2 TB hard drive 94.06 Shipped taxes in!!!
 

Looks like a great deal to me.

http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product...547&SID=forums

Use coupon : CEMCZZZN32 for the 30$ off

http://forums.redflagdeals.com/neweg...ipping-963446/

NCIX has deal right now for $89.99

http://ncix.com/products/index.php?s...e&promoid=1259

Thou if you don't live in Van/Bby/Rmd it might be more convenient to get it shipped to you for $94.

Note: If you plan to get this for Full HD streams it might not be the best idea. 1080p 7.1HD streams would work better on a 7200 drive.

A 5900 RPM hard drive will have know problems with 1080P content and with taxes and shipping the Newegg deal is still better.

odd i thought 7200rpm was the norm for 3.5" HDD..i guess fitting more platters meant slower speeds?

I know seagate had tons of problem with their 1TB drives not too long ago...are these 2TB better now?

I think the 2TB Caviar Green seems to be a very popular choice. How do these 2 HDD stack up against them?

Yep I know the newegg deal is ~6 bucks cheaper.

Posted that deal cause I know lots of people rather just drive over pick it up and use it immediately. Also if there are any issues, just get it exchanged same day.

That's why I would go with the samsung from newegg and the WD greens are also 5400 RPM. They make great storage drives. I will use mine with an SSD drive.

I seriously find it hard to believe that a 5400rpm drive can't stream the 8MB/s that a 1080p MKV movie needs.
My Avatar 1080p runs perfectly fine from my 5400rpm USB2.0 enclosure. I can also stream the same movie stutter free to another PC via a 100mbps network connection.
(unless you have something else running with it? i.e. indexing, defrag, virus scan, etc, or maybe these "green drives" have some sort of power saving feature that gimps the crap out of it)

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I just checked a couple of my BR Rips 1080p with 5.1 audio. Avg 9.5-10 mB/s. From a quick search, most of these budget drives run about 2.5-4 mB/s when filled up. Even with your numbers (8mB/s) it still would struggle when streaming a 9+mB/s file.

Maybe its the quality of the encode/5.1 vs stereo etc. Most of my 1080 Youtube vid files are only ~6 mB/s.

Then again you must remember, the reason why most people need 2/3 TB drives is due to the fact that they have tons of full HD/surround vids that avg 4-6gb. I mean if you just have a bunch of 1080p Youtube Music Videos @ 100-150mb each, you would be better off with a 7200 1tb or 640 drive for overall better performance and for much less $.

For a 1.5 tb Samsung Ecco drive 5400 RPM


Internal Data Transfer Rate


• 166 MB/s

http://www.techarp.com/showarticle.a...tno=663&pgno=0

Also

USB 2.0 has a theoretical transfer rate of 480Mbits/sec which = 60MBytes/sec

I find it hard to believe that any modern hard drive made in the last few years would transfer at 2.5-4MB/s. Take a look at a few benchmarks that I have done below on a 2 year old Samsung drive (7200rpm/32MB cache/1TB) and this particular 2TB drive in question. (5400rpm/32MB cache/2TB) These easily crank out on average close to 100MB/s and even at their slowest (most likely on the inner tracks of the disk) can push 30MB/s. I'm going to guess that there's another factor causing the streaming to lag. (I'm guessing someone is trying to stream over wireless and that's where the bottleneck is)


I actually just bought 4 of these on the Newegg US deal (got them for $59.99 each with free shipping).

Pretty decent drives and (surprisingly) faster read/write rates than my Samsung F1 that spins at 7200rpm. It's likely due to the higher density platters used in the F4's.

http://img44.imageshack.us/img44/289...st13novemb.png http://img44.imageshack.us/img44/803...stnov12201.png

http://img585.imageshack.us/img585/6...est13novem.png http://img585.imageshack.us/img585/9...estnov1220.png

you're joking, right? 2.5-4MB/s? not likely...Even my thumbdrive performs better than that.

http://media.bestofmicro.com/X/X/217...g_reads_mb.png
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/...gy,2371-8.html

Looking at feedback on the ones at NCIX linked up top, they seem to have some problems..

People seem to have nitpicked all kinds of problems with the high capacity drives. The WD Greens have the high LCC, the Seagate LP's for their low head park ratings, the Hitachi for the high heat from 5 platters. I haven't heard anything really troubling about the Samsungs, but then again, it's a relatively new drive so maybe people haven't found faults with it.

To be honest, I'd take some of the reviews with a grain of salt. It's a given that there's going to be a few bad drives in every batch. I think it's more the manufacturers commitment to resolving the issue that's the deciding factor here.

3 1tb drives from seagate failed on me back to back when i got my new comp. each tb drive lasted about a month before i heard nonstop clicking which led to it's eventual death. i finally gave an extra $10 to get a 1tb wd black, and it's been so perfect. never getting seagate again....

using WD Green 1.5TB 5400rpm...no lag at all.

Asian_XL taking up trolling I see.
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Hi there Im interested in getting a wireless harddrive
with networking .... I'm looking to sync it with my tv and stream HD 1080 p vids stored on there I want one with
a self running program so it's just plug and play any info would be great
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