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Re: Hard Drive Deals

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Seagate Barracuda 2TB 7200RPM SATA3 64MB $89.99

»www.ncix.com/products/?sku=66010···oid=1258

I know this is a hard drive thread but I can't help mentioning NCIX's
Intel Core i7 3770 sale price of $279.99.....that's $50 off.

»www.ncix.com/products/?sku=70539···oid=1258

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I'm glad to see that slow and steady decline of the 2TB price. That NCIX sale you referenced is the first time I've seen $89.99 for a 2TB since pre-flood. Too bad the WDC Greens are not following as closely behind, those Seagate as getting such poor reviews in terms of longevity and DOAs.

The new Seagates aren't bad, it was just that their reputation was murdered by the whole 7200.11 fiasco and head parking issues with the Baracuda LP, though for what it's worth that same issue affected the WD Green, too.

Yes, but if the drive pooched out before the firmware update you were SOL.

When it comes to hard drive issues, people seem to have inordinately long memories. The whole 75GXP fiasco 10 or so years ago lead to IBM dumping its entire hard drive division in shame, which is rather amusing since Hitachi drives are turning out to be some of the best on the market right now.

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Any good quality SSD drive deals in the $50/$60 budget range?
Super thanks in advance! :P! ! All I'm able 2 afford at the moment!
Cheers! :P! ! Greatly appreciated!

reply to Gone
EDIT:

**I think I'm confusing the 7200.11's with the Deathstars**

I had purchased a whole bunch of the 500GB version of the "Deathstars", and only one of them ever failed on me.

I've still got a few of them running on various old systems that *knock on wood* haven't failed yet! However, none of them have been used to run a Windows O/S partition.

The one that failed was the root on an XP box. My boss had one fail in the same circumstance, and the ones that he was running as storage survived.

So I wonder if there were exigent factors that engendered the failures.

reply to elwoodblues
If anyone wants to purchase a 2TB WD USB powered Drive, you can get it for $130 with a coupon I have.

Staples actually wants $219 but will price match, so NCIX is selling it for $180 less a $50 off coupon I have.

PM me and I'll send you the link.

reply to elwoodblues
Indeed, the Deathstar was the IBM Deskstar 75GXP, a 75 gigabyte glass platter hard drive from 2001, although other GXP models from the same era had similarly high failure rates.

Further compounding the issue was IBM's behaviour, which is ultimately what tanked the division requiring the sale, not the drive failures themselves.

Publicly, IBM refused to acknowledge that there were any issues with the drives whatsoever, claiming they were seeing industry standard failure rates. They kept on claiming this up until the court case produced internal memos showing that IBM was perfectly aware of an abnormally high 6% failure rate, but continued selling the drives anyhow while lying to consumers about the problems, trying (and failing) to fix the issue through firmware updates. They even tried to implement wear levelling on the things, which you'd ordinarily only see on endurance-limited media like flash. IBM eventually settled and paid $100 to anybody who had suffered a drive failure.

Had they pulled the drives from the market and made right by their customers when they realized the drives were incredibly unreliable, they would have largely been forgiven and the issue would have been forgotten. Instead, their continual insistence that nothing was wrong followed by court documents proving they were lying to consumers destroyed their reputation. Hence why many people still remember the nickname of an otherwise unremarkable hard drive over a decade later. The IBM Deathstar.

EDIT: It also didn't help that the IBM Deathstar was up until that point seen as a premium product line that justifiably commanded a higher price than the competition.
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reply to elwoodblues
 
THIS :

»www.bestbuy.ca/en-CA/product/id/···_10_year

3 TB for $120

reply to Guspaz
At least after the sale of the division to Hitachi, things improved. I've purchased quite a few 1 TB Hitachi Deskstar drives for various machines and only experienced a single *possible* failure. It was a consumer grade drive installed in a Linux RAID system, so it might have been just a minor glitch. I haven't checked the drive for actual errors yet.

The drive in my computer at home has been running almost constantly for about 3 years. I prefer to go with Hitachi drives because they're so quiet compared with Western Digital drives which can make a bit of a racket. Not good in an HTPC set-up.
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reply to Davesnothere
Granted if I do see a good deal I do buy it and rip the drive out of the case

I'm still a few months away from needing more storage re-encoding all my DVD's to h264 freed up a ton of space.

reply to elwoodblues
Just picked up a 2TB Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex USb 3.0 at Best Buy in Bangor, Maine on Thursday. On sale for $83 (USA)...

Since I'm using it as an external on a Linux (Zorin - »www.zorin-os.com/ ) I reckon I'll have to reformat as ext2 or ext3 as there is no way (that I know) to defrag NTFS drives from Linux...