 vue666I'm in the prime of my senilityPremium
join:2007-12-07
Halifax, NS | reply to HiVolt
Re: Hard Drive Deals Freenas? |
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 HiVoltPremium
join:2000-12-28
Toronto, ON
kudos:17 | No, i'd probably be going for a QNAP or Synology box. |
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 c2rothPremium
join:2006-04-26
Kitchener, ON
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Yeah I noticed that limit after I put 4 in my shopping cart and then went WTF!
My friend is ready to pull the trigger on a Synology 4-bay and we wanted to load it up with 4 of these for a 9TB RAID5 array. It was going to serve a media/application hub for his new house, as well as remote backups for a few other locations.
The waiting game continues...
+1 btw for a 4TB drive. The 4TB WD RE is just too expensive and I really like the RE drives. I currently only use RE drives in my NAS but the need for greater capacity is outgrowing the need for performance/absolute reliability. |
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 elwoodbluesElwood BluesPremium
join:2006-08-30
HarperLand | reply to elwoodblues
$129.9 @ NCIX for Seagate 3TB HDs internal and external |
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vue666I'm in the prime of my senilityPremium
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Halifax, NS | Good price but I'm a little shy of Seagate because of past experiences with them... BUT I'm tempted to purchase... |
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vue666I'm in the prime of my senilityPremium
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Halifax, NS | Took an inventory of my photos and I need a bigger drive so i ordered one... |
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said by vue666:Good price but I'm a little shy of Seagate because of past experiences with them... BUT I'm tempted to purchase...
As far as I'm concerned, they're both the same, they both fail equally as much. Typically I see 1 out of 10 Seagate SAS drives fail in a year and maybe 1 out of 10 WD SATA RE's fail in a 3 year period, not sure of Seagate's enterprise SATA drives... in the desktop space, they all fail once in a while. |
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Sorry losing the Thread a bit here, but NCIX has WD RED 3TB drives for sale until Nov 22, 2012 for $159 each.
Looks like they are planning a Black Friday sale on them after...
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| urghhhhhhh I just bought some 3TB green's for low cost RAID, now you tell me. |
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 TLS2000Crazy CanuckPremium
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Mississauga, ON | Canada Computers had 3TB Seagates on sale for $129 the other day. Not sure if it's still valid or not. I picked one up. I'm going to pick up another three in a couple of weeks to start my RAID5 server.
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 AnavSarcastic Llama? Naw, Just AcerbicPremium
join:2001-07-16
Dartmouth, NS
kudos:3 | I wonder if you will be kicking urself when Black Friday Deals come out. IM holding out for
- 180 intel ssd for another cheap price OR
- 240 OCD vertex 4, AND
- 750 notebook hard drive (hopefully an XT momentus)
To put in an IMAC early 2008. I talked to the local apple store they will do it for me (change out components) for a reasonable price.
Of course will need to buy the 2.5 to 3.5 caddy for the SSD to rpelace the main hard drive and the SATA to PATE caddy for the 2.5 750gb replacing the optical drive. Perhaps I should also get an external hookup and case for the optical drive?
Got 4megs a ram 2x2 in the thing but reading in places where it can actually use up to 6megs. Problem being I would have to buy a 4bangar to replace one of the twos. Have you seen the price for 4mg stick for DDR2 RAM................
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 GonePremium
join:2011-01-24
Fort Erie, ON
kudos:3 | I don't even think an Early 2008 iMac will take 4GB sticks, even if you could find one.
I need one or two 3TB hard drives, preferably 7200RPM. If they get down to the $100 level in and around Black Friday, I'll buy them. |
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 donoreoPremium
join:2002-05-30
North York, ON | said by Gone:I don't even think an Early 2008 iMac will take 4GB sticks, even if you could find one.
I need one or two 3TB hard drives, preferably 7200RPM. If they get down to the $100 level in and around Black Friday, I'll buy them.
It will take 4GB sticks according to EveryMac. They need to be DDR2. They say you can go to 6GB, one 2 and one 4.
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 GuspazGuspazPremium,MVM
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Montreal, QC
kudos:20 | reply to elwoodblues
DDR2 is expensive, but not that expensive; a 4GB stick goes for as little as $65 when not on sale. I wouldn't trust those brands, though. Crucial (at $85) should be OK, for example, or Kingston.
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said by Gone:I don't even think an Early 2008 iMac will take 4GB sticks, even if you could find one.
Apple service manual agrees with you and technical specifications list 2GB (x2) is maximum supported size. Either Apple stock part number MB413G/B or MC322G/A. |
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| said by urbanriot:Apple service manual agrees with you and technical specifications list 2GB (x2) is maximum supported size. Either Apple stock part number MB413G/B or MC322G/A. Yeah, there are some real weird quirks with some of the iMacs of that era. There is one from 2007 that will take a maximum of 2GB of RAM - either as one single 2GB stick, or two 1GB sticks, but for whatever reason it will not operate with two 2GB sticks no matter what you do. EveryMac might say it will work, but it just won't. |
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| said by Gone:Yeah, there are some real weird quirks with some of the iMacs of that era.
There is also an iMac & some MacbookPro's that will support an odd configuration of 6GB, 1x4GB + 1x2GB, but will not support 2x4GB. lol.
And this is with a chipset that an equivalent PC will support 2x4GB.
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AnavSarcastic Llama? Naw, Just AcerbicPremium
join:2001-07-16
Dartmouth, NS
kudos:3 | reply to elwoodblues
Well I am hoping for a sale on the DDR2 stuff next week but the other item I may spring for is the SOny HDR-PJ710 camcorder. Im videotaping basketball with an old dv low end tape unit that has crappy resolution, lighting and width of field of view. On top of that conversion is a pain in the ass compared to already having it in a digital format.
Now to go set up my team for Sundays game (hattrick). |
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AnavSarcastic Llama? Naw, Just AcerbicPremium
join:2001-07-16
Dartmouth, NS
kudos:3 | reply to elwoodblues
»www.redflagdeals.com/deal/comput···g-10999/
1TB - $49.99 |
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| I may be... jadded... but I really see 1TB drives almost as bad as 500gb drives or 250gb drives. |
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