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geekhack Community => Off Topic => Topic started by: tp4tissue on Thu, 28 November 2013, 12:45:39

Title: WTF Amazon
Post by: tp4tissue on Thu, 28 November 2013, 12:45:39
$99  for a 3TB

Go F.. urself amazon.. hell no...

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Title: Re: WTF Amazon
Post by: hcry4 on Thu, 28 November 2013, 12:48:22
Yea, not much of a deal, but it is 7200 rpm. Most of the externals for less are usually the slower green drives at 5900 rpm or 5400 rpm.
Title: Re: WTF Amazon
Post by: tp4tissue on Thu, 28 November 2013, 12:54:05
Yea, not much of a deal, but it is 7200 rpm. Most of the externals for less are usually the slower green drives at 5900 rpm or 5400 rpm.

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it's the principle...   bf has traditionally meant good harddrive deals...

This is a corruption of age old tradition.
Title: Re: WTF Amazon
Post by: Wildcard on Thu, 28 November 2013, 13:37:32
That's .033 per gig? That seems like a fair deal to me. Newegg had 4tb seagate drives for $130
Title: Re: WTF Amazon
Post by: tp4tissue on Thu, 28 November 2013, 13:54:57
That's .033 per gig? That seems like a fair deal to me. Newegg had 4tb seagate drives for $130

amazon return policy is better, but it costs 1$ more per terabyte

for me 1/3 of seagate drives will have errors out of the box..

I do heavy testing uusing eraser for 5 days..  I keep the drives actively cooled during testing because they're not enterprise rated.
Title: Re: WTF Amazon
Post by: Wildcard on Thu, 28 November 2013, 15:17:55
I've been using 2tb 7200 hitachi drives for years. I may end up upgrading some day, but I've yet to completely run out of storage.
Title: Re: WTF Amazon
Post by: Puddsy on Thu, 28 November 2013, 20:00:11
yo that's less than what I bought my 1TB for

buy that ****