>bought a $100 3tb HDD from WD >they dont even include

>>61754088

motherboard manufactures provide sata cables idiet

File: jew-gold.jpg (424KB, 1162x850px) Image search: [Google]

424KB, 1162x850px

Good goy! Pay for the WD excluive SATA Cable for $30 each, if you buy 2 we'll give you an extra one 50% off!

My motherboard came with a bunch of those. But I also get them for free when buying drives at my local store, so maybe you should have asked for one.

>>61754176
This. I also always ask for a cable when I buy a drive, they provide if free of charge.

>>61754125
KEK!

>>61754176
I buy at Best Buy like a good goy

how to ensure sata 3 combatipility blease?

File: 1500418255971.gif (244KB, 636x515px) Image search: [Google]

244KB, 636x515px

>>61754562
Are you retarded

>>61754769
do sata caples from 2007 work at sata 3 sbeeds if hooked ub to sata 3 bort

>>61754088
>bought a $100 3tb HDD from WD when he could have bought a 4tb enterprise tier HHD from HGST for $120
Defend this shit right now
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIAAEE3XP9908

File: 7c90607806[1].png (21KB, 873x209px) Image search: [Google]

21KB, 873x209px

>>61754900
id start with this

>buys $3000 road bike
>doesn't come with pedal

why don't you defend this instead?

>>61754088
SOPA

>>61756492
PIPA

>>61754769
DUMP FROGBOSTER

>>61754088
I've never seen HDD or SSD that comes with SATA cable.

>>61754976
Does the amount of hours really mean anything?

It could be 100k hours of mostly idle use
vs
10k hours of constant read/write operations that came from a data center.

I still have a 1TB from 2007 that has been in use 24/7 which still works fine. that's 87600 hours

>>61754088
I know what you mean but it's only $1 why worry?

>>61756708
There's no way you will get full warranty on a used drive.
Most drives come with 3-5 year warranties. Enterprise drives often come with 10 years.

>>61756623
Depends; but they used to. My first 500 HDD for my gaming rig built in 2008 came with a cable in the box. Subsequent HDD bought since have not had cables included. Could be a cost-cutting measure on HDD manufacturers due to The Great Recession and other factors.

>>61754123
As well, I have noticed board manufactures include a few cables; but not one cable for every port as I saw in the past.

>>61754088
>>61754123
This.

>never have sata cables
>few I salvaged broke
>decide to buy good hardware and stop using outdated shit
>order a hand full of long sata cables + an equal amount of medium length sata cables
>build computer
>mfw it came with another 6 sata cables
>mfw I now have a bullshit amount of sata cables
fuck it, Im sure Ill need it someday. Into the hoard it goes.

>buy HDD
>comes with 3-ft SATA cable to fit all needs
>never gets used because fagot gaymer needs UV cables exactly 18 inches long so he can whack off to his cable management as he stares at them thru the case window

>>61754088
I've got a box of high quality SATA & eSATA cables in a dozen lengths. Most of them free, the rest I paid maybe ~$2 each on average. The SATA spec will be replaced by the next spec before I run out of SATA cables. I just bought 3 x 4TB HGST enterprise HDDs for $100 each ... much rather get $25/TB new HDDs w/ 5 year warranty without any googaws to bump the price.

You got fukt @ $100 for a 3TB WD HDD, OP.

Defend that.

>pro-tip
> (you) can't

>>61754976

A couple things:

First off, I don't believe that review. It isn't even consistent in it's own wording; jumps from 40K hours to 12 K hours and talks about one HDD after claiming ownership of a many, all of which came in "used."

Bullshit.

That level of fraud over any period of time would get flagged hard. Sounds like a faggot that doesn't know a fucking thing about reading SMART numbers.

In addition ... keep buying these HDDs and they are all coming in "used," and he still keeps buying them? That's mongoloid levels of retardation. If it happened to me just once I'd flag it & complain and get the "used" HDD replaced with a new one. It's just not believable.

All that, but let us assume for a moment that he isn't a lying, retarded faggot. 40,000 is barely even broken in on a hard drive that is spec'd to run for 2,000,000 hours MTBF. If I put 40K hours on one of those HDDs myself, I'd just be getting comfortable feeling it was a reliable HDD.

Something else to note: the faggot didn't mention any other SMART numbers, such as power cycles as-received. I have a couple of those HDDs bought from that exact same page at Newegg. Each one connected to my system and showed up as Power Cycles: 1 on initial boot. All my SMART stats indicate the HDDs had never been used, absolutely clean & virgin numbers.

If they hadn't been, I would have been online with Newegg immediately and had them replaced.