http://www.amazon.com/Cavalry-7200rp...ews/B004DTV1LQ
White Label drives are ones that have failed in the field and have been repaired at a facility other than the original manufacturer's. The law and original manufacturer then require that the repair facility remove or hide the original manufacturer's label and replace it with one of their own. Thus, the repair facility applies a "White Label" over the original label to hide it from view. These are basically re-manufactured/repaired or re-certified hard drives. They may very well not be new or unused. Some of the Calvary branded external hard drives have MediaMax labeled hard drives in them.
http://www.techsupportforum.com/foru...sa-518494.html
I stupidly bought a 2TB white-label WL2000GSA3272 Mediamax 3.5 inch hard drive for $110. The price per byte was good, but the hard drive was the worst driver I ever bought. I generally purchase approx $200 to $400 in hard drives per year (for last 10 years). This was the largest single drive I bought. As soon as I emptied 5 other drives onto it (1.3 TB), the drive died. I heard that Western Digital made this drive for a generic OEM, but the WD Data Life Tool software said it is not a Western Digital drive and would not work! I tried Seagate, Maxtor, and 5 other hard drive software utilities to try to bring it back to life. Nobody's SW would work on it. I think it's because they changed the model from a WD2000... to a WL2000GSA when they made it. This keeps ALL hard drive SW from recognizing it and performing any repair operations on it. I found one SW that will scan for bad sectors, but it's been running for 4 days and has 13 days left! NEVER BUT THIS CHEAP NO-NAME DRIVE! If you look for support, you will not find it (not even on the MediaMax website!). I just lost several years of data that I spent days of my life to acquire, format, organize, etc. I'm trying to recover the data from my original 5 drives, but I cut the files instead of copying them.. Oh well... In future, all 2TB+ drives will have to be cloned in RAID.
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