Hard Drive Bargain Watch

[rdinkel]

I have that 1TB LaCie. Works great; looks great; blue light matches 612 lighting.

 

[will53033]

Help for a Newbie

I would like to add a EHD to my 722k. Dish recommends the Western Digital DVR Expander (500 GB).

I can get this drive from Amazon for $99.99 plus $8.97 shipping - total of $108.96.

Amazon has a WD Mybook Essentials 750 GB for $89.99 and free shipping.

Is the DVR Expander, with less capacity, worth the extra money?

Is the WD Mybook Essentials a good drive or do you have other recommendations?

Thanks for your help.

Will

 

[pretzelboy]

I went with the My Book Essentials 1TB drive and it works just fine. Once formatted it had about 930GB of space.

 

[long_time_DNC]

Just out of curiosity, has anyone ever tried a drive >1TB on a 622 or 722? If so, what happened?

 

[Smith P.]

I did post results of connecting WD 2 TB disk to 211 and 622/722.

 

[dfergie]

I'm on my 2nd 1 TB drive, Western Digital My Books $119 at Wally World...

 

[Jeff0575]

I'm on my 2nd 1 TB drive, Western Digital My Books $119 at Wally World...

I like the 1 tb from wally world. i thought it was a great deal. and works great

 

[allargon]

Just out of curiosity, has anyone ever tried a drive >1TB on a 622 or 722? If so, what happened?

Nothing extraordinary--as stated 1.5TB and 2TB drives work just fine.

 

[long_time_DNC]

Nothing extraordinary--as stated 1.5TB and 2TB drives work just fine.

Interesting... What make?

 

[yaz96]

Western Digital Elements 1TB USB 2.0 External Hard Drive - Black - WDE1UBK10000N - Buy.com

$99 bucks, free shipping

 

[MikeMoss]

Hi

Amazon has 1 TB drives for $99.95 both LaCie (I have two of these connected to my computer and have had no problems over a number of years) and Iomega.

They have a 500 GB drive for 74.95

Mike

 

[dfergie]

Wal-Mart has Seagate 1.5 TB drives for $149...

 

[Smith P.]

Fry's selling Seagate 1.5 TB for $114 last week ...

 

[tfoss]

I have a 612, will a 1 TB harddrive work? Also, I notice that 1.5 TB harddrives are almost as cheap, will these sizes work too?

 

[Smith P.]

For sure, 622/722 do accept 1.5 TB.
211 is not [yet].
If you'll test it in your 612 and tell us here, it would benefit for all members.
[Get it in that store who will give full refund in case of failure - Fry's did that for my 2 TB tests].

 

[navychop]

Multi-platter 1.5TBs? I thought only certain few worked.

 

[Smith P.]

It was multi LUN enclosures limit, ie with two or more physical disks inside.

C'mon - we corrected this "platter" error many times.

 

[Smith P.]

Not here, still $114. But 1 TB is for the $99 price is for sure.

 

[AngryStamen]

how many platters?

this may be answered already, and maybe i'm not looking in the right place, but how can you tell how many platters an EHD has?

 

[Smith P.]

Not platters, but disks - separate devices inside of the enclosure. Number of platters inside of each disk is irrelevant for EHD PURPOSE ! Two posts above explained it for you.

Ask manufacturer or read tech specs of the device.