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Posted: 7/19/2013 12:35:11 AM EDT
LINK $99 for a 3TB drive plus a USB 3.0 base.
USB 3.0 external drive. The coolest part of this drive besides how fast it is, is that the harddrive is in a seperate enclose from the base. So you can pull the drive off the base and then connect any 2.5" or 3.5" drive by just quickly putting it on the base. Its perfect for putting a fresh install on your laptop drive. See, you can plug any drive into the base then which is sweet! 
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Posted: 7/19/2013 1:07:42 AM EDT
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That base looks like an accident waiting to happen
Great price on the drive. edit :clicked the link and see it a full case |
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Posted: 7/19/2013 1:08:58 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: That base looks like an accident waiting to happen Great price on the drive. So buy a real enclosure or put it inside a tower? |
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Posted: 7/19/2013 1:09:10 AM EDT
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That base looks like an accident waiting to happen Great price on the drive. What do you mean? Like snapping off the connector? The actual drive comes in a plastic encasing that snaps on securely. Connecting other drives should be temporary. I've got the base double sided taped onto the top of my case. Its not going anywhere. Its nice to beable to quickly connect another drive temporarily. |
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Posted: 7/19/2013 1:09:57 AM EDT
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What do you mean? Like snapping off the connector? The actual drive comes in a plastic encasing that snaps on securely. Connecting other drives should be temporary. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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That base looks like an accident waiting to happen Great price on the drive. What do you mean? Like snapping off the connector? The actual drive comes in a plastic encasing that snaps on securely. Connecting other drives should be temporary. Small base waiting to get knocked over |
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Posted: 7/19/2013 1:14:03 AM EDT
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There's two Nutnfancy videos that I like. This thing is perfect. These two videos will just fit on it.
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Posted: 7/19/2013 1:14:37 AM EDT
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There's two Nutnfancy videos that I like. This thing is perfect. These two videos will just fit on it. LOL |
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Posted: 7/19/2013 1:15:11 AM EDT
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Small base waiting to get knocked over Quote HistoryQuoted:
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That base looks like an accident waiting to happen Great price on the drive. What do you mean? Like snapping off the connector? The actual drive comes in a plastic encasing that snaps on securely. Connecting other drives should be temporary. Small base waiting to get knocked over I've got mine taped to the top of my case with double sided tape. One strip on the bottom and its not going anywhere. |
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Posted: 7/19/2013 2:19:38 AM EDT
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That's cool.
What I need is one of those bases, but one that will also accept old ass harddrives. I'd like to pull old photos and crap from an old laptop HD from 2003ish. |
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Posted: 7/19/2013 2:23:02 AM EDT
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That's cool. What I need is one of those bases, but one that will also accept old ass harddrives. I'd like to pull old photos and crap from an old laptop HD from 2003ish. Most motherboards still have IDE connectors, atleast one. |
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Posted: 7/19/2013 2:25:12 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Most motherboards still have IDE connectors, atleast one. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: That's cool. What I need is one of those bases, but one that will also accept old ass harddrives. I'd like to pull old photos and crap from an old laptop HD from 2003ish. Most motherboards still have IDE connectors, atleast one. Or you can be universal hard drive to USB hookups. Come with every type of IDE/Sata cable imaginable and power hookups. Really handy when you have a computer/laptop crash. Just pull HD and hook it up to your new PC. |
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Posted: 7/19/2013 2:27:24 AM EDT
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Thanks
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Posted: 7/19/2013 2:32:33 AM EDT
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Link says $125, did they change the price?
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Posted: 7/19/2013 2:55:41 AM EDT
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I still have a 9GB drive sitting in my warehouse that we paid $800 for. Now I can get 3,000GB drives for $100.
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Posted: 7/19/2013 3:15:37 AM EDT
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There's two Nutnfancy videos that I like. This thing is perfect. These two videos will just fit on it. 
Thanks OP, likely going to cost me more money today. |
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Posted: 7/19/2013 3:36:40 AM EDT
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Link says $125, did they change the price? Must have just changed it. It was still $99 when I first posted in here. |
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Posted: 7/19/2013 4:11:16 AM EDT
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2tb is 99
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Posted: 7/19/2013 4:14:19 AM EDT
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2tb is 99 2TB and 3TB were $99. It was sold from Amazon.com, so it appears amazon is out of stock. Now its back to $119 from another seller. |
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Posted: 7/19/2013 4:17:58 AM EDT
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WTF is one doing that you might need 3 T of hard drive ?
I have yet to even half fill 750 GB |
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Posted: 7/19/2013 4:23:36 AM EDT
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WTF is one doing that you might need 3 T of hard drive ? I have yet to even half fill 750 GB I have nearly 700GB just in my "DSLR Backup" folder, raw images are big, especially when you takes lots of pictures. I also have harddrive images for my parent's PC's and all my PC's. SO if anything goes wrong, 5 minutes later the PC is like new again. Then between all my purchases games from Steam and Origin I have nearly 1TB. My SSD doesn't have enough room to install them, so I move them back and forth between the drive. Much better then waiting for it to re download. Then I have a second 3TB drive that is an exact copy so if one goes tits up, I'm GTG! |
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Posted: 7/19/2013 4:26:39 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Most motherboards still have IDE connectors, atleast one. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: That's cool. What I need is one of those bases, but one that will also accept old ass harddrives. I'd like to pull old photos and crap from an old laptop HD from 2003ish. Most motherboards still have IDE connectors, atleast one. Yeah, but what about our old ESDI and SCSI drives? ETA: FYI, I just bought the next to last one. Better hurry! |
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Posted: 7/19/2013 4:45:34 AM EDT
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$119.00 and one left in stock, when I looked.
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Posted: 7/19/2013 4:47:19 AM EDT
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LINK $99 for a 3TB drive plus a USB 3.0 base. USB 3.0 external drive. The coolest part of this drive besides how fast it is, is that the harddrive is in a seperate enclose from the base. So you can pull the drive off the base and then connect any 2.5" or 3.5" drive by just quickly putting it on the base. Its perfect for putting a fresh install on your laptop drive. See, you can plug any drive into the base then which is sweet! http://www.dexid.org/w/images/7/7b/Seagate_FreeAgent_GoFlex_Desk_Desktop_Adapter_Hard_Drive_Cradle_Dock_USB_w_Power_Adapter.jpg 3TB, did you download all the porn on the internet? |
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Posted: 7/19/2013 4:56:37 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: WTF is one doing that you might need 3 T of hard drive ? I have yet to even half fill 750 GB I have 4 2TB drives in a RAID 5 array, use it to store movies, music, tv shows and the like, also backups for my pc's. That being said the drive on sale is a Seagate, no thanks, they have terrible failure rates. I quite selling seagate when i was having 1 in four fail within a year of install. |
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Posted: 7/19/2013 5:06:45 AM EDT
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2tb is 99 Western Digital is a better buy at that price, IME. |
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Posted: 7/19/2013 5:08:48 AM EDT
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I have 4 2TB drives in a RAID 5 array, use it to store movies, music, tv shows and the like, also backups for my pc's. That being said the drive on sale is a Seagate, no thanks, they have terrible failure rates. I quite selling seagate when i was having 1 in four fail within a year of install. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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WTF is one doing that you might need 3 T of hard drive ? I have yet to even half fill 750 GB I have 4 2TB drives in a RAID 5 array, use it to store movies, music, tv shows and the like, also backups for my pc's. That being said the drive on sale is a Seagate, no thanks, they have terrible failure rates. I quite selling seagate when i was having 1 in four fail within a year of install. I've got two of these with no issues. One is used with fraps nearly daily. Recording 3+ hours at a time, so its gets HEAVY HEAVY usage. I have had a western digital black fail though. |
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Posted: 7/19/2013 5:15:48 AM EDT
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Is speed of HD negated by max speed of USB cable?
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Posted: 7/19/2013 5:17:47 AM EDT
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I have two of these drives that I use for media backup, they work fine.
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Posted: 7/19/2013 5:18:42 AM EDT
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Is speed of HD negated by max speed of USB cable? Yes, but speed with 3.0 USB isn't really that big of a deal IMO. |
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Posted: 7/19/2013 5:19:42 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: 2TB and 3TB were $99. It was sold from Amazon.com, so it appears amazon is out of stock. Now its back to $119 from another seller. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: 2tb is 99 2TB and 3TB were $99. It was sold from Amazon.com, so it appears amazon is out of stock. Now its back to $119 from another seller. Also note, Amazon changes prices around depending on where you are and who they think you are. $120 for 3 TB and a USB hookup isn't bad though. Just note that USB is SLLLOOOOWWW for that big of a drive. It'll take you several days to fill it.
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Posted: 7/19/2013 9:58:07 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I've got two of these with no issues. One is used with fraps nearly daily. Recording 3+ hours at a time, so its gets HEAVY HEAVY usage. I have had a western digital black fail though. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Quoted: WTF is one doing that you might need 3 T of hard drive ? I have yet to even half fill 750 GB I have 4 2TB drives in a RAID 5 array, use it to store movies, music, tv shows and the like, also backups for my pc's. That being said the drive on sale is a Seagate, no thanks, they have terrible failure rates. I quite selling seagate when i was having 1 in four fail within a year of install. I've got two of these with no issues. One is used with fraps nearly daily. Recording 3+ hours at a time, so its gets HEAVY HEAVY usage. I have had a western digital black fail though. We build close to a thousand new systems per year, we go through quite a few drives and tend to see the bad ones a lot faster than the average home user. |
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Posted: 7/19/2013 10:18:17 AM EDT
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3TB version for $99 is back in, sold by Amazon.com, not a third party seller.
Thanks OP! Needed a second 3tb to backup my first.  |
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Posted: 7/19/2013 12:00:47 PM EDT
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We build close to a thousand new systems per year, we go through quite a few drives and tend to see the bad ones a lot faster than the average home user. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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WTF is one doing that you might need 3 T of hard drive ? I have yet to even half fill 750 GB I have 4 2TB drives in a RAID 5 array, use it to store movies, music, tv shows and the like, also backups for my pc's. That being said the drive on sale is a Seagate, no thanks, they have terrible failure rates. I quite selling seagate when i was having 1 in four fail within a year of install. I've got two of these with no issues. One is used with fraps nearly daily. Recording 3+ hours at a time, so its gets HEAVY HEAVY usage. I have had a western digital black fail though. We build close to a thousand new systems per year, we go through quite a few drives and tend to see the bad ones a lot faster than the average home user. While you may be right, I use this 3TB drive on more or less server level usage. I'm talking about recording uncompressed 1080p and and writing anywhere from 500GB-1.5TB of data to the drive every other night. I've had it for a year now too. If only it would count the amount of data it has seen it its lifetime.; |
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Posted: 7/19/2013 12:02:32 PM EDT
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Seagate? No thanks.
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Posted: 7/19/2013 12:19:46 PM EDT
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WTF is one doing that you might need 3 T of hard drive ? I have yet to even half fill 750 GB Storage for a security camera system, is one use, I think. |
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Posted: 7/19/2013 12:25:17 PM EDT
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All the other 3 TB drives are similar prices.
Why is this such a good deal? Is this one special? |
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Posted: 7/19/2013 12:30:39 PM EDT
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It WAS $40 less then the OEM internal version. This one comes with a USB 3.0 dock that is easily worth $40 additional.
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Posted: 7/26/2013 9:55:01 AM EDT
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How do you separate the base from the drive? Just pull them apart?
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Posted: 7/26/2013 10:35:35 AM EDT
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How do you separate the base from the drive? Just pull them apart? Pull up |
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Posted: 7/26/2013 10:39:30 AM EDT
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How do you separate the base from the drive? Just pull them apart? Pull up I got it
and the drive out of the enclosure 
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Posted: 7/26/2013 10:43:32 AM EDT
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I got it
and the drive out of the enclosure Quote HistoryQuoted:
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How do you separate the base from the drive? Just pull them apart? Pull up I got it
and the drive out of the enclosure Nothing wrong with doing that, its a simple setup really, just a shell to make it look nicer then a bare harddrive, and add a bit of stability. |
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Posted: 7/26/2013 10:47:21 AM EDT
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WTF is one doing that you might need 3 T of hard drive ? I have yet to even half fill 750 GB my desktop has over 3T and is over 90% full.. lots of AV and software |
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Posted: 7/26/2013 11:10:25 AM EDT
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I've got mine taped to the top of my case with double sided tape. One strip on the bottom and its not going anywhere. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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That base looks like an accident waiting to happen Great price on the drive. What do you mean? Like snapping off the connector? The actual drive comes in a plastic encasing that snaps on securely. Connecting other drives should be temporary. Small base waiting to get knocked over I've got mine taped to the top of my case with double sided tape. One strip on the bottom and its not going anywhere. Just get a case with a dock built in? 
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Posted: 7/26/2013 11:19:16 AM EDT
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LINK $99 for a 3TB drive plus a USB 3.0 base. USB 3.0 external drive. The coolest part of this drive besides how fast it is, is that the harddrive is in a seperate enclose from the base. So you can pull the drive off the base and then connect any 2.5" or 3.5" drive by just quickly putting it on the base. Its perfect for putting a fresh install on your laptop drive. See, you can plug any drive into the base then which is sweet! http://www.dexid.org/w/images/7/7b/Seagate_FreeAgent_GoFlex_Desk_Desktop_Adapter_Hard_Drive_Cradle_Dock_USB_w_Power_Adapter.jpg its a seagate. FUCK THAT. |
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Posted: 7/26/2013 11:59:59 AM EDT
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WTF is one doing that you might need 3 T of hard drive ? Quote HistoryQuoted:
WTF is one doing that you might need 3 T of hard drive ? I have almost 2TB of digital photography work scattered across 4 hard drives in an old computer, that will all be copied to this new drive for both backup and so I can more readily access it on the new computer. I could use one of those. |
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