Fantastic deal for a nice sized chunk of storage:
http://shop2.outpost.com/product/4799749
I brought this up in a Feeler thread in Marketplace and people started talking about it, and didn't see a post in here so thought I should make one.
Excellent price for a drive with all the latest tech -- perpendicular recording, SATA-II (SATA-300), 16MB cache, and a 5 year warranty. I ordered one today. Remember to select Ground Shipping to get free shipping; I'm very lucky and get all my Outpost orders the very next business day even with Ground Shipping because they have a warehouse in my town (Lafayette, IN).
My opinions:
I have slowly been switching over all my drives to Seagates since my fantastic personal experiences with Western Digital (20% failure rate) and IBM/Hitachi (40% failure rate) drives. I have found Maxtors to be mostly reliable (have only lost one Maxtor out of about 12), but I find them too noisy. I currently own 10 hard drives, most of them in my file server (which now will be 1.6TB once this new drive arrives), and 7 of them are Seagates. I have never lost a Seagate drive made within the last three years (in the old old days, they sucked, but now they're the best), and I've been through a heck of a lot of drives. The 5-year warranty on Seagates is also second to none, and they're quiet to boot.
http://shop2.outpost.com/product/4799749
I brought this up in a Feeler thread in Marketplace and people started talking about it, and didn't see a post in here so thought I should make one.
Excellent price for a drive with all the latest tech -- perpendicular recording, SATA-II (SATA-300), 16MB cache, and a 5 year warranty. I ordered one today. Remember to select Ground Shipping to get free shipping; I'm very lucky and get all my Outpost orders the very next business day even with Ground Shipping because they have a warehouse in my town (Lafayette, IN).
My opinions:
I have slowly been switching over all my drives to Seagates since my fantastic personal experiences with Western Digital (20% failure rate) and IBM/Hitachi (40% failure rate) drives. I have found Maxtors to be mostly reliable (have only lost one Maxtor out of about 12), but I find them too noisy. I currently own 10 hard drives, most of them in my file server (which now will be 1.6TB once this new drive arrives), and 7 of them are Seagates. I have never lost a Seagate drive made within the last three years (in the old old days, they sucked, but now they're the best), and I've been through a heck of a lot of drives. The 5-year warranty on Seagates is also second to none, and they're quiet to boot.