Tiger Direct has the Seagate ST1500DL003 Barracuda Green 1.5TB 5900RPM 3.5" Internal Hard Drive for $100 - $30 rebate [Exp 3/31] $70 + $3 shipping (Econo) = $73 shipped. Features SATA 6.0Gb/s data speed, 5900RPM, and 4.16ms average latency.
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Finally some ok price. But a lot of complain of DOAs. Low cost does come with risk....
The Newegg reviews are brutal.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148725
I'd stay away. I'd buy Hitachi before I'd buy a Seagate drive. Your mileage may vary.
I'm more concerned that Samsung quality is going to suffer now that they're under the Seagate umbrella.
they are suposed to last only 1 year,
now you can buy a $73 1.5TB 5900 rpm HD with 1 year warranty
before when you could buy a $60 2TB 5400 rpm HD with 3 year warranty
if you had to replace every drive soon after their warranty then you would pay $220 for 1.5TB and after 3 years your data might have disappeared.
in a few years you'll be better off buying a SSD since they almost all come with 3 year warranty and price are coming down pretty fast. plus even if the flash fails you can access your data for another year.
#3 I repped you since are really express your point of view. Not just nonsense.
I don't know who post you thumb down but I do support you! Happy posting!
To Whoever post me thumb down on post #4: Thank you for your not-helping. I just try to help the positive posting. I can ask Ben to find out who you are. Don't just hiding- Come out and post helpful/useful discussion/suggestion/opinion- not just post thumb down and hide there like a rat.
And I do suggestion all readers here: Support positive posting against those rats who simply thumb down members here and help nothing.
#3, I don't know how much I have to pay for 1.5TB in SSD. It's defintely not dirty cheap, right?
Suppose this drive is not safe for your data, but SSD drives these days are more reliable?
I never give thumbs down to other people, but, in your case, sorry can't give a thumb up.
I have at least 3 of the prior Barracuda LP (now renamed their green series) working fine for well over a year. While I haven't bought any recently due to the high post flood prices, I still do not find 220 reviews averaging 4 out of 5 eggs to be brutal. In fact that is about average for this size HDD across all brands.
Take for example the statement made by one reviewer: "Died in 8 months and it cooked the drive that was installed above it too. "
LOL, a HDD failing won't kill other drives, at most it would shut the PSU down. Same story as always, people use crap PSU or insufficient airflow then blame the part the PSU or heat killed. Certainly some reviewers did have misfortune and a dead drive resulted, but the same causes the other brands to receive less than 5 eggs.
In the end, the fact is that if you sort all the 1.5TB HDDs by user rating on Newegg, the Seagate Green drive gets the TOP rating of all 1.5TB drives.
WHOA, I have one like this Barracuda Green 1.5TB 5900RPM 3.5" as my boot drive in an HTPC, it is very quiet and performs better than any 7200 2.5 HDD i've tried. Got it from AMZ before the FLOOD!!!
Prices must be dropping - the brand debates have returned. I have used a number of Seagate drives and haven't had any premature failures.
If Seagate expected them to hold up for many years they would put a long warranty on them.
That said, if you have file redundancy, the warranty is more about cost per day than anything else. The case could be made that since you should always Always ALWAYS back up your stuff, getting 2 drives with lesser warranties so you have 2 copies of your files is always better than getting a single drive with a long warranty for the same price and only have your files in one place. Personally I'd probably just spend the extra and get a pair of 5 year drives, but that may depend on your budget.
One thing I know for certain, I have a lot more 10 year old WD drives in the salvaged spares closet than I do Seagates, so on the whole I still think 5 year WDs are the way to go; but I of course deal with hundreds of drives vs. just a handful at home, so luck doesn't trump statistics as easily.
^ WD also reduced their warranty on the equivalent eco Green series (and Blue series) down to 2 years recently.
OEMs buy the majority of these consumer grade HDD, by the hundreds of thousands and these OEMs have kept WD and Seagate neck and neck in recent quarters.
However, WD was hit harder by the Thai floods so it is expected that their drives will command a premium for a little longer.