January 5, 201214 yr http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136891&nm_mc=EMC-IGNEFL010512&cm_mmc=EMC-IGNEFL010512-_-EMC-010512-Index-_-InternalHardDrives-_-22136891-L0A Code: EMCJKKE22
January 5, 201214 yr Are their any known isues with these drives and UnRaid? So far I only have Seagate and Hitachi drives
January 5, 201214 yr I have four in my array... no problems. Just make sure you preclear and set the MBR properly. All good!
January 5, 201214 yr Sounds like I should pick one up. Do you happen to have a link to setting up the MBR
January 5, 201214 yr This whole HDD business is getting ridiculous I paid several months ago $109 for 3TB Hitachi drives fortunately I bought 4. I am waiting this out until the prices come down.
January 5, 201214 yr Well I have one coming, I agree the price is really up their from what it was. I am not out of room but probably will be in the next couple of months I don't see them coming down any time soon. This drive will keep me going for another year I figure, so $140 a year not bad.
January 5, 201214 yr I just hate that these drives were $59 a few months ago.. I also hate that I know I will be running out of drive space in about 2 months at my current drive space consumption rate....
January 5, 201214 yr This whole HDD business is getting ridiculous I paid several months ago $109 for 3TB Hitachi drives fortunately I bought 4. I am waiting this out until the prices come down. Fortunately, I have a box of spares too. It's been advantageous to take care of the good deal posts when they have a really good price. I'm probably going to wait it out till the last minute now if I need a drive. (until we reach the preflood price point)
January 5, 201214 yr Author Yeah I snapped up one of the "cheap" seagates ($89 iirc) in the early days of the spike but I got it as a spare in case of a Red-Ball and not to increase capacity. Last thing I wanted was for my array to be at the mercy of a price bubble. If I start to run out of space, like it or not, I could always delete a few BD rips and re-rip later. Or hell for that matter, I could take the time to reencode those fullsized BD rips down from 30+gb. I'm just being lazy and greedy because I can hehe
January 5, 201214 yr We are down to 2 significant players in the desktop hard drive market - WD and Seagate. I see little reason for them to drive prices down to pre-flood levels even when supply increases. I'm glad I bought a few of Hitachi 3T drives before the acquisition be WD, but wish I had bought more!
January 10, 201214 yr I have four in my array... no problems. Just make sure you preclear and set the MBR properly. All good! My drive came today so I hope to stick it in tonight and run preclear. I have been reading this whole MBR deal and it get a little confusing to say the least. But if I am correct and I have Unraid 4.7 and set the Defualt Partition to MBR: 4K - aligned. Then I don't have to do anything else. No jumpers on the drive or specail flags in preclear correct?
January 11, 201214 yr I have four in my array... no problems. Just make sure you preclear and set the MBR properly. All good! My drive came today so I hope to stick it in tonight and run preclear. I have been reading this whole MBR deal and it get a little confusing to say the least. But if I am correct and I have Unraid 4.7 and set the Defualt Partition to MBR: 4K - aligned. Then I don't have to do anything else. No jumpers on the drive or specail flags in preclear correct? Correct.
January 11, 201214 yr If people would simply stop buying them he prices would come back down. I have several 500G and 1TB drives that can go into the box if need be. I just refuse to buy a 2TB drive for twice what it was four months ago. Cheaper to upgrade my unRaid key and use surplus drives sitting around.
January 11, 201214 yr We are down to 2 significant players in the desktop hard drive market - WD and Seagate. I see little reason for them to drive prices down to pre-flood levels even when supply increases. I'm glad I bought a few of Hitachi 3T drives before the acquisition be WD, but wish I had bought more! Under normal circumstances I would agree however their financial figures don't look good. Just a quick check on their stocks reveals this: Western Digital: Sales* = 9.82 Bil Income* = 769.00 Mil Sales Growth* -3.30% Income Growth* -47.50% Net Profit Margin 7.83% Seagate: Sales* = 11.08 Bil Income* = 502.00 Mil Sales Growth* -3.70% Income Growth* -68.20% Net Profit Margin 4.53% When their investors get worried about their sales & income growth the prices will come down. Good old greed just has to work itself back into their head quarters.
January 17, 201214 yr We are down to 2 significant players in the desktop hard drive market - WD and Seagate. I see little reason for them to drive prices down to pre-flood levels even when supply increases. I'm glad I bought a few of Hitachi 3T drives before the acquisition be WD, but wish I had bought more! Under normal circumstances I would agree however their financial figures don't look good. Just a quick check on their stocks reveals this: Western Digital: Sales* = 9.82 Bil Income* = 769.00 Mil Sales Growth* -3.30% Income Growth* -47.50% Net Profit Margin 7.83% Seagate: Sales* = 11.08 Bil Income* = 502.00 Mil Sales Growth* -3.70% Income Growth* -68.20% Net Profit Margin 4.53% When their investors get worried about their sales & income growth the prices will come down. Good old greed just has to work itself back into their head quarters. In most cases I would agree with you, but look at their net profit margins. That is pretty low, well maybe Seagate...
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