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2 TB Network drive $130

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  • icepuckicepuck Posts: 466
    edited 2011-08-11 16:06
    Costco has it for us$109 after rebate
    http://www.costco.com/Browse/Product.aspx?prodid=11649170&whse=BC&topnav=&cm_sp=RichRelevance-_-categorypageHorizontalTop-_-PopularProductsInCategory

    If you horde everything you download here's a 3TB drive..
    http://www.costco.com/Browse/Product.aspx?Prodid=11652295&whse=BC&Ne=4000000&eCat=BC|84|31022&N=4013468&Mo=12&No=5&Nr=P_CatalogName:BC&cat=31023&Ns=P_Price|1||P_SignDesc1&lang=en-US&Sp=C&topnav=
    -dan
  • Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi)Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi) Posts: 23,514
    edited 2011-08-11 16:08
    Wasn't iomega the company that made those awful Zip drives? I've never forgiven them for that. :(

    -Phil
  • ercoerco Posts: 20,259
    edited 2011-08-11 16:48
    I got suckered into buying a Sony StorStation many moons ago. Big awful tape drive for painfully slow backup that failed miserably into a brick with an LED on it.

    I have not yet forgiven Sony. I'm may be forced to use their SIRC IR coding system, but I don't have to like it! :)
  • prof_brainoprof_braino Posts: 4,313
    edited 2011-08-11 17:38
    If you have an extra bay a bare 2TB is $75 at Newegg
    http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136514
  • ajwardajward Posts: 1,130
    edited 2011-08-11 17:43
    Built a new peecee recently and got a Seagate 2TB bare drive for $69 at Frys.
  • RDL2004RDL2004 Posts: 2,554
    edited 2011-08-11 18:01
    I have over 4 TB of storage. Movies and music take up a lot of space...

    These are nice drives, solid, not too many people have problems with them. Very fast too. Currently on special at the Egg.

    Western Digital Caviar Black WD1001FALS 1TB

    Put it in one of these and you're good to go.

    http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817173042

    edit: Oh, and watch out for "Advanced Format" drives like that WD Caviar 2TB Green (any WD with EARS" in the model number, more sure to come from WD and other Mfgs) unless you use Vista or Win 7, they're a pain under XP. I don't think they had all the bugs worked out before they released them.
  • ercoerco Posts: 20,259
    edited 2011-08-11 20:03
    ajward wrote: »
    Built a new peecee recently and got a Seagate 2TB bare drive for $69 at Frys.

    SEAGATE???!!! Temptingly cheap, but never again! Back up your data regularly, Gurl!

    After my Seagate crashed and they said "tough luck", I became a Hitachi fan for life.
  • Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi)Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi) Posts: 23,514
    edited 2011-08-11 20:23
    The problem with disk drive manufacturers is that yesterday's heroes are today's bums, and vice versa. I've had WD drives give out on me, as well as Seagate drives. Today's densities are so high, and the technology so cutting-edge -- all driven by market pressure -- that there's no telling how reliable a drive will be until it's either dead or obsolete. Redundancy and thorough backups are the only real guard against data loss or corruption.

    -Phil
  • Cluso99Cluso99 Posts: 18,069
    edited 2011-08-11 20:38
    Only ever had one drive die. Probably from lack of use when I remounted it to search for something. All others have been pensioned off well before they died.
  • GadgetmanGadgetman Posts: 2,436
    edited 2011-08-12 01:37
    I've seen all brands of drive die. Toshiba, Seagate, IBM, Western digital, Hitachi...

    The rule is Backup early, backup often, and keep the backup far away from the originals!
    (I use a networked WD Mybook 1TB for backups. And I keep it in a locked closet.)

    The Iomega Zip was infamous for the 'click of death' syndrome. I never experienced it myself, on my 100MB parallell-port model, but I know of others who did. (Helped a friend burn his files to CD after copying them off of ZIPs)
    Their Beroully drives, though, were solid. (I'm in the market for a drive, if anyone have one laying around. Got the disks, but not the drive)
    Their Jaz drives were good, too...
    Then there was the Clik!, a small 40MB disk where the drive itself came in the shape of a PCMCIA card...
    (I'm betting most never heard of that one... )

    Anyway, there were worse alternatives than the ZIP100 back then; such as the Sony MiniDisk system. Yes, they made a MD-Data drive.
    It was SCSI, portable, and could also play MD-music disks. Unfortunately, you couldn't use the SCSI interface to copy music files to a MD-Music disk, and music on a MD-Data disk couldn't be played. You could use a small app to edit tracknames on MD-Music disks, though.
    for data, it was as slow as a 3.5" disk, so the somewhat larger 150MB capacity didn't really appeal to people, who instead bought internal ZIP drives or LS120 drives. (Does anyone have a LS120 drive? )

    Tape drives are fun, but aren't that suited for 'household backups'.
    HDDs can break during long-term storage, too.
  • TorTor Posts: 2,010
    edited 2011-08-12 02:24
    I think it was in Scientific American that I read an article some years ago that claimed that when we get 120TB storage we can start recording our own lives continously (no measly one picture every half hour, as some are already doing now). Hm.

    -Tor
  • mindrobotsmindrobots Posts: 6,506
    edited 2011-08-12 08:34
    Tor wrote: »
    I think it was in Scientific American that I read an article some years ago that claimed that when we get 120TB storage we can start recording our own lives continously (no measly one picture ever half hour, as some are already doing now). Hm.

    -Tor

    As humans, some thing we do because we should, some things we do because we can, some things we do for no apparent reason what so ever. The only way I'd see this as a worthwhile venture is if I was on the selling end of the technology enabling this! :lol:
  • ajwardajward Posts: 1,130
    edited 2011-08-12 14:58
    erco wrote: »
    SEAGATE???!!! Temptingly cheap, but never again! Back up your data regularly, Gurl!

    After my Seagate crashed and they said "tough luck", I became a Hitachi fan for life.

    Arg... Hitachi "Deathstar" drives? I bought a 120GB drive. In 3 months it died with no warning. Hitachi replaced it with another 120. In 4 months, that one died with... surprise(!) no warning. After a flurry of venomous emails, they gave me a 250GB drive as "compensation". In 6 months, the 250 was dead as a doornail. After contacting Hitachi, I was told to return it to the store where I bought it. I replied that it was sent directly from Hitachi... I never received a response after that!
    To be fair... I've never had a problem with their 2.5 inch drives!(?)

    Amanda
  • icepuckicepuck Posts: 466
    edited 2011-08-12 16:26
    I still have and use zip disks mainly for backing up my c64 and appleII disk images.
    Anyone remember the old Conner drives? Those were probably worst drives I've ever tried to use.
    -dan
  • GadgetmanGadgetman Posts: 2,436
    edited 2011-08-13 04:17
    Conner?

    The world's most technologically advanced doorstops?

    As for Hitachi, the Deathstar was originally an IBM product.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitachi_Deskstar
    The IBM Deskstar 75GXP (as well as several other models made around the same time) became infamous for their reportedly high failure rates.[2] This led to the drives being colloquially referred to as "Deathstars".[3] Due to this, the drives were ranked 18th in PC World's "Worst Tech Products of All Time" feature in 2006
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