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Posted at 2:13 PM on Tuesday 10/30/12 by
TheKenChan
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Ends 11/1. Newegg has the Seagate Barracuda ST3000DM001 3TB 64MB SATA3 HDD for $120 with free shipping. Features a SATA 6Gb/s interface, 64MB cache, and 7200RPM.
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    WartHog - Posted 2:40 pm PDT 10/30/12 (507 Posts)  Report Spam

    not expired .. still 199.99 Smile free shipping too.

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    JimmyJ - Posted 3:05 pm PDT 10/30/12 (196 Posts)  Report Spam

    I think you mean $119.99 when added to your cart.

    Read reviews - 25% DOA typical Newegg/UPS damage.
    Drive may not be bootable because of size - read reviews.

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    korpo53 - Posted 3:55 pm PDT 10/30/12 (356 Posts)  Report Spam

    3TB drives are never bootable in Windows unless you have an UEFI bios, that's just the way it goes. Any reviews complaining about that should be discounted, as the user is obviously an rodeo cowboy who doesn't know what he's doing. The same goes for people putting these things in various NAS devices, you have to make sure your hardware supports 3TB drives before you go writing a review that things won't work.

    Don't forget the one review claiming it's "false advertising" that this SATA 6GB/s drive doesn't outperform an old SATA 3GB/s drive.

    A good pile of those one star reviews are because they had to send something back and had to pay shipping or whatever. Frustrating, but has nothing to do with the product. On top of that, some people tried returning (currently) working drives because they bought a pile of drives and got one or two bad drives. Newegg isn't going to do that without a restock fee.

    That said, there's a lot of bad reviews there. But I'd wager half of those were from people who have no business holding a screwdriver.

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    tnaant - Posted 8:29 pm PDT 10/30/12 (126 Posts)  Report Spam

    I wouldn't trust anyones data on a seagate drive...I have boxes of dead / failing seagate drives in my shop.

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    DealWatcher - Posted 9:52 am PDT 10/31/12 (84 Posts)  Report Spam

    I ordered 4 from Newegg, and they packed them pretty badly. They bundled all four as a monolithic cube, which was good, but then only used a little bit of bubble rap around the cube. The bare corner of one of the drives punctured the wrap and gave the box a pretty good beating. That said, the drives have been working well for a month.

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    katmando911 - Posted 12:00 pm PDT 10/31/12 (13 Posts)  Report Spam

    Currently sold out at newegg.com but amazon.com still has them in stock for the same price.

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