Why are the WD-Reds sold through Amazon performing so well (as per the ratings) and the ones from NewEgg performing so poorly (as per their ratings)?
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It was my experience that Newegg used inferior packaging when delivering my drives. I had a horrendous time with them, had to return 3 drives that were shock damaged during shipping. I had no such problems with drives purchased form Amazon. Just my two cents, but it does make cents.
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If I recall, the Newegg WD Reds sold closer to release and had firmware issues. I had the same questions and came to the conclusion that Amazon got a later batch. Try sorting the Newegg reviews by date.
1256618
Not sure if the performance is noticeable between Red or Black but mine (Red) works flawlessly for NAS. Fast and quiet.
260797
Hi Seth.I red some bad reviews about this computer too.But these are not about reviewed this computer.More like sellers. I guess I got lucky. Mine is all fine as I wrote my review about this computer. This computer is hard working machine! !
1464531
Send it back, it's defective. They shipped out a lot of defective ones... esp. around December for the holidays when they were on sale. I suspect while they were on sale & they were selling lots of them, they put inferior drives in them to increase their profit margin.
534101
The EX2 has the more reliable WD Red NAS hard drives. Worth the extra cost IMHO.
1988492
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'm not sure. I didn't read the newegg reviews. I bought one and am happy with it. I did research it on some hardware sites and thought it was great for what I needed of it.
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I ordered three from three sellers, even though the listing said the driver was included none came with any disk. I ordered three of these from three sellers as a test, two turned out to be the same seller, same return ID and shipper and item, but one was different and the unit I received though it looked the same, same case and sticker, had a different gold connector and a different PID. So it did not work on the linux environment I needed it to. All sold on the same Amazon page! This is not right and Amazon has too low a standards of integrity for me. As do the Chinese sellers who sell "about the same" items on the same Amazon page. That's not right! I ordered three from three sellers, even though the listing said the driver was included none came with any disk. I ordered three of these from three sellers as a test, two turned out to be the same seller, same return ID and shipper and item, but one was different and the unit I received though it looked the same, same case and sticker, had a different gold connector and a different PID. So it did not work on the linux environment I needed it to. All sold on the same Amazon page! This is not right and Amazon has too low a standards of integrity for me. As do the Chinese sellers who... » Read More I ordered three from three sellers, even though the listing said the driver was included none came with any disk. I ordered three of these from three sellers as a test, two turned out to be the same seller, same return ID and shipper and item, but one was different and the unit I received though it looked the same, same case and sticker, had a different gold connector and a different PID. So it did not work on the linux environment I needed it to. All sold on the same Amazon page! This is not right and Amazon has too low a standards of integrity for me. As do the Chinese sellers who sell "about the same" items on the same Amazon page. That's not right! « Show Less
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There may have been an error by the supplier. In my case, their performance was flawless. So was Amazon.com's.
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I have two of these from Amazon and both are working great, no problems. If you do get a bad one you can trust amazon to return your money through an A to Z claim.
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Candidly, I think it really doesn't matter what the ratings are. I know it is somewhat the same as the WD Red drives. The key is whether they continue working and last a while. I have had drives by other makers that had 3 year warranties and lasted over 5 years before I retired them (all were still working). Lots of the numbers thrown to the consumer by drive companies have little meaning when it comes to mean fail times as everyone uses drives differently and it also depends on what drives you get and what shape they were in.
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Don't get those, found something with lower timing, like cas latency 9Sometimes newegg has better price...
232296
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.
1406887
It might be that they are recalculating their stock and shipping. Don't spend the extra 100 for a UK purchase, try mwave, or newegg, they have stock replace more quickly
93126
I found that the drives are several years old. I bought a bunch of them (10+) it was a mistake. I tried to get warranty from WD and they did not honor the 5 year warranty and in fact when I returned the drive, they claimed it wasn't manufactured by them. I ended up returning the drive to the seller for a replacement. Don't count on the 5 year warranty, better yet buy it from another manufacturer. I've had too many failures of WD drives in the last year or two. I have switched to Seagate.
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I "third" Robin V.'s comment. A few years ago, I installed four Seagate consumer drives equivalent to WD green line HDs in a Drobo and had 2 single drive failures followed by 3 simultaneous failures that resulted in a lot of downtime and some data loss. WD Red drives are built for NAS use and have not failed me yet (multiple years in, now!) And for those counting, yes, that was 5 failures with 4 (purchased) Seagate 1.5TB drives -- the first drive that failed was replaced under Seagate's warranty, and then that replacement failed. All failures happened between 6 and 18 months after purchase/deployment. I "third" Robin V.'s comment. A few years ago, I installed four Seagate consumer drives equivalent to WD green line HDs in a Drobo and had 2 single drive failures followed by 3 simultaneous failures that resulted in a lot of downtime and some data loss. WD Red drives are built for NAS use and have not failed me yet (multiple years in, now!) And for those counting, yes, that was 5 failures with 4 (purchased) Seagate 1.5TB drives -- the first drive that failed was replaced under Seagate's warranty, and then that replacement failed. All failures happened between 6 and 18 months after... » Read More I "third" Robin V.'s comment. A few years ago, I installed four Seagate consumer drives equivalent to WD green line HDs in a Drobo and had 2 single drive failures followed by 3 simultaneous failures that resulted in a lot of downtime and some data loss. WD Red drives are built for NAS use and have not failed me yet (multiple years in, now!) And for those counting, yes, that was 5 failures with 4 (purchased) Seagate 1.5TB drives -- the first drive that failed was replaced under Seagate's warranty, and then that replacement failed. All failures happened between 6 and 18 months after purchase/deployment. « Show Less
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I'd like to add a little additional information to the excellent explanation from Jaygyver. I have both drives, an older WD1002FAEX and a newer WD1003FZEX. When I purchased the WD1002 model it was priced about the same as the newer model is today. I believe the current price disparity is due to two factors: the differences in suppliers as described by Jaygver, and also a design change. I noticed that my WD1002 was slightly heavier than the WD1003, and after some research discovered that was due to the WD1002 having two magnetic platters while the WD1003 was a newer single platter design. Evidently the WD engineers were able to simplify and hopefully improve the design. For me, both drives perform excellently and I'm equally pleased with both. However, I have seen discussions on certain tech forums in which intense gaming purists believe the older two platter design is better, and that WD changed the design simply to cut manufacturing costs. Thus the high prices for the WD1002 is due to it's scarcity (since it's now discontinued) and their belief that it's slightly better in both performance and ruggedness. As I said above, however, both perform equally well for me, and they're both Western Digital Black Series with 5 year warranties, so it's a no brainer to go with the best deal price wise.
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I'll be honest, I am a fan boy of Western Digital, and ASUS btw, but they don't make HD's. In the last few years, I've had more Seagate drives fail on me, than Western Digital. That being said, I am also hard on HD's, and being in Oklahoma, my PC runs real warm through half the year. I would def. go with the Blue WDEZEX for my money.