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Newegg has the Western Digital WD30EZRSDTL Caviar Green 3TB SATA Hard Drive for $230 + $8 shipping = $238 shipped. Features a 3.0Gb/s SATA interface, 3.5" form factory, and is covered by a 3 year limited warranty.
$238
Wow! Big, Huge, ...
Wait until next BF for under $100.
lose 3TB of data if this one crashes...SCARY!!!
#2 STHu
#2 STHu
and I'll wait till they are $110~120 ish
Interesting! I would like to read more reviews about this drive.
Interesting! I would like to read more reviews about this drive.
Wow! It comes with a '3.5" form factory!'
So THAT'S where all those forms you use are made--in a Form Factory! And you get your own tiny little factory!
#2 that's why they invented RAID. Pick a flavor 1, 4, or 5.
I broke down...bought one.
1 reviewer said doesn't work with XP??? doh!
..you may only be able to use 2.2TB per SATA connection depending on your hardware and/or OS.
You can buy two 2TB drives for less than this (approx. $90x2=$180). Stupid.
Good point #12, just buy two 2TB drives, put in a bucket, hit with hammer to make pieces easy to work with, mix up thoroughly, then tape together (be sure to use electrical tape), then you have a 4TB drive, saved $58, have an extra TB and only take up one 3.5" slot in your case, sounds like a plan.
3TB? When did that happen?
no XP, no non-64-bit os, no boot drive, no partition bigger than 2TB.
3TBs have been out for a few months.
porno just found a new home
not worth it. porno has already found a nice home with a couple of 2tb for much cheaper than this 3tb.
Too expensive. Next year.
Consider why a drive that has all the same electronics, casing, PCB, only another couple platters and pairs of heads costs so much more than same thing in a lower capacity. 3 words:
Higher failure rate
Their warranty replacement costs go up when they stuff as many platters into a drive as possible. Ok for them but that means more frequent backups for you to avoid data loss someday, or shorter lifespan which rates cost per storage capacity even more... keeping in mind that the HDD industry cannot scale up drive capacity in the future at the rate they did in the past dozen years, technological barriers are slowing down capacity growth.
IMO, 2 x 1.5TB HDD at $65 each is a much better way to end up with 3TB. Yes it uses another HDD bay and an (usually) inconsequential amount of additional power, but unless you've already filled the case drive bay, modern cases hold a lot of HDDs. Special purpose SFF NAS boxes are the exception but you don't have to pick those if you need max storage possible... would seem counter productive.