1TB Western Digital My Book External USB 2.0 Portable Hard Drive (Mac Edition) - $64.99 at BestBuy (Free InStore Pickup)

Hey!

at bestbuy.com:
Best Buy has the Western Digital - My Book 1TB External Hard Drive for Mac for $64.99 (Reg. Price $99.99) - You can have it shipped for an estimated $5.50, but why pay that when you can pick it up for *free* at your local store?

Note: Now backordered online (ships in 1-2 weeks) but may still be picked up at your local store(s)

**Nice deal for the Macs, and I believe that you can still easily format this to work on a PC!

For Linky click: Here!

This 1TB portable hard drive provides plenty of storage space for your movies, music, photos, documents and more.
What's Included
* Western Digital My Book 1TB External USB 2.0 Portable Hard Drive for Mac
* USB cable
* AC adapter
* Owner's manual
Product Features
* 1TB maximum storage capacity
For expanded storage for your files.
* High-speed USB 2.0 interface
For fast and easy connectivity.
* Data transfer rates up to 480 Mbps
For quick response when updating files.
* Compatible with Time Machine software
Keeps your files organized, safe and secure.
* Energy-efficient design
Helps preserve power by turning the drive on and off with your computer.
* Fanless design
For cool and quiet operation.
* Plug-and-play connection
For easy installation.
* HFS+ formatted and compatible with Mac
To ensure flexible options with more than 1 computer.
Specs:

• Warranty Terms - Parts - 1 year limited
• Warranty Terms - Labor - 1 year limited
• Product Height - 6.5"
• Product Width - 5.4"
• Product Weight - 2.6 lbs.
• Product Depth - 2.1"
• Internal or External - External
• Drive Capacity - 1TB
• Drive Connectivity - USB 2.0
• Data Transfer Rate to/from Interface - Up to 480 Mbps
• System Requirements - Mac OS X Tiger or Leopard; available USB port

Cin...

 

Whoa, $65 for a 1TB drive?! Hard drive prices are really falling these days. Really tempting to get one of these.

Great find, Cin.

 

Yeah, $65 for a 1TB Western Digital My Book HDD is a great deal! Thanks for sharing the info. Appreciate it.

 

Great, all the deals come NOW lol.....Good Find Cin!

 

Ordered Had it shipped. Closest in store pick-up is 3hours away, I couldn't pick it up until Thursday at the earliest. Need to finally replace my 4-year 400GB drive

 

Here are instructions on how to format from MAC to Windows, for those purchasing it for Windows!

How to reformat a Mac formatted WD drive to a Windows format using Windows

Cin...

 

They really need to stop calling that a "portable hard drive" when its regular size and needs to be plugged in a wall. Not your fault though OP. Its still a great deal but not for my needs.

 

I was just about to come post this deal. I had been waiting for another good storage deal. I am always having to manage my space and delete stuff so I just got two of these! Should hold me off for awhile.

Problem is I dont want a spider web of externals so I am going to try to open one of these up and install the drive internally to my computer.

I heard somebody broke there drive doing that before because the WD enclosures are made in a way that you cant open but that is probably not the case for all of them, or maybe he was just unlucky.

I am tempted to go buy more of them as this is just a really good deal. No stores have it for pickup in my area so I will be waiting for back-order. W/Free ship I dont mind.

edit: kind of a bookmark for me and sharing the info for others

http://rebootdaily.blogspot.com/2007/03/how-to-open-western-digital-my-book.html

http://carltonbale.com/2008/01/western-digital-my-book-opening-the-case-removing-the-drive/

 

Deal is dead online!!! It's now $99+!!!

 

Well, it was a great deal! Went superbly fast!

Maybe it will be back..let's hope!


Cin...

 

I just hope they fill my order for two, and they dont cxl it like they did my $10 HDTV

If they do I will eye down some 1.5TB drives anyways as I use so much space more capacity per drive is a good idea.

 

I ordered mine while it was still $64.99 (backordered) - I guess we'll see if BB honors this one.

 

Nice find, Thanks!
+rep

 

The hard drive shipped yesterday and est. date is wednesday

 

Yeah, my HDD shipped yesterday too, according to the email order update that BestBuy sent me. It looks like BestBuy is really honoring the deal!

 

Yeah my 2 are on the way.

 

This is good thing! Glad it shipped for you & the others!
A friend of mine was lucky to have been able to get it at our local store before it sold out!


Cin..

 

Yeah, I was so scared that BB may not honor the online purchases due to it being on backorder when I placed my order for one. Luckily, they're kind enough to honor the deal. I would love to have gotten it from my local store but all the BB stores around my area simply do not have them (those Mac versions) even when those didn't go on sale.

Anyway, Cin, thanks to you again for sharing info on this great deal. I really appreciate it.

 

i'm kicking myself for not jumping on this earlier D:

 

They will honor the deal like they did in this case as long as its not a price error. This was a real sale price.

The 52" TV for $10.00 last week was a price error so all of us had our orders canceled.

Stay tuned if you want to figure out what kind of drive is inside of these, I plan to open atleast one of them up when I get it.

 

Both drives came today, UPS guy like slammed the box down but both drives survived.

I have installed both drives as internal drives rather than external. I was going to use one of them as an external but I already have a 1TB Mybook external and its hard to accomdate a power plug, desk space, and usb port for it, also I feel that the speed suffers as an external via usb.

So here is the lowdown.

The drive you got inside of these is...... http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136317

1TB Western Digital Green

To get the enclosure apart I used a small flat screw driver and poped the outter casing away from the sides until I was able to slide it off, there are two lock pins under the rear two rubber feet but they are nearly impossible to depress and they dont really keep the case from poping off so it was easier to just leave them alone.

Both external enclosures are fully in tact and re-usable by any 3.5" drive so I think I will sell them here on NBR for like $5.00 so that somebody else can use them.

To format the drives to Windows I just used Vistas drive management and did a quick format as NTFS

From Misc

From Misc

 

I hate when delivery guys mishandle drives. I just about melted down when I saw the UPS guy drop my box with drives from Dell.