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Model WDBAAU0030HBK-AESN
Western Digital Elements Desktop 3.5 3TB USB2.0 External Hard Drive is designed with the same commitment to quality that made WD external drives the number one drives in the world, WD Elements Desktop USB 2.0 external hard drives are the right answer for simply affordable add-on storage. Just connect the power and plug the drive in to a USB port to start saving your photos, music, videos and files.
WD Elements 3TB USB3.0 from mwave is still $135 shipped which is pretty good
Plus 2% (or more) "transaction fee", of course.
can only order one and shipping is expensive. yet another hiding costs in the shipping fees… old tech at new prices..
Wasn't this around $99 a number of times? The usb2.0 version.
I think so.
https://www.ozbargain.com.au/search/node/3tb+western+%2499?
I remember getting one for $99 courtesy ozb about 6 months ago?
They've raised the price a bit since I bought it, but you can get the WD Elements Desktop 3TB USB 3.0 for $120 delivered if you have a school/university address:
http://store.westerndigital.com/store/wdau/en_AU/pd/ThemeID.…
http://www.wdstudentstore.com/
According to the thread posted about this back in February, you could just use a gmail address too, but I haven't tried that
I have one of these and yes, the USB 2.0 isn't worth it.
Also, it encrypts the drive (for multiple reasons I'm told) so if you do manage to fill the drive and decided to pull it out to use as an internal, you can't retrieve the data. You have to copy your terabytes off first and then format it afterwards.
Also, it encrypts the drive (for multiple reasons I'm told) so if you do manage to fill the drive and decided to pull it out to use as an internal, you can't retrieve the data
No, it doesn't.
Native support for +2.1TB internal HDDs is only supported on HDDs with GPT partitions and a PC with a UEFI BIOS (and only on 64-bit Vista/7/8).
The maximum partition size for the older MBR partitioning scheme is limited by the largest number that can be represented in 32 bits.
The maximum number of sectors in a partition can only be 2 to the power of 32. This means that the maximum partition size for a drive that has a standard sector size of 512 bytes is: 2^32 x 512 = 2TB
External HDDs always have MBR partitions but Seagate's and WD's enclosures themselves translate the standard 512-byte logical sectors to 4096-byte logical sectors, a shortcut around the 2.1TB limitation which results in an MBR partition limit of 16TB.
When you take it out of its enclosure and hook it up to a SATA port, Windows reads the LBA size as it's default of 512 and any space beyond 2.1TB naturally shows up as one, big unallocated partition that you can't merge, format or extend and Windows will ask you to format or reinitialize the disk before you use it.
All you have to do is install a device driver like this one from Seagate that essentially splits your +2.1TB HDD into two sub-2.1TB partitions so that non-UEFI/GPT users can use all of the space. There are other freeware utilities that can do this as well.
Here's a knowledge base article from WD with more detail and a guide for converting MBR disks to GPT.
Nothing against the poster, but this is not really a good price, this has been 99 before and see no reason for the price to increase.
Shipping should not be more than $9 on an item like this
Usb 2.0 no thanks id like to fil it in my lifetime.