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Segate 1.5tb harddrive ST315005N1A1AS-RK $124 fry's

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http://shop3.frys.com/product/5803213

Specs

Formatted Capacity : 1.5TB
Interface Type: Serial ATA-300
Buffer Size: 32MB
Spindle Speed: (RPM) 7,200 RPM
Average Latency: 4.16 ms
Data Transfer Rate: Buffer to Host Up to 300MBps
Sustained Throughput: Up to 115MBps
Ports and Connectors: 7-pin Serial ATA Connector
Manufacturer Warranty: 5 Year Limited Warranty
 
I have 5 drives total in my system - 2 internal 3 external and I'm at the like 1.6tb mark. 1 drive = 5 of mine 🙁 lol. GOOD deal here, the problems have been fixed. If I had the money I'd buy one today.
 
Also keep in mind these will have a 5 year warranty since they are retail. The OEM drives you get for $130 from most vendors(aka newegg) are only 3 years.
 
wow good deal

but i don't need all that space - will probably buy the 640gb samsung from chiefvalue ($60 shipped)
 
got one of these for this price from fry's a couple weeks ago. seagate's website, upon entering my serial number, said the firmware was good. 5 year warranty according to the box.
 
Damn, the Dell deal is making me stingy. $124 + tax = ~ $136 = 28% > the $106 I got my last 2 for. Hey Bobartig, why RAID 10 instead of RAID 5? Just curious.
 
i have the same line but 640gb version, pretty slow compre to my wd black. somehow after I patched it with seagate's new bios, it no longer have problems been discovered but the performance went downhill. not really why, just slower booting up, loading games etc.
 
Originally posted by: kimchee411
Damn, the Dell deal is making me stingy. $124 + tax = ~ $136 = 28% > the $106 I got my last 2 for. Hey Bobartig, why RAID 10 instead of RAID 5? Just curious.
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Raid 10 has a lot better performance and can lose more drives and still remain operational without losing data. Of course the extras are costly with eating up 1/2 the space instead of 1 drive with RAID5.
 
Originally posted by: RDMustang1
Originally posted by: kimchee411
Damn, the Dell deal is making me stingy. $124 + tax = ~ $136 = 28% > the $106 I got my last 2 for. Hey Bobartig, why RAID 10 instead of RAID 5? Just curious.
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Raid 10 has a lot better performance and can lose more drives and still remain operational without losing data. Of course the extras are costly with eating up 1/2 the space instead of 1 drive with RAID5.
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What kind of performance does your application require? RAID 5 has better read performance as it is striped across more disks. Write performance sucks because of the parity calculations. If you're building a media server, for example, RAID 5 would probably be better, provided your OS doesn't reside on that array, especially since you're dealing with large files and a lot of sequential reads. Then again with 4 drives, the advantage with reads is minimal while the write performance of RAID 10 is far better.

As for redundancy, you could keep a hot spare for your RAID 5 array while gaining an extra 1.5 TB over RAID 10 in a 4 drive setup. It's also pretty damn rare for 2 drives to fail simultaneously, or before the array can be rebuilt when the bad drive is replaced (of course it takes a really long time to rebuild an array when you're dealing with drives this big).

Personally I use these drives to store massive amounts of data, and performance isn't really a factor, so I like to maximize the capacity. The performance of a 7200 RPM SATA disk isn't so good anyway so I use a small Raptor, SAS disk, or SSD for the OS and apps.
 
Originally posted by: ICR5
Hopefully this drive wont crap on me since it will be going into my DTV HR20 HD-DVR ..
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Seagate says it is fixed. It's safe enough for your tax documents now.
 
Originally posted by: kimchee411
Originally posted by: RDMustang1
Originally posted by: kimchee411
Damn, the Dell deal is making me stingy. $124 + tax = ~ $136 = 28% > the $106 I got my last 2 for. Hey Bobartig, why RAID 10 instead of RAID 5? Just curious.
Click to expand...

Raid 10 has a lot better performance and can lose more drives and still remain operational without losing data. Of course the extras are costly with eating up 1/2 the space instead of 1 drive with RAID5.
Click to expand...

What kind of performance does your application require? RAID 5 has better read performance as it is striped across more disks.
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As a RAID 10 Grows to n amount it's performance grows and I doubt reads are better on RAID 5, look at how many DB groups are against RAID5. If you want performance and security RAID 10 is the best solution.
 
Originally posted by: mooseracing
Originally posted by: kimchee411
Originally posted by: RDMustang1
Originally posted by: kimchee411
Damn, the Dell deal is making me stingy. $124 + tax = ~ $136 = 28% > the $106 I got my last 2 for. Hey Bobartig, why RAID 10 instead of RAID 5? Just curious.
Click to expand...

Raid 10 has a lot better performance and can lose more drives and still remain operational without losing data. Of course the extras are costly with eating up 1/2 the space instead of 1 drive with RAID5.
Click to expand...

What kind of performance does your application require? RAID 5 has better read performance as it is striped across more disks.
Click to expand...

As a RAID 10 Grows to n amount it's performance grows and I doubt reads are better on RAID 5, look at how many DB groups are against RAID5. If you want performance and security RAID 10 is the best solution.
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The same principle applies to RAID 5 -- the bigger it is, the faster it reads. DBAs don't like RAID 5 because of terrible write performance, especially random writes. Often times RAID 5 will be used for the DB partition, though, while putting the transaction logs and temp DBs on RAID 10. How does security come in to play? Or do you mean reliability?

Anyway, I'm going to STHU about this now... getting off-topic. The point is, consider what is best suited for your specific needs.
 
Tigerdirect has these on ebay for 109$ buy it now - 12% cashback brings you to under 100$ for one of these.
 
Originally posted by: M0RPH
This is the 7200.11 right? I'm waiting for the 7200.12 with 500GB platters.
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I'm with you on that, the higher density on those 500 GB platters is worth waiting for, at least for me.

Originally posted by: abaez
Tigerdirect has these on ebay for 109$ buy it now - 12% cashback brings you to under 100$ for one of these.
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That is OEM as opposed to the retail box in this thread but yes, that is a much better price.


Also, the hard drive now shows as $160, I think the deals dead. 🙁
 
I am not ordering a hard drive from TD from what I hear about their packaging, but a compromise some might take.
 
Originally posted by: Bobartig
TIger direct is selling on eBay now? What ever for? Why not just sell them from their site?
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Alot of stores are doing this now - multiwave and the like. It's just another way to reach out I guess.

I ended up buying two from another guy with a BIN of $115. $240 shipped total - 12% cashback about $105 shipped each. Will keep me ok for awhile I think.
 
Be warned, there have been some reports of people only being able to format 1 TB out of these, although the WD drives are having the same problem.
 
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