Hard Drive Bargain Watch

[JeremyL]

I have always used Western Digital drives and have never had a problem. The old 1 gig drive I had wayyyy back in the day still works.

 

[kstuart]

Often the missing piece of information is "which year". Some years of Maxtors were fine, other years were not so good, and same for all the other brands.

Google buys many thousands of HDs and did some statistical research, and IIRC the only consistent thread running through it all was that hard drives fail.

 

[John Kotches]

Google buys many thousands of HDs and did some statistical research, and IIRC the only consistent thread running through it all was that hard drives fail.

We have a winner. Hard Drives are mechanical components (the only one really) and what fails the most?

OTOH, I've never had a bad DIMM and I've been through thousands of them. Even when they were SIMMs

Cheers,

 

[John Kotches]

Oops, technically speaking optical drives are mechanical in nature too; and they fail. I've seen them fail far less frequently than HDD though.

 

[LER]

We have a winner. Hard Drives are mechanical components (the only one really) and what fails the most?

OTOH, I've never had a bad DIMM and I've been through thousands of them. Even when they were SIMMs

Cheers,

And of course I can refute that DIMM's never fail. I had one fail self-test in my desktop back a couple of months. HP replaced it, but...

(This was a 2G FB-DIMM).

LER

 

[John Kotches]

And of course I can refute that DIMM's never fail. I had one fail self-test in my desktop back a couple of months. HP replaced it, but...

(This was a 2G FB-DIMM).

LER

Every type of component will fail; but the most likely item is?

 

[long_time_DNC]

Thanks for the pointer to this thread, KAB.

 

[KAB]

Interesting discovery

Regarding WD and Seagate EXTERNAL HDs. WD warranty is 1 year from "manufacturing date". Seagate is 5 years. FYI. Warranty for WD internal drives are 3 years. Makes me wonder!?!?

 

[Dirtydan]

Here is a deal on a Fantom 500gb, anyone know how good or bad these are?
External Hard Drive - 500GB Titanium II USB 2.0 External Hard Drive (Fantom Drives) - eCOST.com - electronics, computers, laptops, mp3 players

 

[Paradox-SJ]

I have always used Western Digital drives and have never had a problem. The old 1 gig drive I had wayyyy back in the day still works.

You aint lieing....I still have two 1.6GB drives from like 97'-98' that just wont die....

Most importat thing here is to make sure it is a server class drive/raid quality MTBF <1.2milll...

For WD that would be thedrives that end in YS.

 

[KAB]

Seagate 500GB

Not endorsing or suggesting. Just a heads up on a good price:
FRYS.com | Seagate

 

[patmurphey]

Usb?

 

[KAB]

Usb?

Needs enclosure.

 

[bigthrust]

Maxtor 300GB + 20GB Ultra DMA/100 16MB Buffer Retail Hard Drive Kit $69.99 + shipping

For those of you that have PATA enclosures and need HD:

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[smooth28la]

FRYS.com | Maxtor

MAXTOR 1.5TB USB 2.0 & FIREWIRE 400/800 (TRIPLE INTERFACE) EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE

$399

 

[Ronald_Jeremy]

FRYS.com | Maxtor

MAXTOR 1.5TB USB 2.0 & FIREWIRE 400/800 (TRIPLE INTERFACE) EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE

$399

I thought TB and above weren't going to be supported.

 

[John Kotches]

I thought TB and above weren't going to be supported.

It's two 750s in a single chassis. If it can be configured and addressed as individual drives then it would work fine.

CHeers,

 

[ChetK]

The 750 GB limitation was just temporary and I believe they have already gotten rid of the limitation even before it goes live. If you watch the demo video, he clearly states that the system will support multiple TBs at once.

 

[smooth28la]

Where's the demo video?

 

[KAB]

Where's the demo video?

http://www.satelliteguys.us/951022-post568.html