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2TB for $90

Started by Billy Welsh, September 22, 2011, 10:27:44 AM

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Billy Welsh

Billy Welsh
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CableSouth Media, LLC dba SwyftConnect

Jeff Zylstra

Which 2 TB drives are you talking about?  I've heard that some of the drives over 1TB have a high failure rate.  That's been some over a year ago now, so it may have improved since then.  Just thought I'd bring it up before you took the plunge.  If you go with a high capacity drive, you may want to go with a RAID array for the safety it provides.   

I've also had several Seagate drives fail recently.  They were older drives (5-8 years old), but I've replaced 3 of the 160Gb Barracuda 7200.7 drives in the last year, so I am somewhat skeptical of them lately.  I've been having better luck with Western Digital and Samsung lately.  Would be interested to hear if others are having/had the same experience with Seagates.
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