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2TB Drives
ShardHostSarah
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Does anyone know a source of cheap new 2tb 7200 drives (<$119)?
These aren't to be used for anything too critical. Will need 12-20 so can't be x per customer offers like newegg sometimes run
Any help appeciated
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UK site, I know, but £80 equates to $125. Don't think I've seen them cheaper than that here.
http://m.dabs.com/products/seagate-2tb-barracuda-sata-6gb-s-64mb-7200rpm-hard-drive-7XD7.html?utm_source=retention+email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=email210612&utm_content=i700
I think you are a bit early to the game at that price yet, at least for any reasonable quality. $140 was a month ago for quality, or have you seen something this week at $120?
And to get around newegg limits, phone a friend. I get 15-20 of good deals if that is what I want. The 500gb WD RE4's look good today at newegg, I just don't want anything more that small.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/New-2TB-32MB-Cache-7200RPM-SATA2-Hard-Drive-FREE-SHIP-/130454425978?pt=US_Internal_Hard_Disk_Drives&hash=item1e5fb0917a#ht_3266wt_1037
Cheapest I could find where you can get 20 of them.
Missed out on some decent hitachi last week at that price level. Can only find seagate this week
We use WD RE4s in our VZ nodes. Although the newegg price is cheap our system builder provides them cheaper still
Thanks though!
I won't use RE's anymore, higher failure rate than DeathStars, Seagate, unless it's Constellation, Saviio or Cheetah, no thanks. Last few builds Iused the Seagate Constellation 1tb SAS2 and seem great, I have lots of 2.5" 500gb Constellations in older nodes that I've never had a failure. Anyway, I'm out shopping as well, so I'll keep my eyes peeled for you, think 1tb will do me, already picked up raid card and expander for an old case.