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Posted at 3:47 AM on Monday 03/1/10 by
Ben
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Amazon has the Seagate Barracuda 250GB ST3250318AS 7200.12 7200RPM SATA Hard Drive for $38 with free shipping. Features a 7200rm rotational speed, 8MB cache, and a 3gb/s SATA interface. [Compare]
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    Pdok - Posted 5:15 am PST 03/1/10 (740 Posts)  Report Spam

    Make sure you get two, so you'll have something to use while you wait for your RMA.

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    TheMax7 - Posted 6:38 am PST 03/1/10 (1173 Posts)  Report Spam

    Been running a pair of these in raid for about 2 years. still working fine.

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    ChugokuOtaku - Posted 9:05 am PST 03/1/10 (1581 Posts)  Report Spam

    why would anyone still wanna get one of these?
    for less than twice the price, you can get quadruple the capacity

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    hurl3.0 - Posted 9:14 am PST 03/1/10 (2471 Posts)  Report Spam

    #3, some low income families and seniors on fixed incomes can't afford the luxury of multi-TB drives. these low priced alternatives allow those on a strict budget to get their fap on.

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    ChugokuOtaku - Posted 12:06 pm PST 03/1/10 (1581 Posts)  Report Spam

    if that were the case, they should be looking for an even cheaper 2nd hand harddrive from craigslist

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    newtechfool - Posted 1:15 pm PST 03/1/10 (92 Posts)  Report Spam

    It is a decent drive to have your OS on. You get the TB drives for your data drives.

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    dave_c - Posted 11:11 pm PST 03/3/10 (16755 Posts)  Report Spam

    #6 is correct. It's not just about capacity, it's about whether the budget stretches to using a SSD for your OS or the next best alternative, buying multiple drives. Of course multiple larger drives is even better but that costs even more.

    This would be a fine choice for anyone who has a NAS or fileserver over GbE, so they aren't trying to store their entire life's work on one client system's HDD. Put those 1-2TB drives in the fileserver where they belong, then you don't have to depend on any one client system running to have lan-wide file access.

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