{"id":283,"date":"2009-02-13T17:57:11","date_gmt":"2009-02-13T21:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mattfife.net\/wordpress\/?p=283"},"modified":"2009-02-13T17:57:11","modified_gmt":"2009-02-13T21:57:11","slug":"15-terabytes-for-83","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=283","title":{"rendered":"1.5 terabytes for $83"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dell Home has the Seagate 1.5TB SATA Hard Drive for $143 – $60 off coupon code HNP1LLLS?ZKS48<\/strong> [Exp 2\/18] = $83<\/strong> with free shipping.<\/p>\n

Are they dumping them?\u00a0 I just joined the masses that bought one of these drives at a staggering 5.5 cents per megabyte for 1.5 terabytes<\/em> before the deal quickly died.\u00a0 This price is about 1\/2 the price this drive sells at normally.\u00a0 There was some question whether this was a misprint – but it appears the drives did ship and mine is on its way.\u00a0 Wow.<\/p>\n

I only bought one since the price was too ridiculously low I had to try.\u00a0 However, caveat empetor! This is the drive that’s was first plagued with random freezing (especially in RAID setups)<\/a>, then the bad firmware update meant to fix the problem was actually bricking drives<\/a>, and reports of high failure and DOA rates<\/a>.\u00a0 Still, it should make a nice drive to store saved TV programs from my DVR – and if the rumors of it’s early death are true – I won’t be crying too big a river.<\/p>\n

As for that, I’ll re-iterate one more time – WHERE ARE YOUR BACKUPS PEOPLE?\u00a0 You should never have a single drive with the only copy of your information on it.\u00a0 I have an external eSATA drive that I keep at work for ‘offsite’ monthly backups, a secondary drive that my primaries (in RAID 0) backup to automatically and regularly, AND for my most precious data (photos) I burn 2 DVD copies each time I get a DVD’s worth of data. \u00a0 Storage is so cheap, you shouldn’t ever need lose data again -even if a drive dies.\u00a0 And with automated tools, I almost never even think about or do anything myself anymore.\u00a0 No excuses, get you data backed up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dell Home has the Seagate 1.5TB SATA Hard Drive for $143 – $60 off coupon code HNP1LLLS?ZKS48 [Exp 2\/18] = $83 with free shipping. Are they dumping them?\u00a0 I just joined the masses that bought one of these drives at a staggering 5.5 cents per megabyte for 1.5 terabytes before the deal quickly died.\u00a0 This price is about 1\/2 the price this drive sells at normally.\u00a0 There was some question whether this was a misprint – but it appears the…<\/p>\n

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