Why the Internal drive is more expensive than the USB 3.0 External? Could any body enlighten me about this? Coz it seems the external one = internal drive + Enclosure! I'm just curious, if I break the case of My Book Essential 3 TB, will I just get the 3TB green inside? Why the Internal drive is more expensive than the USB 3.0 External? Could any body enlighten me about this? Coz it seems the external one = internal drive + Enclosure! I'm just curious, if I... » Read More Why the Internal drive is more expensive than the USB 3.0 External? Could any body enlighten me about this? Coz it seems the external one = internal drive + Enclosure! I'm just curious, if I break the case of My Book Essential 3 TB, will I just get the 3TB green inside? « Show Less
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Agreed; you are seeing a "sale" price on drives a retailer needs to "move" to make space for incoming inventory that may be the product's replacement series. Inside, take the drive apart and you have the "internal" drive. Go ahead and buy the external and dismantle them, it's a 5 minute task.
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I purchased the external drive and had nothing but problems. I took the hard disk out the enclosure installed in a desktop computer and it works fine.
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Probably. Reason for price could be inventory issues. Sometimes a retailer sells products cheaply to make room for new inventory on order.
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WD always uses their "Green" series of drives (5400 RPM) in the MyBook. I buy them just for the drive inside, because the Green drive is about 20% cheaper if purchased as an external MyBook. I have several 1TB drives that I bought in 2006 and they are still running great, showing between 90-100% health in 2 different diagnostics programs. That's why I went back to the MyBook whenever I needed more drive space... I now have 3 of the 4TB's and so far so good.
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I would use nothing BUT these drives in anything I built or upgraded. They're a bit pricier, and no one ever thinks about it, but the warranty on THESE hard drives, the WD Black series, is a full 5Y. VERY few other mfrs even offer a 5y warranty. And WD drives earn that warranty reputation, I haven't had a WD drive fail, EVER. In each case -- over a dozen -- they've become useless through increasing capacity, never mechanical/electronic failure. That is, I probably have an 80gig WD drive that's still functioning. It's just not worth plugging in and taking up a SATA channel when I can get that capacity on a freaking flash drive nowadays... Yes, they're that good. You can "save money" by buying something cheaper. But you'll pay in the long run with headaches from lost data, or time spent rebuilding your windows/software/os and tweaking it back to the way you had it. The HD is the soul of your machine. Everything else fails, you can practically swap a part back in and you're up and running. But the HD fails and you've got a multiday to longer term headache to get things back to "normal". And, for general purposes, they're among the best drives in performance terms, too. Tom's Hardware may rate something else marginally faster, but not by much. And not by enough to drag you away from WD Black. As the old saw goes, once you go Black, you'll never go back. :-D
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Personally, I'm more comfortable with the external. If my regular internal hard drive crashes, I can use my external to get anything I need on another computer before (if) I hand it over to the repair people fixing the main drive. I guess if you can remove your broken hard drive and pop in a new one easily, that's not so much of an issue. But I'm a pessimist and tend to think things like "what if my computer got so hot that both internal hard drives failed?"
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The red ones are the cheap ones right? Because the cheaper versions are definitely the ones I got. I thought about getting the base model (without the hard drives), but just figured I could upgrade later, as they begin to fail. One at a time hopefully. I love my Synology Disk Station!
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Yes. A USB 3.0 flash drive will be faster than USB 2.0. Keep in mind however, that budget 3.0 flash drives are slower than more expensive 3.0 drives that have faster memory.
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I prefer G Drives because the speed of the HD 7200RPM. I know connecting via thunderbolt is not going to make it faster but I am already using my USB ports for Audio Interfaces. It is just convenience and less things to carry and connect by using the thunderbolt.
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The NAS drives are more a hardware difference than software. Sure they may offer some enterprise features like secure erase in hardware, etc. but the real difference is the hardware. These drives are designed to better dampen internal generated and externally received vibrations. This design is due to the close proximity of the drives and the 24/7 operation. Check the specs and these drive typically rank between desktop and enterprise drives in terms of MTBF. They may have longer warranties as well. All-in-all it simply boils down to how much do you love your data? What is being stored on the NAS. Is it precious? I ran a DroboFS for two years with WD green drives. I replaced them with these drives thinking this was a better choice for my circumstances. The choice is ultimately yours.
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WD says that greens will work and nothing else. I have a feeling that has to do with the lower power consumption. I have heard horror stories about green drives and WD software has said my drives have gone bad, but the drives read and write just fine. I love the raid setup and dont know why anyone else hasn't continued this setup at this price point ( I bought mine used for a little less than $100)
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Initially, I bought this TB case because my MacBookPro doesn't have TB or USB3 ports.Now...Drive speed is important, but it is not the most.See those articles: http://www.itpro.co.uk/storage/22740/usb-vs-thunderbolt-which-is-betterhttp://www.pcpro.co.uk/features/382882/which-external-hard-drive-usb-3-or-thunderboltTB beat USB3, but not with a long advance.You may consider : file size, number of daisy chain devices, 4k monitors or not, budget.If you have extra internal HDD, you may buy an USB3 external casing.SSD beat HDD on speed, but HDD beat SSD on capacity.Depends of your needs. Initially, I bought this TB case because my MacBookPro doesn't have TB or USB3 ports.Now...Drive speed is important, but it is not the most.See those articles: http://www.itpro.co.uk/storage/22740/usb-vs-thunderbolt-which-is-betterhttp://www.pcpro.co.uk/features/382882/which-external-hard-drive-usb-3-or-thunderboltTB beat USB3, but not with a long advance.You may consider : file size, number of daisy chain devices, 4k monitors or not, budget.If you have extra internal HDD, you may buy an USB3... » Read More Initially, I bought this TB case because my MacBookPro doesn't have TB or USB3 ports.Now...Drive speed is important, but it is not the most.See those articles: http://www.itpro.co.uk/storage/22740/usb-vs-thunderbolt-which-is-betterhttp://www.pcpro.co.uk/features/382882/which-external-hard-drive-usb-3-or-thunderboltTB beat USB3, but not with a long advance.You may consider : file size, number of daisy chain devices, 4k monitors or not, budget.If you have extra internal HDD, you may buy an USB3 external casing.SSD beat HDD on speed, but HDD beat SSD on capacity.Depends of your needs. « Show Less
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It has no storage of its own. It is an enclosure into which you can put a hard drive. I put a 3tb drive into mine, but am planning to take it out, since the enclosure is too slow. I think I'm only getting USB 1.0 speeds out of it, not USB 2.0. So a 3tb drive would be better used elsewhere. I'm going to put an older smaller drive in & use it for different purposes (ie, not main storage, but special-case backups).
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The DVD drive has to be excluded because the thin design and extreme portability and not the mention the superb performance. If you plan to spend a dollar amount close to $2000 then a $75 USB external drive shouldn't be an issue. And if u are Confused between the Retina And the non retina display, the price difference is only $300 but the difference in performance is really HUGE. With the flash storage and retina display u will feel Apple has done a fantastic job. I just summarised what i feel for my mac book pro So u can make ur decision.
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don't even think about the thunderbolt drive. the usb3 connection is about same speed as thunderbolt but it is less expensive ($100.oo). If the drive fails it is the first year
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I just got one of these to back up the data on my Win8 laptop. It's as slow as MUD. I connected an external hard drive to the SAME USB port, and it was FAR faster. Avoid at all cost.I'd suggest this as the best alternative (get the 64GB for $50 rather than the 32GB for $45): Mushkin Ventura Pro 64 GB Flash Drive. It is USB3 but works very well on USB2 (and it's fast there too). One Xbox 360 user said it works perfectly (read the comments). Here's the link: Mushkin Ventura Pro 64 GB Flash Drive - MKNUFDVP64GB (Black)
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I'm not 100% tech savvy, but I think the major difference would be speed, if I'm not mistaken. 3.0 is the latest standard, isn't it? I think the transfer speed makes the difference, in which case I don't mind this one because I don't have any 3.0 USB items....I'm not much help in this matter, I just needed extra ports because I've downsized from a desktop to a laptop temporarily, so when I saw this I just grabbed it. It works quite well for what it's worth. I'm sorry if it this doesn't help.
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Amazon have been sending me the WD20EARS-00MVWB0!If you do buy it, please buy it thru my Amazon Store, its the same price and I get a small kickback from the sale.http://astore.amazon.com/brisperpag-20/detail/B002ZCXK0IGreat drive btw, use this for my main data partition and for an external backup drive on many servers.
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I wondered the same thing when I bought it since I wanted to be certain of this. The manufacturer said it was "compatible" with SATA III, but that does not necessarily mean anything. The external interface is USB 3.0 and limtied to 5Gbits/sec max throughput, of course. Anyway, after testing with a fast 3.5" 7200 disk drive, I came to the conclusion that the drive internally is running at max performance for its platter write speeds - as you can see from my reported review. Unless I were to check with an SSD, I would not be certain of the interface, but my educated guess is that it is is an internal SATA III interface ... hope that helps!