2TB SAMSUNG X4
MODEL NUMBER: HD203WI
$439
1TB HITACHI 7200RPM $55
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Seagate 1TB Hard Disk $49 ST31000528AS Fluidtek
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the 2TB WD greens are $101 from MSY
and the 2TB sammys are $96 at MSY
both are 5400rpm
and honestly out of the three brands Samsung is my pick atm (because of a decent combination of price and performance), Seagate are as good as dead IMO too many stuff ups between me and my friends.I heavily recommend the WD green drives, have given up on seagate too.
Ive got 2x 2TB WD green drives from ARC for $95bux each.. awesome price awesome drives.. Samsung would be my next pick.. and i would take Seagate over Hitashi or Toshiba drives any day! :)
So is $110 for a Seagate drive. And you have to buy 4. Typo in the heading price - can this be fixed please by OP or a mod?
For the record, I've had about 4 Seagate drives over the years and all failed spectacularly within 12 months (6 months actually I think). I would never buy another. I also read recently that Amstrad computers went out of business in the 80s due to failed Seagate drives. So beware of Seagate drives.
But I'm giving a neg as 2TB drives are cheaper elsewhere. Nice WD ones too!The 4 x deal is Samsung click on the link check their page.
Sorry was confused by the 3 - in - 1 deal.
I think you should compare the exact drive . this samsung model is the cheapest anywhere .
OK BC sure thing.
I did some digging around and Samsung make two different 2TB drives the F3 (which is this one) and the F4. If you say that this is the cheapest you can find the F3 for, that would mean that MSY are selling the F4. If this is the case then go to MSY to buy the F4 anyway, as it's cheaper and according to Samsung's website the F4 also has better performance in write speeds and uses less power draw on seek by 1-2W.
And by going to MSY there's no loss cause even if it isn't the F4 (which I suspect would be more expensive than the F3) and is is in fact also the F3 you're saving $13.75 a drive and don't have to buy 4.Time to lift your game BC, nothing spectacular there.
Although I have to admit the 1TB Seagate drive is cheap, but I won't be touching them personally due to bad experiences with the brand.Good to see that you've lifted your game and droped the price to $99 each without having to buy 4 :) (still not the cheapest though, but good enough)
My Dell Laptop's Harddisk was using Seagate, and it failed recently.all data gone, there's sound when i plug in the USB. My laptop was only 10-11months old. But then Dell change to Toshiba. Hopefull everything will be okay after this.
I recovered all the data on a Seagate 2.5" drive by putting it in a USB enclosure, packing it into a bag filled with dry rice and placing the whole thing in a freezer. All the data was recoverable when the drive was at -18C, but absolutely nothing could be read at room temperature. I put my laptop next to the freezer (drive inside the freezer) to recover the data. The dead 2.5 drive was brought back to room temp while inside the bag and returned for a warranty swap. The rice is there to absorb the moisture that would otherwise kill the drive.
I used to think this trick was an urban myth, but in my case it worked. I was quite lucky, and now keep a rigorous backup regime for my laptops.
cool story bro
I have had a bad run with Seagate drives too, and been luckier with Samsung, Hitachi and WD.
However, hard drives are so cheap now it makes sense to mirror RAID them. You can releech movies and TV episodes if a drive dies but your personal files and work are irreplaceable.
If only I could find a 640GB drive to mirror my current one :(
I usually use laptops, so I'm in a difficult situation. Not many laptops have dual hard drives :-) Apple has the convenient Time Machine function which is almost as good.
I'm currently using a Dell XPS with a 640Gb Samsung 2.5 7200rpm drive. Perhaps a Samsung drive would work for you?
Lol my 640GB drive IS a sammy as well, but only difference is that it's a desktop internal. Need to find a 640GB internal desktop drive, I wonder if second hand eBay ones will do the job?
Mmmm, lappies, all you can do with lappies are periodical back ups to an external drive. Just as good if you do it on a regular basis.
TechBuy sells 640Gb Samsung 3.5" drives. A bit expensive for the size, but it'll probably match what you have. The drives ideally need to be the same brand/type/speed/firmware to avoid problems with RAID 1.
I always thought it was best to use different brands or at least different batches of the same brand for RAID1 to avoid both drives dying at the same time.
Data must be read and written at the same time for RAID controllers to work reliably. Mixing different brands can upset that process and cause a drive to drop out. The drives may have a different number of platters, cylinders, etc. Similarly, firmware may have an impact on drive timing, recalibration, etc.
To have two drives die simultaneously in RAID 1 would be very rare indeed. Not unheard of however, as seen in Seagate drives a few years ago that had a firmware error that caused them to predictably fail in some circumstances.
RAID 1 isn't a substitute for off site backups, but it makes quick recovery so much easier.
As said unless there is a known firmware issue that occurs predictably the likelihood of two drives dying simultaneously is tiny.
I bought a 1.5TB 7200RPM Seagate hard disk $75 from them half year ago for my HTPC no problem so far.
Yeah I bought 2TB Seagate Green Varients (ST32000542AS) from PricesEngine - approx 5 months old now
Till now its all fine (and hopefully it will stay fine)Just wondering if anybody else bought this harddrive (see http://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/29315?page=1)
Any comments / review on the device?
I'm currently using this inside my astone media player
Seagate are fantastic. The people with issues always speak the loudest. WD have had their fair share of failures too. If you don't back up important data you are just asking for it to be lost.
Why would anyone recommend WD Green? They are so fricken slow. You notice a considerable increase in performance with 7200 rpm drives.
Because with 2TB drives Seagate is the worse, they use old head parking tech that reduces the expected lifetime of the drive compared to the other two major brands considerably.
Also it seems that after the 7200.11 debacle, many people have lost faith in Seagate. Me and my circle of computer savy friends included.
As I said it's all up to personal experiences. I work in IT and have had many more problems with WD than seagate.
The 7200.11 issue happened 2 years ago. I think some people need to let go.But they're still stuck with the drive.
For HTPC and storage drive they are OK, I am also considering to buy a 2TB green drive for my HTPC.
So many movies to store.
Yeah I guess where seek times are less important than noise and heat output they could be useful but I would never use them for a desktop machine. My friend built a machine from all MSY components with 8 core processor etc.. and the WD green brings it to a crawl.
Currently running 3 x RAID0 arrays in a system that runs 24x7.
2x 2 year old Samsung 750gb 7200rpm drives purchased from Fluidtek. One failed about 2 weeks ago and has been replaced.
2x 1 year old 1500gb Seagate 7200rpm drives purchased from Fluidtek. One failed about 4 weeks ago and has been replaced.
2x 2 month old Seagate 2tb 5900rpm drives not purchased from Fluidtek (they were closed). No problems with failure so far.
The read/write performance of the 5900rpm drives is terrible, plus without any power saving features switched on in Windows they switch themselves off far too quickly and then take ages to spin back up.
Would never buy a 5400 rpm, green or 5900 rpm drive ever again based on my experience with these steaming piles of elephant dung…The only good thing I can say about the 5900 rpm drives is that they run cool.
The 1.5tb Seagates run hot - normally 50 degrees plus even when not under heavy load….
Good deal but Jesus H Christ!
And I thought MSY had a terrible homepage. Looks like a 16 year old script kiddie wrote it up at 2am for a free 2 gigs of porn.
Mate I'm not complaining, they probably don't have much of a web page design team working on it, and that will reduce costs to them which means lower prices for us! :D
Sure it looks bad, but it can easily be updated by anyone quickly and easily in FrontPage or something.
I don't know about 4 2TBs for 439 being a good deal ?
One is like 104 dollars now at UMART for a WD green model which should be better than this one.