Best Buy has the Seagate STAC3000102 FreeAgent 3TB USB 3.0/2.0 External Hard Drive for $100 with free pickup. Features a USB 3.0 interface, data transfer rates up to 5 Gbps, and includes a 4' USB 3.0 cable.
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A little pricey
Considering the current hard drive shortage, this is an unbelievably good deal. Even if hard drive prices were like they were a month ago, this would still be one helluva deal.
3TB external HDD for $100 is pricey?
I got lucky enough and my girlfriend got the last 3TB Western Digital external usb 3.0 in the store for $150 at Staples this morning.
isn't that picture of WD hard drive?
Wow, 3 TB for 100! Pretty good deal!
I lost two 2TB Samsung Spinpoint F4 internals to a power hit last week, and they are now running between $150-$260 a piece, so for $100, this is definitely worth it for me as a holdover until prices normalize again (even if it is a Seagate)
Good deal, with current conditions.
3TB USB3 for $100 would've been a fair deal even if there wasn't a HDD shortage.
Yes, $100 for a 3TB USB 3.0 drive is a good deal at the moment, and based on prices over the last 4 months would have been a good deal with or without the Thai flooding. But also remember that there was a Western Digital 2TB Elements USB 2.0 drive selling in Target a year ago for $69, which puts this "deal", 12 months later, to shame.
not bad.
? and there was a Hitachi 2TB USB2 deal for $60 a few months back, but still moving up to 3TB and especially USB3 is a significant improvement... 3TB is a lot of storage to be bottlenecked by USB2, even if it won't matter in some uses like single video streaming. If I could get the $60 back from the Hitachi which I bought, I'd rather put $40 more with it for this.
Damn Best Buy - Ordered this for in-store pickup (Shipping option was grayed out) yesterday, and got an email today saying my order was cancelled.
Should,ve known better than to trust them, never had a good experience buying from them
ordered this for my husband today but had to choose in store option... closest available store was 4 hours away, but thankfully only 10 minutes away from a cousin that is going to pick it up for me.
I bought a $40 off Staples coupon for $1.99. Used it on a Western Digital Elements 2 TB external SATA II delivered to California (9+ % sales tax) for $59 and change. Delivered Wednesday before T-day. In July I bought aSeagate Barracuda Green 2TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache 3.5-Inch Internal Bare Drive ST2000DL003 four $89 T&D from Amazon. SATA III. Unless I don't know how to use HDTune, I am getting 80-90 MB sustained throughput and 110 MB/sec burst. Anyone know if USB 3 is as least as good as eSATA?
I got this one online at bestbuy.com, it is great
For sequential reads of large files USB3 is fine. Non-sequential, concurrent reads is where eSATA is significantly better as well as writes. Sustained throughput and burst scores are best reserved for testing two different drives using the same bus or port.
The way USB3 really shines is every system out there has USB2 if not USB3 so accessing the data is so easy and universal, but it shouldn't be long until all new motherboards have USB3.
Also the drive is probably the bottleneck in a USB3 connection. You really need RAID0 with mechanical disks or a SSD to max out USB3 I think.
I never had good luck with Seagate, therefore I trust WD. Have 2 of them now
bad reviews only 2.5/5 on best buy's website