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It lists at Microcenter 60 dollars cheaper than Newegg, and you get 40 dollars off with a motherboard combo.
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Because they want to get you in the store to buy all your other shit. Loss-leader. Or probably closer to break-even leader.
Joeboo
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Microcenter is definitely nuts. They must sell a LOT of Apple products to offset the low/nonexistant profit margins on their PC parts. Their CPU/motherboard deals are ridiculous, and honestly their GPUs/cases/RAM/Hard Drives are about the same price as buying online, just with the downside of having to pay sales tax on the stuff(which some people do anyways when buying online)
When I built my PC 2 years ago I walked in expecting just to buy my CPU and Mobo, and walked out with a hard drive and case as well(they were the same price as what I was about to purchase on newegg)
When I built my PC 2 years ago I walked in expecting just to buy my CPU and Mobo, and walked out with a hard drive and case as well(they were the same price as what I was about to purchase on newegg)
dizzie
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Are Seagate not pretty crap nowdays?
I bought some WD Blacks from a friend and they are super fast (150-200mb/s writes), they are enterprise ones though and idk if that makes a difference. Not sure but i read Seagate are poo, that said i have a seagate drive from 2005 or so and it's still fine..Maybe it's just run of the luck on who put the parts in at the factory or something..
I bought some WD Blacks from a friend and they are super fast (150-200mb/s writes), they are enterprise ones though and idk if that makes a difference. Not sure but i read Seagate are poo, that said i have a seagate drive from 2005 or so and it's still fine..Maybe it's just run of the luck on who put the parts in at the factory or something..
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Ive heard to stay away from seagate. But this was a few years ago. I used to buy nothing but samsung drives, but then they upped and sold the division to someone else, not sure who. Ive had Hitachi drives last me for 5+years as well, especially if they are slaves, like all storage drives are pretty much these days.
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Seagate still hasn't shaken the trauma of that one bad firmware revision on their 1TB drives. I've never had issues with other models from them, but those 1TBs dropped like flies if they weren't updated, and it was often too late anyway.
Ichu
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Backblaze keeps using non-enterprise drives for enterprise workloads.
Also those are the same batch of drives as the last results, just a year later.
Seagate enterprise drives work fine, that's why I linked one.
ShakyJake
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I bought a Seagate 1TB drive 6 months ago and it died on me last week. I generally stick with WD but the Seagate was on special. Oh well, nothing significant lost but still annoying.
I have an old WD 250GB 7200RPM drive I bought back in 2007. Thing still hums right along.
Big Phoenix
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As soon as seagate bought maxtor, I stopped buying seagate. And from everything I've read about seagate since, that seems to have been a wise decision.
Stick to WD for mechanical drives.
Stick to WD for mechanical drives.
Khane
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I don't think I've ever had a WD drive go bad on me, and until this last build I had bought WD drives exclusively. I can't believe that raptor lasted me close to 10 years as my main disk.
As a side note I can't believe how quiet the GTX 960 is. Coupled with the SSD I can barely even hear when the machine is on.
As a side note I can't believe how quiet the GTX 960 is. Coupled with the SSD I can barely even hear when the machine is on.
Fadaar
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Same here for WD drives. Also it's so easy to have a quiet PC these days -- the loudest fan in my case is my power supply now. I got a few super quiet case fans (2x 120mmNoctua NF-F12 PWMfor Corsair H100i radiator and 1x 140mmNoctua NF-A14 PWMto pull air in from the back) to replace my older noisy ones and I can barely even tell my PC is running. Combine that with the fact that the fans on the Asus Strix GTX 970 don't even come on until it reaches a certain temperature threshold and it's damn near silent.