On 2015-03-06 10:19 , John wrote:
On 3/5/2015 1:19 PM, steve harley wrote:
that was a typo - i meant 5 TB for < $150; here's one you can combine
with a photo purchase (though i'm not so fond of Seagate these days)
Would you care to elucidate?
i had two Seagate drives fail recently, and i'm sore about it; this is not
purely anecdotal — the failures were well-known problems with two different
Seagate models; one was a 3GB Seagate that was shown in this study to be
excessively failure prone:
<https://www.backblaze.com/blog/best-hard-drive/>
Seagate replaced it under warranty (i had to pay shipping one way), but i
now have another 3GB drive to distrust
the other was afflicted by the BSY hang described here:
<https://sites.google.com/site/seagatefix/Home>
and i proceeded to get a USB-to-TTL dongle and work on fixing it, but my
power supply fried a protection diode on the drive's logic board, so now i
have enough further hoops to jump through that i'm not sure it's worth the
effort for a puny 750GB drive
anyhow i just pulled that Seagate at B&H out of a hat, there are other good
deals on 5GB externals, such as this:
<http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00J5EZNO0/appwortod-20>
($138 at time of writing)
don't take this as an endorsement … most of these are fanless enclosures and
probably slower, 5400rpm drives
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