I didn't see it in an ad and I haven't seen it at that price online. I verified the model last night and it is the newer model with an integrated controller, which may be a source of headaches for using it without their software. It's a "While Supplies Last" display, but it was still mostly full. I wonder if WD was trying to move a large stock of these over Black Friday and even the $50 price tag wasn't enough to sway people over other stuff.
Jon.
On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 9:07 PM, Doug Kelly dougk.ff7@gmail.com wrote:
Having a lot of personal experience with Micro Center, they will take it back so long as you keep all of the packaging with it. As for price matching, they don't have any formal policy, so they may try to match it, but there's not a guarantee.
As for Wal-Mart, usually they'll take about anything back for store credit at a minimum. As always, pay attention to the return policies very carefully.
On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 6:54 PM, System Phreaker systemphreaker@gmail.com wrote:
Walfart isn't to good about letting ppl try stuff out. Microcenter does price matching and they're pretty decent about letting people try stuff out. So i guess you could take the ad from walmart and see if they will price match and let you try it out with a linux or Unix OS.
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I wouldn't buy a WD mybook, or any WD external drive for that matter, at least for another few years. They lost my trust when they started doing the special-software-required crap. It may be possible to get their drives to work in gnu, but they chose to muddy the waters. I won't reward that with a sale.
I recently bought a 2TB external seagate from Microcenter for $109. I wouldn't waste my desk space on anything smaller than 2TB these days, and its twice the deal this WD one is. And I didn't wonder if it would come with proprietary crapware required to make it work right. I did however, ask the salesclerk if I could return it for a full refund if it didn't work out of the box with gnu+linux.
udevadm monitor (plugged in drive) (saw device node) ctrl-c dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdg bs=1M count=1 parted /dev/sdg mklabel gpt parted /dev/sdg mkpart primary mkfs.ext4 -j -O extents,dir_index,sparse_super /dev/sdg1 mkdir /mnt/usb echo /dev/sdg1 /mnt/usb ext4 noatime 0 0 >> /etc/fstab mount /mnt/usb
And I've been using for the last couple weeks without fail.
Or if you use a gui automounter, and are ok with whatever filesystem comes on it, just plug it in and it will pop up.
How about a 2TB Seagate drive at Newegg.com for $89: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148503&cm_mmc=E...
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148503&cm_mmc=ENCORET-_-414-_-N82E16822148503&nm_mc=ENCORETAnyone have any experience, good or bad, with Seagate?
Peace, Jim
On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 3:09 PM, Billy Crook billycrook@gmail.com wrote:
I wouldn't buy a WD mybook, or any WD external drive for that matter, at least for another few years. They lost my trust when they started doing the special-software-required crap. It may be possible to get their drives to work in gnu, but they chose to muddy the waters. I won't reward that with a sale.
I recently bought a 2TB external seagate from Microcenter for $109. I wouldn't waste my desk space on anything smaller than 2TB these days, and its twice the deal this WD one is. And I didn't wonder if it would come with proprietary crapware required to make it work right. I did however, ask the salesclerk if I could return it for a full refund if it didn't work out of the box with gnu+linux.
udevadm monitor (plugged in drive) (saw device node) ctrl-c dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdg bs=1M count=1 parted /dev/sdg mklabel gpt parted /dev/sdg mkpart primary mkfs.ext4 -j -O extents,dir_index,sparse_super /dev/sdg1 mkdir /mnt/usb echo /dev/sdg1 /mnt/usb ext4 noatime 0 0 >> /etc/fstab mount /mnt/usb
And I've been using for the last couple weeks without fail.
Or if you use a gui automounter, and are ok with whatever filesystem comes on it, just plug it in and it will pop up. _______________________________________________ KCLUG mailing list KCLUG@kclug.org http://kclug.org/mailman/listinfo/kclug
Around July 2009 I purchased a 500GB Seagate FreeAgent XTreme from Microcenter for somewhere around $80-$90.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148350
I've been using it as my boot/root/home for my Sprint laptop since the first of the year, and for the most part it's worked quite well. Occasionally I've had to power cycle (unplug) the unit in order for it to show up in the boot list and very rarely it "pauses" for up to 5-10 seconds before recovering. This probably would not be as big a deal except for the fact that I'm using it as my ONLY drive. I'm wondering if it isn't really intended to be powered nearly 24/7/365.
Thanks, -- Hal hald@kc.rr.com
On Tue, 30 Nov 2010 09:41:25 -0600, Jim Herrmann wrote:
How about a 2TB Seagate drive at Newegg.com for $89: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148503&cm_mmc=E...
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148503&cm_mmc=ENCORET-_-414-_-N82E16822148503&nm_mc=ENCORETAnyone have any experience, good or bad, with Seagate?
Peace, Jim
On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 3:09 PM, Billy Crook billycrook@gmail.com wrote:
I wouldn't buy a WD mybook, or any WD external drive for that matter, at least for another few years. They lost my trust when they started doing the special-software-required crap. It may be possible to get their drives to work in gnu, but they chose to muddy the waters. I won't reward that with a sale.
I recently bought a 2TB external seagate from Microcenter for $109. I wouldn't waste my desk space on anything smaller than 2TB these days, and its twice the deal this WD one is. And I didn't wonder if it would come with proprietary crapware required to make it work right. I did however, ask the salesclerk if I could return it for a full refund if it didn't work out of the box with gnu+linux.
udevadm monitor (plugged in drive) (saw device node) ctrl-c dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdg bs=1M count=1 parted /dev/sdg mklabel gpt parted /dev/sdg mkpart primary mkfs.ext4 -j -O extents,dir_index,sparse_super /dev/sdg1 mkdir /mnt/usb echo /dev/sdg1 /mnt/usb ext4 noatime 0 0 >> /etc/fstab mount /mnt/usb
And I've been using for the last couple weeks without fail.
Or if you use a gui automounter, and are ok with whatever filesystem comes on it, just plug it in and it will pop up. _______________________________________________ KCLUG mailing list KCLUG@kclug.org http://kclug.org/mailman/listinfo/kclug
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