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Posted at 6:36 AM on Friday 11/20/09 by
Ben
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Newegg has the HITACHI Deskstar HD32000 IDK/7K 2TB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive for $170 - $30 rebate [Exp 11/30] = $140 with free shipping. Has a rotation speed of 7200RPM, 32MB buffer, 8.2ms average seek time, and uses a 5 platter design.
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    askSergey - Posted 6:48 am PST 11/20/09 (117 Posts)  Report Spam

    more TB's mean the louder you will scream when it dies taking all those precious files away from you. What's next? Data recovery? Heh, I so don't want to know how much it will cost to recover 2 TB of data. When you find out, that first scream will seem just like a whisper ...

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    jamespayne - Posted 7:22 am PST 11/20/09 (89 Posts)  Report Spam

    #1, you may want to build a RAID system

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    Riboflaven - Posted 7:51 am PST 11/20/09 (167 Posts)  Report Spam

    This same drive was $115 at Dell a few days ago. If you don't trust this maker the Seagate 2TB will be $149 at Microcenter this weekend.

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    drealit - Posted 8:03 am PST 11/20/09 (393 Posts)  Report Spam

    Yes #1 if anyone is using drives of this size with no redundancy... they deserve to lose whatever they're storing.

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    lyndon_h - Posted 8:54 am PST 11/20/09 (133 Posts)  Report Spam

    5 platters! That thing is going to get hot!

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    clok1966 - Posted 9:34 am PST 11/20/09 (141 Posts)  Report Spam

    These drives are not for archiving data, they are for storing little Billies P0rn or games. USB ram drives are so cheap now nobody should have "important" data on a mechanical drive anymore. And for those who have more then a few megs of data and need drives this size, as many said, RAID is the only way to go, or offsite backups. Personally with $80 TB drives with 5 year warrenty, just buy 2, and raid them. As for this drive being iffy. I do believe they use the old IBM tech (upgraded through the years) which was rock solid till the Deathstars (which could be prevented with good cooling). For a game drive, general use drive, average deal.

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