Good price for a 3TB external drive, but a great deal if you can have it delivered to Ireland or any European country – in that case, only £56 (€65).
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I've had 3 recertified drives now for 3 years and bought a fourth before Christmas, had no issues. How many have you actually bought and had faults with I wonder? I'm guessing none
Use a recovery tool, I've done it before in the past and worked well, managed to get most of my data back but some photos were corrupt
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Check out the other posts on HUKD for recertified WD drives and you'll see plenty or people have had problems.
Have you tonight's lottery winning numbers too?
but one last time for a bit more but not had any issues with the drive
Care to provide a reference? My understanding is that WD aren't supposed to undercut their resellers, so mark excess stock as recertified as a way to get around it. These drives typically have 0 hours on them, and I know that this has been the case for the 3 3TBs that I've bought from them over the years.
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I would be a bit concerned putting data on a drive that was classed as 'recertified'
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bought a reconditioned xbox 360 500GB HDD before and all fine still years later. Dd have to use Xplorer 360 Exreme 2 to inserrt partition 2 to download the Xbox 1 update to play backwards compatible games on 360
I think these are great value for money and would be surprised if these drives had anymore than one hour of use on them, if that.
I don't get why?! Put it this way, new drives are assembled by robots and shipped out in their thousands. Assuming this has been returned as faulty (we don't actually know this is the case), a person has spent time with it and thoroughly checked all the components etc, surely it could well be MORE reliable?
I bought a refurb Dell laptop 7yrs ago, everyone was like you, "don't get it, it will be a faulty unit and last a week". I applied my logic and went for it, I saved over £250 and its still going strong now albeit struggling CPU wise, but that will happen to any PC tech
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I'm not sure you can say that with conviction, all WD say is that they have been "tested and determined to meet WD's stringent quality standards". Surely it is more than possible that they may swap out components to meet this requirement or have you seen something that says otherwise?
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If someone wanted to steal your data SO MUCH no hard drive protection would stop them
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WD is bad news in my experience
This isn't the same drive
WD uses it's own encryption? format the drive and there is no encryption.
Absolutely irrelevant. You would say that until one fails and drops you in it.
The whole point of buying slow back up storage is that it is 'infallible'.
You now have 3, so I am guessing it is 'no risk' as all your data will be doubled up across the 3 drives in case one fails
(at least it should be, unless you are inexperienced)You should do this anyway, but using reclaims just results in a faster turnover of drives.
These components are most likely Quality Control batch fails,and I guarantee you they come from a different batch from any you have bought.
If they have come out the front door of the factory;
the problem(s) could be quality fail control ware, bearings,motor, heads, plates, or even just packaging.
Many of those issues will not turn up until it just stuffs you up the ringer;hence the cheap price.
If they have come out the back door of the far east factory at midnight it is possible the whole batch were to be scrapped for multiple reasons.(which will murder you well down the line)
If you need serious back up 1x storage,avoid this crap and spend the extra £30.
You will not be compensated for your heart ache 3 yrs down the line.
of course you could be lucky and get one that someone hasn't used or doesn't have faults, but then why only 6 months warranty?, if someone buys one, could they post the smart info, some we can see how new these 'recertified' drives are
i posted a link for £10 more you can get a brand new one.
If you need any old storage you do not need 3 TB on an external drive.If you do, the manufacturer is washing hands
of it. Forget it.
Buy a genuine 2 gig external if you need external.
Dont fxxk about chancing it cos in 7 months they will tell you to get lost.
edit; £10 more for a warranted one is ideal.