Is this a good deal on WD 1TB external?

http://www.bestbuy.ca/catalog/prodd...d=0926INGFS10097092&CMP=ILC-BBY_hmpage_slide3

It's $130 CAD ...that's $101 US for comparison sake.

 

Very good deal. They run about ~$190.

 

That's all the assurance I need. I'm buying it!

 

Wow a deal in Canadian ? I think its time us canucks hook up and try to do something so we can show more deals to out fellow canucks here on NBR!


Our prices are inflated as it is

 

Please no...I can't say no to a good deal...so my wallet gets thinner and thinner. Alot of times I see a great deal, then find out it's American only...I feel sad, yet so happy at the same time.

 

I have the Office Edition of this, but for all intensive purposes the same product. It is a great external drive. Had an initial format to NTFS issue, but that was quickly resolved with the help of tech support. It has exceptional transfer speeds for being USB only, but you can always tear out the drive and pop it into another case. The drive itself runs almost $100, so heck ya, jump on it. One word of advice, make sure to get a copy of the receipt and send it to Western Digital to update the warranty from date of manufacture to date of purchase. This will help to extend the period.

 

Not to make this a thread about language, but ...

As a non-native english speaker and journalist, this is one of my pet peeves. So many people say that, but it makes no sense saying something like that. It's an expression that's supposed to hold meaning, not just some empty expression to make the sentence flow better. The real expression is "for all intents and purposes".

I don't mean to offend anyone – it bugs me any time, no matter who says it. Much like when people go "Here, here" instead of "Hear, hear", when they agree and/or applaud something said. The "Here, here" should of course be responded to by asking "Where, where?"

Anyway, on to my real reason for posting in this thread:

I had one of "those". Well, I had two of something that looked like that, except it had a ring on the front (don't know which series that is?).

Coming home after having bought one for both me and my girlfriend, we tested them out. Mine seemed to work, but my gf's didn't show up on her computer. We tested mine on her's which did work, and then her's on mine. It still didn't work.

A couple of hours later the back-up of my lappie to the just bought external seemed to stall, so I let it do what it does for the night.

Apparently the drive was a teenager, because the next day it had done absolutely nothing. It was still on a break, and to make matters worse, the system had frozen. I had to pull everything.

After work, I went to the shop and told them what had happened. The clerk asked me to try another because he hadn't heard of such bad luck. I swapped on of them for another, and tried it in the store. It wouldn't mount, no matter what we did. Then we tested it on a PC (I'm not a macuser for much longer) and it still wouldn't mount.

Suffice to say, with my luck I avoid WD's like, well, VD's …

 

Interesting viewpoint, but would the following hold truth?

-TheFreeDictionary.com

Thus [pertaining to a concentrated factor] [reason for which anything is done] my version, which is of the same model series, is alike. Not sure if I am not following your idea. If anything, it is an overstatement as intensive would not be needed to explain purpose, as the word is, itself, shows importance. Wouldn't saying "for all intents and purposes" change the meaning of describing how the two are alike. When you say 'for all' it says that everything is included in reference to intents and purposes. Instead, I was denoting strictly the primary use of the drive, not all of the specific features pertaining to my version as compared to this standard version. I am not an English major nor am I stating almighty understanding, just playing 2 A.M.'s devil's advocate. By the way, I believe your second reference dates back to the days of 'Old English' and has not been generally revised, as you have stated, in current times. It's context, I guess, would be the most important factor.

In reference to the drives, this is a newer series, but all hard drives seem to have their horror stories. I have since scrapped my older WD My Book (series with front circular button) due to its ability to 'misplace' my files, similar to your experience.

 

Dang so many nice deals these days, I got screwed last month and bought a 300gb for like $130, I need this!!

 

its 120$ in usa :\ just W.T.F

 

Well, I suppose you meant it as "'by all relevant parameters' the two drives are the same". And not "the two drives are the same when their 'purposes are intensive'", whatever that might entail

No, it means "when it comes down to all the relevant parameters".

"Intensive purposes" doesn't make much sense in this regard. When we talk about harddisks it would mean something like "fastest transfers" or by a real stretch "most storage" or something like that. The "measurement" of the harddrive would somehow have to include a parameter called "Intensive purpose" or "intensive usage" or something like that.

Don't worry, I'm not trying to act "almighty understanding" hence I precursed my "uproar" with me saying I didn't speak english natively.

Yes, I'm perfectly able to understand that when they go "here, here", they actually mean "hear, hear", but in the same vein, people are able to get what I say, even if my grammar are far from perfect and I tend to be somewhat longwinded when I'm not working.

Yeah, hopefully they have upped the quality during the last few years.

 

I had noticed it, too, but I am too polite to correct somebody's grammar in a forum which attracts people of many different age groups and backgrounds.

If I were the kind of person who felt the need to correct grammar in a public forum, I could find plenty of grammatical problems with your own post.

Quite frankly, I find your claim of being a journalist suspect, but, then again, anybody who writes for ANY periodical, with a circulation in excess of one, could, ostensibly, CLAIM to be a journalist.

 

The deal on the WD 1TB is a good one.

The best "brick and mortar" store deal I have found on these drives is $99.99 at Frys.

I have three of these drives and find them to be great.

 

That doesn't seem like a good deal to me, the pricing looks standard. Especially since you have to count tax. Amazon has it for 117.99$, and if I recall on special sales like Black Friday they are common for 99$ or less.

 

Here's another one for the Canadian's! http://www.futureshop.ca/catalog/pr...665000FS10119807&catid=23795&logon=&langid=EN

 

Keep in mind it's $130 CAD...which is equivalent to $101 US.
Amazon.com has it for $118 US.
Amazon.ca has it for $167.50 CAD.
Fry's currently has it for $150 US.

Plus shipping is only $5 so that's a huge plus.

 

Don't forget the tax, Bestbuy charges taxes which, over here, makes it roughly the same price. Amazon was just an example, Tigerdirect is selling it for 111.98$ after shipping. I haven't researched any further.

But yeah, this is in the states and not in Canada. Tigerdirect.ca has it for around the same price as Bestbuy.ca, shipping is probably cheaper too, check for yourself by estimating postal code.

Keep in mind that these are standard prices, and not big sales.

 

That seagate looks pretty sweet great job

Yoyoman im gonna put so much deals up that you wont even have a wallet soon

 

I need a 1TB+ HDD bad myself and have been on the lookout for another $99 1TB deal. It can be internal but external may work better since its going to be a backup drive.

Id get a 1.5 or 2TB drive but I am kind of affraid of the higher than normal failure rates (and the 1TB seem to be in there some too)

 

Failure rates? Wow thats new i never hear about that. I guess its hard to hold on that space.

 

Keep an eye on Frys.com. It seems that every few weeks they offer the WD 1TB MyBook Essential for 99.99.

When I bought three a few weeks ago at a local Frys store, they had stacks of them on Friday and by Sunday almost all were gone.

Frys.com can be hard to dig through, sometimes, but I have found that it is often worth the effort.

Another interesting thing is that sometimes Frys.com will say that a deal is "online only," but I have been able to set up the purchase as "store pickup," yet when I go to the store, the item is the same price as I paid.

Other times, the store price is different from the online price and you must purchase online for store pickup if you want to get the deal AND get it in-store. I have asked them to honor the online price before and they don't seem to willing to cooperate.

So, I go out to the parking lot. Order the item on my iPhone and go back in and pick it up at the lower price.

And just to make it all even more confusing, sometimes there are "in-store" specials which don't show on the website.

All part of the fun shopping at Frys.