One-day deal on WD 250GB portable drive

they are $98 NOT $90 on Amazon

We bought 6 of these for work over the past 6 months. Every single one of them is now dead, and Western Digital wont return e-mails or calls from our purchasing department in regards to the waranties on the units.
2 of the drives died on the first day we had them. If I trusted these at all, that would be a good price. We paid about $115 a piece for them.

a lot of these comments don't really know their stuff. this is a portable hard drive, meant for traveling (aka it's a laptop hd, thus much more resistant to frequent movement damage) and it's bus powered, so no external power supply needed.

this is a totally good deal if you want this size and color. newegg will randomly match this price but rarely beat it, and they're not discounting black right now so you'd have to want orange to get the discount.

and i'd like to voice my experience with WD hard drives: two my books, a 2 and a 1.5 year old one (one essential, one premium edition), both working flawlessly still. WD has very good reliability, everyone has a few failed hd's.

Has TUAW never heard of Newegg? They have certain colors for the exact same price (or a little more) every single day of the week and when they go on sale, they're even cheaper. Hell, they have 1TB internal 3.5" drives for $140 right now.

Source: http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=2010150414%2050001306%201036007801%20131021354&bop=And&Order=PRICE

i had a 500GB one of these and it died after barely a year of use -- avoid!

This deal might already be dead, but Powerbook g4 users should note that their computers dont put enough power through their usb ports to power this or most other bus-powered devices. you can buy a powered usb cable but that makes this deal even less exciting. As one who still is using their G4 as their eveeryday computer i had to find this out the hard way.

Buy.com has a Fantom GreenDrive 500GB USB 2.0 and eSATA External Hard Drive on sale for $74.99 (after rebate).

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Lance
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I believe this drive is $89 at Costco Canada (in store).

As long as its a SATA 2.5 drive in the WD you should be able to remove it from the enclosure and put it in your Macbook.

Could I take this apart and use the drive in my 13" MacBook? And would that void my warranty?