s in HDtune. I spent $160 for this 4X raid 0 setup. It was limit one but I had my sons go in with me and I made another trip back in to get 4 total. My old raid setup was Western digital sata150 drives 250gb each and thier raid 0 score was 123MB/s.
I just happened to reinstall my windows on my old raid setup this week and had that backup drive in my pc to store everything and ran a test on it it was like 80MBs single drive I was amazed, guess it's those dual platters. then I saw these on sale at Fry's and had to upgrade, much cheaper then SSD drives and 2.4TB of space for $160. Windows XP 32 is limited to 2TB of space. I just split them up into 1.2TB each raid C: and D:. I tested raid 10 at first, and it works nice but it was about a 30% decrease in speed to raid 0. It was still faster the my old setup but I'm greedy for speed, and I have all of my stuff backed up just in case.
If you would like a screenshot send me your email address I can't post it on here i already tried
Now compair this to a OCZ SSD Vertex drive. It comes up around the same average score in HD tune with a single drive with the 120gb or the 250gb but who wants to spend $300 or $700. Let alone for 120gb or 250gb, I spent $160 for 2.4TB and get 212MB/s. I will wait a year for prices to come down I want to raid the new generations of SSD but i will wait for bang for the buck.
rwong48 said: TrueKnight said: While 640GB for $40 is cheap, I recalled a couple weeks back there was a 1.5TB for $59 at Fry's? Man, I didn't know why I passed up on that one. That would have been a better deal in my book. Or did I misread the ad back then?
It was 1.5TB for $80, and it sold out at a lot of stores within hours. They have Seagate 1.5TB 5900rpm for $90 and 7200rpm for $100 now.
Ordered last night when it was still $40 and picked it up today.
Came in sealed anti-static bag without any other packaging, CD, manual or cables.
QuixoticOne
Senior Member
posted: Oct. 18, 2009 @ 12:58a
I've had drive enclosures with fans, and drive enclosures without fans.
Every drive enclosure I've had without a built in fan now has a dead drive and they ran very hot; not this model of drive, but I'm just being general.
Most of the drive enclosures with small included fans still ran a bit hot for my liking, though generally speaking the drives in them lasted a lot longer, though still the enclosure quality isn't always that good.
My suggestion would be to ALWAYS use an enclosure with a built in fan, and give preference to ones with larger fans, metal enclosures, and higher quality units. You have to ask yourself -- what is my data worth?
And thanks OP and others. I almost bit on the 640, but ended up with the retail 1.5 kit at the slightly lower 6c/GB plus it would work better for my backup / storage purposes, thought the 640 is tempting at this price if one doesn't have more than that much data to store.
MegaViper said: These drives are fast, I bought one months ago for a raid backup solution in case my raid 0 array failed. Then today when I saw the sale so I bought 4 more of them today at Fry's and have them in raid 0 stripe already, here are the test scores, nice drives for $40.
Q6600 4gb ram, Windows Xp with raid 0 striped, 4-Western Digital 640GB drives from Fry's today are getting 212.6MB/s average with HD TUNE. And getting a drive index of 361.51.MB/s in Sisoftware Sandra with burst up to 420MB/s. To compair a single raptor gets 93MB/s in HDtune. I spent $160 for this 4X raid 0 setup. It was limit one but I had my sons go in with me and I made another trip back in to get 4 total. My old raid setup was Western digital sata150 drives 250gb each and thier raid 0 score was 123MB/s.
I just happened to reinstall my windows on my old raid setup this week and had that backup drive in my pc to store everything and ran a test on it it was like 80MBs single drive I was amazed, guess it's those dual platters. then I saw these on sale at Fry's and had to upgrade, much cheaper then SSD drives and 2.4TB of space for $160. Windows XP 32 is limited to 2TB of space. I just split them up into 1.2TB each raid C: and D:. I tested raid 10 at first, and it works nice but it was about a 30% decrease in speed to raid 0. It was still faster the my old setup but I'm greedy for speed, and I have all of my stuff backed up just in case.
If you would like a screenshot send me your email address I can't post it on here i already tried
Now compair this to a OCZ SSD Vertex drive. It comes up around the same average score in HD tune with a single drive with the 120gb or the 250gb but who wants to spend $300 or $700. Let alone for 120gb or 250gb, I spent $160 for 2.4TB and get 212MB/s. I will wait a year for prices to come down I want to raid the new generations of SSD but i will wait for bang for the buck.This will stack up well against previous generation drives. But to determine the impact of 5400rpm, the 7200rpm Blue/Black equivalent to this drive starts out at ~120MB/s and averages ~95MB/s.
rjr311
Member
posted: Oct. 18, 2009 @ 7:25a
I was at the Chicago Frys yesterday and the guy in front of me got the last msi / amd le-1640 combo. I live in Kansas City and was there for work. Anybody here who lives near another Frys wanna buy one for me (family computer)?
This will stack up well against previous generation drives. But to determine the impact of 5400rpm, the 7200rpm Blue/Black equivalent to this drive starts out at ~120MB/s and averages ~95MB/s.
These are listed as 7200RPM but I think you are right they are 5400-7200RPM the rotational speed is supposed to change to save electricity and noise, but it doesn't and it's stuck at 5400RPM in testing. I read that somewhere. But they are still fast for $40 each.
Model Brand Western Digital Series Caviar Green Model WD6400AACS Packaging Bare Drive Performance Interface SATA 3.0Gb/s Capacity 640GB RPM 7200 RPM Cache 16MB Average Seek Time 8.9ms
I got one yesterday. It looks good and works well. I didn't buy the $59 1GB one because it was a discontinued model. But his one looks like a current model even though not top of line model (16mg vs. 32 mb cache but I don't think I care). The warranty is one year from WD registration. Don't see anything wrong with it.
twinclouds said: I didn't buy the $59 1GB one because it was a discontinued model. Of course, last time I checked 1GB HDDs were last sold >15 years ago.
SKORPI0 said: twinclouds said: I didn't buy the $59 1GB one because it was a discontinued model. Of course, last time I checked 1GB HDDs were last sold >15 years ago. 1GB, back in 1988:
MeraNamJoker said: larrymoencurly said: SKORPI0 said: twinclouds said: I didn't buy the $59 1GB one because it was a discontinued model. Of course, last time I checked 1GB HDDs were last sold >15 years ago. 1GB, back in 1988:
I bet the IMB model had 'real' 1 GB (calculating using binary algorithm) and not the fake 1 GB (using decimal system) which is used by all new storage device makers.
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