Dell Small Business (not Home!) has the 2 TB Deskstar 7K2000 Serial ATA Internal Hard Drive (HD32000 IDK/7K) for $159 - 10% coupon for a total of $143.99 + tax, shipped.
Enter coupon code: J1DRH2J?0D1143 for 10% off and free two day shipping (change from default 3 day shipping on checkout)
Go through Bing for (potential) additional 5% CashBack!
megamands said: holly cow, 2 TB? is that much space necessary?
why does every thread about 2TB drives have someone asking this? Yes, 2TB is necessary... 4TB is necessary... 8TB is even necessary if you rip your blu-ray movies onto your hard drive. It's MUCH easier than flipping through a DVD folder.
Does this work with the DellCash Back from fatwallet?
rehtonAesoohC
Member
posted: Oct. 15, 2009 @ 1:33p
Smoking - green for you OP
tmoney
Senior Member
posted: Oct. 15, 2009 @ 1:45p
CRyPT99 said: megamands said: holly cow, 2 TB? is that much space necessary?
why does every thread about 2TB drives have someone asking this? Yes, 2TB is necessary... 4TB is necessary... 8TB is even necessary if you rip your blu-ray movies onto your hard drive. It's MUCH easier than flipping through a DVD folder.
word, one bluray takes up nearly 50GB and a 2TB drive would hold around....40 bluray movies, if you have a large collection or a good Netflix account, that 2TB drive will fill up FAST.
tmoney said: CRyPT99 said: megamands said: holly cow, 2 TB? is that much space necessary?
why does every thread about 2TB drives have someone asking this? Yes, 2TB is necessary... 4TB is necessary... 8TB is even necessary if you rip your blu-ray movies onto your hard drive. It's MUCH easier than flipping through a DVD folder.
word, one bluray takes up nearly 50GB and a 2TB drive would hold around....40 bluray movies, if you have a large collection or a good Netflix account, that 2TB drive will fill up FAST.
Of course, if you are old school and relish DVIX/XVID for your codec preference. You have 700MB per movie and a 2 TB drive would hold... say 1500 movies... requiring 3000 hrs of couch time... guaranteeing you an early release from life through sedentary living...
price shows up 199.99 under your link....you have to goto the Small Business side for the 159.99 and that invalidates alot of ppl using their home user DPA accounts because it doesn't work in small business.
I have over 19 terabytes in my network. Run 4 live HD feeds for a home studio and run 2 media servers were we transcode tons of media so for some this is a great buy. I'm getting 12TB for under a grand...now that is an amazing deal.
I am getting an error trying to check out with paypal. I got through earlier then someone came in my office and it times out. Can't get back to paypal.
Okay finally got it to work throught paypal. I had to leave it at 3 day shipping then after going throuhgt paypal I changed the shipping to 2day before I submitted. For some reason it worked.
prologix said: price shows up 199.99 under your link....you have to goto the Small Business side for the 159.99 and that invalidates alot of ppl using their home user DPA accounts because it doesn't work in small business.
btle310 said: I am getting an error trying to check out with paypal. I got through earlier then someone came in my office and it times out. Can't get back to paypal.
I had the same problem. Just keep clicking on continue. Then it looks like you get back to the Dell checkout page but your paypal information is on it. Then just submit.
Never had a 1TB hdd but jumped straight to a 2TB. Is there any enclosure for this amount for under 20 bucks?
CrappyDude said: Porn has gone Hi-Def. That's why. prologix said: I have over 19 terabytes in my network. Run 4 live HD feeds for a home studio and run 2 media servers were we transcode tons of media so for some this is a great buy. I'm getting 12TB for under a grand...now that is an amazing deal. Ok, these 2 reasons make me understand. I guess I'm still in stone age. I only have 160gb and I just rip music. I haven't gone to movies yet.
peterc
Member
posted: Oct. 15, 2009 @ 8:05p
I wonder which is better--get two 1TB drives with RAID 1 or get this 2TB drive? I'd appreciate any advice.
i'm still trying to decide if i wanna get a couple of these. Anyone know how quiet/loud they are? Thats a big deciding factor for me.
solidfusion
Nerdy Member
posted: Oct. 15, 2009 @ 10:36p
peterc said: I wonder which is better--get two 1TB drives with RAID 1 or get this 2TB drive? I'd appreciate any advice.
two 1tb drives in RAID 1 would give you a total of 1tb of space. Perhaps you meant RAID 0 which would give you 2 tb and be marginally faster than one drive by itself. The down side is that if one of the drives dies on you, you potentially loose all the data. Of course, if the 2tb drive goes dead you would loose all your data as well, but with two drives you double your chances of having the drive fail. Personally, I would go with 1 2tb drive which would result in lower power consumption, an additional drive bay to add on later, and the ease of not having to setup RAID.
Great price! paid $200 just a few weeks ago. I have a pair of these and they have been reliable. They run HOT! About 10' hotter than my comparable seagate.
M3Freak2
New Member
posted: Oct. 15, 2009 @ 11:01p
i bought one of these drives from Dell last week for $159.99 (+tax, free 2-day shipping) but without the 10% off coupon. So far no complaints about the drive (computer is used as a HTPC in a closet) but to answer CRyPT99's question, the drive is loud when it is accesing data.
latestmonkey
Member
posted: Oct. 16, 2009 @ 12:05a
Can someone recommend a good cheap enclosure to put this in?
M3Freak2 said: i bought one of these drives from Dell last week for $159.99 (+tax, free 2-day shipping) but without the 10% off coupon. So far no complaints about the drive (computer is used as a HTPC in a closet) but to answer CRyPT99's question, the drive is loud when it is accesing data.
Thanks for the info. Noise is a huge thing for me, so I'll pass on this.
DarkScout said: Now imagine that I take video of an event. OLD DV would have taken up 100GB or so, and that was just a few short movies I shot in college.
mshan said: Someone on another forum said this has 5 400 GB platters so it could get pretty hot, especially because it spins at 7200 rpm.
yea, I read that somewhere also. Not sure how hot it gets, but thats quite a few platters! I was just more worried about the noise, otherwise, this would be an amazing deal!
CRyPT99 said: mshan said: Someone on another forum said this has 5 400 GB platters so it could get pretty hot, especially because it spins at 7200 rpm.
yea, I read that somewhere also. Not sure how hot it gets, but thats quite a few platters! I was just more worried about the noise, otherwise, this would be an amazing deal!
Mine idles at 39'C in my case. That's 4 degrees hotter than my Raptor, and about 10 degrees hotter then my 2tb seagates!!! Good drive, but too hot in a tightly packed space.
Anyone having problems with this. Or am I not doing it right. I received this drive awhile ago and now I decided to install it but its only showing up at a 1tb. Its on an xp system would that make a difference?
Disclaimer: By providing links to other sites, FatWallet.com does not guarantee, approve or endorse the information or products available at these sites, nor does a link indicate any association with or endorsement by the linked site to FatWallet.com.
Members of our community may attach files to a post in accordance with the User Agreement. FatWallet is not responsible for the content, accuracy, completeness or validity of any information contained in any attached file. Files have *not* been scanned for viruses. Be especially wary of Excel files which may contain malicious content.
Click to copy code and go to .