1TB External, $127.99

[mootsfox]

Yes, 1000GB external drive, a single drive for $127.99. Go to best buy and pick up the Hitachi 1TB external drive. The price on display might not be $127.99, but it will be at checkout.

Lowest price I could find just for the drive.
http://www.ewiz.com/detail.php?p=HD-0A3 ... dd937c37a1

This is my receipt, they will be gone FAST.
http://i215.photobucket.com/albums/c...g?t=1208535945

Picture of the drive:
http://i215.photobucket.com/albums/c...g?t=1208535946

Here is the drive itself:
http://i215.photobucket.com/albums/c...g?t=1208536996

[Izzy]

"This is ****ing sweet!!!"

[viperlasson]

Crap and I just ordered a 750GB internal and an external enclosure for about the same price a week ago.

[Cjskater]

Moots never logs off OCN

[Ashtray]

A BB I went to had 3 but when it was rung up, it was around $220.00.

So it's not always the case it's going to be 127.99.

BB employees have the ability check to which store had them, and the prices of each store.

So I went to store that had 3 in stock with the 127.99 price tag.

Sitting here now with a 1.0TB drive

[jmc]

God dammit, at work for another 2 hours.........

Went onto bestbuy.com to try and purchase one for store pickup....... but they dont even have the model listed >.>

[mootsfox]

It should be national clearance, if not, then check back in a few days.

And OCN is my home with ~11,000 posts, 18 months of posting.

[Killgannon]

just remember when these fail after a week or so (being hitachi it WILL happen) you get what you pay for

afk humping my NAS with WD drives>.>

[Kaisha]

And here I was thinking about getting an external 500gb for $140........christ.

At any rate, what's considered a reliable brand these days? I've only ever had hard drives from SeaGate and Maxtor and suffered no problems.

Wanted something to back my PC stuff up to for making future formats less a chore (and ghost-up a fresh installation), and I'm getting tired of waiting for BluRay writers to come down in price (DVD-RWs are not large enough <.<). An external hard drive appears to be the better and much cheaper option.

[Killgannon]

drive reliability is the same as its always been, you have the big three then the other failures which cant compare, buy western digital, maxtor (dont) or seagate (maybe...)

[Epical]

Hitachi Deskstars were actually rated very high, so they aren't all bad. Samsung also has some good ones out there as well.

Mind you, neither of the ones I was referring to are externals.

[mootsfox]

drive reliability is the same as its always been, you have the big three then the other failures which cant compare, buy western digital, maxtor (dont) or seagate (maybe...)

Hitachi is a fine brand. I currently have two 250GB WD's two 500GB WD's and two 1TB Hitachi's. The only drive I've ever had fail on me was from WD, and it took out my array.

[Reality]

*Remembers the mid-90's IBM "Deathstar" (Deskstar) hitachi 60GXP drives and their massively high failure rates*
*Looks as his still working flawlessly 60GXP drive*

not a bad price by any means, just hope you get a cherry-picked drive and don't have to deal w/ any store returns or RMA's

FWIW, i bought two 500GB SATA2 (internal) seagate barracudas on newegg back in february for $129.99 each, but they're 7200.11 + 32MB cache drives <3, had them in RAID0 for a while before deciding the slight speed gain wasn't worth the vista x64+4GB RAM driver issues & potential data loss without RAID5 or 0+1 ;/

[Day]

Holy shit moots, you are one weird mofo, but I love you.

[mootsfox]

*Remembers the mid-90's IBM "Deathstar" (Deskstar) hitachi 60GXP drives and their massively high failure rates*
*Looks as his still working flawlessly 60GXP drive*

not a bad price by any means, just hope you get a cherry-picked drive and don't have to deal w/ any store returns or RMA's

FWIW, i bought two 500GB SATA2 (internal) seagate barracudas on newegg back in february for $129.99 each, but they're 7200.11 + 32MB cache drives <3, had them in RAID0 for a while before deciding the slight speed gain wasn't worth the vista x64+4GB RAM driver issues & potential data loss without RAID5 or 0+1 ;/

Slight!? What controller are you using for RAID 0?

I'm using two 250GB 16MB Cache WD's until I re-format with either these 1TB or the two 500GB's I have around.


And thanks Day <3

[Day]

None in Syracuse BB says me gf... she's currently QQing. Thanks haha... I'll check my BB when I get off work.

[Reality]

Slight!? What controller are you using for RAID 0?

I'm using two 250GB 16MB Cache WD's until I re-format with either these 1TB or the two 500GB's I have around.


And thanks Day <3

actually, raid0's speed improvement is only noticable in certain situations anyways, check out any hardware review site that compares two 7200/7200.11 drives in Raid0 vs a Raptor drive, the raptor will win in almost every situation

one situation where i really enjoyed the speed increase was boot time, however, it was about 7-8 seconds faster i'd guess (i didn't time it with a stopwatch or anything)

[mootsfox]

Slight!? What controller are you using for RAID 0?

I'm using two 250GB 16MB Cache WD's until I re-format with either these 1TB or the two 500GB's I have around.


And thanks Day <3

actually, raid0's speed improvement is only noticable in certain situations anyways, check out any hardware review site that compares two 7200/7200.11 drives in Raid0 vs a Raptor drive, the raptor will win in almost every situation

one situation where i really enjoyed the speed increase was boot time, however, it was about 7-8 seconds faster i'd guess (i didn't time it with a stopwatch or anything)

You didn't answer me to as what controller you used.

RAID 0 with a decent controller is worth the setup time and 'risk'. A pair of 7200RPM drives will rape a Raptor up and down in anything except for random access time.

[Reality]

because your question was irrelevant based on the raid controller reviews i've seen and the performance i've experienced myself

[Day]

Moots how much you think shipping would be for one of these and did they have any left where you went >.>

None in the 2 places I had available to check, Syracuse NY and Roanoke VA. sadface.