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    3TB Disc Bargain : £119

    If you need some more storage these use a single 5-platter disk drive, not bad for £119

    SEAGATE GoFlex Desk External Hard Drive - 3TB at cheap prices | PC World

    I plan to strip 'em down and use them in my N40L.

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    Re: 3TB Disc Bargain : £119

    Not bad at all with current hard drive prices.

    At the moment most external drive are being stripped for their internal drives
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    Re: 3TB Disc Bargain : £119

    typical, i literally got a 3tb drive delivered today after being mucked about a couple of times with amazon and staples and now this. but i suppose at least the drive i got has the warranty that will probably be lost by opening this up

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    Re: 3TB Disc Bargain : £119

    Yeah warranty is probably not as good, I would imagine the disc inside is classed as OEM

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    Re: 3TB Disc Bargain : £119

    This does sound like a fantastic deal considering how the hard drive prices have rocketed up so much recently and seems like it may continue to rise.

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    Re: 3TB Disc Bargain : £119

    Pity 3TB drives don't really work properly with my WHS
    I'm limited to 2TB drives for simplicity (I know you can get 3TB with a lot of messing).
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    Re: 3TB Disc Bargain : £119

    Really, why is that?

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    Re: 3TB Disc Bargain : £119

    I'm using WHS v1 with Drive extender (pooling drives).

    Later versions of WHS (Veil) supported 3TB drives, but dropped the ddrive extender.
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    Re: 3TB Disc Bargain : £119

    WHS v1 PP3 sees my 3TB drive OK:-



    Seems to be this disc inside:-


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    Re: 3TB Disc Bargain : £119

    I thought 3TB disks had to be GPT rather than MBR and the original WHS doesn't support GPT drives in the pool?

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    Re: 3TB Disc Bargain : £119

    Hmm - did you do anything special ?
    Or just add to pool?

    Plenty of sites make it seem its not so easy e.g.
    http://spackle.wordpress.com/2011/04...3tb-in-whs-v1/
    so I've avoided 3TB drives.

    Maybe I've missed an update or some news that it now works easily?
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    Re: 3TB Disc Bargain : £119

    Just plugged it in and it worked, I'd formatted it in a Win7 machine before installing it in my WHS, obviously WHS wiped the disc when I put it in the pool
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    Re: 3TB Disc Bargain : £119

    Yeah, I've heard the same of 3Tb HDD's simply not running as one partition or so etc in Windows 32Bit, I only really would be looking at using one as a storage drive in my HTPC.

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    Re: 3TB Disc Bargain : £119

    Sold out on that link but I did pick-up the last 2tb GoFlex that my local PC world had in stock on Sunday for £79.00 I felt so guilty removing the nice shiny black plastic though and to think that less than 2 months earlier I was waiting to see if 2TB drives would drop to £50 each so I could pick a pair up for a HP Microserver

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    Re: 3TB Disc Bargain : £119

    i got product unavailable now

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    Re: 3TB Disc Bargain : £119

    Yeah think they've all gone

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