Does the SSD drive not understand Partitions? Im not sure why you couldnt get storage space even a little on the system drive. Im Currently have: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6822148907 as my system drive. Im just looking for faster and smoother experiance. I really would like to do quad cored but changing out CPU scares me a little, plus I dont have a lab MSS anymore which would be idea incase upgrade tanks.

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Seagate 2TB 7200rpm drive for $99
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6822148910

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Seagate ST2000DM001 Barracuda 7200RPM 2 TB $88.99

http://www.amazon.com/Seagate-ST2000DM0 ... 005T3GRN2/

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Newegg has select hard drives for 20% off:
http://promotions.newegg.com/NEemail/No ... nding.html

This Western Digital 2TB drive looks good for $87.99 using coupon code: EMCJJNH23

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A big thanks to yakuza for "keeping the flame"...

Does anyone have a good place for SAS drives? Provantage seems to be as good as anyone else. I'm hoping there might be a reseller targeting business I have missed. I just found out today that Newegg has a separate business site with different deals than the main newegg site - getting ready to check them out here in a few minutes.

I've only gotten SAS drives for work, and we usually go through Dell or HP depending on our hardware in order to get the warranty and 4-hour replacement.

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Thanks - that seems to be pretty common for businesses. I'm supporting some non-profits where that's a luxury we can't afford. I'm tired of SATA drives crapping out within a year or two because Small Business Server thrashes them so severely I just discovered that Provantage's web site, when using their catalog tool where you pick hard drives -> Internal -> SAS doesn't show you everything they have! In just searching their site manually I found some nice 500GB SAS Seagate constellation drives for $130 - the cheapest by far I've found just about anywhere, and they happen to match four Seagate's I already have that were donated for another project that's now over. Time to build me a six drive RAID 10 and see if I can speed the server up!

Two terabyte SAS drives have really started coming down too - and there are some lower power models showing up. I think I may switch to SAS for future expansion at home. Between having Tivo's for over 10 years running 7/24 pounding away and having a moderately sized home server with nine hard drives for a few years, the amount of dead/dying drives I have accumulated is getting ridiculous! It would be worth it to have drives that lasted longer and were simply built better - although I must admin the new WD red label drives seem to be a good deal - I think they address the biggest deficiency in SATA drives - bearings only on one end of the spindles (Red's have bearings on both ends, like SAS drives do). Hmm - I wonder if WD did that to streamline manufacturing - and the guts of the Red's are the same as their 7K SAS drives? Interesting.... It's possible the only difference between them now is the controller on the drive (SAS vs. SATA).

Just bought 3 Seagate Barracude 2TB 7200 RPM drives at Newegg for $69.99 each at their Black Friday sale, which started today. They probably won't last long. They also had 3 TB drives at a fantastic price, can't remember exactly what it was though.

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UberDave,

Did you place 2 orders to get around the 2 drive limit? I'm looking for at least 4 of them.

Sean

No, I ordered as soon as I got the email from Newegg and the limit was three at that time. Not sure if you can place two orders without them canceling one, give it a shot.

Dave

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Dave,

Thanks for the update. No such luck, they cancelled my second order. It was worth a try though.

Sean

The best deals were on the Seagate 3TB drives, 7200 rpm, 64mb cache - they were $89 w/ FS at first on Newegg, then Amazon price matched that offer soon after. Surprisingly, Amazon sold out first (I'd say within 6 hours of the deal going live), even tho their drives were listed with a 1 year warranty. Newegg was offering it listed with a 2 year warranty and had stock available (limit of 2 per person) until later in the day, maybe around 4PM or so.

I had bought a 3TB locally at Staples in the beginning of November, so I bought a second drive from Newegg to use with a Mediasonic 2 bay enclosure that I got this weekend as well. And here I thought the original 3TB was a good deal at $127 locally ... wow ... $89 for 3TB !!

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ARG! Missed it!

But wait, Amazon has that deal right now.

http://www.amazon.com/Western-Digital-G ... rds=wd+2tb

And 2TB Seagate drives:

http://www.amazon.com/Seagate-ST2000DM0 ... eagate+2tb