Jan
14
Hitachi HD32000 2TB
Filed Under Home Server
Over the weekend I broke down and finally ordered myself a 2TB hard drive. Of course, I checked Monday morning and the drive dropped $10.00 in price. So I promptly canceled my ordered, and re-ordered the same hard drive. I wish NewEgg was able to do price adjustments directly back to you, but even with a little extra hassle, it still saved me $10.00. 
I picked up the Hitachi HD32000 IDK /7k 2TB drive. I think this is my first Hitachi drive, so hopefully it treats me well. I’ve had fairly good luck with Western Digital and Seagate, never had a good Maxtor drive though. I think every one of them has gone bad (which does make me a little leery of Seagate now, but that’s another story).
So anyway, I just finished installing the new hard drive in the Home Server, which is good because now it finally stopped yelling at me about “low disk space.”
The sad part is that I used up my last SATA port and I’m now out of drive bays in my hot-swap container. I really should pick up a new 5-in-3 Hot-Swap SATA Backplane and a 4-port SATAII controller card. Of course, I run into a similar problem there as I do with HDD’s. Except, instead of price, I worry about a chance in technology. The backplane hasn’t dropped in price in two years, and those controller cards haven’t changed much either. Except, now with 6gbps SATA coming out, it might be best to wait and get a 6gbps card and backplane for next set of hard drives later…
Oh well, future me will worry about that.