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thats a 1tb.. (broken) "dated july 2011 on disk"
But you can find resellers of them "new" but because they are rebadged western digitals. you would find them on ebay listed as MFR refurbished..
they are all basically Western digital caviars.
if you can find the re badged Black versions of the caviar drives they really arent that bad at all. and id recomend them over the official western digital green drives..
but if its a re badged western digital green.. just avoid it like its infected. (as you can see this dead 1tb is a WD green rebadged and not suprisingly dead)
prety eaasy to spot the green from the black though.. 5400 rpm = green, 7200rpm = black. (unless that changed along the years, but i dont think it did)
im not sure if they are broken western digital drives that the company refurbishes. or over stock westen digitals. or simply waranty replacment western digitals.. But they must have some sort of agreement with WD "or be a part of WD that just sells lower cost / refurbished drives without involving the main company name" because i have never seen them use a diferent company's drive. although if the company ONLY refurbished drives and re sold them you would imagine they would refurbish any drive they could get and not limit them selfs to WD drives..
(personaly i think MDT is a subsiduary of WD, that sells drives that didn't fully pass all tests But would work fine any way, and get labled refurbished to offset any liabilaty, and possibly OEM / whole sale only )
they also do 2.5 Sata drives. (again wd) "you can pull those out of HP laptops"
so they do seem to still be around Just keeping low.. and possibly only selling as OEM/Brown box now. Many companys in the uk "pc world and so on". are no longer allowed to sell OEM or Brown box drives directly to consumers. if thats the same in the states that would explain why they seem to have droped off the radar now, but still pop up in HP laptops or pre built computers.
This post has been edited by shambles1980: Aug 26 2013, 03:14 PM