Seagate 1.5TB

[d3vil]

Originally posted by: dph1077
I'm in the market for the 1.5tb seagate as well. Is there any sense in waiting till black Friday, or does anyone think the price won't get any better than the $150 at New Egg currently?

No sense in waiting till black friday.

This is the deal I got.

$150 + $7 shipping - 5% fatwallet cashback - 5% live cashback - $25 ebillme rebate = about $117 shipped. This deal is still valid I believe.

You can't beat 1500 gigs for $117, that is 7.8 cents per gig.

And it will not be any lower black friday than that i'm pretty sure.

There's the 2 hitachi 1 TB drives for $152 deal, which comes out to 7.6 cents per gig, but you'll have to use up 2 bays for that and it's older technology. Hitachis are the first gen 1 TB drives. If you don't mind using up 2 bays, but getting more space and a slower drive at a cheaper price, go for it.

 

[Lightning983]

OK. i just have a small question, what's Black friday ??

 

[Lightning983]

Okay i just found an RE3 drive... in one single shop
It goes for about 300$, while the Samsung and the Seagate are half the price.

It is more expensive, and when i factor in the fact i'll be getting at least 6 of those... Do you think that when taking the price into consideration, is it worth getting the RE3?

I have given up on 1.5Tb, since i've heard a few people from here have bought it, and it failed on them... only a couple of shops have it, so i'm guessing a bad batch...

 

[dfuze]

@Lightning, Black Friday refers to the day after Thanksgiving, when many businesses start the Christmas shopping season with deep discounts on a few items to get people into the stores.

@d3vil, thanks for the info, I will look into that. I know how to do the live discount, but how do you do fatwallet and ebillme?

 

[Toadster]

see my post - issues with this drive there are
http://forums.anandtech.com/me...=2247691&enterthread=y

 

[Zap]

Originally posted by: Lightning983
OK. i just have a small question, what's Black friday ??

A whole Anandtech Forum category dedicated to it

 

[Lightning983]

OK i was just curious.. i didn't know its so important it has its on category

We don't have that so.
Anyways, a shame about the 1.5TB drive... it seemed so good from a price point of view.