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DAMN these seagate 1.5TB drives are FAST - hal - 05-31-2009
I just bought a pair of these from Dell for a bit over $100ea - whatta deal!
Got them installed in the mac pro (orig 2.66) and am transferring data from one to the other.
Activity monitor shows data moving CONSTANTLY btwn 85 -90MB/sec peaking just under 100.
wow...
Re: DAMN these seagate 1.5TB drives are FAST - SKYLANE - 05-31-2009
hal...
Where is the activity monitor that you reference?
Re: DAMN these seagate 1.5TB drives are FAST - Ken Sp. - 05-31-2009
Link to the drives?
Re: DAMN these seagate 1.5TB drives are FAST - clay - 05-31-2009
applications folder > utilities > activity monitor
Re: DAMN these seagate 1.5TB drives are FAST - clay - 05-31-2009
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148337
dell had them last week (or recently) where you could get 2 of them for $200. Special is dead now.
Re: DAMN these seagate 1.5TB drives are FAST - hal - 05-31-2009
Ken Sp. wrote:
Link to the drives?
Ken, you need to get back to checking dealmac daily... they ran this special once, then reduced the price a couple of dollars and did it again. The two deals ran for about 10 days...
looks like this deal is still running: $112 ea @ dell
http://dealmac.com/Seagate-Barracuda-1-5-TB-SATA-3-Gbps-Internal-Hard-Drive-for-112-free-shipping/299403.html
Re: DAMN these seagate 1.5TB drives are FAST - Blankity Blank - 06-01-2009
hal, did you do any research on these drives or have you had good experience with them in the past? In an earlier thread, bhaveshp said he/she passed on the 7200.11 drives because of "many failures".
Anyone else hear anything similar?
Re: DAMN these seagate 1.5TB drives are FAST - hal - 06-01-2009
yeah, I know all about that
it's a done deal - no more issues with recent firmware.
I've had one (older firmware than what I just got) and have had no problems.
vital data is backed up
Re: DAMN these seagate 1.5TB drives are FAST - Gareth - 06-01-2009
I ordered 4 of the of the 1.5TB drives from Dell. None of them needed the firmware update.