Seagate Barracuda 7200 3 TB 7200RPM $119 Amazon Prime

[Talsit]

Seagate Barracuda 7200 3 TB 7200RPM SATA 6 Gb/s NCQ 64MB Cache 3.5-Inch Internal Bare Drive ST3000DM001 $119 and free shipping.

[jbuszkie]

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!

[mexicanmike]

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.

[BLKMGK]

Awesome find thank you! Just ordered two which is the limit, great price :-)

[PeteAron]

Thanks!  I've been waiting to purchase a spare - done!

[rreyv]

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.

[mrow]

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

[SuperW2]

Price back up to $148.69 

[PeteAron]

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.