[US-TigerDirect] Seagate Barracuda 3TB $79

[CoolaxGaming]

Nice deal if you ask me, 3TB for $79 is awesome!

 

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/searchtools/item-Details.asp?EdpNo=1310560&sku=TSD-3000AS2&SRCCODE=WEM4497VD&utm_source=EML&utm_medium=main&utm_campaign=WEM4497&cm_lm=4c9d7e08ea0994e08b9ad7265fb7a143&SEG=D&lk=5

[Kyuubixchidori]

should of posted this, my dad emailed this deal to me 7 hours agoish, and asked if it was a good deal lol

[Redsun20]

Nice deal if you ask me, 3TB for $79 is awesome!

 

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/searchtools/item-Details.asp?EdpNo=1310560&sku=TSD-3000AS2&SRCCODE=WEM4497VD&utm_source=EML&utm_medium=main&utm_campaign=WEM4497&cm_lm=4c9d7e08ea0994e08b9ad7265fb7a143&SEG=D&lk=5

SWEET DEAL. I should get this for my NAS I am building...............

[TheKDub]

Damn, I could really use one of those for backups and such!

Too bad I don't have the money for it atm

 

 

SWEET DEAL. I should get this for my NAS I am building...............

I was thinking exactly the same thing though I doubt ill be building a nas for a while even if I got the drive lel

[Redsun20]

I think the LLT servers are glitching out a bit. I got a notification that my post was liked but not posted. PREPARING FOR LAGG

[pit5000]

amazon has for $88 if rebates are not your thing

[CoolaxGaming]

amazon has for $88 if rebates are not your thing

Can you sir please stop. IDGAF what Amazon has, this one is cheaper

[boboman342]

Please don't get these drives unless you want to rma them several times just to have them die again. They fail suddenly and constantly! They have a rough 32% failure rate... source

[smjpl]

Please don't get these drives unless you want to rma them sever times just to have them die again. They fail suddenly and constantly! They have a rough 32% failure rate... source

This^

 

The 3TB drivers are particularly bad for some reason.

[NannerBeans]

You also get 10% cash back if you have a Bank of America credit/debit card for Tigerdirect. 

[Flight1sim]

Can you sir please stop. IDGAF what Amazon has, this one is cheaper

Wow why you gotta be so mean? He just said that amazon has it for just $8 more for the many people who don't like dealing with rebates

[CoolaxGaming]

Wow why you gotta be so mean? He just said that amazon has it for just $8 more for the many people who don't like dealing with rebates

Second thread he did this in

[Flight1sim]

Second thread he did this in

oh aight.

[swifty7]

I just bought 2x Toshiba(internal) 5TB 7200 128mb cache for $139 today from Microcenter.  Now that's an awesome deal.

 

I've been giving them quite a bit of business lately.  Two Asus laptops and now this.  I love giving that place my money.

 

for my future build, I will buy as many parts as I can from them. 

[Earache]

I purchased one, love Seagate drives. Thanks for the share. 

[Laederem]

Can you sir please stop. IDGAF what Amazon has, this one is cheaper

Yeah, but there's no rebate to deal with, and no "maybe" or "if" to worry about

8$ isn't worth that differece

Tiger doesn't state free shipping either.

 

 

Furthermore here's what Tek Syndicate has to say on that exact same model (46:35) 

https://youtu.be/ljzMwzi6C3k?t=46m35s

it's a bit concerning, I probably wouldn't but you're all welcome to make your own decisions, but I wouldn't really call it a deal. 

[elliott35]

Careful people.... Seagate are really low quality and the 3 TB drives have a nearly 50% fail rate

 

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/best-hard-drive/

[William5849]

As someone who hates dealing with rebates, I'm glad he posted the Amazon price. $8 is literally chump change to me. I'd pay 8$ not having to wait and do stupid work to save it. lol

[xeromynd]

Chiming in, I've had two fail on me. 

The 3TB Barracuda has a huge failure rate.

 

[Daegun]

Please don't get these drives unless you want to rma them several times just to have them die again. They fail suddenly and constantly! They have a rough 32% failure rate... source

 

 

This^

 

The 3TB drivers are particularly bad for some reason.

 

 

Careful people.... Seagate are really low quality and the 3 TB drives have a nearly 50% fail rate

 

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/best-hard-drive/

 

 

Chiming in, I've had two fail on me. 

The 3TB Barracuda has a huge failure rate.

 

-snip-

 

 

All of you need to quit it with these. There's nothing wrong with seagate drives. As has been shown time and again, Backblaze's testing method was flawed, all they've given out is raw data with no context. These are consumer drives that have been shoved in an extremely demanding environment, crammed into pods without the best airflow, and run 24/7. An environment they are unsuited for, there is a reason enterprise grade drives are made. There is also no information on what pods the drives were put in or where they were located in the pods (older pods don't reduce vibration as well and drives in the center of the pod run hotter than the ones on the outside).

 

To put it in perspective, If any drive manufacturer had failure rates that high, they would lose all contracts with any other companies and they would no longer exist. That clearly isn't the case.

 

In my personal experience, I have bought a number of seagate drives. Only one was DOA, and the only one that I've had fail on me was a 750gb one that was 6 years old at the time. See? Personal experiences can differ, they don't really matter much, all hard drive makers are really about the same with comparable drives.

[boboman342]

All of you need to quit it with these. There's nothing wrong with seagate drives. As has been shown time and again, Backblaze's testing method was flawed, all they've given out is raw data with no context. These are consumer drives that have been shoved in an extremely demanding environment, crammed into pods without the best airflow, and run 24/7. An environment they are unsuited for, there is a reason enterprise grade drives are made. There is also no information on what pods the drives were put in or where they were located in the pods (older pods don't reduce vibration as well and drives in the center of the pod run hotter than the ones on the outside).

 

To put it in perspective, If any drive manufacturer had failure rates that high, they would lose all contracts with any other companies and they would no longer exist. That clearly isn't the case.

 

In my personal experience, I have bought a number of seagate drives. Only one was DOA, and the only one that I've had fail on me was a 750gb one that was 6 years old at the time. See? Personal experiences can differ, they don't really matter much, all hard drive makers are really about the same with comparable drives.

Not all of their drives suck, just the 3TB ones... The place where they were made had a major flood, but Seagate said nothing was damaged. Obviously something happened or 1/3 of their 3TB drives wouldn't fail.

[Daegun]

Not all of their drives suck, just the 3TB ones... The place where they were made had a major flood, but Seagate said nothing was damaged. Obviously something happened or 1/3 of their 3TB drives wouldn't fail.

Ok, just ignore absolutely everything I said. Backblaze is NOT a reliable source for drive failure rates.

 

I have two of those exact drives, Ran them for over a year in a NAS that was almost always on, one of the drives died (I didn't count this one earlier because of circumstances) after the NAS was knocked off a desk while running. The other one has continued to run perfectly fine for the past 5, almost 6, months now and shows no problems. Even their 3TB drives don't suck.

[boboman342]

I took a few minutes to read what you said, now watch this video for a few (until about 49mins). After about a year, 1/3 of them die. Your 6-months+ ain't shit.

 

Edit: Listen to what Wendell says about his personal experience. It perfectly reflects the graph.

[MeDownYou]

Nice deal if you ask me, 3TB for $79 is awesome!

 

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/searchtools/item-Details.asp?EdpNo=1310560&sku=TSD-3000AS2&SRCCODE=WEM4497VD&utm_source=EML&utm_medium=main&utm_campaign=WEM4497&cm_lm=4c9d7e08ea0994e08b9ad7265fb7a143&SEG=D&lk=5

I don't know if this thread is still good, but the 3tb seagate drives have around a 32% failure rate in the first year of operation.

[Daegun]

I took a few minutes to read what you said, now watch this video for a few (until about 49mins). After about a year, 1/3 of them die. Your 6-months+ ain't shit.

 

Edit: Listen to what Wendell says about his personal experience. It perfectly reflects the graph.

Apparently you didn't read what I said. And if you did go back and re-read it, you didn't understand it. I never said I only ran the drives for 6 months.