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Reliability in the 3TB drives?
I wonder how good the reliability will be in a 3TB drive?
I have looked for good solid reviews and do not seem to locate much info on the reliability of a 3 TB hard drive, other than they all overheat in the current external hard drive enclosures just like the 1 and 2TB drives that do not include a cooling mod or fan... Currently It seems to be less expensive to purchase an external USB2 3TB drive and open the case to put the large Sata drive into your desktop, than to purchase a bare 3TB drive... On sale these externals are about $160, that is about $57 a TB accounting for sale tax... http://www.jr.com/hitachi/pe/HIT_HXSDNB3001/ WD http://preview.tinyurl.com/67c774p Seagates Go Flex going for about $20 more. The go flex software is useless in Linux, but it is still a bare drive after formatting & removing from the case (or removing and formating is faster). JR the postman |
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Reliability in the 3TB drives?
In eb.com,
Postman Delivers typed on 20 Feb 2011 17:56:49 GMT: ... other than they all overheat in the current external hard drive enclosures just like the 1 and 2TB drives that do not include a cooling mod or fan... Really? I have two Samsung Story 1.5TB external USB drives and there are no heat problems at all. No fans either. Although they are 5400rpm drives and they automatically power down the drive in 5 minutes if it hasn't been accessed. And there is no way I know to override the shutdown. Otherwise they are very nice drives. Probably not good to use in a desktop computer though. -- Bill Gateway M465e ('06 era) Centrino Core Duo 1.83G - 2GB - Windows XP SP3 |
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