$195 - Seagate - 6TB Internal SATA Hard Drive for Desktops

[wxyyyy]

Best Buy have the Seagate 6TB internal hard drive on sale currently for $192.99 with free shipping.

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/seagate-...gate&cp=1&lp=1

 

[jjmIII]

Good price. Not available to ship and not in any store near me.

 

[Alamat]

Any info on failure rates for these? Kinda iffy putting all my eggs in one basket if you know what I mean....

 

[Samus]

Good price, already coming down from their 8TB announcement...

Personally I'd just stick with 3TB-4TB Hitachi's or WD Black/Enterprise drives if you are concerned about reliability. 6TB is a shitload of data to have disaster recovery over.

 

[Thump553]

6TB hard drives? I'm still trying to mentally accept 2TB ones. Times have changed I guess.

 

[zposter]

6TB is a shitload of data to have disaster recovery over.

That's what I said about 4TB.

But the 4TB have been very reliable so far.

 

[ImpulsE69]

At these prices though (say for 3TB, there is really no reason you couldn't raid them, they are only going to continue to come down in price --- at least until the next tropical storm).

 

[jjmIII]

$310

 

[Samus]

That's what I said about 4TB.

But the 4TB have been very reliable so far.

I agree that hard disks seem to have become increasing more reliable over the last few years. Flat out click-of-death style failures are rare in my experience.

I wonder if pressure from SSD's have finally pushed hard disk manufactures to stop using capacity as a crutch and they're actually putting more effort into reliability.

 

[master_shake_]

not even offered in canada.

man what a letdown

 

[ElectricD]

Deal is dead. Now $310