Seagate Barracuda LP 2TB SATA 6GB/S 3.5IN 12MS 5900RPM 64MB Hard Drive OEM (ST2000DL003) is only $59.99 at NCIX.com plus FREE SHIPPING!

thanks, in for 1. came to $64.34 after tax in california

Thanks in for one as well.

Not recommended - Amazon [amazon.com]

Quote from xmlguy : Not recommended - Amazon [amazon.com]

Thanks for the link. Almost took the bait for the 65 deal with superbiz and now almost took the bait this time at 60. Lucky I read your link first.

Quote from DougSeason : Thanks for the link. Almost took the bait for the 65 deal with superbiz and now almost took the bait this time at 60. Lucky I read your link first.

it's a link to only one star reviews... all products have one star reviews

** update 2 **
4 of 5 have now failed.
Every couple of weeks a new one fails.
I was hoping i received a bad initial batch from amazon. However, now the replacements have started to fail.
I have had enough ... I am returning all of them.
If I could give this zero stars I would.

** update 1 **
3 of 5 have now failed.
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Purchased 5 of these (four at a time and one as a spare).
So far 2 have failed (first failed within a day, the second failed @ two weeks).
Thank god for amazon, simple returns, and RAID.

in for 1

Quote from jcX4ever : ** update 2 ** 4 of 5 have now failed. Every couple of weeks a new one fails. I was hoping i received a bad initial batch from amazon. However, now the replacements have started to fail. I have had enough ... I am returning all of them. If I could give this zero stars I would. ** update 1 ** 3 of 5 have now failed. ----------- Purchased 5 of these (four at a time and one as a spare). So far 2 have failed (first failed within a day, the second failed @ two weeks). Thank god for amazon, simple returns, and RAID.

"5.0 out of 5 stars Terrific, fast, very quiet, February 12, 2011

I purchased four of these to replace four 500gb SATA 2 drives by the same manufacturer in a Netgear ReadyNAS NV+ machine. While I cannot attest to the new SATA 3 (6 gb/sec) speeds (the ReadyNAS is SATA 2), the new firmware from Netgear required me to do a factory reset on the device, and upon boot it recognized the new 4k format being used by this drive. After the drives were striped and the volume redundant, I was able to copy about a terabyte of data off my local machine in about 12 hours (with breaks in between).

The new drives run cooler than the old 500's, are amazingly quiet, and fast-- so far I'm quite impressed with their performance (especially with the 64mb cache). While I haven't seen their long-term viability yet, I'm pleasantly surprised by how well they work.
"

Ok so you quoted one bad review and I quoted one good one...

But product has four out of five stars on Amazon..thanks for the link and feel better about this one now than I did from the start.

You couldn't pay me to trust my data on a Seagate. Their reputation is shot to hell.

In for 3. :-D

$60 for a clickgate? How about no. If you think this is a good deal just wait 2-3 months down the line when you are trying to RMA them.

I don't know if you guys have noticed, but EVERY "green" 2TB drive out there seems to have a high failure rate - just go read Newegg. This isn't anything specific to Seagate. I must be lucky, as I have 1 Seagate, 1 Samsung, 1 Western Digital, and 2 Hitachi 2 TB drives and none of them have failed. My Seagate has been purring along happily for 10 months.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Pro...ageSize=20

I JUST jumped on the 2 TB Hitachi deal at Newegg for $60 (it's in the mail), this makes me wish I had waited for this deal. IIRC the Seagate is a bit faster.

Quote from googlex64 : $60 for a clickgate? How about no. If you think this is a good deal just wait 2-3 months down the line when you are trying to RMA them.

I just had a 1.5tb Western Digital drive go bad and it was hardly used with a barely expired warranty. Three out of four of my OCZ SSD's has failed at one time or another. I wouldn't single out Seagate since they are all bad. It sucks that these things aren't as reliable as they should be but, at these prices, buy a spare.
I have four of these seagate 5900 drives and not one has failed yet, knock on wood.