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[Wanted] Best price on 2TB 7200rpm Sata III drive

  • 20-01-2015 3:00pm
    #1
    Dr Bolouswki
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,337 ✭✭✭


    Looking to buy one - best price I can find is €76... is there any wonderful chinese import store that I am not aware of? Or if anyone is selling one... :D

    thanks for any pointers - if there is some [wanted] forum happy for this to be moved

    thanks!

    B


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  • #2
    frozenfrozen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,682 ✭✭✭frozenfrozen


    That seems about right for a 2tb drive. You can go a bit cheaper per TB with 3TB drives

    http://de.pcpartpicker.com/ is good for sorting by cheapest price per gB and you'll get a selection of different retailers.

    that 76 you have for the 2tb seems correct, and I'm unaware of any grey market stores to buy from


  • #3
    Dr Bolouswki
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,337 ✭✭✭Dr Bolouswki


    excellent link on the pcbuilder thing - thanks :)


  • #4
    challengemaster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,930 ✭✭✭✭challengemaster


    frozenfrozen wrote: »
    That seems about right for a 2tb drive. You can go a bit cheaper per TB with 3TB drives

    Looks like 3TB drives are leaving a lot to be desired... cheaper per TB but worse for reliability

    http://lifehacker.com/why-you-should-buy-4-tb-hard-drives-and-skip-the-3-tb-o-1680887763
    We like every one of the 4 TB drives we bought this year. For the price, you get a lot of storage, and the drive failure rates have been really low. The Seagate Desktop HDD.15 has had the best price, and we have a LOT of them. Over 12 thousand of them. The failure rate is a nice low 2.6% per year.

    The Western Digital Red 3 TB drives annual failure rate of 7.6% is a bit high but acceptable. The Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 3 TB drives are another story. We'll cover how we handled their failure rates in a future blog post.

    1088211918398259014.jpg


  • #5
    ED E
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,170 ✭✭✭✭ED E


    Interesting stuff.

    Some of the previous reports from large data centre operators were a little biased due to different drives being used in different applications with different load levels. Havent had a chance to read all of the above but I'm hoping backblaze have used a fair dataset. In any case 4TB makes total sense for bay consumption.


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