Western Digital Caviar Green 1TB $79.99 with Free Shipping @ Newegg

Western Digital Caviar Green 1TB 3.5" hard drive (OEM - Drive only) for $79.99 with free shipping at Newegg.com.

Not sure if this is the new price but these drives are great for an external backup or home server, and at $80 each, you can finally set up your 4 or 5TB Home Server without breaking the bank!

Newegg is the only place I found them for $90 previously, and nowhere else I can find them for $80, especially with free shipping.

 

Great deal, I may get this for the desktop I have hooked up to the TV. +rep!

 

Good you can make use of it! I slowly bought 1TB drives as they went on sale. I unfortunately went with Caviar Black, total of 5 for my Home Server. Great for performance drives, but consume more power, not so great for a PC that's on 24/7, but oh well.

Just bought two of these Green ones though for an external enclosure for my WHS backup drive.

 

Wow, great deal! I'm really tempted to get one (or two ) of these, but I really shouldn't be spending much more money anymore.. I may still find a way to give in though.

 

Just do it Crash! I spent over $250 (just barely) and used "Bill me later". It seems I never have that sucker paid off because within that 90 day no interest period I've got a new purchase. But breaking it up into 3 payments is pretty reasonable, and always pay off before interest hits.

 

great deal!

 

Keep in mind these drives only run at about 5400rpm. They are still great performers specially for for HTPC/Storage use.

 

good deal indeed, but you know your bad when you think a 1TB drive will limit you I cant see myself using less than 1.5TB drives in my server as I am affraid I will run out of space (considering I will mirror data I only get half of the space)

Im sitting on my hands waiting to get enough money to buy my server parts outright rather than put it on a credit card.

 

Right, that's exactly what I would use them for. Must. Resist. Buying.

 

2.5" drives arent bad either. I started using my 500gb WD Scorpio Blue on my desktop to store my audio/video, just had to buy 2.5" to 3.5" brackets.

Its very quiet, cool and only uses around 2 watts of power.

 

Yeah, I now have 5 1TB's in my machine, pretty much all for $90. I figure 5TB's should suffice me until 2TB's get around $100, maybe in a year or so. then I can move up to 10TB's (yikes!) slowly by replacing one drive at a time.

 

My problem is that I plan to have a copy of all my data so if I got 6 1TB drives thats only about 3TB of space. I already use 2TB on my desktop so that leaves me with only 1TB to spare and thats before I start doing backups and stuff and add my laptop files.

Also from a power/heat standpoint. If I only needed 3TB right now I would rather be running 4x 1.5TB drives 24/7 than 6 1TB drives.

2TB is just way too expensive and also seems to have a bad failure rate, I missed the deal on the $130 1.5TB Samsungs, so I have to sit tight and wait till I have money i hand and get the next good 1.5TB or maybe 2TB HDD deal.

I kinda wish they would just make a huge SSD, forget about cramming 1TB in a 2.5" size, just give me a big block of slow SSD so that its cheap with like 10TB in it for like $1000

 

From what I understand, WHS uses cluster level storing. If identical clusters (default 4k I believe) already exist on the server, even if its from another backed up machine, it just puts a pointer to that cluster, so it won't consume the full amount of space in a backup. As a matter of fact, with a system partition, probably 90% is the same from machine to machine if they're using the same OS. Something to consider.

For example, I have two PC's fully backed up that amounts for 340GB (XP) on one and 157GB (Vista) on the other = 497GB. Total space consumed on WHS (with daily backups + keeping each daily backup 7 days, weekly backup 4 weeks, monthly backup 6 months) is only 396GB. Then of course I have shared folders with 500GB of data that use the duplication option too. I can't tell exactly how much that's consuming, but I am only using about 1TB of space for EVERYTHING: shares + backups + duplication.