October 12, 201213 yr Seagate Barracuda 7200 3 TB 7200RPM SATA 6 Gb/s NCQ 64MB Cache 3.5-Inch Internal Bare Drive ST3000DM001 $119 and free shipping.
October 12, 201213 yr Nice! That's what I paid back in july of 2011. Finally we're seeing prices come back to what they were before the flood! Luckily I was ok on space during this time.. It might be time to add in another 3TB drive.. but I need another drive cage then... damn.. More money to spend!
October 12, 201213 yr Dang, just about the same price I paid for my hitachi's before the flooding. Prices are coming back down, but know I think I will wait for the 4TB drives.
October 12, 201213 yr Do bear in mind that the warranty on Seagate is 1 year. It might or might not be a deciding factor on your purchase but I just thought it might be worth repeating.
October 12, 201213 yr Do bear in mind that the warranty on Seagate is 1 year. It might or might not be a deciding factor on your purchase but I just thought it might be worth repeating. You can purchase a 3 year warranty for a hard drive of this price on SquareTrade for $18 bucks
October 16, 201213 yr Mine's preclearing now =) I am throwing these drives right into service as i get them (1 yr warranty). its so fast these days to have a drive shipped, and prices seem stable now, that I am not as concerned about having a warm spare (precleared but unpowered and out of the array) - as the drive will likely be well out of warranty prior to being put into service. Right now I have a sleeping 2 TB warm spare that I am probably just going to add to my array and forget about having a spare. I can live without my array for a week if I need to buy a drive and incorporate it into the array in an emergency. And anyway, i should really have a 3 tb spare, and that's just a bit expensive at this point.
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