Silly Storage Prices

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It's getting ridiculous! 84 squids for a TB and 3Gbps FFS

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Hog

Read the reviews, there are an awful lot of DOAs and early failures
there.

 

Not made in China are they?

 

3Gbps my arse. That might be the bus speed, but the disk speed won't
get anywhere near it.

 

It always is. The increased bus speed means that you can have more
drives running at full chat on the same bus before you hit a
bottleneck, but if it's SATA you're unlikely to have a shared bus
anyway, so the numbers are just marketing nonsense.

 

yea, that's what i thought.

 

73 over here

 

Better hope there's no problems then because getting those **** witted
useless cunts to replace a faulty item is next to fucking impossible.

 

Well, I've used a few (7 or 8) drives from the 'spinpoint' series and
haven't had any problems with them. Agree it's a small sample but I
thought they had a fairly good reputation.

However... If my memory serves didn't Champ have a DOA?

 

Yes but they brought him back.

 

heh - I'd say that for a home user, '7 or 8' is quite a lot

Yep - eBuyer sorted the refund with no drama at all.