Hard Drive Prices are recovering

[FirBirGir]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6822145562

First one I have seen available. Not a bad price either...

[hitchcockgreen]

Yeah seems the higher end brands are still only offering 3TB drives.

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[FirBirGir]

The hitachi drives are lasting longer than Seagate/Maxtor drive I have. A Maxtor brand 1TB drive died last week, it was a year younger than the 4 Hitachi drives I have (which haven't had any sort of problem for ~3 years). It's hard to predict which manufacturers will have reliable product on any given day...

[hitchcockgreen]

I haven't touched a hitatchi or Maxtor in a long while.
Use Seagate for some things but usually WD for important stuff.

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[Blunt Force Trauma]

In my XP PC, I have a 4 year old Hitachi 1tb, one Seagate 250gb around 5 years old, and one Seagate 375gb around 6 years old.

Knock on wood, all are cruising along great.

[Dx.]

I have 3 seagate drives, all have lasted many years so far.
I had 2 WD's fail and one maxtor.

[hitchcockgreen]

Going to be testing out the new WD Reds in a Qnap NAS in the next week or so.

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[Blunt Force Trauma]

One thing I'm really liking about having only SSD's in my laptop is removing the worry of smacking platters from moving the laptop around and bumping or dropping a few inches from a hand slip. Sort of like a giant tablet.

[FirBirGir]

Just rebuilt my HTPC with pair of 2TB Seagates SATA3 and a pair of 1TB WDs SATA2 both Raid 0. That gives me 6TBs for recording shows, about 500 hours of HD. I bought a HD Homerun 3 tuner receiver and my old system couldn't handle recording 3 shows and playing something on the screen at the same time. That won't be a problem any more...

[Blunt Force Trauma]

Oh my. . .

1TB external drive for $35 (have to deal with a large $70 and complicated rebate)

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications ... CatId=3466

[FirBirGir]

My server is now up to 9 drives - 4 2TB drives in a Raid 0 config, 2 2TB drives mirrored, 1 2TB backup drive, 1 1TB for the OS and a 2TB in the dock on top of the server so I can move huge amounts of data quickly by moving the HD between my PC and my server.

Scary thing is, I am about 60% full already...

[hitchcockgreen]

I'm not surprised. It really doesn't take long.

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[hitchcockgreen]

Apparently you can get this beast for $600
http://www.crucial.com/store/ProductMarketing_m500.aspx

[digs in between couch cushions]

[Blunt Force Trauma]

$180 for this 4tb behemoth. 4.7 cents a gig.

http://benchmarkreviews.com/index.php?o ... &Itemid=60

http://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Desktop-3 ... +4+TB+SATA

[hitchcockgreen]

I'm assuming that's a double platter drive.
The barracuda line was sitting at 2.5 tb last I checked.

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