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Posted at 8:30 AM on Monday 06/8/09 by
Ben
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Dell Home has the 2-Pack Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 ST31500341AS 1.5TB SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive for $270 - $70 off coupon code MZ7$L7$7DCG5BC [Exp 6/12, 1000] = $200 with free shipping. Features a rotational speed of 7200RPM and 32MB Cache. Here's Seagate's site pimping this drive. [Compare]
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    RKLE - Posted 8:37 am PDT 06/8/09 (8910 Posts)  Report Spam

    solid drive for a good price. I have never had a seagate go out, stay away maxtor

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    gummy - Posted 8:42 am PDT 06/8/09 (624 Posts)  Report Spam

    #1: You realize that Maxtor is a Seagate brand at this point (e, they are produced by Seagate)?

    In any case, for those that need to mirror 1.5TB or need the full 3GB, this is a good deal on a good drive. These drives had a simply horrible reputation whent they were first released, but a firmware fix addressed the abominable performance. I have one, and it has proven reliable and performs well other than an unusually long (but still just a few seconds) spinup time when it powers down for energy savings.

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    evanjc - Posted 8:42 am PDT 06/8/09 (17 Posts)  Report Spam

    don't know if this one has firmware problem?

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    gummy - Posted 8:44 am PDT 06/8/09 (624 Posts)  Report Spam

    #3 - It is highly unlikely to, as everything Seagate has made for the last 6 months or so has the update. Even if you did find some freak "old stock", the update is downloadable from Seagate's website.

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    goldenboyfx - Posted 8:47 am PDT 06/8/09 (1343 Posts)  Report Spam

    How much speed difference will I NOTICE when I replace my 250 gb Seagate 7200.10 with one of these?

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    eeraser - Posted 8:53 am PDT 06/8/09 (121 Posts)  Report Spam

    I think this sounds like a good candidate for a NAS back-up solution.

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    1 - Posted 8:58 am PDT 06/8/09 (755 Posts)  Report Spam

    I am pretty damn sure this is part of the bad batch.

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    forks - Posted 8:58 am PDT 06/8/09 (51 Posts)  Report Spam

    #5 You won't notice any speed difference. You will notice a 6x capacity difference.

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    btc909 - Posted 9:02 am PDT 06/8/09 (2660 Posts)  Report Spam

    Seagate must be dumping these trash drives. One of these already died on me. I suspect another one is going to go.

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    JakeBlade - Posted 9:15 am PDT 06/8/09 (650 Posts)  Report Spam

    Or only $130 on Ebay. LOL

    Item# 140324986550

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    frankburnz - Posted 9:15 am PDT 06/8/09 (922 Posts)  Report Spam

    They have fixed the firmware issues. CCH1 is good firmware, SD1X is bad drives.

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    the lawyer - Posted 9:58 am PDT 06/8/09 (4118 Posts)  Report Spam

    yeah 130 great price yeah right.

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    N2DVD - Posted 10:24 am PDT 06/8/09 (152 Posts)  Report Spam

    Makes me wish I had the $. Not a bad deal.

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    omega55 - Posted 10:59 am PDT 06/8/09 (183 Posts)  Report Spam

    I gave up on Seagate hard drives about 6 months ago because of my personal experience with failure rate. Maybe they're making them better now, who knows. I'll stick with WD's. WD are extremely quiet compared to Seagate.

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    bestdeals - Posted 11:37 am PDT 06/8/09 (166 Posts)  Report Spam

    Although you can only buy one, Fry's has the single retail version for $117, http://www.frys.com/product/5803213

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    TheBS - Posted 12:07 pm PDT 06/8/09 (1285 Posts)  Report Spam

    Well, for that price, I'm game.

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    nuwan - Posted 1:03 pm PDT 06/8/09 (88 Posts)  Report Spam

    Few months back Dell sold this drive for $85. I got one before it went out of stock within hours. This drive is really fast compared to the 400GB I have before. And it didnt have that firmware problem some of the earlier batche had. So I believe what u get from them are good drives with new firmware.

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    the lawyer - Posted 1:49 pm PDT 06/8/09 (4118 Posts)  Report Spam

    never had a problem with seagates

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    WartHog - Posted 2:08 pm PDT 06/8/09 (327 Posts)  Report Spam

    "Few months back Dell sold this drive for $85."

    Yep, me too. Great drive.

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    danpi - Posted 2:09 pm PDT 06/8/09 (1133 Posts)  Report Spam

    #17 is correct, I have the same experience. Postscript is to wait for $85 again, unless you are in dire need right now.

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