1TB Hard Drives on sale

[F-U-Jimmy]

I dont know if this is of interest to you guys but Costco have just lowered the price of the Western Digital 1TB hard drives to just under $120.00, i brought another dozen .

Ive used this make and model of drive for the last 9 months and they are working out great for video storage and Raw image storage

[S P A N N O W]

That's not a bad price. I'm using an Icy Box with 1TB SATA drives and love it! The connection is fast enough to edit video directly to and from it. It's worked out well enough that all my data is now external - I keep nothing but OS and programs on my machines. Map it as a network drive and you have a makeshift file server on the cheap.

[SteveHardeman]

floppydisk.com is having a sale on 3.5" floppies. 26 cents each. You can save almost a third of one raw image on every single one. I real time saver.

[seeandsee]

that is fucking cheap

[NaughtyRob]

I have terrible like with TB drives. I have 9 500 gig drives and 1 tb drive, that one and the one I had before it always give me trouble.

[markyman]

thats high, 1.5tb seagates going for $80-120, watch bens bargains

I got one for $83 from dell last week

[woj]

you can get 1.5TB for $130 right now at dell.com

[markyman]

$129 + free shipping for 1.5tb at new egg HERE

[F-U-Jimmy]

Heres another deal i got in the mail today

1.0TB Hitachi Saturn 7200RPM Serial ATA Hard Drive for $89.00

The latest 3-Platter solution from Hitachi - Low Power, Super High-Speed,
High reliability and for under $100 straight up, no rebates to claim.
http://eshop.macsales.com/item-maill...38016/BlastFeb For Macs!!

[RyuLion]

only stay with Maxtor..

[jollyperv]

only stay with Maxtor..

The only hard drive I've ever had fail on me was a maxtor. One is enough to never use that brand again.

[S P A N N O W]

I'm partial to Seagate. I still have some old Seagate SCSI drives (circa 1997) that function perfectly. Nearly every other brand tends to corrupt after only a few years.

[DirtyDanza]

frys has em for 89 bucks all day long baby

[cess]

The only hard drive I've ever had fail on me was a maxtor. One is enough to never use that brand again.

Maxtor was bought out by seagate a few years ago. All maxtors are now made by seagate. Hard drives fail all the time too. Almost every store online sends OEM (bare drive) in bubblewrap and/or popcorn chips, or even worse paper. If you send a drive back to any manufacturer packaged that way they won't accept it.

All their RMA process say don't do it or we won't accept it. Yet all these fuckheads are sending them out that way new just to save 10c on shipping. Most people don't even know it's damaged, because they don't read the s.m.a.r.t. features on the drives to see if it has bad sectors. So they just use it up til the fucking thing is fried...

[mozadek]

Lil late with the good news, Amazon had a few specials already with 1TB drives listed at $95.

[doridori]

awesome. this will go great with rapidshare and bittorrent.

[ExLust]

Good luck.

[mozadek]

awesome. this will go great with rapidshare and bittorrent.

Don't forget netload.

[doridori]

is it any good? rapidshare & megaupload are very good.

[Iron Fist]

1. Hitachi 7K1000.B Hard Drive - 1TB, 7200RPM, 16MB, SATA-300, OEM http://www.tigerdirect.ca/applicatio...125&CatId=2459 $119.99
2. Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 1TB Hard Drive - 7200RPM, 32MB, SATA-300, OEM http://www.tigerdirect.ca/applicatio...1881&CatId=139 $119.99

[uno]

The only hard drive I've ever had fail on me was a maxtor. One is enough to never use that brand again.

I've had maxtor, seagate and WD drives all fail on me, but Maxtor seems to fail the most.

[Kron]

very nice, it is time to get cople TB discs

[pamon]

how are u running a dozen TB drives? on one system or swapping them out?

[F-U-Jimmy]

how are u running a dozen TB drives? on one system or swapping them out?

I have more than 100 1 TB drives most are back ups, full of our videos and Raw images i attach them when i need their content. But to answer your question I have 8 computers all have around 4 HDs on each

[BV]

I have more than 100 1 TB drives most are back ups, full of our videos and Raw images i attach them when i need their content. But to answer your question I have 8 computers all have around 4 HDs on each

jesus dude , are you archiving the interwebs?

[rowan]

Western Digital is now shipping a 2TB drive, although it may be hard to get and as an early adopter you'll pay a premium price. Beware of the Seagate 1.5's, there have been some issues with them going "deaf" (ignoring commands, doing nothing) for several seconds at a time.

ALWAYS remember, the more you cram on your HD, the more you have to lose... don't just store a single copy of a file on a single HD and leave it, because the HD will fail one day.

[Reak AGV]

you can get 1.5TB for $130 right now at dell.com

I was thinking the exact same

[jollyperv]

Waiting another year for the solid state drives to come down in price a bit more.

[rowan]

Waiting another year for the solid state drives to come down in price a bit more.

I think it's going to be a while before their total capacity and cost per gig matches a mechanical HD... I read a couple of articles that hint that we might see 50GB drives within 2-3 years.

[jollyperv]

I think it's going to be a while before their total capacity and cost per gig matches a mechanical HD... I read a couple of articles that hint that we might see 50GB drives within 2-3 years.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820231243

[rowan]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820231243

Yeah, and? The capacity is 1/8th the size of the largest shipping mechanical HD, and about 25 times the price per gig...

[Machete_]

They have to put them on sale now, because soon the new SSD units will be launched, and that will kill the sale of the old-fashion disks overnight

[Machete_]

Yeah, and? The capacity is 1/8th the size of the largest shipping mechanical HD, and about 25 times the price per gig...

At the moment - sure. But wait till they start spitting out these chips in larger numbers.

[rowan]

They have to put them on sale now, because soon the new SSD units will be launched, and that will kill the sale of the old-fashion disks overnight

Still a niche market. People will pay a premium price for a 10000RPM VelociRaptor or a fast SSD because they want the speed, and perhaps status, but I think it's going to be a while before we see SSD displace a mechanical HD as a standard (like EVERY new comp has them) drive.

I would love to eat my words though, I'd be elated if someone came out with a 1TB SSD for $100 this year

[Machete_]

Still a niche market. People will pay a premium price for a 10000RPM VelociRaptor or a fast SSD because they want the speed, and perhaps status, but I think it's going to be a while before we see SSD displace a mechanical HD as a standard (like EVERY new comp has them) drive.

I would love to eat my words though, I'd be elated if someone came out with a 1TB SSD for $100 this year

you will see 1TB SSD for $100-150 this year (depending on the dollar value). I was at a Sandisk seminar here in denmark (EET sponsored) where they gave us a veiw of what is in the pipeline. My guess is Q3 will be the time where you see companies like IBM and HP sell their servers with a SSD disk as Bootdrive

I believe the only think holding the development back at the moment, is the lack of consensus when it comes to what interface will be used. I hope it will be a PCI raisercard, like you had in the old days for special IO/boards. Would boost performance insanely much. People could finally harvest the capacity of the new CPU's

[jollyperv]

This is some nerdy shit, but really fucking cool...historical price chart:

http://www.alts.net/ns1625/winchest.html

Moore's law in full effect

[pamon]

love huge drives though... 2TB would be awesome..

[$5 submissions]

Sounds about right. SSD is soon shaping to be the HD standard of the future and it's making existing huge drives cheaper and cheaper. Now, a 1TB SSD... that would kick so much ass!

[John-ACWM]

Good make,I use it too but never tried the 1tb model.one day...

[F-U-Jimmy]

jesus dude , are you archiving the interwebs?

no but i shoot videos in HD and my stills are in Raw format which on the Nikon D3x is about 138 MB Processed NEF (RAW) 14 bit image files So it doesn't take long to fill even a 1TB drive. I also back up to 3 drives in case one fails.
I will be very happy if the solid start drives start to compete, i think they will save some shelf space ?

[Itchy]

1. Hitachi 7K1000.B Hard Drive - 1TB, 7200RPM, 16MB, SATA-300, OEM http://www.tigerdirect.ca/applicatio...125&CatId=2459 $119.99
2. Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 1TB Hard Drive - 7200RPM, 32MB, SATA-300, OEM http://www.tigerdirect.ca/applicatio...1881&CatId=139 $119.99

Nice thanks im going to order one I paid that for a 500 gig 2 months back

[who]

Where did I see a 5 TB drive for sale, was it newegg?

[Sebastian Sands]

look at this puppy, makes me want to buy 1 or 2
http://www.amazon.com/LaCie-301359-4.../dp/B001GFB6I8

[tiger]

They have to put them on sale now, because soon the new SSD units will be launched, and that will kill the sale of the old-fashion disks overnight

Mech drives will still be around for at least a few more years possibly more. If you look at the actual benchmarks most SSD's are very disappointing in performance and failure levels. SSD has a lot of promise but so far not even close to living up to it. Price is too high, performance gains are not consistent, failure levels on some of these drives are terrible compared to the mech drives and obviously capacity isn't there yet.

[Wilbo]

I had an Acer netbook with an 8 gb ssd hard drive and it was the slowest piece of junk I ever saw. I sold it and got an Asus with a 160 gb hard drive, much faster.

[Elli]

Yep, gonna pick some up next week

The 2TB one looked good til I realized it was just 1tb in raid.

[Machete_]

Mech drives will still be around for at least a few more years possibly more. If you look at the actual benchmarks most SSD's are very disappointing in performance and failure levels. SSD has a lot of promise but so far not even close to living up to it. Price is too high, performance gains are not consistent, failure levels on some of these drives are terrible compared to the mech drives and obviously capacity isn't there yet.

you are looking at Gen2. You should look a the specs of Gen3 from Sandisk

From their own promo:
Gen 3 has the performance equivalent of a 40,000 RPM conventional drive ? 5x faster than today?s laptop drives, 2x faster boot, 10x faster app launch ? faster than any SSD out there in PC market today

[silvija]

I've been using Western digital for a long time and have had good luck with them

[Elli]

While we're on the subject, watch out for the Samsung F1 Spinpoints. I bought two and both had bad sectors on the first scan before using them for anything. The sectors would change addresses and multiplied on one of them. Ended up taking them both back and upgrading to WD Black 1TB that are rock solid.

[Machete_]

here is one of the more official links you can trust
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?p...d=aKviuugHgmFE


They will start selling their disks in Q4, but the other brands is at least one quater ahead of their timeframe.