Note that many of these items might be on the same rebate.
$11 898745068924 35-200-097 Rosewill RFBF-131411 Case Fan
$10 898745012996 15-166-014 Rosewill 4+1 VIA USB 2.0 PCI Adapter Model RC-103
$15 898745008456 35-200-014 Rosewill RCX-Z1 Long life ball bearing for over 45,000/hrs CPU Cooler...
Oh, I didn't see that OP already mentioned BackBlaze. Seagate defines the consumer duty cycle as "8 x 5" -- that is, the drive is powered only 8 hours a day, 5 days a week. That seems fairly unlikely for most folks who'd be on this forum.
But that doesn't really have much to do with this...
These drives are infamous. BackBlaze has taken 90% of them out of service: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/3tb-hard-drive-failure/
I own six of these drives and three of them failed within two weeks of each other. There was a manufacturing issue in the 7200.12 generation (and apparently still...
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16882117424
Checked this on a whim and was pleasantly surprised. It doesn't seem to be advertised anywhere. Solidly $125-$130 elsewhere. Review for those unfamiliar with these Andrew Jones speakers.
MASTERPASS23 works for an extra $8 off. You...
I have you beat by 3 years. In 1985 I had two, count 'em, two 360-KILOBYTE floppy drives. Suddenly I kinda wish I could go back and write a RAID-0 floppy driver for my 11-year-old self...
I think I actually saw that 20MB drive around 1988. It made my head spin seeing twenty million bytes...
Price... and reliability. The MX100 has capacitors for power loss protection. I'll take that any day. The MX100 is already fast enough to run a small company. (Not big enough, but fast enough. :-)
I jumped on one for $120AR a few months ago, not for the speed but for the capacitors. An enterprise SSD without power-loss protection would be a laughingstock, yet barely any consumer SSDs have it, except this one and the Seagate 600 Pro.
Sure, plenty of drives bench faster than the M500...
Sadly, these two things are related. The DOA reviews on Newegg are mostly Newegg's fault, but there are lots of users reporting failures about 7-10 months in. This is a known problem where the heads wear down over time. The less you use the drive, the less the head suffers, hence they will...
Wow, that is a great, great deal. I used to work for a big storage vendor that was involved in the pre-production of the ES.3 drive. It contains a ton of very impressive reliability features (which I'm probably not allowed to disclose), but they were sorely needed because the original...
Missed what? It looks like you can still get the Denon at $899 from Ryther (not an authorized dealer, apparently). The Emotiva deal is still live. Or you can try ajskydiver's suggestion to get 30% off from an authorized dealer, which would be $910.
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