March 24, 201214 yr Seagate Barracuda ST3000DM001 3TB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive $180 shipped after promo EMCNGHG74 (expires 3/29/2012) Would make a very nice parity drive! unRAID 5.0-beta required (I would recommend beta-14 for everyone except those using LSI controllers).
March 24, 201214 yr Would make a very nice parity drive! Remember, Seagate plans to discontinue LP drives.
March 25, 201214 yr Author Would make a very nice parity drive! Remember, Seagate plans to discontinue LP drives. This isn't an LP drive. Are you suggesting that these 7200 RPM drives might come down in price once the LP drives aren't available anymore?
March 25, 201214 yr Would make a very nice parity drive! Remember, Seagate plans to discontinue LP drives. This isn't an LP drive. Are you suggesting that these 7200 RPM drives might come down in price once the LP drives aren't available anymore? Actually, I was suggesting that 7200rpm drives will become the norm, parity and non-parity. However, the reasoning presented by Seagate included lower prices due to streamlining the manufacturing and inventory systems with fewer SKUs (products). Seagate (and probably all drive manufacturers) is faced with a shrinking market. The changes seem very appropriate. Seagate is reducing inventory, dropping less profitable product lines. I suspect they will also focus on value add (external drives and NAS) in order to keep the average sale price up. This also leads to a focus on the largest capacities, the most expensive units (but lower $/GB). Forecasting drive prices is either very simple, they will get cheaper when priced $/GB, or too complex for me. There is little material difference between a 5900rpm drive and a 7200rpm. Why is one priced lower? As a counterpoint, Intel prices the low power versions higher than baseline processors. (E3-1220 vs E3-1220L, etc)
March 27, 201214 yr More often then not the 7200 rpm drives have a better warranty which is what increases the price.
March 27, 201214 yr More often then not the 7200 rpm drives have a better warranty which is what increases the price. I would think that is true, but... My Seagate 2TB LPs have a 5yr warranty and the day I purchased them for $76 at BestBuy, the 7200rpm drives were 25% more. I have never seen a warranty past 5 years, but I did not check those other drives. Not sure I would find value in a 7 year warranty. i think just about all consumer drive products will be 1 year pretty soon. The higher priced enterprise products may get longer terms. Most OEMs offer more than 1 year, but my quick check at Dell.com shows $$ to buy a desktop with 1, 2, or 3 years of hardware support. Basic telephone support is include for 1 year.
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