Hard Drive Bargain Watch

[dfergie]

I go into admin on control panel, drive management, reformat & resize the partition then let the 622 format...

 

[JM42]

Seagate 2TB USB Drive at $76 shipped. No experience with this drive, but looks like a good deal.

Seagate Expansion 2TB USB External Hard Drive for $76 + free shipping

 

[KAB]

Seagate 2TB USB Drive at $76 shipped. No experience with this drive, but looks like a good deal.

Seagate Expansion 2TB USB External Hard Drive for $76 + free shipping

With Seagates, you will have to use utilities to disable the sleep function, which dish receivers can't wake it up from. WD's work just fine right out of the box.

 

[long_time_DNC]

Perhaps if you're attracted to spending considerably more money...

USB 2.0 seems more than fast enough to outrun the ViP series DVRs ability to prepare and send out the content.

Oh, I dunno...when you're archiving 4-6 HD movies at a time, 2-3 hours doesn't seem all that fast...1 movie is 13 minutes (depending the runtime of the movie), and that's fine, but 4-6 at a time takes quite awhile...

 

[dwarren2]

Already got my Sunday inserts. Office Max, Staples and Best Buy all have a Seagate 1 TB drive for $79.

 

[long_time_DNC]

Saw my first 3TB drive in an email ad yesterday...$179.99 - thought to myself, "wow, I remember when 750GB drives were that expensive"...

 

[harlanba]

Seems like there used to be a limit on hard drive size. Is there a limit now and how big of a harddrive can I use?

 

[dfergie]

It is still the amount of platters in the drive, 2TB's is as high as I've tried...

 

[long_time_DNC]

Yep, can't use multiple drives in an enclosure. Has to be a single drive. I too have only tried 750GB, 1.5TB and 2TB drives, max. They work fine...

 

[dfergie]

I bought a Go-flex for $89 Friday and just went into my computer and wiped the software... (bought it for my Media player)

 

[pvdb]

Seagate 2TB USB Drive at $76 shipped. No experience with this drive, but looks like a good deal.

Seagate Expansion 2TB USB External Hard Drive for $76 + free shipping

Has anyone used this drive with a Dish DVR? I tried to search whether it has two drives with no luck. Some reviews report an annoying clicking sound and I'm wondering if anyone has experience with this product?

 

[RobMeyer1]

Target has the Western Digital Elements 2TB External Hard Drive on sale this week at $85. That is the best price I've seen at Target since the Black Friday sale at $69. I have used this model in the 1TB size and am currently using the 1.5TB size with no problems.

 

[KKlare]

It looks to me that we are headed to $10 for a USB case and $40 or less/TB. 2.5" drives, even if bus powered and thus unusable, are twice as expensive. So $.04/GB for raw HDD. For flash memory, i.e., notebooks SSD or sticks or SD cards, it's coming down to $1/GB but just getting there and a long way to go. Oh the pain, I paid $190 for my first 750GB external USB.
-Ken

 

[harshness]

It looks to me that we are headed to $10 for a USB case and $40 or less/TB. 2.5" drives, even if bus powered and thus unusable, are twice as expensive.

I don't see 1TB 2.5" drives getting much below $60 anytime soon. 3.5" drives are a much better value as you can get double the capacity for the same or less money.

 

[TheTony]

Just enabled EHD on my account. Trying to decide between two drives:

- Western Digital Elements 500 GB (available from Newegg for $55 shipped)
- Iomega Prestige 1TB (available from Staples for $59 + tax, OOS online)

On price for capacity, the Iomega has the obvious edge. However, I'm simply not as familiar with Iomega, with regard to their hard drives. One edge for the WD is that it spins down its drive when not being accessed, something I have not verified yet for the Iomega.

Thoughts?

 

[Ghpr13]

Just enabled EHD on my account. Trying to decide between two drives:

- Western Digital Elements 500 GB (available from Newegg for $55 shipped)
- Iomega Prestige 1TB (available from Staples for $59 + tax, OOS online)

On price for capacity, the Iomega has the obvious edge. However, I'm simply not as familiar with Iomega, with regard to their hard drives. One edge for the WD is that it spins down its drive when not being accessed, something I have not verified yet for the Iomega.

Thoughts?

BestBuy has the 1TB WD Elements drive for $69.99. Just a FYI.

Ghpr13

Never mind, Amazon.com has it for $69.99 w/free shipping.

Ghpr13

 

[TheTony]

Thanks for the heads-up, Gphr13.

So I suppose the question for me, still, is WD elements vs Iomega prestige - which is the better drive, price aside?

BestBuy has the 1TB WD Elements drive for $69.99. Just a FYI.

Ghpr13

Never mind, Amazon.com has it for $69.99 w/free shipping.

Ghpr13

 

[Bobby]

Elements....

 

[Ray_Schwarz]

I have three IOMEGA drives - I believe the Prestege has an on/off switch in the back while the newer series does
not.

 

[whatchel1]

Just enabled EHD on my account. Trying to decide between two drives:

- Western Digital Elements 500 GB (available from Newegg for $55 shipped)
- Iomega Prestige 1TB (available from Staples for $59 + tax, OOS online)

On price for capacity, the Iomega has the obvious edge. However, I'm simply not as familiar with Iomega, with regard to their hard drives. One edge for the WD is that it spins down its drive when not being accessed, something I have not verified yet for the Iomega.

Thoughts?

Iomega HDD's are fine but the ext pwr supplies for the cases are POS. I've had 2 of them go belly up. Was able to repair 1 once So just ordered one from an independent co.