Hitachi Deskstar 1TB SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Hard Drive $50 at Newegg

cant believe i'm saying this.. but $50 for 1TB has gotten to be not that much of a deal. Best deals seen this year: Samsung 2TB for $60 and more recently $80.

I'm sure we'll get to that very soon. This is a 32MB cache, 7200rpm drive, so that's the not too shabby part of this deal.

This is 7200 rpm.

One can use this as a boot up drive. This is certainly a good deal. If I had use for it, I would have bought it.

I had lost faith in Hitachi and Maxtor drives long time ago.
They have been the only brands that failed on me & caused disasters.
At least 4 Maxtor drives, in different machines, had failed on me.

Hitachi might have improved its quality now, but the "once bit, twice shy" adage is my theme now.

I have not had any issues with WD, Samsung, or Seagate (I know they had acquired Maxtor, and I hope they have improved Maxtor's quality).

Hitachi, Maxtor, & especially Seagate are the low end garbage of the industry.

Hah I love all the brand-baiting that goes on in these forums - I've used drives from all of these manufacturers and haven't found any one to be more or less reliable. I've had Hitachi drives running continuously in a WHS for about 18 mos. now without incident. Hard drives are commodity as far as I'm concerned, and I'll purchase on price. Oh yeah the media shares on the Hitachi drives in the WHS are Synctoyed over to a FreeNAS box full of WD drives on a weekly basis - so the likelihood of "disasters" is lessened.

#1: $60 for Samsung was a pricing error. Not gonna happen again any time soon.