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$182 + shipping (about $6 for one hard disk drive, $2 extra per additional drive) Western Digital 3TB Red hard drive for NAS WD30EFRX WD Adorama hard drive HDD
http://www.adorama.com/WD30EFRX.html
Yes I know it's barely below the MSRP of $190, after accounting for shipping, but this same drive goes for much more everywhere else--if it's even in stock. Newegg is charging over $250 for this drive. Amazon and TigerDirect are out of stock at higher prices with no expected delivery date. Next-lowest price at a legitimate retailer that I could find was B&H which is charging almost $30 more, if you include shipping.
If you want to know why these are in such high demand, the floods raised all HDD prices, and this drive is in high demand for users who demand higher data reliability than you get from typical "green" hard drives, and more speed, too:
From spcr: "The WD Red series is a fine addition to Western Digital's cadre of low power desktop drives. Though designed to overcome the shortcomings of the Caviar Green that make them less than suitable for 24-7 use in NAS environments and RAID configurations, they also deliver reductions in power consumption and noise. Both the 3TB and 1TB version are the most energy efficient and quiet models we've tested in their respective capacities. Seek noise is almost nonexistent and vibration levels are excellent.
Performance-wise the 1TB model is nothing to write home about, more or less equivalent in speed to your typical 5,400 RPM desktop drive. The 3TB variant however, is much faster, outclassing older 7200 RPM models like the 2TB WD Caviar Black and Seagate Barracuda XT in our real world application tests. If you want it all — performance, a minimal noise footprint, and a respectable amount of capacity, the WD Red 3TB is about as good as it gets, at least for a single, one-drive fits all solution. It doesn't compare to a solid-state drive or the latest 1TB VelociRaptor but it's speedy enough that you'd be hard pressed to notice the difference compared to a standard 7,200 RPM model."
http://www.pcper.com/reviews/Stor...ull-Review
http://www.storagereview.com/west...w_wd30efrx
http://www.silentpcreview.com/WD_Red
Note that this drive approaches WD Black speeds in some cases, due to high data density. Also comes with three year warranty (more than the 1-2 year warranties on Seagate/WD "green" drives).
Yes I know it's barely below the MSRP of $190, after accounting for shipping, but this same drive goes for much more everywhere else--if it's even in stock. Newegg is charging over $250 for this drive. Amazon and TigerDirect are out of stock at higher prices with no expected delivery date. Next-lowest price at a legitimate retailer that I could find was B&H which is charging almost $30 more, if you include shipping.
If you want to know why these are in such high demand, the floods raised all HDD prices, and this drive is in high demand for users who demand higher data reliability than you get from typical "green" hard drives, and more speed, too:
From spcr: "The WD Red series is a fine addition to Western Digital's cadre of low power desktop drives. Though designed to overcome the shortcomings of the Caviar Green that make them less than suitable for 24-7 use in NAS environments and RAID configurations, they also deliver reductions in power consumption and noise. Both the 3TB and 1TB version are the most energy efficient and quiet models we've tested in their respective capacities. Seek noise is almost nonexistent and vibration levels are excellent.
Performance-wise the 1TB model is nothing to write home about, more or less equivalent in speed to your typical 5,400 RPM desktop drive. The 3TB variant however, is much faster, outclassing older 7200 RPM models like the 2TB WD Caviar Black and Seagate Barracuda XT in our real world application tests. If you want it all — performance, a minimal noise footprint, and a respectable amount of capacity, the WD Red 3TB is about as good as it gets, at least for a single, one-drive fits all solution. It doesn't compare to a solid-state drive or the latest 1TB VelociRaptor but it's speedy enough that you'd be hard pressed to notice the difference compared to a standard 7,200 RPM model."
http://www.pcper.com/reviews/Stor...ull-Review
http://www.storagereview.com/west...w_wd30efrx
http://www.silentpcreview.com/WD_Red
Note that this drive approaches WD Black speeds in some cases, due to high data density. Also comes with three year warranty (more than the 1-2 year warranties on Seagate/WD "green" drives).
Last edited by goldchocobo; 08-23-2012 at 10:06 AM..
Reason: add url
Costcaptain appears to be a site selling software that only dabbles in hardware. Several reviews on resellerratings about them say that they do NOT carry hardware; they only drop-ship stuff. I've had enough HDDs go bad (DOA, in-warranty death) that I'd rather deal with a known and trusted retailer with no gray market/warranty/returns/in-stock/credit card fraud issues. But like I said, you can take your chances with a drop-shipper if you want.
