Roll the dice for $50? Refurb Seagate 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Barracuda + bonus 6GB Hitachi Microdrive
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Whoa that really is a paperweight? it's not CFII formfactor??
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I bought one of these 1TB refurb ES about a year ago when they were $35 for my 8x RAID 5 array and it's still going strong, for reference.
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These are listed as "ES.2". And yes, the 7200.11 was the problematic series.
This article seems to suggest that the "ES.2" series although differentiated from the 7200.11 series, seemed to be...
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I read the last part of the post with an Russian accent.
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Interesting...I read it with a Spanish accent, but Russian fits better.
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I agree.
Personally, I'm waiting to see if there are any deals on hard drives during black friday.
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I own 2 of these exact same models. There is a reason they are refurb. Both of mine are complete POS. I sent one back, got a replacement, and it worked for about a year. They overheat and die...
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considering that you can get the 1.5TB *non-refurb* with a 2 yr warranty for ~$10 more than that (newegg) I would say the savings isn't worth the risk. I guess if you only put truly expendable or...
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bought one - thanks OP - repped n thumbs up
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Hard drives will fit in a small flat rate box for $5.35 (or $5.15 online), so $10.35 at most. Plus there is a good chance you may be able to talk Service Net in to providing you a return label. For...
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I work at a hospital. My supervisor ended its relationship with dell due to them clinging onto self encrypting drives which malfunction. They were seagates....
We had to clone and slave the crap...
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How much does it cost to buy an external case for it? Or should I just get the external hard drives instead of this?
I'm not too tech savvy...
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Lmao, a microdrive. Epic.
IIRC, aren't these the 1TB Seagate's that had a ton of problems? The 7200.11's?
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Amazeballs!
free paperweight with purchase
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green for the title
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It works even better if your name is Peggy.
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not really.....
generally, warranty requires you to send in the drive, which would cost ~$8-9
add that to $5 warranty = $14
means that unless the chance of failure is more then 28% on this drive...
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Seagate drives are the worst, and a refurb Seagate is the only thing worse. Honestly I wouldn't put any data I care about onto this drive. Probably wouldn't even use it without some form of...
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$19~$30 bucks?
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Newegg 1 year extended warranty for $4.99 seems like a good idea to add.
Not a bad deal.