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Newegg has the Samsung F2EG HD154UI 1.5TV Hard Drive for $95 with free shipping. This drive is 5400rpm, with a 32MB cache, 8.9ms average seek time, and 5.52 average latency. [Compare]
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If this was 79-88 bucks, I put one on my cart and check-out and see how good this drive works?. 95 is still steep for me. with-in a few years from now, These drive will be replace with No Spinning RPM or seek time like the USB Flash Drive.
About Samsung, I bought four 1TB with the USB docking combo for 80 bucks last year, None have any problems yet. Cool to touch. I just like the idea, like I'am paying 60 for the drive then 20 for the docking..
yeah, this seems like a good deal, but maybe a little steep? while I haven't compared spindle speed of drives for some time, why does this not have a 7200 rpm spindle speed versus the 5400 rpm? of course, some have argued that other factors make up for the difference in spindle speed and I don't doubt that technology can compensate for that. however, everyone that I know of buys 7200 rpm drives whenever possible. as you said #1, this conversation will be meaningless soon when solid state drives become standard issue. now that will be exciting times!
These drives work great in a Home Server or Media Center setting - lower spindle speed equates to less power used and less heat generated. I've got a few of these in my Home Server and all they're doing is serving audio/video media to my Media Center and they work great. This is actually a pretty good price - approaching $0.06/GB - thinking of picking up a couple more.
I could use of of these but in a 2TB size for my home media server.
In a few years when solid state hard drives reach a capacity that makes them a viable replacement for a 1.5TB drive, this one, or any for that matter, will have reached the end of its expected lifespan already.
$95 is not bad for a 1.5TB drive, remembering 1TB are now about $70-80 unless you cheap out on the last-gen Hitachis with lower platter density.
If you're concerned about RPM, run your OS and apps off a ~ $50 500GB 7200 RPM drive then use this for the remainder of your capacity needs. The best performance answer is not just picking the highest RPM it's picking multiple drives and dividing I/O across them even if the budget stretches to getting SSDs instead.