3TB Seagate Expansion USB 3.0 Desktop External Hard Drive (STBV3000100) $108 + Free Shipping w/ V.me by Visa Checkout

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LoL that's what i was thinking

Sweet, V.me triggered the fraud protection on my credit card. I can't figure out how to get Newegg to reprocess the transaction; it just errors out.

Quote from FozzyFozborne : If you're running a 64-bit version of Windows 7 home premium or higher, you can certainly run a 3TB hard drive to its full capacity. You will, however need a UEFI-capable motherboard. There are several guides as to how to do it online. Simply search 'Installing Windows 7 on a GPT hard drive'. Also, if you are unsure if your motherboard supports UEFI you can easily find it by looking through the BIOS.

I'd have to literally image my hard drive and then do it.

It's just not worth it until I fill up the 2 TB that is allowed.

Got a 4TB 7200 RPM Seagate as my storage drive, so that'll take a few months at least I'm guessing .

Is this deal still on? Getting an error when entering the promo code in the checkout. I'm interested in picking one up for storing backups.

Quote from immad : http://www.newegg.com/Product/Pro...6822178117 Promo code EMCXTXR34

Impressive, 10 dollars less that Costco has it right now. After tax, about $7-9 less. I don't think this is that good of deal, just my 2 cents.

So basically, in California, taxes are on the cost the item was bought at from the Manufacturer, so Costco gets them at 139.99 (%8) tax in my area, means about 10.44 tax and the item is 119.99, compared to 12.44 tax on the 159.88 (8% tax) and item is 109.99. So in this case, not really a good deal as I stated.

Thanks OP.

Quote from bil : Good price. Bought mine around thanksgiving from amazon. Great copy speeds. Only downside so far is aggressive head parking, about 40 per hour for me, and drive is rated for a total 300,000 head parks. Comes out to 312 days if you leave it on 24/7. Seagate offers a firmware update for the internal version that reduces head parks to 4-5 per hour. Unfortunately CC4H update would not update my firmware version of CC9F. CrystalDiskInfo can disable APM but not permanently so you have to start application with Windows each time (Resident) option.

Your drive is farked or something. I too have a CC9F drive and I've been monitoring it for the past 30 minutes and it hasn't even parked once.

I just confirmed with two different customer service reps that the VMEPROMOMAR13 code is no longer valid due to lack of funding.

Nice!!

Bah, sold out. And I was about the pull the trigger ...

Quote from petard : I have 5 of these drives, Firmware / Power on hours / load/unload cycle count / cycles per hour CC9E / 6045 / 8608 / 1.42 CC98 / 7018 / 21135 / 3.01 CC9F / 2505 / 4099 / 1.64 CC43 / 2425 / 1460 / 0.60 CC43 / 2282 / 1344 / 0.59 Yes, it seems the CC9X firmwares really do have pretty horrible head parking, but it's not anywhere near close to 40/hour for mine. I do have my computer set to spin the drives down, and they mostly contain video files. No system files. Even my worst one with 3 cycles/hour would take 99617 hours to reach 300,000 cycles. That's 4150 days or 11.3 years. The lower the hours, the newer the drive. All are in the same system.

I got one of these about 2 weeks ago from Staples and it has firmware revision CC44. Also, if you want to update the firmware to CC44 there's a program Seagate has called drive detect where it checks for new firmware for you and lets you download new revisions. To update the firmware, I'm almost certain that the drive has to be connected via sata, not usb. I don't even know if I would attempt it over USB anyway.

Edit: I just checked to confirm that there isn't a newer firmware revision than CC44, and it looks like CC44 is the latest. Also, the automatic check wasn't working for me (I believe I have too many drives, it was working for another Seagate drive I have installed though) but it lets you check manually if you want; just hit the "clear form" button on the bottom and enter the serial # and then the model #. My drive model # is ST3000D001-1CH166 and it wasn't accepting it as a valid part #, but it did once I omitted the second string of digits (everything after the dash).

Quote from Dingaling : I must be the only one that had had problems with the 3.0 USB Seagate Hard Drives. Had 3 out of 3 fail. Just sent out my 3rd today. I think I'll pay $10 more for a 2.0 WD....Just say'n.

Either you're doing something wrong or you're getting them from somewhere that doesn't handle them or ship them correctly.

Hmm, back in stock, got one.