Newegg has WD EARS for $109.00 shipped with coupon EMCNDNJ44. Expires 6/7

Keep in mind that WD recently lowered the warranty for this drives to 2 years.


http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6822136514

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Drives are now comming down in price and New Egg is selling HGST Deskstar H3IK20003272SP (0S02861) 2TB 7200 RPM 32MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive for $109.99 with Promo Code EMCNDNC32
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6822145369

There are some other items of interest in this sale that may be of interest so check out the entire sale: http://promotions.newegg.com/NEemail/Ju ... -PromoWord

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Migrated from WHS2011 to WS2012E: HIGHLANDER

~ Norco 4220 Enclosure
~ Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD5
~ AMD Phenom II X4 995 3.2 GHz
~ 8 GB Corsair Vengeance DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800)
~ 3 Supermicro AOC-SASLP-MV8

Newegg's semi-annual sales flyer went out yesterday, and they are offering up a Seagate 2TB 5900rpm drive for $100 using this code: EMCNDJH23

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148681

Free shipping sweetens the deal a bit more as well. This the the Green drive, offering 64mb cache and a standard 2 year warranty. Sadly, the days of 5 year warranty from any drive manufacturer are pretty much gone, and we still aren't close to pre-flood drive prices,but these are a good deal for anyone needing big storage.

On a side note, Best Buy is clearing their shelves of these same drives, only they are offering the retail drives (with a FULL 5 year warranty) for the same price out the door. Store availability is obviously a huge YMMV, but its worth a trip if you are near a Best Buy and need a 2TB drive.

SAMSUNG EcoGreen F4 HD204UI 2TB 32MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive.
Price is $99.99 with promo code EMCNDJE43 and includes free shipping. Sale last 72 hours.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6822152245

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Newegg has the WD20EARX 2TB for 99.00 with promo code EMCNCJN23

Free shipping also

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... EARX%202TB

Newegg has the Samsung F4 2TB drive for $99.99 with coupon code: EMCNCHF23
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6822152245

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Newegg has Western Digital 2TB AV-GP drives for $84.99 with free shipping using coupon code: EMCNBHG38
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6822136783

Note that these are AV drives meant for use in DVRs and such. I'm getting one to play with and see how it does in WHS but I have no first-hand experience yet. If anyone else has used them I welcome your input, maybe in another forum topic?

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A buddy of mine at work hit me up on IM that Amazon's got an OCZ Vertex 4 256 GB SSD for $190. Check this out here - http://www.amazon.com/OCZ-Technology-2- ... rtex+4+256

I'd be all over this but my wife would shoot me. I've got an OCZ Vertex 4 in my EX490, except it's the 128 GB. Very nice drive. I've had it several months and it's worked perfectly.

Not sure how long the sale will last but that's a great price to get a generously-sized SSD!

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HP EX490, 4GB, E5300, 15TB - Server 2012 - Sharing and Streaming
HP EX487, 4GB, E5300, 13TB - Server 2012 Essentials - Backups

How do you have the SSD mounted in your EX490?

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have you seen any benitift to using the SSD drive?

Here's another good deal. 256 GB 2.5-inch Agility 4 SATA III Solid State Drive from OCZ Technology. Apply coupon code DQKSC6M061VLT1 for total $65 instant savings, in addition to $20 mail-in rebate

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I use this Icy Dock caddy from Newegg: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6817994064

It's $21.99 so a pretty nice price.

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HP EX490, 4GB, E5300, 15TB - Server 2012 - Sharing and Streaming
HP EX487, 4GB, E5300, 13TB - Server 2012 Essentials - Backups

Oh yeah. Every computer in which I've installed an SSD has shown a night and day difference. Every computer boots up in 15-30 seconds--those with less RAM and slower processors naturally will boot slower, but the SSD takes much of the disk I/O latency out of the equation. So a good SSD can breathe some new life into an older PC, especially if you can kick up the RAM a bit.

In the EX490, the only "drawback" (if you can call it one) is that unlike a 1 TB hard disk, you don't really get room on the SSD for the storage pool. This can be seen as a drawback or a blessing, depending on your point of view. For me, it's not that big of a deal. I like that the server boots and is fully ready to rumble in under two minutes, including the startup of the Drive Bender pools.

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Owner, Dojo North Software, LLC

HP EX490, 4GB, E5300, 15TB - Server 2012 - Sharing and Streaming
HP EX487, 4GB, E5300, 13TB - Server 2012 Essentials - Backups

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