Seagate 3TB external drives on sale @ Amazon

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Dave_W

The Dude
I monitor Amazon for a couple of things and one of them is the 3 TB external drives. Today Amazon marked it down to $99, the best price it's been in over 6 months so I jumped on a couple more. Typically Amazon will only run sales like this for a day and sometimes only half a day so if you were thinking of picking up some storage space, $33 per TB is a pretty darn good deal.


http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...IN=B00834SJU8&linkCode=as2&tag=celphofor0d-20
 
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piperbarb

Senior Member
I have one of those attached to my file server. Works like a champ. I have 1.2 TB left free on the drive. Will be needing more space soon. :)
 
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snaphappy

Senior Member
Would that attach work with my Mac time capsule anyone know? I'm soooo not computer savvy but after switching to raw my computer is getting slow.. I need to store my pics somewhere else
 
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crycocyon

Senior Member
Unbelievable deal, wow. Although I prefer G-Tech and use Raid 1 for my archival material (or Raid 0 for less important stuff). I would never risk my images or files to a drive like this as all drives have a finite lifespan and when they fail, that's pretty much it (unless you want to pay $1k for data recovery). Granted, Seagate is a very good company with good drives so I suppose if I did want to just backup a lot of stuff that wasn't really essential, and I had a few years to transfer it (this is only USB 3.0 so figure how long it would take to transfer 3 GB worth of stuff), this would be it.
 
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§am

Senior Member
crycocyon said:
...(this is only USB 3.0 so figure how long it would take to transfer 3 GB worth of stuff)
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Aside from ripping the drive out the enclosure and attaching it direct to your SATA port, or hooking it up via eg. FireWire, USB 3.0 is a pretty good option I'd say. And certainly not years to transfer it :)
 
Horoscope Fish

Horoscope Fish

Senior Member
crycocyon said:
... and I had a few years to transfer it (this is only USB 3.0 so figure how long it would take to transfer 3 GB worth of stuff)...
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Excuse me, but, *only* USB 3.0?? Hitting almost 160 MB/s in real life is nothing to sneeze at. For that matter transferring 3GB over is USB, even USB 2.0, is a trifle; I transfer ten times that amount of data, using USB 2.0, routinely. Heck my thumb drives transfer close to 3GB's of data just for my weekly class assignments (also USB 2.0). I would weep Tears of Pure and Unmitigated Joy if my thumb drives could hit 150 MB/s!

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