Segate 2TB Retail (5 year warranty) $99.99 at Best Buy

[flips]

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Seagate+-+Barracuda+2TB+Internal+Serial+ATA+Hard+Drive+for+Desktops/4919412.p?skuId=4919412&productCategoryId=pcmcat270900050001&id=1218577515991

 

The 5 year warranty makes this a great buy.

 

This drive was just being discussed on another thread:

http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=20175.0

 

[kenoka]

This is an excellent deal!

[Flomaster]

awesome.. I just bought one and its preclearing now.. I went into the store and picked it up for $99. I now have Six drives plugged into my mobo and need a card to add more drives.

 

-=Jason=-

[Killer_B]

Not to down on this, I might wait til the next Seagate revisions before pulling the trigger again....Issues with some of their previous drives, and firmware debacles have not impressed me particularly.

[kenoka]

Meh. I've had drives go bad from every manufacturer, at about equal frequency.

[Talsit]

If you are having a problem buying these on their website, keep trying...  I tried to buy them for in-store pickup last night and it said none were available, this morning they were available.

 

Good luck!

[GFOviedo]

I'm thinking of buying one of these as a cache drive!  Rather than spending the same $99 dollars of a 90GB SSD drive.

[prostuff1]

I went and grabbed 2 from my local BestBuy.  Each has passed 3 preclear cycles without issue.  Will keep one in reserve and the other will probably be put to use in my ESXI unRAID box.

[geekette]

I'm thinking of buying one of these as a cache drive!  Rather than spending the same $99 dollars of a 90GB SSD drive.

 

Probably a great idea since the bottleneck is the gigabit network and not the drive.  Also by having a 2tb hdd as a cache drive, you have a warm spare if one of your other drives fail.

[GFOviedo]

I'm thinking of buying one of these as a cache drive!  Rather than spending the same $99 dollars of a 90GB SSD drive.

 

Probably a great idea since the bottleneck is the gigabit network and not the drive.  Also by having a 2tb hdd as a cache drive, you have a warm spare if one of your other drives fail.

 

Ditto!

[geekette]

These are at $109 now, store pickup only.  So I guess these means sales tax of course.. so you're looking at approximately $120 assuming your state has a sales tax.

 

I suppose this is a good deal since I jsut paid $120 for a new WD of Amazon that only has a 2 year warranty--this one is still 5 year warranty.