OT: if you're looking for a good price on 1TB ext.

FrigidNDEditing wrote on 9/26/2008, 10:57 AM

http://www.compusa.com/applications/searchtools/item-Details.asp?EdpNo=3572142&sku=M261-8184

Don't know if anyone here is looking for a 1TB external at a good price that's e-SATA as well as USB, but this one appears to be just that.

Just got an email on a better price for one here:

http://www.ecost.com/Detail.aspx?edp=40073546&navid=155441519

Dave

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John_Cline wrote on 9/26/2008, 11:45 AM

Tiger Direct has 1 terabyte Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 7200RPM SATA-300 internal hard drives on sale for $129.

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=3346290&SRCCODE=WEM1716C

SCS PBC wrote on 9/26/2008, 11:53 AM

Would both of those drives be fast enough to use as a capture drive? ... To store HDV source media being used in projects?

TheHappyFriar wrote on 9/26/2008, 2:40 PM

I've used my USB2 500gb drive to capture on occasion.

Terje wrote on 9/26/2008, 3:49 PM

Any drive sold after 2001 is probably fast enough to be a capture drive on most OS solutions today.

FrigidNDEditing wrote on 9/26/2008, 4:12 PM

I've heard too many things about Seagate drives having problems, and so I don't use them usually. However it's certainly not a certain thing since I think one of my WD HDD's are failing and I've had it less than a year.

Hence the reason for my purchase of an external backup drive in the magnitude necessary for all my crap :P

Dave

John_Cline wrote on 9/26/2008, 4:45 PM

Dave,

I use Seagate drives almost exclusively. I've been using them for close to fifteen years, starting with their Barracuda SCSI drives. I have close to 50 Seagate SATA drives, including 8 drives in a server which gets pounded hard and has run 24/7 for several years. I have not had a single failure, whereas I have had a number of Western Digital and Maxtor drives fail pretty early into their service life.

I can honestly say that I have never lost a single bit of data that was stored on a Seagate drive.

John

Xander wrote on 9/26/2008, 5:00 PM

I have just purchased my second Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 1.5TB SATA Hard Drive - $190. Also got the BYTECC BT-135E-BK Drive Case so I can slide those babies in and out of the computer as needed.

TheHappyFriar wrote on 9/26/2008, 5:04 PM

I've had all of them die. :D my only suggestion is always buy them in retail packaging. Then you have a warranty to at least replace the drive if it dies within a few months.

DSCalef wrote on 9/26/2008, 8:57 PM

Xander....

I prefer the Addionics AESNAPMRSA Snap-in mobile rack for about $27.00 each. I own ten of them.

What I like is that the bare drive snaps in and out of the drive bay with no hardware mounting (screws) required. Best solution I have found. I found these through a suggestion on this forum.

http://www.shopaddonics.com/itemdesc.asp?ic=AESNAPMRSA&eq=&Tp=

David
www.EventVideoTeam.com

Dan Sherman wrote on 9/27/2008, 9:33 AM

I have been using raided 500 GB drives in a Netgear enclosure and have encountered problems. My IT guy is replacing them with 1TB D-Link externals at no charge because the Netgear appliances were so unreliable.
Anyone using the D-Link enclosures?

FrigidNDEditing wrote on 9/27/2008, 12:49 PM

John,

That's good to know. I've heard people complain about the seagates, and so I swore them off because it sounded like there was a stretch of drives coming from them that were problematic. I'm glad to hear some good things about their reliability since they seem to run cheaper on deals that WD and I always think I should buy it but then don't.

I ended up buying a Lacie 1TB drive for 139 this time around because I am not sure if I'm going to use it for back up or have it in tower, but I'll start looking at Seagates in the future now.

Dave

FrigidNDEditing wrote on 9/29/2008, 1:59 PM

http://www.buy.com/retail/product.asp?sku=206821006&adid=17070&dcaid=17070 - looks like fantom is competing ( mir rebate makes this deal the best one out there that I can find and it's external.

RalphM wrote on 9/29/2008, 3:19 PM

Anybody have any experience with Fantom externals?

Any idea who makes their HDDs?

Steve Mann wrote on 9/29/2008, 9:11 PM

This looks like the same thing as the Addonics tray without the Addonics label:
http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0266839

I have two of them and I am pretty happy with the convenience. Now all I need is an efficient and safe way to store the bare drives.

jdinkins wrote on 9/30/2008, 12:57 PM

Yes I have had experience with TWO external fantom drives. Both of them the same external USB (internal sata) variety.

I owned both for about a year. One gave out at the end of that year. The other gave out exactly a month later.

They would both stop being recognized by the operating system. They wouldn't spin up. No access, no nothing. I could see ONE of the internal drives and it would always report as unformatted. (each unit contains 2 SATA drives in a JBOD configuration).

Well I had years of video on these things, and after dismantling, hooking the drives up to another source, I found I could see the information on the drives. What it would up being, after MUCH HEADACHE was the power supply in both situations. I acquired an additional power supply for the drives and that was the issue.

I guess they have a problem with their power supplies as these 2 went out within a month of each other, just over a year.

Hope it helps.

willlisub wrote on 9/30/2008, 4:59 PM

I stand by the Seagates. I've been using them since the first 300 MB SCSI about 20 or os years ago. I still have two of the 5 1/4's that 300 mb that were 2k each. I use em as book ends. Their pretty solid as book ends.

Since we started using IDE's and Sata's for Raid 5 systems, I have had no problems in the 5 and 8 drive Seagate raids using the 500GB 7200's. I have had more problems with some of the other brands.

I have had 2-3 problems with Seagates in the last 3-4 years, but they were in external (cheap) usb external cases. I've gone through about 30-40 500gb SATA 300's and they have been good in the Raid 5 configs and I use the standard ones, not the higher cost enterprise SATA's.

That, and I just love the 5 year warranty.

We just built 2 servers with 5 - 1tb Seagate SATA's in raid 5 and each machine got 2 Seagate branded external esata/usb 2 drives. We supplied an extra 1 tb for the 2 raid 5's in case they ever need to exchange one or test a faulty drive. So far they are running flawless.

I also agree with an earlier post, that all drive brand have some problems. A big part of trouble free drives is good cooling, good cables, and good power.