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Seagate Releases 3TB External Drive for $250

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the approaching-infinity dept.

A few anonymous readers noted that Seagate has released a 3TB external drive. This makes it the largest 3.5-inch in its class, and it is available with USB 2, 3, or FireWire. That's more capacity than my entire four-drive RAID for just $250.

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  1. That's a Whole lot by Theoboley · · Score: 2, Funny

    a whole lot of Pr0n

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  2. Re:Ugh. Seriously? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Same thing I immediately thought. 3GB by itself is simply not interesting. What I'd be much MORE interested in is taking 4 of these things and putting them into my FreeNAS RAID setup (which is currently running 1GB drives).

    I've had too many drive failures over the years to trust anything too valuable to a single drive.

    Time for an upgrade, son. Time for an upgrade.

  3. banal platitudes by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    This isnt one: "That's more capacity than my entire four-drive RAID for just $250."

    But this is: "Yes, it is also a single point of failure. And judging from the fact that it is a Seagate, it is one massive gaping single point of failure. Your RAID is almost certainly more reliable, unless it is a RAID-0 of Seagate drives..... Let us be careful not to forget that the initial 1 TB drives had to use 5 platters because data storage density per platter isn't at all what it is today, even now the best platters I am aware of only have 500GB per side, so we are talking a 4 platter drive (maybe less, I might be out of the loop here). The 5 platter 1TB drives were unreliable, too much heat, a total of 5 heads on the actuator arm, etc. Best bet is to wait and see how many people suffer loss with this drive before you get one, and opt for the revision 8 of the drive. Just my 2 cents."

    Than you for your time, have been your run of the mill pseudopedantic total douchebag asshat selfproclaimed clerisy fucking loser on /.

    People shouldn't call and wake me up this early, ever.

  4. NTFS? by Yvan256 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Each drive includes an NTFS driver for Mac.

    We use HFS Plus, you insensitive clods!

  5. Bigger Drives by helix2301 · · Score: 2, Funny

    This is really cool. This will be great for backup solutions. Since this is USB 2.0/3 this will be really fast. I can't wait to test one of these out.

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  6. Re:One drive are two? by Dancindan84 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Sorry, I was daydreaming about 1996... >.>

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  7. His signature by Pseudonymus+Bosch · · Score: 3, Funny

    So you fixed that for him!

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