GFOviedo Posted April 12, 2012 Share Posted April 12, 2012 http://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Barracuda-3-5-Inch-Internal-ST3000DM001/dp/B005T3GRLY/ Quote Link to comment
boy914 Posted April 12, 2012 Share Posted April 12, 2012 I just put one of these in my v5b14 server as the new parity. Works great, very fast. Definitely recommended if you're in the market. Quote Link to comment
Bradwheat Posted April 12, 2012 Share Posted April 12, 2012 Bummer, it looks like Amazon sold out of their stock. It's currently showing as $176.79 with a seller of "Better Choice Online". Quote Link to comment
zeerow2k Posted April 13, 2012 Share Posted April 13, 2012 Bummer, it looks like Amazon sold out of their stock. It's currently showing as $176.79 with a seller of "Better Choice Online". on the right hand side it shows "more buying choices" with amazon being one of them @ 159.99 Quote Link to comment
lishpy Posted April 13, 2012 Share Posted April 13, 2012 Bummer, it looks like Amazon sold out of their stock. It's currently showing as $176.79 with a seller of "Better Choice Online". on the right hand side it shows "more buying choices" with amazon being one of them @ 159.99 "Ships in 1 to 2 months." Quote Link to comment
Johnm Posted April 13, 2012 Share Posted April 13, 2012 Drive prices are definitely coming back down. There will be more.. Unfortunately, the trend is Warranties have dropped from 3-5 years to only 1 or 2 years now.. Quote Link to comment
opentoe Posted April 21, 2012 Share Posted April 21, 2012 Drive prices are definitely coming back down. There will be more.. Unfortunately, the trend is Warranties have dropped from 3-5 years to only 1 or 2 years now.. I always spend the extra money on the WDC Black drives for their 5 year warranty. I never had an issue or fuss when returning a WDC drive in warranty. The process is pretty quick and painless and their online system is well designed to make it easy. When using unraid people usually keep their drives, so spending a little more now will benefit you in the long run. Unless you buy new hard drives every few years. Quote Link to comment
powerchoke Posted April 24, 2012 Share Posted April 24, 2012 I'm pretty sure I saw bestbuy has these same drives for same price yesterday. You guys might check there. Quote Link to comment
Nyago123 Posted April 26, 2012 Share Posted April 26, 2012 Still $165 at Amazon, but more significant than the absolute price, IMO, is that the prices seem to have held here with stock availability for some time- i.e. it's not some 'flash in the pan' deal that will bounce back up to $190 (I hope). That can only bode well for us storage freaks as we move to summer... I'm optimistic we'll get back into the $40/TB range by then. Quote Link to comment
Frank1940 Posted May 2, 2012 Share Posted May 2, 2012 By the way, the price is back at $159.99 at Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Barracuda-3-5-Inch-Internal-ST3000DM001/dp/B005T3GRLY/). I got two of these when they first dropped the price last week. Each drive was individually packaged in a cardboard carton with the drive inside an anti-static bag and each end on the drive in a plastic holder which fit inside the carton. Really well packed as compared to some drives that I have gotten in the past couple of years. I precleared both drives without issue. I installed them in my old 3TB FREENAS server and at the present time, the new server is going through a parity sync. Should be finished in about an hour. Preclearing a 3Tb drive is NOT a trivial task! Each one took 51.5 hours!!! (Of course, the hardware I used for preclearing dates from around 2006.) Quote Link to comment
graywolf Posted May 3, 2012 Share Posted May 3, 2012 Just ordered 2, 1 for Parity and another for a Data Drive. No sense in getting just 1. Quote Link to comment
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