March 7, 201214 yr Use Quill.com coupon code TYD during checkout. Search for item number WDBACW0030HBK to get the deal. Quill.com has this Western Digital My Book Essential 3TB External Hard Drive for $149.99. Get it for $134.99 when you use the coupon code. Amazon has the same item for $169.99 with an average rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars. Shipping is free.
March 7, 201214 yr Would people rip these out of the case to throw in the the unraid system? Yes. Drives still have a 2 year warranty verified by WD's warranty checker.
March 7, 201214 yr Author OK I could not find out but are they green drives? Sent from my SGH-T989 using Tapatalk
March 7, 201214 yr Yes, green drives inside. Too late anyway. Not only are they sold out, but the cancelled my order that I placed around 7:00 am this morning. Just got the order cancellation email from their customer service about 10 min ago.
March 7, 201214 yr I think the warranty would be void if you removed it from the case Sent from my DROID RAZR using Tapatalk
March 8, 201214 yr I think the warranty would be void if you removed it from the case Sent from my DROID RAZR using Tapatalk It's not. I bought one of these 6 months ago and removed it from the case and then checked the serial number on the drive on the warranty checker on WD's website and confirmed it still had a 2 year warranty.
March 8, 201214 yr The online warranty checker doesn't know it was removed from the case. It will identify it as an external drive and I am pretty sure they won't cover the warranty if you sent it in. Sent from my DROID RAZR using Tapatalk
March 8, 201214 yr What if the drive failed in the unit? Just save the case and I it fails during the warrant period pop it back in and send the thing back. The drives are easily removed.
March 8, 201214 yr The online warranty checker doesn't know it was removed from the case. It will identify it as an external drive and I am pretty sure they won't cover the warranty if you sent it in. does it though?? I'm not sure they keep a database of who they sold to for warranty work. My guess is the serial number is tied to a MFG date. They probably only care that the drive was purchased where and how it gets used is up to the end user, I guess... that serial number you found.. was it the same on the external case as it is on the internal? I'm curious to know if anyone tried to warranty replace a drive that came from an external chassis??
March 9, 201214 yr If you can put it back in the case with no signs of removal, you might get lucky http://support.wdc.com/warranty/rmapacking.asp "External Western Digital Enclosures: Do not remove the drive from the external enclosure. Return the drive in its original enclosure/plastic housing (without having been opened or dismantled, along with the power adapter). Please keep all software, manuals and interface cables. WARNING: Removing the hard drive from, a Western Digital single unit external enclosure, will void the warranty."
March 10, 201214 yr WD and Seagate both keep records that tie the drives serial number to a external enclosure. They know if the drive was originally in a enclosure or not.
March 11, 201214 yr So get this. I bought a WD MyBooK PRO in 2007. In the beginning I had nothing but problems. I save all my data and burned a bunch of CDs to back up the device. The power connection was flaky and one day the thing burnt up and I lost my data. See attached. Recently I started toying with data recovery and when I scanned the two drives in my MyBook I found data on the drives from the previous owner. I has preowned drives in a new product. How does that happen? That's bogus.
March 11, 201214 yr I suppose companies can put refurb drives in external enclosures. That would account for cheaper prices of external drives over internal. Not legal but then I suppose sometimes companies do illegal things. Not saying WD or Seagate do, but stranger things have happened.
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