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Amazon deal of the day: 1TB Seagate 7200.11 for $79.99 shipped - mikebw - 04-08-2009
I finally ordered one!
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B001NGOIJO/
This deal also appears on their Gold Box page for today, http://www.amazon.com/gp/goldbox/
This will be a replacement for my aging stock 160GB SATA drives in my G5. Should be a decent improvement, especially since my boot drive only has 4GB free space left. I will probably keep one of the 160's in there as backup bootable drive, but maybe not.
I am tempted to buy two, but I figure I will be using less than half of the capacity on just one so having two doesn't really make sense. I won't need that much space for a while and by then the 2GB drives will be 8 cents per GB, hopefully less.
And yes I do have a backup drive, it's actually the exact same model 1TB 7200.11 in an external USB 2.0 case.
Re: Amazon deal of the day: 1TB Seagate 7200.11 for $79.99 shipped - AAA - 04-08-2009
I don't know you, man!
I thought we wuz holdin' out for da 1.5 TB!?
You've changed. Who ARE you?
Re: Amazon deal of the day: 1TB Seagate 7200.11 for $79.99 shipped - The UnDoug - 04-08-2009
This isn't one of the ones affected by the bad firmware, is it?
Re: Amazon deal of the day: 1TB Seagate 7200.11 for $79.99 shipped - Will Collier - 04-08-2009
UnDoug, I think that was just on 1.5TB drives.
Re: Amazon deal of the day: 1TB Seagate 7200.11 for $79.99 shipped - mikebw - 04-08-2009
Yes, I have changed. Prices for the 1.5 kept going up which meant more waiting, not what I was interested in doing. I also did not want to risk having to deal with firmware issues on the Seagate 1.5TB.
Re: Amazon deal of the day: 1TB Seagate 7200.11 for $79.99 shipped - Mr645 - 04-08-2009
Just be prepared to have a Windows PC handy to flash them before use.
Re: Amazon deal of the day: 1TB Seagate 7200.11 for $79.99 shipped - RAMd®d - 04-08-2009
It was definitely 1T HDs (7200.11) that had some bad firmware, and some 1.5Ts as well.
Re: Amazon deal of the day: 1TB Seagate 7200.11 for $79.99 shipped - Will Collier - 04-08-2009
RAMd®d wrote:
It was definitely 1T HDs (7200.11) that had some bad firmware, and some 1.5Ts as well.
I sit corrected; I'd only heard about the 1.5's.
Re: Amazon deal of the day: 1TB Seagate 7200.11 for $79.99 shipped - Doc - 04-08-2009
The firmware bug hits drives 750GB and up.
Re: Amazon deal of the day: 1TB Seagate 7200.11 for $79.99 shipped - datbeme - 04-08-2009
Coming into the discussion late...
So is this a good choice in a standard (non-multidrive) setup, or should I steer clear?