Re: Current HD costs update

2008-11-12 Thread Len Gerstel
A couple of weeks ago we were talking about upgrade SATA drives and that the many drives have hit the 10 cents/GB (US) point. Now that the Seagate 1.5TB 7200.11 SATA has hit $150 (latest deal includes a 4GB usb stick and free shipping), I thought I would warn people that Seagate is having

Re: Current HD costs update

2008-11-12 Thread Dan
At 9:24 AM -0500 11/12/2008, Len Gerstel wrote: A couple of weeks ago we were talking about upgrade SATA drives and that the many drives have hit the 10 cents/GB (US) point. Seagate is investigating an issue where a small number of Barracuda 7200.11 (1.5TB SATA) hard drives randomly pause or

Re: Current HD costs update

2008-11-12 Thread Sam Macomber
At 9:24 AM -0500 11/12/2008, Len Gerstel wrote: A couple of weeks ago we were talking about upgrade SATA drives and that the many drives have hit the 10 cents/GB (US) point. Seagate is investigating an issue where a small number of Barracuda 7200.11 (1.5TB SATA) hard drives randomly pause

Re: Current HD costs update

2008-11-12 Thread Len Gerstel
On Nov 12, 2008, at 11:58 AM, Dan wrote: On another note... There are a lot of 1 TB drives going for $99 or less right now. Careful, folx! Many of them are LP size (normal 3.5 drives) but then they're 5400rpm instead of 7200 rpm! So they cannot keep up with their fast SATA or USB 2 or

Re: Current HD costs update

2008-11-12 Thread Donald Hall
On Nov 12, 2008, at 11:58 AM, Dan wrote: On another note... There are a lot of 1 TB drives going for $99 or less right now. Careful, folx! Many of them are LP size (normal 3.5 drives) but then they're 5400rpm instead of 7200 rpm! So they cannot keep up with their fast SATA or USB 2 or FW

Re: Current HD costs update

2008-11-12 Thread Dan
At 12:44 PM -0500 11/12/2008, Len Gerstel wrote: On Nov 12, 2008, at 11:58 AM, Dan wrote: On another note... There are a lot of 1 TB drives going for $99 or less right now. Careful, folx! Many of them are LP size (normal 3.5 drives) but then they're 5400rpm instead of 7200 rpm! So they