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Called New Egg and they refunded the $5.00 back to my credit card for the promo code. Excellent customer service!
 

89.99 shipped after promo code: buybarracuda

Kudos to the 'egg for bringing it back!

I'm in for 2 when it's 2 for $170 shipped..

Coupon does not stack!

I'd like to use the bill me later for 90 day on over $250 deal
BUT
have to buy them individually...



 
Originally posted by: AMD K9
Called New Egg and they refunded the $5.00 back to my credit card for the promo code. Excellent customer service!
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I just did the exact same thing... their customer service is very good.
 
Nice find! I'm in for 1, buddy just got 2...I love it when a deal from a reputable store on a 5-yr warranty quality drive beats the cheapest no-name-store and 90day-1yr warranty white label drive off pricewatch... 🙂
 
Originally posted by: jloor
I will stick to older, proven technology just in case I need Data Recovery.
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- lol. The .10 version is just as "proven" as the .9 one. You don't think Segate stress tests these drives?
 
Apparently you never have tried to get a price quote for Data Recovery on this type of technology, most data recovery companies will not touch it with a 10 foot pole because of how hyper-tuned these drives are let alone donor parts.

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Maybe I would do it in a RAID 6 configuration with decent surge protection and battery backup. 🙂
 
Your point was that it isn't "proven technology". Are you now saying you won't get it because it costs a lot if you end up having to go to a data recovery company?
 
Btw, Data Doctors Recovery team (866.LOST.DATA (866.567.8328)) just told me that there is no difference in cost between a drive with the perpendicular recording technology, and older hard drive technology.

In fact, you will most like be safer with newer technology because of all the improvements (not just speed).
 
If you are even remotely worried about data recovery costs then setup a RAID (redundant array of INEXPENSIVE drives, hey word there is INEXPENSIVE, the whole point is to mirror/array your data so you will never need a data recovery service)....

In my opinion data recovery is not a sign of hardware failure but a failure of whoever put the system together to where critical data is on one computer/server/drive...in many years of production/live-data support we have never needed data recovery, not because we've never had anything die, but we planned for failures...for those that don't...bummer, you deserve to lose data...
 
Originally posted by: Mr Bob
Originally posted by: jloor
I will stick to older, proven technology just in case I need Data Recovery.
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- lol. The .10 version is just as "proven" as the .9 one. You don't think Segate stress tests these drives?
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Yea just like the 7200.8 series was very proven to suck. The .9 and .10 series have inconclusive data.
 
Originally posted by: DLeRium
Originally posted by: Mr Bob
Originally posted by: jloor
I will stick to older, proven technology just in case I need Data Recovery.
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- lol. The .10 version is just as "proven" as the .9 one. You don't think Segate stress tests these drives?
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Yea just like the 7200.8 series was very proven to suck. The .9 and .10 series have inconclusive data.
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My 200GB 7200.8 has been running fine for 2 years now, pretty much 24/7. It's a fast, reasonably quiet drive.
 
Dang it! I slipped and just bought two of these. $89.99 each, shipped (love free shipping and no sales tax). 🙂

The code appears to still be working. I ordered individually and used the code twice.

I guess that I HAVE been thinking about getting a couple of drives for a RAID setup for quite a while...mostly since my last harddrive died and took about a year's worth of pictures with it. Not good. Still have the old drive, though, hoping to make a boatload of money some day so that I can send it in for data recovery. It is an odd failure, the drive just totally fails to be recognized by the BIOS. It is invisible. It sounds like it spins up and the heads move but the BIOS never sees it. I have tried it on three different PCs with the same result. I saw some suggestions about swapping out the electronics of the drive, but I don't have a second one of these to swap it with.

Anyone have a reputable, and hopefully rather inexpensive, data recovery outfit they like? I was getting quotes in the $1500 range for at 120GB drive.

-J

 
Originally posted by: jcloseAnyone have a reputable, and hopefully rather inexpensive, data recovery outfit they like? I was getting quotes in the $1500 range for at 120GB drive.

-J
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I dont know the name, but the last company I worked with charged about $400 for a recover job...
 
Ahhh.. damn it it's tempting. It's NOT a hot deal, but I can get 2 more to match with my 2 others, and make RAID 0+1 or JBOD them all..... Then I'll have 1.28TB for JBOD or 640GB for RAID0+1...damn it.. why do I have to face such temptations?!
 
Originally posted by: fzj80
If you are even remotely worried about data recovery costs then setup a RAID (redundant array of INEXPENSIVE drives, hey word there is INEXPENSIVE, the whole point is to mirror/array your data so you will never need a data recovery service)....

In my opinion data recovery is not a sign of hardware failure but a failure of whoever put the system together to where critical data is on one computer/server/drive...in many years of production/live-data support we have never needed data recovery, not because we've never had anything die, but we planned for failures...for those that don't...bummer, you deserve to lose data...
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you can suggest that to other forum members without actually being a prick ~ no one deserves to lose data.
 
Razor,
Do you mean it isn't hot for you? I think that the deal itself is QUITE hot, relative to other harddrive deals. $0.28/GB is very good (NIT - not including taxes), and there are no rebates to hassle with. And free shipping! I don't follow all the harddrive deals around here with absolute diligence but it seems that most of them come in at around $0.33 to $0.37/GB, and that is after the rebate.

-J
 
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