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by gideonfrost
added a year ago

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It took three tries to get one that was available. Not sure why they are on the list if they are not available but we'll see.
Thank you for listing this deal. I will report back on receipt.

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I got an announcement from Seagate for this sale... but when I logged on to their site, the original price was showing... no discount. Eight hours later, they employed the discount... but by then, all the "great" deals were sold out. Rather dishonest tactics, if you ask me...

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I've had really bad luck with their eSATA drives....

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Seagate's support website is by far and away the worst I've ever used. It's loaded with dead links (e.g.: try using the contact page and emailing support) I've gotten drives replaced under warranty, but it is a total PITA until you learn the ropes.

Been buying mostly Hitachi and Western Digital for the last couple years (my newest Seagates are only 500GB) and have been much more pleased.

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I've had to use Seagate's support before. They are the worst. I'll NEVER buy a hard drive from them.

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Currently it seems like there are only external drives for sale

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@vbowker: I've never had a problem with Seagate support. I actually just returned 3 drives to them (I own a ton of drives, and these three had failed, or given signs of failure over the past few months), one of which I had physical damage to that they're replacing under warranty (I snapped the sata connector). I've never had a bad Seagate support experience.

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I have to agree with vbowker, I've never had a bad experience with Seagate before. I've owned quite a few Seagate drives over the years with only one failure which was replaced with out any issues at all.

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Seagate is the worst...stick with Western Digital or Hitachi.

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I received this 4 days after I ordered it. Shipping was fast. It is much heavier/larger than I expected. It is the 500gb Free Agent xtreme. No problems so far.