NewEgg.com has the Acomdata 1TB pureDrive Dual Interface (USB 2.0 & eSATA) External Hard Drive for $250 - $50 code EMCADAHAF - $20 rebate [Exp 3/10] + $8 shipping = $188 shipped after rebate. The design dissipates heat so efficiently it doesn't need a fan.
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Yikes!!!
That's cheap! $0.18 / gb.... Near the record of $.173 / GB for the recent deal on the 750 GB Seagate free agent pro... That was an eSATA / USB drive, but from a better name manufacturer with a better warranty... But still, hard to argue with the Terabyte!
#2 - got a link for me on that Seagate?
It's tempting to buy this just to pull out the drive at that price. But one egger reports, "The drive inside is a WD10EACS ..." I'll pass on that.
Careful, this only has a one year limited warranty. No deal.
why would it only support 1.5gb serial? Doesn't seem right.
The WD10EACS is a GreenPower drive, which is perfect for an external or NAS drive.
I got a 200 GB from Staples on Black Friday 2006 for $10, new, in the retail box. The record is 10¢/GB, 1½ years old, and still standing.
This would probably make a great add-on drive for a DVR with an ESata port like the TIVO-3 or Scientific Atlanta SA8300HD.
#8, I'm not a math whiz, but in the reality I come from, $10 / 200GB = $0.05/GB. Maybe if you're not so obsessed about special characters like ¢ and ½ you could actually tell us the actual record?
I've got a WD10EACS, 1TB SATA Green Power drive in my MythTV backend right now. Seems to work nicely so far. It's quiet, produces little heat, and still has enough speed to record and playback HD video at the same time.
# hdparm -tT /dev/sda
/dev/sda:
Timing cached reads: 2514 MB in 2.00 seconds = 1258.80 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 214 MB in 3.01 seconds = 71.15 MB/sec
I did notice some frames lost when recording and installing a second operating system under a Xen virtual machine at the same time. I've re-nice'd my mythbackend daemon to -10 priority now, hopefully that'll help keep it from losing frames when I'm doing other tasks on the box while it's recording video.
haha #8, still seems like a nice price.
#8
thaz stupid...
will usb2 connection be fast enough to play x264 /mkv/ 720p divx smoothly from?
Yes.
Normal 720p torrent bitrates are < 0.6 MB/sec (4.8 mbit/s).
1080p/60 blu-ray is <= 6 MB/sec (48 mbit/s).
Decent USB hard drives manage 20-30 MB/sec (160-240 mbit/s) on large files.
good price and drive, wwish the HDD warranty was 3 or 5 years tho. Ext HDDs tend to fail faster.
You'll spend $40-$60 more on a Seagate with a 5-year warranty. So if you think of it in terms of insurance, you'd buy this drive to save a measly $10-$15 per year? Still no deal for me.
what would be a good software to fix the mbr due to lack of disconnecting via usb tray whatchamajiggy when vista froze
which render drive no longer visible under windows explorer post safe mode
also any way to set a windows shortcut/ macro for one click quick
usb drive disconnect?