If youre gonna use CB wouldn't buying a Seagate 1.5TB drive from Tiger be a better deal. at $119 and 15% CB it only costs around $100

dreys said:Ehero said:Prevenu said:last I heard, seagate's 1.5tb drives were a data disaster with high failure rates.

Information source?

His information source is gossip online. The actual issue with 1.5TB drives is that if you're running Linux OS, drive might hang for 10-15 seconds when accessing data. Seagate has released a firmware fix for that. That fix, however, should be applied only to users who are affected. Everyone else online is saying "disaster" because they've heard it on a similar forum and in fact have no idea what the actual issue is.

-- Andrey

Supposedly there are issues with RAID controllers and even regular SATA connections.
I emailed Seagate support about the internal 1.5TB drive, and they replied quickly, asking me for a serial#. When I replied I was only checking if it would work with my Adaptec AAR-2810SA RAID controller they didn't respond. Good stuff, at least they're confident.
As for their external drive, it SHOULD work. Use at your own risk. It's ONLY 1.5TB, at least the warranty will replace your data, right?? =P

BlaZebOY said:bmobrien said:If youre gonna use CB wouldn't buying a Seagate 1.5TB drive from Tiger be a better deal. at $119 and 15% CB it only costs around $100

Show me the link!

I think that poster probably did not realize that Tiger sells an internal drive at that price, not an external. Good thing for me that I need an internal drive now, and that Tiger deal with CB works great for me. Thanks.

1.5 GB Internal Drive

This is in an external enclosure. It's not the same as what's on Tiger.

ageedoy said:This is in an external enclosure. It's not the same as what's on Tiger.

That it is, and without the usual limitation of a 1 year warranty for the externals. But it's also USB 2.0 only and such a large drive that most will find that hard to live with. Internal SATA for $8 less to apply toward an ESATA solution if needed is still going to win out for most people..

Did the TD deal and the Thermaltake ESATA for $20 at Newegg myself. $12 more for ESATA was a no brainer.

But, there is also a 10% off coupon I have sitting in my eBay messages for today. That should make it end up around $96. Now that's enough extra I think I'm going to pull the trigger on one of these too, I'll either use it as backup or pull the drive for internal use and stick my WD 640 in there..

FrugalFreak said:eBay flippers are scared of buyers buying up their cheap deals share the deals OP, share the methods OP! ebayers get your own reseller source and let us consumers buy some deals.Almost every single technology item can be had on eBay right now for less than any other retailer if you stack it with 30% live.com (and especially if you can also use the 10% paypal coupons--which can't be stacked with Buy.com eBay sales though).

Do you honestly think a separate thread for every single hard drive, telephone, printer, laptop, desktop, gps, usb device needs to exist here just because some people might be looking for it?

It's not about eBay sellers trying to protect themselves, it's about cluttering the forum with junk posts that anyone who reads just the first page of the 30% eBay+Live.com thread should be able to figure out.

1) Sign up for live.com CashBack account
2) Search for random words on live.com til you get a 30% eBay CashBack link
3) Click it and then change the search on eBay to look for the product you want by model or name.
4) Click sort by price+shipping low to high, and click Show BuyItNow only+PayPal options
5) Find the lowest price + lowest shipping price to maximize discount off of main price on the item you want.
6) Take a calculator and multiply the selling price by .7 (or .6 if you have a 10% PP coupon) and add in the shipping if any
7) Compare this price to any deal posted here or at your favorite sites.
8) If it's less, and you've done due diligance in checking the sellers feedback, ensure they don't use a 3rd party checkout, etc... click BIN, verify the 30% amount calculates, enter your 10% paypal coupon if applicable and commit to the purchase.
9) Post the deal to the eBay+live.com thread if you want to tell others---search will find it.

Simple. No need for 1000 posts of each unique item from each unique seller that happen to have the low price for a few minutes or a day that day.

Buying on eBay is risky, even with Buy.com -- reports are people cannot use PayPal coupons and have been waiting 2 days to receive CashBack credit and still haven't. With all the variables, this is another reason a separate thread for each product is not warranted.

wow, didn't know it hurt so many people to post deals. I was in the market for a nice external and I thought the price was better than anywhere else so I posted.

Green, red, it doesn't bother me. I went and bought one at what I consider as a nice price.