Seagate OEM 3 TB 7200.14 HDD - Newegg - $74.99 AC FS

[B-Riz]

Newegg beating the trolls sale.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148844

Coupon code: 0728UWN19

Other good deals: http://www.newegg.com/When-We-Win-You-Win/EventSaleStore/ID-185

FWIW: I have been running a few for years, no issue, but caveat emptor; and don't believe all the FUD from the Backblaze results, these are consumer drives, not 24/7 drives, and behave fine when treated as such.

 

[SimMike2]

That is a good price for a 3TB.

 

[SunRey]

Thank You!

 

[ImpulsE69]

Awesome thanks!

Actually though: Amazon has the same price for the same drive right now:

http://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Deskt...eagate+Barracuda+7200.14+ST3000DM001+3TB+7200

 

[SimMike2]

Amazon would have sales tax for me. Newegg is better.

 

[philipma1957]

Amazon would have sales tax for me. Newegg is better.

both companies tax me often causing me great anger. 7% of a 1000 dollar purchase = 70 usd or a diner and some wine at my favorite italian restaurant.

 

[tasukete]

These drives are infamous. BackBlaze has taken 90% of them out of service: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/3tb-hard-drive-failure/

I own six of these drives and three of them failed within two weeks of each other. There was a manufacturing issue in the 7200.12 generation (and apparently still exists) where the drive heads would wear down, causing drives to work fine for about 20 months and then all fail at about the same time. Devastating for RAID.

 

[poofyhairguy]

I have five and none have failed me. I don't run them all day though.

 

[tasukete]

Oh, I didn't see that OP already mentioned BackBlaze. Seagate defines the consumer duty cycle as "8 x 5" -- that is, the drive is powered only 8 hours a day, 5 days a week. That seems fairly unlikely for most folks who'd be on this forum.

But that doesn't really have much to do with this type of failure mode. If this were simply a case of exceeding the rated duty cycle, you would not see the hockey-stick failure curve that BackBlaze reports. What BackBlaze probably doesn't know is that the enterprise 7200.11 and 7200.12 had similar problems (and similar failure curve), both due to manufacturing flaws.