Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 ST3000DM001 3TB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5 inch Internal Hard Drive - Bare Drive $120AC@Newegg

Hmm.... how good is this drive??? Kinda need a secondary harddrive....

Man where are the $90 3TB drives that we had around black friday?! I really need more space.

I have 3 of these drives running in a NAS they are solid.

Seagate Barracuda ST3000DM001 3TB 7200 RPM 64MB SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5 inch Internal Hard Drive - Bare Drive $119.99


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Quote from kwik : Man where are the $90 3TB drives that we had around black friday?! I really need more space. I have 3 of these drives running in a NAS they are solid.

$90? can you link me this deal, I must have smoked too much and missed it

Silly question, but why is this a good deal when external 3TB drives are often less these days? Is this a higher class of drive - faster - runs cooler - longer warranty - better for NAS? ???

I wish seagate didn't lower their warranty period

Quote from VOUDOO : $90? can you link me this deal, I must have smoked too much and missed it

I can't find a link to it, but the 3tb Seagate Expansion was $90 and the 3tb Backup Plus was $100 on Amazon right around black friday. Both of those drives are external versions of this drive.

Quote from VOUDOO : $90? can you link me this deal, I must have smoked too much and missed it

Sounds like you did.. it was $90 last BF.

Quote from kwik : I have 3 of these drives running in a NAS they are solid.

I have 3 of these drives as well, also in a NAS as RAID 5.
They are solid (knock on wood) for me too.

Quote from golfgal : Silly question, but why is this a good deal when external 3TB drives are often less these days? Is this a higher class of drive - faster - runs cooler - longer warranty - better for NAS? ???

because may be these are 7200rpm? and seagate?

Quote from QuickStriker : Hmm.... how good is this drive??? Kinda need a secondary harddrive....

this is a solid drive, but i sort of have a silly problem with it
I have one from an earlier SD that I use as the "data" drive in my recent build that has an Intel SSD for the OS. But this drive often goes into "semi-sleep" state when not in use and when it is time to get something from it or write something to it, I literally hear the drive starts spinning and there is a good long 4-5 seconds gap each time this happens.
once it awakens, the drive performs really fast, though.
It might just be some setting that needs to be done, but I thought I should mention this. I also had to do some special Seagate driver stuff before Win7 could recognize all 3TBs

Quote from golfgal : Silly question, but why is this a good deal when external 3TB drives are often less these days? Is this a higher class of drive - faster - runs cooler - longer warranty - better for NAS? ???

2 year warranty vs 1 year.

i have one one of these as storage drives

is it supposed to have like 3 screeching noises when it starts up?

hmmm.... considering buying 2 of these for Raid 1 as storage.