HDD Transfer rates: Why can't amazon post the drives transfer rates in 'Product Details'?
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Probably because it doesn't really matter. SATA 6 Gb/s is just marketing for a mechanical drive. No mechanical HDD can even saturate the SATA 3 Gb/s spec.
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I looked in the packaging and in the materials in the box and I couldn't find the distinction. With it being an external drive and transferring at the speed of USB 3... In not sure that will matter a whole lot unless you planned on cracking it open and installing the drives to your PC. I'm sure this can be found out on WD's website. My guess is its 5,400 due to the cost of the device being so low. As soon as I got the device I copied almost a terabyte of my baby pictures to it and it didn't seem slow an it wouldn't be often if move that quantity of data until I replace it.
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Hello, Sorry I did not notice your question back in 2009. Amazon offers free shipping for more than $25 purchase. You will pay no shipping for these 10 drives. I hope I have answered your questions. Amy/PNY
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Yes the hard drive has a jumper that will limit data transfer rate to 1.5Gb/s Put the jumper to the outer-most pins of the jumper block will force the drive into the 1.5Gb/s transfer mode.
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I did have the same problem but contacted Amazon support. They were very useful and put a credit the equivalent of the discount on my account. This way, a few minutes later when I was finally able to complete the purchase, the $30 discount showed at check-out and I was able to get the drive at the deal price. You can try contacting them in case they would do the same for you. I received my drive today and am in the process of installing it. Good luck!
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I've got the same thing with only airbags from amazon. this is NOT A SAFE way to ship HArd drives. maybe they do it, to ensure that we will be back to buy another HD from them soon, as if they aren't DOA.. they wont last long. lol with that type of shipping.I got 2 seagate 500GB drives from Buy.com both at different times. they were in little boxes. with this cardboard like stuff shaped to HOLD the HD in the air.. then had packaging around them.. it was a great design. and I wish amazon and newegg would do the same!
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I honestly don't know about the speed comparisons you're citing, or the HD connections. The person for whom I bought this machine doesn't care about either one! I'd guess "No" on the HD, but I wouldn't want my life to depend on the answer. Sorry!
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The WD10JPVT is a 5400 RPM HDD, Amazon has it wrong in their product description.
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OEM drives in my case, possibly European models not for sale in the US. Not covered by manufacturer's warranty - at least, not on the four drives I purchased and received today (and am sending back tomorrow). Strange that Amazon doesn't require sellers to publish warranty info. It's as if they encourage sales of gray market goods.
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By not clear to me why, Amazon does not save the changes that I make in my review. Therefore, I can give you links that are uploaded to file sharing. I hope at least it will allow me to make the Amazon!http://i016.radikal.ru/1503/fe/35a2a12ce97f.jpghttp://s018.radikal.ru/i501/1503/c2/f32ac4fae134.jpghttp://s50.radikal.ru/i130/1503/b2/50bbbce12f2d.jpg
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New 1.06 FW was just released this morning... with support for 1.5TB drives.I'd watch for problem reports on D-Link's forum for a little while before trusting it with important data, just in case there is a bug.
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Ordered 1.8 SSD on 1/15 and it hasn't shipped yet either. Amazon has shipped both 1.6 models (HDD & SSD), so I'm hoping the 1.8 SSD will ship before the weekend.
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I have purchased two of the 750gb drives via Amazon.com (Amazon.com was the direct seller, not a 3rd party seller) and they were both new/sealed. And unless you already know this; I have been told from a Amazon customer service agent (live phone call) that unless the Amazon product page says refurb, then the item is brand new; Amazon "direct sold" items are always supposed to be new. This of course does not have anything to do if you are looking at items sold from one of amazon's many 3rd party sellers.
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I have purchased several of these drives and they are new in factory packaging. if you do have a problem amazon and wd support are very good. they run at 100 to 110 mps speed and are very quiet.
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I don't know, sorry. Perhaps you could contact DRIVE web site for further information.
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interesting comment...but no have not tried that so far...but then I again I purchased the drive to save/transfer files
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My drive failed data transfers and was unusabe. It showed 256G but even 4G could be stored and retrieved before it was loosing files and crashing. Would not recomend unless you were interested in saying you have a 256G drive that you can show. Just dont use for anything you want to keep.