jimwhite Posted April 6, 2008 Share Posted April 6, 2008 as the title says, BestBuy has Seagate 1tb's at $189.99, no rebate required, 2 days only... buy 'em online with free shipping Quote Link to comment
Billped Posted April 6, 2008 Share Posted April 6, 2008 Nice find. They are now backordered. Bill Quote Link to comment
jimwhite Posted April 6, 2008 Author Share Posted April 6, 2008 Was the first guy through the door this morning, complete with shopping cart. Rolled down the aisle and saw they had only five boxes on the shelf... scarfed all five and asked if they had any more... nope.... went home with the five and found the online was backordered so ordered the sixth from Fry's... now gotta get some 3in2 racks.... Quote Link to comment
WeeboTech Posted April 6, 2008 Share Posted April 6, 2008 Thanks for the heads up! I purchased a pair and just at the last minute remembered I had an unused best buy gift card. Even with the back order, it's a score and a half. This will make a nice parity drive! 32MB cache.. parity be the bottleneck no more! Quote Link to comment
PhilH Posted April 6, 2008 Share Posted April 6, 2008 Thanks for the tip. My local Best Buy had 2 on the shelf. I snagged one & am rebuilding parity as we speak. Again thanks for letting us know. Quote Link to comment
musicmann Posted April 6, 2008 Share Posted April 6, 2008 Can someone list the exact size as reported by unRAID? I had considered getting one of these to use for parity, but I want to make sure it's as big as (the biggest) WD 1TB drives I have. Quote Link to comment
PhilH Posted April 7, 2008 Share Posted April 7, 2008 Version 4.2.4 reports the drive to be 976,762,552. I am looking at the main web page for UnRaid. Hope this helps. Quote Link to comment
musicmann Posted April 7, 2008 Share Posted April 7, 2008 Version 4.2.4 reports the drive to be 976,762,552. I am looking at the main web page for UnRaid. Hope this helps. Perfect! Same size as my WD10EACS meaning I could use this faster drive for my parity. Too bad I'm on a spending freeze! Quote Link to comment
jimwhite Posted April 7, 2008 Author Share Posted April 7, 2008 as to the size thing, I format the drives from a liveCD of Knoppix... always making the data drives a few 100 MB's less than my parity drive... Quote Link to comment
SSD Posted April 7, 2008 Share Posted April 7, 2008 The manufacturers have somehow agreed to the capacity of drives. Although I saw variability is 250G drives a few years back, different brands of 300s, 500s, 750s, and 1Ts have been exactly the same formatted capacity. Drives have spare sectors in reserve for SMART remapping. Slightly different sizes based on different drive geometries must result in more or less spare sectors. Quote Link to comment
musicmann Posted April 7, 2008 Share Posted April 7, 2008 I have 7 Western Digital WD10EACS drives. 3 of them report a size of 976,761,496 4 of them report a size of 976,762,552 When I was building it (consolidating two unRAIDs onto one), I filled it without a parity drive. Of course, the drive that I just happened to choose for parity just happened to be one of the smaller byte count. Quote Link to comment
SSD Posted April 8, 2008 Share Posted April 8, 2008 It sounds like WD f**ked up! My Seagate 1T drives are 976,762,552. I think that's what all 1T drives should be. Quote Link to comment
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