Western Digital External Hard Drive Deals: Amazon Sale on 3 TB for $120, 2 TB for $80
Jul 23, 2011 - 6 Comments
If you need more storage capacity, these two top-rated Western Digital drives on sale from Amazon are great deals, they both have giant capacities of 3TB and 2TB respectively.
- 3 TB Western Digital WD Elements USB 2.0 External Hard Drive for $119.99
- 2 TB Western Digital WD Elements USB 2.0 External Hard Drive for $79.99
Free shipping is included from Amazon as usual.
These drives make for perfect Time Capsule expansions or Time Machine backups for any Mac, but are also great places to store your external media, iTunes library, and external iOS backups for anyone with constrained disk space like SSD users and MacBook Air owners.
For the 2TB it looks like 89.99 to me. :(
I used a WD external for a while as a Time Machine. However, the extra noise every time a backup ensued started driving me crazy. I bought a USB-powered drive which is practically noiseless. My backups probably take a little longer, but since I don’t hear it, I don’t care.
I don’t recommand WD,
I don’t recommand USB on Mac (FireWire is better)
So this disk is not for me, and I don’t recommend it :/
I’ve had nothing but trouble from each WD disk I’ve ever purchased. Luckily they failed out of the box when I was attempting to format them so I just took them right back to Fry’s. A friend ignored my thumbs down and bought one. 2 months later it just failed to show up in Disk Utility. WD sent him a replacement that was clearly remanufactured but he’d gotten a Seagate already. When the 3rd drive failed after a month, he used it to test the local gravitation constant from atop the physics building.
Just got a 3TB, I am going to partition it for Time Machine and media. Score!
I bought the exact same model in the 1TB version back in November and paid $69.99 on Amazon so this seems like a very good prices.
I use it for precisely what is mentioned here – TimeMachine. Works great!