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

 

This is an excellent deal!

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=-

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.

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

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!

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

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.

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.

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!

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.