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You can get the 3TB for $149 for an extra TB.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822145493
However since it is slower, it all depends on what you want it for.
More storage or more speed.
Not really a deal, check the price histories on this line of drives. The 1.5TB goes for around $89 bucks pretty often, and you can't really justify paying another 50 bucks for another 500GB. If anyone else wants to chime in, I also can't really think of a use for this drive since I've bought it. I'm thinking with it's speed, it's a nice gaming drive and storage drive, but given the fact that I don't like to risk data failure, I've bought a 64GB SSD for the OS and program storage, so I'm using this strictly for other file storage and such. But I don't think the faster access times are really worth the price.
^ It would be handy for video editing where you're dealing with huge raw files during the process... along with another drive in the same system of course.
"but given the fact that I don't like to risk data failure, I've bought a 64GB SSD for the OS and program storage, so I'm using this strictly for other file storage and such"
What are you talking about? By spreading out stuff over multiple drives (especially an SSD), you're INCREASING the chance of losing something.
^ not necessarily true if you make backups, as one would anyway if they care about the data
^Agreed with Dave. Also, you don't get catastrophic, unrecoverable failure with SSD drives as much as you do with the traditional drives. Moving parts, heat, a number of factors can cause traditional drives to fail. If you use an SSD, sure it has a limited number of read-write, but if you're just using it for the OS and programs, and almost never writing/removing more data to it, then you can use it reliably for fast access to programs.
And yes, I'm using a few other drives in RAID to make backup images of my drives (Acronis). Also, thanks for the tip on video editing, though most of what I do is simple conversion rather than actual editing. Any other tips on how it would be useful?
^ Budget database or mail server for a smaller business.
#1's link shows $139 for me, so $10 cheaper for the Hitachi.
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