Staples has the Seagate Expansion STBV3000100 3TB USB 3.0 External Desktop Hard Drive (2012 model) for $100 with free shipping. More compact form factor than previous model; measures 1.48" (H) x 4.65" (W) x 7.07" (L).
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RIP. I'm waiting for Seagate to ship a replacement for mine, which died in less than 3 months after it started making clicking noises and spitting out errors. Up till then I liked this drive and it seemed quick for an external drive. It came with a two year warranty, which is becoming a rare thing these days, but if you want to jump on this deal you'd better buy two so you'll have a backup for your backup.
I prefer the Hitachi drives over Seagate
I got 2 Hitachi drives..IDE.. from 2 different machines (Dell and eMachine) than within 1 hour of booting, the drives went from UDMA5 to PIO2
(big speed drop for those that dont understand what I said)
I could see 1 drive, or possibly cable or possible onboard controller going bad - but 2 different machines???
I have to admit they didnt crash but ..
If 1st place award goes to crashing
and 2nd place award goes to corrupted data
then this takes 3rd place with performance loss
Got 2 Seagate 3TB drives recently and one was DOA. I got them for 2 NAS's and one was accepted fine by both NAS's but he refurb replacement they sent me still isn't being recognized by the NASs. I know everyone has some bad ones but this is my 1st bad experience with hard drives since the Deathstar days..
Any coupon to make it sweeter?
I had to give up on Seagate after their .10 version drive were absolute failures. I was a life-long Seagate fan too. I had 7 750mb drives and over the course of 6 months 5 of them went bad. The RMA process was terrible too. I would get drives in boxes with NO padding - just a drive bouncing around in it. I even got a FDDI drive instead of the one I had. It was hard to return that one because it was a $1500 drive.
I've had pretty good luck with Seagates, no failures in anything 1TB or larger, last failure was a several years old 400GB or 500GB model that slid off a table and crashed into a concrete floor.
D*ave, you should set up the slide for your hard drives on the carpet floor. My hard drives aren't allowed to run on the hard floors and only get to play on the carpet...
My secretary messed up an appointment yesterday. I called her into my office and had her on the carpet for a half hour. What do I do about the rug burns on my knees?