White label hard drives?

[SXRguyinMA]

was just broswing ebay and came across these. price is good. anyone know anythign about the truthfullness of this?


This is a White Label 1 Terabyte (1TB) SATA hard drive featuring with 7200RPM, 64MB cache SATA/300 hard drive with 1 year warranty. A white label product is a product made by major hard drive company that manufactured for other companies (OEM Hard Drive Reseller/VAR) re-brand to make it appear as if they made it or for large volume special application.

http://cgi.ebay.com/White-Label-1TB-64MB-Cache-7200RPM-SATA-3-5-Hard-Drive-/130388533155?cmd=ViewItem&pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item1e5bc31fa3

[Luke122]

The seller has a 99.9% rating, which is a good sign.

White label devices are pretty common actually, but I've never seen a white label hard drive.

[Airbozo]

The seller has a 99.9% rating, which is a good sign.

White label devices are pretty common actually, but I've never seen a white label hard drive.

Some system builders use these white label drives. Normally to get a warranty repair you need to go through the system builder as the drive manufacturer will not honor any warranty. Some system builders will not honor the warranty if the drive is not in the original system. I would ask up front who will handle the warranty should something go wrong, and get it in writing.

[SXRguyinMA]

good idea, thanks!

[x88x]

I've never seen a white-label HDD before, but the thing I would be worried about is the warranty. Between the just 1 year warranty, and depending on what you have to go through to get a replacement if it does fail. It looks like it's a clone of a WD Black, which right now on Newegg is only $15 more with the $20 promo code, and with that you get a 5 year warranty with a good, reliable company to deal if you have to take advantage of the warranty. So, with that in mind, personally that $15 would not be worth the risk to me, but that's up to the buyer, I suppose.

[Twigsoffury]

Just pray they aren't the WD Green 1TB 7,200rpm 64MB cache drives that failed left and right a couple years ago.

Not really any price advantages over shopping newegg

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822152185

74.99$ ~~ SAMSUNG 1TB 7,200rpm/32MB/SATA 3.0gbps

But newegg isn't available to everyone around the world : \

[mtekk]

Just pray they aren't the WD Green 1TB 7,200rpm 64MB cache drives that failed left and right a couple years ago.

Not really any price advantages over shopping newegg

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822152185

74.99$ ~~ SAMSUNG 1TB 7,200rpm/32MB/SATA 3.0gbps

But newegg isn't available to everyone around the world : \

IIRC the WD Green drives are all 5,400RPM not 7,200RPM. They basically found a way to market slow drives that no one wanted as "green" to cash in on the green trend.

[NightrainSrt4]

I don't care if they called them yellow, purple, gold, rainbow, etc. They work well for a home file server application, and run really cool. They are far quieter than my 1TB black as well.

I'd rather grab an F3 off newegg for 75 shipped, and be guaranteed a warranty and a quick drive. Edit: Twigs beat me to it.

[SXRguyinMA]

hey nightrain...want to trade my 5400rpm 1.5tb for your wd black drive? :devious:

[crenn]

The funny thing is, I prefer my 'green' Seagate LP drives, they run at 5900rpm but are fast enough for storage needs.

[x88x]

They basically found a way to market slow drives that no one wanted as "green" to cache in on the green trend.

Hey, they each have their place. The 'green' drives are great in mass storage applications...like my 6.8TB RAID, for example. :twisted: They consume less power and generate less heat and noise. Yes, each drives is slower than an equivalent 7200RPM drive, but a) for mass storage it really doesn't matter much if at all, and b) if you use a striping RAID level (ie, 0,5,6,etc), the performance builds pretty quickly. That being said, there's no way I would use a 'green' drive as my OS drive...that's what my SSDs are for. :twisted: