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Hardware & Infrastructure => Hardware => Topic started by: Billy Welsh on September 22, 2011, 10:27:44 AM

Title: 2TB for $90
Post by: Billy Welsh on September 22, 2011, 10:27:44 AM
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These seem to get mostly good reviews

http://www.buy.com/prod/fantom-g-force3-2tb-usb-3-0-external-desktop-hard-drive-with-32mb-cache/219577830.html#cRevSec (http://www.buy.com/prod/fantom-g-force3-2tb-usb-3-0-external-desktop-hard-drive-with-32mb-cache/219577830.html#cRevSec)

DOH!!!  Must remember, Copy, PASTE
Title: Re: 2TB for $90
Post by: Jeff Zylstra on September 22, 2011, 10:39:38 AM
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.