 elwoodbluesElwood BluesPremium
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HarperLand
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2 edits | Hard Drive Deals Since the other thread is currently missing I'll fire up this one.
NCIX is offering a 2TB Seagate drive for $99.
That's better then the greens that were selling for $79(is) last year.
Edit : No idea what's going on with the link, when I test it it comes up with 99 other times it's $139.
»www.ncix.com/products/index.php?···oid=1069
This is the right link, I fired up IE to test just in case I had something cached.
They also have a 3TB for $150
»www.ncix.com/products/?sku=66009···oid=1069
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 vue666I'm in the prime of my senilityPremium
join:2007-12-07
Halifax, NS | Thanks Elwood. I'm in the market for a few hard drives and these will fit the bill nicely....
Cheers
Oops... your link shows them listed at $139 |
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 BigBlarg
join:2008-02-10
Longueuil, QC
kudos:1 | reply to elwoodblues
Shows them at 99 for me |
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vue666I'm in the prime of my senilityPremium
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Halifax, NS | OK...now it does for me as well... |
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vue666I'm in the prime of my senilityPremium
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Halifax, NS | The new BestBuy flyer arrived today and starting tomorrow they have 3TB Seagate Expansion drive USB3 for $139.00 |
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HoboJ
join:2008-03-27
Carrying Place, ON
kudos:1 | reply to elwoodblues
Well it's time for me to get some more hdd's then with my new computer that I'm slowly building. I'm glad to see prices have finally reached acceptable levels. |
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elwoodbluesElwood BluesPremium
join:2006-08-30
HarperLand | reply to elwoodblues
I won't be buying any Hard drives till I've finished re-encoding all my SD stuff. Then I'll see how much space I have left.
I still have a 1.5tb external sitting on the shelf. |
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vue666I'm in the prime of my senilityPremium
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Halifax, NS | SD stuff? |
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elwoodbluesElwood BluesPremium
join:2006-08-30
HarperLand | Sorry, I'm so used to the "Lingo" that I forget.
Standard Definition, DVD's basically.
I'm re-encoding them all to h264, and saving a ton of space. |
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I need a 3tb black quality drive to replace a parity drive before I upgrade anything. They don't make them. |
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elwoodbluesElwood BluesPremium
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| said by Devanchya:I need a 3tb black quality drive to replace a parity drive before I upgrade anything. They don't make them.
Look at Seagate's Constellation series.
They're the new NS drives. |
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 jmacd27Premium
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Toronto, ON | reply to elwoodblues
I got a few of these in my Synology NAS, they are working great. |
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 MashikiBalking The Enemy's Plans
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Woodstock, ON
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said by Devanchya:I need a 3tb black quality drive to replace a parity drive before I upgrade anything. They don't make them. You could always look at the Hitachi Deskstar 7K3000 which are pretty decent. It's finding them that's the problem, people snap them up really fast. |
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elwoodbluesElwood BluesPremium
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| They just sold their HD division to Western Digital. That's why there is a shortage.
So we have lost over the years
Kalok (no great lost)
Conner
Hitachi
Fujitsu
Maxtor (the new Kalok)
Samsung
Actually I just found the list on Wikipedia.. it's bigger then I ever imagined.
»en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_de···acturers
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 DKSDamn Kidney StonesPremium,ExMod 2002
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Owen Sound, ON
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said by vue666:OK...now it does for me as well...
Now sold out.
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MashikiBalking The Enemy's Plans
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said by elwoodblues:They just sold their HD division to Western Digital. That's why there is a shortage.
Yeah I was a real fan of the Hitachi jobs, I've got a old 100GB drive of theirs and it's still going strong. They did turn around the deskstars after IBM and their massive fudgeup. Fujitsu though? Meh, I had so many of their drives fail that I could have punched someone in the kittens. I did get a cheque for $400 from them though as part of the class action suit, so I suppose that is something. I do miss quantum's though, I've still got a tiny 160MB drive that runs my linux nas box, and is still going strong. |
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 FaxCap
join:2002-05-25
Surrey, BC
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said by elwoodblues:Actually I just found the list on Wikipedia.. it's bigger then I ever imagined. One of the best drives I ever owned was an IBM. That thing was
100meg and it cost me well over $300. It was leading edge then. 
That damn thing is in a box somewhere here and still runs!
FaxCap |
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elwoodbluesElwood BluesPremium
join:2006-08-30
HarperLand | reply to Mashiki
Oh yeah I completely forgot about the IBM Deathstars  |
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vue666I'm in the prime of my senilityPremium
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Halifax, NS | reply to elwoodblues
So what is the difference between the Seagate FreeAgent/GoFlex and Seagate Expansion drives... I have a FreeAgent 2TB and it sits like a book. I've also had the Expansion drive but it died after 3 years.
By difference I mean quality, performance, etc...
Seagate 3TB USB 3.0 Expansion drive on sale at BestBuy...
»www.bestbuy.ca/EN-CA/product/id/···639.aspx |
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elwoodbluesElwood BluesPremium
join:2006-08-30
HarperLand | Free Agents are USB powered drives, like the WD Passports (amobile drives)
The Goflex drivers require external power may have regular 7200RPM drives, or may have the slower "Green Drives" in them. |
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