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| How much space do you have |
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7% |
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| <1TB |
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2% |
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| 1-2TB |
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28% |
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| 2-4TB |
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10% |
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| 4-6TB |
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10% |
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| 6-10TB |
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41% |
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Spanky Ham
Joined: 22 Mar 2006
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| Posted: Fri Jan 22, 2010 2:28 am Post subject: |
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Wan,
Outside of the people who use and need HDs for massive storage, how many really need over 40 to 50 gbs? Taking out my HD videos, I only have around 30gb. For my laptop, I won't need much memory on the drive. Personally, I would prefer to have external HDs. I can think of a lot of advantages going this route.
One of the reasons I was thinking of going ahead and diving in now is flash prices. I hhave been hoping they would be dropping faster, but they have been pretty static.
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WanMan
Joined: 19 Mar 2006
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I understand this, but the context if HTPC. How many folks building and using HTPC are not using it for mass storage?
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greg_mitch
Joined: 03 May 2006
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| Posted: Fri Jan 22, 2010 2:19 pm Post subject: |
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I am considering going just that route Wan.
I want a simple, small footprint, decent power client machine that will stream anything from either a NAS or server with massive storage.
I want the machine in my living room to be quiet, small, and very responsive.
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Zebu Fellenz
Joined: 21 Dec 2006
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| Posted: Fri Jan 22, 2010 4:47 pm Post subject: |
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| greg_mitch wrote: | I am considering going just that route Wan.
I want a simple, small footprint, decent power client machine that will stream anything from either a NAS or server with massive storage.
I want the machine in my living room to be quiet, small, and very responsive. |
I have a feeling I'll be going that route when I build a new HTPC next year. I'll probably keep my current HTPC as a BD ripping box, and a ~10TB file server for music, pictures, video, and space to keep backups of files from other PC's. I'm not too concerned with noise, but it would be very nice to be able to access my files, and media from any computer on the network easily.
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Spanky Ham
Joined: 22 Mar 2006
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| Posted: Tue Jan 26, 2010 12:58 am Post subject: |
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Zeb and Greg,
Are you two talking about going with an internal SSD boot drive and external mass storage?
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greg_mitch
Joined: 03 May 2006
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| Posted: Tue Jan 26, 2010 2:24 am Post subject: |
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| Spanky Ham wrote: | Zeb and Greg,
Are you two talking about going with an internal SSD boot drive and external mass storage? |
Yes. Seeing the 40GB going down so fast. If they have a 80-100gig for about $150 I would jump in.
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Spanky Ham
Joined: 22 Mar 2006
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| Posted: Tue Jan 26, 2010 3:12 am Post subject: |
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That is what I would like to see, but seeing how flash prices have been static it could take awhile.
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VideoGrabber
Joined: 09 Apr 2006
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| Posted: Tue Jan 26, 2010 10:34 am Post subject: |
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While I'd like to see 80-100G myself as well, my threshold is 60G at ~$100, which doesn't exist yet. I can get by with 60G for a boot drive. AND it would have to be a non-crap SSD. Crap being defined as one that's as slow or slower than an HDD, which surprisingly, many are.
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Spanky Ham
Joined: 22 Mar 2006
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| Posted: Tue Jan 26, 2010 5:50 pm Post subject: |
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Tim,
Hopefully something will break in the next few months, but I am not to optimistic. I think your threshold could take another year. I expected flash drives to be at $1 a gig by now, but they are at the same price as last year.
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MikeEby
Joined: 24 Jun 2007
Posts: 5237
Location: Osceola, Indiana
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| Posted: Tue Feb 02, 2010 1:54 pm Post subject: |
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I just put another 2TB drive in last night, Newegg had Hitachi 2TB drives for $149 shipped. I'm now up to 7TB.
Mike
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WanMan
Joined: 19 Mar 2006
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| Posted: Tue Feb 02, 2010 3:39 pm Post subject: |
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And IBM (I think) recently announced announced their 25nm NAND scaling process to double SSD capacities. I wonder if this will equate to cutting the price in half.
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VideoGrabber
Joined: 09 Apr 2006
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| Posted: Tue Feb 02, 2010 8:15 pm Post subject: |
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Mike,
> Newegg had Hitachi 2TB drives for $149 shipped <
What do you think of these, as far as heat and noise? The 1TB Hitachi's I bought (probably ~15 of them) have been good performers, and were cheap (better GB/$ than anyone, at the time), but definitely run hotter than comparable WD or Samsunng drives, and a bit noisier (not to the point of being problematic though). Mainly, they're hotter.
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VideoGrabber
Joined: 09 Apr 2006
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| Posted: Tue Feb 02, 2010 9:35 pm Post subject: |
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Mike,
never mind on that Hitachi 2TB assessment. I don't really care. I just remembered that Hitachi is permanently off my Buy list, as a result of refusing to honor $50 worth of rebates that I meticulously jumped through all their hoops to the letter. Still... DENIED.
In any event, it cost me $50 (5 drives, 5 drive limit, $10 each), but since then I've bought more than 50 additional 1+TB drives (from other vendors), and I was on a roll with Hitachi. That 5 was the last set, totalling 15-20 1TB Hitachi's. I'll let you be the judge of who was the worst loser.
I refuse to deal with companies that screw me over. Or that let their rebate-dispensers do so, when they contract that out.
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MikeEby
Joined: 24 Jun 2007
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Location: Osceola, Indiana
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| Posted: Wed Feb 03, 2010 3:35 am Post subject: |
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| VideoGrabber wrote: | Mike,
never mind on that Hitachi 2TB assessment. I don't really care. I just remembered that Hitachi is permanently off my Buy list, as a result of refusing to honor $50 worth of rebates that I meticulously jumped through all their hoops to the letter. Still... DENIED.
In any event, it cost me $50 (5 drives, 5 drive limit, $10 each), but since then I've bought more than 50 additional 1+TB drives (from other vendors), and I was on a roll with Hitachi. That 5 was the last set, totalling 15-20 1TB Hitachi's. I'll let you be the judge of who was the worst loser.
I refuse to deal with companies that screw me over. Or that let their rebate-dispensers do so, when they contract that out. |
Yeah...I HATE rebates! The deal Newegg had last week was a bare drive for $149 shipped, no rebate. I noticed today the retail drive they have for $169 w/$20 rebate.
It does run a tad hotter than the Samsungs 1.5TB 5900 RPM I have 2 of. I realize the cost/GB is probably cheaper going 1.5 TB, I just don't want to tie up the SATA ports.
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greg_mitch
Joined: 03 May 2006
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| Posted: Wed Feb 03, 2010 5:05 am Post subject: |
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| VideoGrabber wrote: | Mike,
never mind on that Hitachi 2TB assessment. I don't really care. I just remembered that Hitachi is permanently off my Buy list, as a result of refusing to honor $50 worth of rebates that I meticulously jumped through all their hoops to the letter. Still... DENIED.
In any event, it cost me $50 (5 drives, 5 drive limit, $10 each), but since then I've bought more than 50 additional 1+TB drives (from other vendors), and I was on a roll with Hitachi. That 5 was the last set, totalling 15-20 1TB Hitachi's. I'll let you be the judge of who was the worst loser.
I refuse to deal with companies that screw me over. Or that let their rebate-dispensers do so, when they contract that out. |
Crap man! I hope you build systems for a living or are a sys admin. You have mega HDD buying experience!
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Spanky Ham
Joined: 22 Mar 2006
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secstate
Joined: 20 Mar 2006
Posts: 720
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| greg_mitch wrote: | | VideoGrabber wrote: | Zebu wrote about Chris:
> we'll just have to put you in your own special unpolled group <
And you'll have to add me to that group as well. I'll just say "over 10 TB", but if your poll was logarithmic, you'd need another 4 notches.
I buy nothing smaller than 1.5 TB drives now (doesn't make sense on a $/GB basis), but did pick up a 2 TB WD on sale for ~$125 during the post Thanksgiving sales ($140, minus Bing @10%). Both the Samsung and WD 1.5 TB "green" drives can be had for $100 or less, most of the time.
I'll probably avoid buying many of the 2 TB drives as long as I can... primarily because incoming burn-in testing takes so long
(~23 hours), and I never put a drive into service without 100% pre-qual tests first. |
Everything I have seen the 1TB is best for $/GB...best I have done is $65/TB.
Are you seeing other prices? |
I check the usual deal sites, FatWallet, SlilckDeals. My all time best deal on a 1TB drive was $48 for a WD Green. It was last summer from ewiz, but that included 20% Bing CashBack, a $15.00 rebate and 5% cash back on my PenFed credit card (they had a back to school deal). Around the same time I picked up a couple of more Segates for around $55.00/each again with Bing Cashback/PenFed cashback. The best deal I have had so far on a 1.5TB was a WD green, with free USB docking station from NewEgg it which after BingCashback was around $82.00
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VideoGrabber
Joined: 09 Apr 2006
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| Posted: Sat Feb 13, 2010 1:53 am Post subject: |
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> Newegg has a deal on a 60g OCZ SSD for $129 w/MIR. <
Thanks, Spanky! I'll have to look into that.
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VideoGrabber
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| Posted: Sat Feb 20, 2010 4:40 pm Post subject: |
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I'm not sure if this merits the visibility of it's own thread or not, but since we've been discussing HDD deals here, I'll share it here.
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Newegg currently has the WD 2 TB Green drive on sale for only $150, with free shipping (normally runs $180). Which is a good deal in itself.
But wait! If you buy now, they'll throw in a free Rosewill SATA to USB docking unit (normally $40).
But there's more ginsu to come! If you act fast, the free dock, which normally incurs shipping charges, will also ship free as well!
That's right folks! A super quiet 2TB drive, PLUS a docking station, PLUS free shipping on both. All for the low, low price of just $150 (well, $149.99), delivered.  But act fast, because quantities are limited. And when these sell out, well you know the rest. (I.e., you'll be seeing them on eBay.)
Drive link is here.
And the combo deal is further down the page, here.
P.S. Don't forget to link through Bing, and get another 2% off ($3). Every little bit helps.
P.P.S. This is a no rebate-BS offer. Limit 5 per customer.
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Zebu Fellenz
Joined: 21 Dec 2006
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| Posted: Sat Feb 20, 2010 6:15 pm Post subject: |
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| VideoGrabber wrote: | I'm not sure if this merits the visibility of it's own thread or not, but since we've been discussing HDD deals here, I'll share it here.
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That's right folks! A super quiet 2TB drive, PLUS a docking station, PLUS free shipping on both. All for the low, low price of just $150 (well, $149.99), delivered. But act fast, because quantities are limited. And when these sell out, well you know the rest. (I.e., you'll be seeing them on eBay.)
Drive link is here.
And the combo deal is further down the page, here.
P.S. Don't forget to link through Bing, and get another 2% off ($3). Every little bit helps.
P.P.S. This is a no rebate-BS offer. Limit 5 per customer. |
Thanks for the heads up, just ordered two of these drives with the docks. 
Good price 
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