🔖 Deals Frys.com - Seagate 1.5TB 3.5 SATA Hard Drives - $119

[TommyGloves]

I bought two of these for a mirrored RAID setup for data backups last Friday.

Comes with SATA and power cables:

http://shop1.frys.com/product/5803213.

EDIT: These prices are online purchases only. The store is carrying them for $159.

Dumped them in this device -> http://www.sansdigital.com/mobilestor/ms2ut.html

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[Freebeer187]

Great deal!

 

[Fish]

That is a steal. What RAID setup are you going for Tommy?

 

[RebelGTP]

Not to spoil the deal, but these are the drives that Seagate has been having firmware troubles with...

They may have fixed it now, but just a heads up

 

[TommyGloves]

That is a steal. What RAID setup are you going for Tommy?

Simple RAID 1 to backup all my music, photos, software installs, docs, etc from my boxes and laptops. The nice part is the Sans Digital device that I put these in allows hot swaps and rebuilds on the fly.

Not to spoil the deal, but these are the drives that Seagate has been having firmware troubles with...

They may have fixed it now, but just a heads up

Yeah..I believe the issue is fixed now. I saw that the earlier versions had problems. The firmware on the two I have were newer than the problem versions.

I exercised these drives pretty hard this past weekend (a couple full formats, surface level tests, they are about 65% full at the moment with data with zero problems.)

I waited to post this deal before I had a chance to test them out. I feel pretty confident that they will be fine.

 

[Fish]

Simple RAID 1 to backup all my music, photos, software installs, docs, etc from my boxes and laptops. The nice part is the Sans Digital device that I put these in allows hot swaps and rebuilds on the fly.


Yeah..I believe the issue is fixed now. I saw that the earlier versions had problems. The firmware on the two I have were newer than the problem versions.

I exercised these drives pretty hard this past weekend (a couple full formats, surface level tests, they are about 65% full at the moment with data with zero problems.)

I waited to post this deal before I had a chance to test them out. I feel pretty confident that they will be fine.

Not bad. I was thinking RAID 5 or whatever, but then Id have to buy 3 of those bitches.

 

[Freebeer187]

I hear those 1.5TB HDDs go back very quick.

 

[Dasfinc]

I hear those 1.5TB HDDs go back very quick.

Shouldn't you be fixing my SexBox

Yea, Reviews on NewEgg show ALOT of 'LARGE' Drives going bad fast.

 

[Ron Vogel]

hey Tom....I was considering a raid set-up for my DAW, and may need to bend your ear a little.

 

[radioguy6]

yeah thats a good deal. Seems like they dont build HDDs as well as they used to though. 750GB+ drives seem to only last a few years from what ive seen, probably from the increased work loads. I have drives laying around at home ranging from 420MB to 80GB from the 90s/early 00s that will still spin fine.