WD 1TB SATA Drives

[Wesley Crusher]

Up for sale, a bunch of Western Digital 1 TB SATA drives.

WD10EACS - $70 each

http://individual.utoronto.ca/bzhou/images/raid_server_3.jpg

[Xzinum]

I'll take one.

[The Killing Joke]

Good deal. You save ~$9.99 + the taxes per drive over the "DS" models, but you only get 16MB cache. Do they still retain much of their Factory Warranty?

[Derfel]

Would you consider shipping?

[Freezerburn]

If you still have 2 left over around April, I'd definitely love to pick them up while I'm in Toronto.

[Wesley Crusher]

The set of drives:

Status Exp Date
In Limited Warranty 4/7/2011†
In Limited Warranty 4/7/2011†
In Limited Warranty 7/19/2011† <- Sold
In Limited Warranty 4/7/2011† <- Sold
In Limited Warranty 12/15/2010
Out of Limited Warranty 1/26/2009† <- I'm keeping this one, unless someone really wants one out of warranty for whatever reason.

[WiseGuy]

yuuuuuuck Greens :(

PS: sorry about saying bad things about ur product

[The Killing Joke]

So, how many do you still have left?

[Wesley Crusher]

All of them. I will ship, but it's probably not worth it for you guys. It's probably about $7 bucks to ship in Ontario.

[WiseGuy]

Brian i changed my mind, i want one. Green is perfect for an external. I don't have a use for one yet but the deal's too good :) I'll take the one with the longest remaining limited warranty.

[Wesley Crusher]

Do you want meet in Toronto, or ship?

[WiseGuy]

cannot decide - will let you know soon. I don't need the drive ASAP but a good deal is a good deal. I can paypal you the money and just pick it up later, but like i said, ill let you know soon.

[Lopert]

I'd also be interested in getting one of these.

[fab]

I'm considering this since my laptop is dying and I could use a massive external for transferring and backing up! hm.

[Xzinum]

Got my drive. Thanks Brian.

[Wesley Crusher]

Thanks Xzinium.

For anyone who wants a drive please let me know your postal code so I can estimate shipping.

[WiseGuy]

hey wes still got some of these left? I will contact you when this weekend is over.
I picked up this (http://www.vantecusa.com/front/product/view_detail/292) earlier today cause i got a sale on it.

http://www.vantecusa.com/system/application/images/product/nst-360s2i-box-2.jpg

I'll pay you to ship it to my place in Waterloo.

[M Kraft]

I am also interested and will pay you $1 more than Wiseguy will.

[Wesley Crusher]

Gents, there is one drive remaining.

[WiseGuy]

Received mine today :) tyvm

[Xzinum]

My drive failed today :(

I got a warning from ubuntu that my drive had many bad sectors when i got home. Turned off the computer to backup data to another drive, done. Not recognized, heavy clicking coming from the drive. Luckily, there was nothing on there that i can't re-download, but i though i'd let the other buyers know about it and to keep an eye on their drives.

Submitted an RMA for the drive.

ps. I'm not blaming Brian for selling me a drive that was on its last leg.

[WiseGuy]

ugh ohhhhhhhhhhhhh, that sucks.

[WiseGuy]

bad news - i was copying a file to mine and my pc bluescreened. correction - the drive is still working. Still I hope it wasn't the cause of the BSOD.

[The Killing Joke]

bad news - i was copying a file to mine and my pc bluescreened. correction - the drive is still working. Still I hope it wasn't the cause of the BSOD.

HD's usually do not cause BSOD's.

[iheartyou]

HD's usually do not cause BSOD's.

they do if you're in the process of copy'n/pasting a file as the error occurred on the hdd and thus causes the os to error. Very unfortunate to both of you, hope your RMA works out!

[Xzinum]

they do if you're in the process of copy'n/pasting a file as the error occurred on the hdd and thus causes the os to error. Very unfortunate to both of you, hope your RMA works out!

I disagree. Failed file transfers don't take down a kernel. Atleast, not in the windows world.

[WiseGuy]

last 2 BSOD's i had on this PC caused the HD to fail. One was recoverable the other is toast. (a while ago when i first installed Win7)

It appears though that it must have been something else. I was actually file transferring I was rending a video to the external. Either way it worked the second time around just fine.

[MoeB]

Are you implying that his drives are faulty?

[WiseGuy]

i don't think so

[WiseGuy]

wow screw me over twice. There is apparently some sort of glitch where my enclosure doesn't work with a very specific harddrive - being this one.... what are the odds.

Luckily apparently i just have to swap one of my other enclosures and it should be fine. Still annoying though since i named my external drives based on the colour of the casing :(





To clarify - there is nothing wrong with the drive wes sold me. I just got very unlucky.

[Derfel]

wow screw me over twice. There is apparently some sort of glitch where my enclosure doesn't work with a very specific harddrive - being this one.... what are the odds.



WEIRD...

[WiseGuy]

since both the enclosure and the drive itself have auto-sleep features something screws up hard when one of them is activated. The drive goes to sleep and I cannot wake it up. Also - it goes to sleep WHILE transferring files (this is what is causing crashes) the frame is only 5 minutes of inactivity.

[Rez Prophet]

THEY ARE GREENS

[Wesley Crusher]

I'm very sorry about the problem that Xzinum had. These drives were running great in my array and I didn't anticipate any problems after a wipe and a full format. I've sent him a refund for shipping for the RMA even though he said it's OK. It's least I could do, and I'm glad it happened sooner rather than later.


since both the enclosure and the drive itself have auto-sleep features something screws up hard when one of them is activated. The drive goes to sleep and I cannot wake it up. Also - it goes to sleep WHILE transferring files (this is what is causing crashes) the frame is only 5 minutes of inactivity.

This is very odd behaviour. The only auto-sleep feature of the drive itself that I know about is the head parking when there's no activity, not a complete spin-down.

I'd first recommend checking out the Vantec Nexstar 3i power management software (as mentioned in http://www.vantecusa.com/front/product/view_detail/292). Based on the post here (http://www.digitalhome.ca/forum/showpost.php?p=965744&postcount=20), it's probably your best bet.

You can give this program a try, but I don't think it'll help in this case (but you never know): WDIDLE3 (http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1509766)
You'll want to disable the auto head park feature or at least increase the idle timeout that triggers it. This may require you to connect the drive directly to your motherboard with the drives in IDE mode, as you'll need to run this through pure DOS (boot key/disk/whatever).

[The Killing Joke]

ITT: Wise has multiple failures, and Wes is awesome.

[Freezerburn]

Wes is awesome.

Exactly this.

[Wesley Crusher]

All gone.

Thanks guys!

[WiseGuy]

wow i posted in this thread yesterday but it vanished - not going to bother to retype it.