3TB Seagate External: Whose buying?

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Vicey

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As I'm sure many have seen in the news recently Seagate has announced a 3TB External Drive.

So that got me wondering, who here is intending to buy some, crack them open and put the drives inside through some testing and add them to your storage pools?

Are any of you waiting for 3TB 3.5" non-externals to hit the market?

Picture of the unit:
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Information known so far:
"It comes with a USB 2.0 adapter that can be upgraded to USB 3.0 or Firewire 800, depending upon user's preferences and pocket. This monster hard drive is available either directly from Seagate or through select retailers for $249.99."
 
I'll wait 6+ months after release before using anything seagate again until they prove they can make drives that work again. That, and while $250 is a nice launch price for a new drive it's still too much when I can get 2x 2tb drives for quite a bit less money.
 
Both good points. I'm definetly not prepared to buy a Seagate drive after past issues and the launch price is quite pricy.

I would like to see how many people are thinking the same thing and if so, which drive makers would you buy such an enormous drive from? -- I really like Samsung at the moment after having a good experience with their 1TB drives.
 
novadude said:
I'll wait 6+ months after release before using anything seagate again until they prove they can make drives that work again. That, and while $250 is a nice launch price for a new drive it's still too much when I can get 2x 2tb drives for quite a bit less money.
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Agreed, although this is always the case when the new largest capacity drive first hits the market...and externals always cost more due to the enclosure. But yeah, I'd also rather get two 2TB (or even 1.5TB) drives and one or two external enclosures than this drive. However, I'm sure there is someone out there that simply must (or thinks they must) have more than 2TB in one external drive and they will undoubtedly buy this.

Vicey said:
which drive makers would you buy such an enormous drive from?
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Samsung, WD, Hitachi...

Not Seagate.
 
Vicey said:
Both good points. I'm definetly not prepared to buy a Seagate drive after past issues and the launch price is quite pricy.

I would like to see how many people are thinking the same thing and if so, which drive makers would you buy such an enormous drive from? -- I really like Samsung at the moment after having a good experience with their 1TB drives.
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I've been using WD 1TB Green drives for some time now and have been very satisfied with it. Recently, I decided to use WD Green again when I purchase a couple of 2TB drives.

I'll probably be using WD again in the future once 3TB/4TB drives are available and somewhat affordable.
 
Of all the drives manufacturers I've bought from recently, seagate would almost always come in at the cheapest $/gig for about every range, I still ended skipping them for the more expensive brands.

That whole fiasco with them left such a bad impression that I'm still not willing to risk my data to them. They'll need to work extra hard to get my trust back.

Multi-TB of data is much more important then saving a few bucks on the cost of hardware.
 
I wanna see the internal one. Not a fan of a bunch of external cables..
 
I would still buy a Seagate product. I mean, sure they effed up, dropped the ball, etc. Total data loss is not a good thing for a storage firm to be responsible for. But, they did it ONE time. It affected certain versions of a single model in their lineup. They've been making drives for decades, many many of them. I've had drives of many makes fail prematurely, incidentally my 7200.11 wasn't one of them, it still works great and will probably do so until it's too small or slow to justify itself anymore. This is how most hard drives end their lives, Seagate ones, and all other ones. I highly doubt that Seagate will be the next company to have a major issue with their hard drives. They're not going to let that happen again, it was a very expensive mistake for them last time. That's part of what surprised me to see them be the first out the gate with a 3TB drive, but they're obviously confident in their tech, and I am also. A drive failure should never be anything to have a stroke over, we all know that our important stuff should be backed up.

Dustin
 
dustNbone said:
I would still buy a Seagate product. I mean, sure they effed up, dropped the ball, etc. Total data loss is not a good thing for a storage firm to be responsible for. But, they did it ONE time. It affected certain versions of a single model in their lineup. They've been making drives for decades, many many of them. I've had drives of many makes fail prematurely, incidentally my 7200.11 wasn't one of them, it still works great and will probably do so until it's too small or slow to justify itself anymore. This is how most hard drives end their lives, Seagate ones, and all other ones. I highly doubt that Seagate will be the next company to have a major issue with their hard drives. They're not going to let that happen again, it was a very expensive mistake for them last time. That's part of what surprised me to see them be the first out the gate with a 3TB drive, but they're obviously confident in their tech, and I am also. A drive failure should never be anything to have a stroke over, we all know that our important stuff should be backed up.

Dustin
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True. Hitachi is a good example. And most of my file server is filled with Hitachi Drives.
 
Won't touch it with a 10ft pole after the trouble I have had in 2009-2010 with 4 Sg drives. I'm down to my last SG drive and I hope it lives too.
 
Won't touch Seagate again until they prove for an extended period of time that they can make drives that function.
 
dustNbone said:
I would still buy a Seagate product. I mean, sure they effed up, dropped the ball, etc. Total data loss is not a good thing for a storage firm to be responsible for. But, they did it ONE time. It affected certain versions of a single model in their lineup. They've been making drives for decades, many many of them. I've had drives of many makes fail prematurely, incidentally my 7200.11 wasn't one of them, it still works great and will probably do so until it's too small or slow to justify itself anymore. This is how most hard drives end their lives, Seagate ones, and all other ones. I highly doubt that Seagate will be the next company to have a major issue with their hard drives. They're not going to let that happen again, it was a very expensive mistake for them last time. That's part of what surprised me to see them be the first out the gate with a 3TB drive, but they're obviously confident in their tech, and I am also. A drive failure should never be anything to have a stroke over, we all know that our important stuff should be backed up.

Dustin
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I'm with Dustin here. I've had a drive from every major manufacturer fail on me before. My 7200.11's are chugging along just fine right beside a bunch of WD and Samsungs in my file server. Truth be told, I'd bet the next drive to fail would be one of my original WD Greens. I'm becoming less and less fond of that line. My Samsungs run so much cooler than any of my WD Greens, even the new 2TB ones.
 
I might have considered it before I bought a NAS and two 2TB Hitachis, brand or no, but now? Definitely holding out for a bare drive, and after that for a NAS that can handle a pair of them. Maybe.
 
Same here will hold-out for internal 3.0TB for my 5 bay NAS base on FreeNAS
Uhm Uhm Uhm - Sweet 12TB NAS! (5 x3.0TB)
 
dustNbone said:
I would still buy a Seagate product. I mean, sure they effed up, dropped the ball, etc. Total data loss is not a good thing for a storage firm to be responsible for. But, they did it ONE time. It affected certain versions of a single model in their lineup. They've been making drives for decades, many many of them. I've had drives of many makes fail prematurely, incidentally my 7200.11 wasn't one of them, it still works great and will probably do so until it's too small or slow to justify itself anymore. This is how most hard drives end their lives, Seagate ones, and all other ones. I highly doubt that Seagate will be the next company to have a major issue with their hard drives. They're not going to let that happen again, it was a very expensive mistake for them last time. That's part of what surprised me to see them be the first out the gate with a 3TB drive, but they're obviously confident in their tech, and I am also. A drive failure should never be anything to have a stroke over, we all know that our important stuff should be backed up.

Dustin
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agreed, i have had all types of drive, and some have died, ironically this list does not include my 40GB IBM drive or any of the four 7200.11 drives i have.
 
7200.11 ruined their reputation with me.. I bought a maxtor external enclosure that had 2 7200.11 seagate 1gb drives in it.. both died not 2 months after I got it. I took it back and got another enclosure and had that one die too.
 
I'd be more likely to blame the enclosure design, unless the drive failures you experienced were related to the firmware problem on some of those drives.

Dustin
 
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