From 9to5mac.com/toys (feed): If you are loading up on storage in 2009, you might want to head over to Amazon who have a Seagate 1.5TB 32MB SATA Bulk/OEM Hard Drive ST31500341AS for $129. That is the lowest price we've ever seen for the largest capacity drive on the market. The device gets an average of 4/5 stars from Amazon reviewers and ships for free. These prices don't often last for more than 24 hours at Amazon.
Or you can has a 1TB Hitachi for $80 after $30 rebate.
For another $30-$40, throw in a SATA Drive docking station, or perhaps something a little more burly.
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I just bought a 1.5 TB
I just bought a 1.5 TB Seagate External with USB2, FW400, and eSATA for $149. All month long at MicroCenter
Format for Mac?
I bought the same drive and had trouble formatting it for Mac (Journal Extended). I have two other external Seagate HDs (500gb) and they formatted fine. Where you able to format it easily or did you need to install additional drivers or some other tricks?
They've had trouble
They've had trouble formatting in Leopard, I plugged it into my Tiger Server to format it, then formatted it again on my Leopard Machine Zeroing everything, now it it pretty rock solid.
then again, Seagate is the
then again, Seagate is the company that is trying to cover it's hard drive failure.
http://i.gizmodo.com/5130702/1tb-seagate-barracudas-collapsing-a-gogo-us...
I've heard bad things about
I've heard bad things about these drives in a RAID configuration. Apparantly there was a firmware update about 4 months ago that fixed this issue. According to Amazon, these drives are the new "fixed" versions and shouldn't cause any problems.
IF not and you are using these in a RAID, you need to update the firmware before they will be reliable.
RAID
ALL desktop hard drives have problems in RAID configurations. Use Server Class drives for RAID, or, don't use RAID....
There are 2 kinds of hard drives:
1. A dead hard drive.
2. A dying hard drive.
At least Seagate has the gumption to offer a 5 year warranty unlike all the others.
But No warranty will get data back from a failed hard drive,
Remember, if you buy a 1.5 TB hard disk, make sure you buy another to back up the first one, 1.5 TB is a lot of data to lose.
I have 4 of these drives in a
I have 4 of these drives in a Mac Pro tower. I might have been lucky, they work great for me. I''ve always used Seagate drives and loved them (when I can)
The only complaint is that write speed could be a bit faster. I think Apple's Stock drive was modestly faster and I am sure there are 15,000 RPM drives out there that smoke this one..
On the other hand, they operate silently, read quick and are of course Green. As This rig is video editing all day, it saves a lot of juice $$$.
I'd definitely recommend these (and I paid $200ea!)
i think newegg has been
i think newegg has been selling them for this price for a while, and at one time you could get it for ten dollars cheaper with a livesearch discount
FACT
I've had my eye on this drive at Newegg for a while. It was flipping from $139 to $129, but has been settled at $129 with free shipping for a few weeks now.
I've been wanting to expand my NAS system from the 4x320GB drives that it has in it presently.
Newegg had them for $119
Newegg had them for $119 shipped a few weeks back. With the new WD 2TB drive announcements this week I expect this to drop fast. Too bad the .11 series has had so many issues. Hope the new .12's work better. Seagate has a single platter 500GB drive out now, so I expect them to ship a 4 platter 2TB .12 series soon also.
You are right about New Egg.
You are right about New Egg. They have them for the same price. to get the $119 you had to use Paypal and jump through some hoops there. $129 is stil lthe lowest we've seen
Seagate's behavior indicates
Seagate's behavior indicates to me that buying any products from them going forward is a bad idea. I'm guessing their drives are going to get a lot cheaper going forward.
Also, the only drive I've ever had fail, was a seagate, and it completely failed smoke and all.
9to5mac.com do your research.
9to5mac.com do your research. These drives are shit. K thx
There are a lot of opinions
There are a lot of opinions on these drives (both good and bad) as well as any other drive. That is why there is a comment section. no one expects to get server class drives for $130
I understand where you are
I understand where you are coming from but these drives seem like they were "rushed out the door". I believe every retailer that have these just want to get rid of them, off their shelves.
I do have to argue though. After all the reviews I have seen it's near half. Roughly 50% 5 stars and 50% 1 star.
I personally went through 2 of these. One failed in 6 days one in 4 days. I even tried the 1.5 variations. Ugh. Failed.
No pun intended to the admin but BUYER BEWARE!
Yes, act fast
What's the rush? You're acting as if the price on these guys won't continue to drop like a rock, as all technology does, in the coming months.
NewEgg has had these for $129
NewEgg has had these for $129 + free shipping for weeks (months?), I bought a couple during their $119 black friday sale as well. I have 7 of them and while they did have initial firmware issues, I've had no failures. I run them in a Linux RAID-6 with redundant cooling, you can't keep a hard drive too cool.
Rob