Black Friday 2015

[Fbone]

Originally Posted by booklover6

Where did you order your TV from? Price?

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I ordered one of those phones.....no idea why. I have the $35 Fire in my cart, but am undecided. Don't really need it.....

I ordered from Best Buy the Samsung smart 24 inch $148. Amazon probably will match it. Electronics I almost always order locally so I can return it easily if needed.

[Blossom]

Just got an email saying my phones have shipped. Wow that was fast!

[badgoodDeb]

Originally Posted by mkm

Best Buy has Seagate 1TB portable HDD for $39.99

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/seagate-...&skuId=3138005

Thanks! I got 2 of those. Wasn't looking for one, so I wouldn't have if you hadn't posted it. Thanks for posting the link.

I like to have multiple copies of backups of my laptop. Paranoia, you know....

[tubemonkey]

Originally Posted by Blossom

Just got an email saying my phones have shipped. Wow that was fast!

Mine too


Another reminder for those who ordered this phone. I started a thread in the Android Forum -- Moto E 2nd Gen -- for discussion. Once these phones arrive, please direct all comments and questions to that thread.

Thanks, tm

[Shane R]

Originally Posted by tubemonkey

Moto E is now sold out.

I was tempted, but had no use for it, and Android makes me break out in hives anyway.

I made off like a bandit today. Got everything I wanted and something I didn't know I wanted until I saw it.


Still eyeing a $99 Paperwhite though...

[Shane R]

Originally Posted by Blossom

Just got an email saying my phones have shipped. Wow that was fast!

My $35 Fire tablet shipped 5 hours and 15 minutes after I ordered it.

[mkm]

Originally Posted by badgoodDeb

Thanks! I got 2 of those. Wasn't looking for one, so I wouldn't have if you hadn't posted it. Thanks for posting the link.

I like to have multiple copies of backups of my laptop. Paranoia, you know....

Yeah, I thought it was a good deal and Seagate are good IMO.

Glad it was of service so someone :-D

( I still use an email client for my Gmail account for the same reasons.... )

[tubemonkey]

Originally Posted by mkm

Best Buy has Seagate 1TB portable HDD for $39.99

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/seagate-...&skuId=3138005

Thanks - added to OP

Just what I wanted, so I grabbed one.

[tubemonkey]

Dell Doorbuster Just Went Live -- While Supplies Last

Inspiron 14 3000 Series Laptop -- $300 --> $150

[Manabi]

Originally Posted by mkm

Yeah, I thought it was a good deal and Seagate are good IMO.

Seagate can be okay, or it can be the worst hard drive you ever bought. Their 3TB drives are awful. I bought five of them in 2012, installed them in February of 2013. Three are already dead as a doornail, a fourth is failing. Two died totally last year (one in October, other one in November), one last week. Backblaze, who buys insane amounts of consumer level drives, has also had high failure rates with them. (That bar graph speaks volumes.) The 4TB Seagates have been doing better, and have much lower failure rates in reports since then, but the 1.5 - 3TB Seagates continue to have high failure rates for Backblaze.

I've been replacing them with HGST (aka, Hitachi) drives, since those had the best reliability by far in Backblaze's reports. I have another HGST drive to replace that failing drive, but haven't had a chance to swap it out yet. After that one, the remaining 2012 Seagate shows as 93% health in SpeedFan and is apparently going to be okay for a while. I still don't trust it and am going to replace it with an HGST drive as soon as I can afford it.

So I'd suggest you don't rely on Seagate drives as your sole backup source.

[booklover6]

I went to Kohl's department store and got a 32" TV for $99 plus a $30 gift card. I'm pleased!

[mkm]

Originally Posted by Manabi

Seagate can be okay, or it can be the worst hard drive you ever bought. Their 3TB drives are awful. I bought five of them in 2012, installed them in February of 2013. Three are already dead as a doornail, a fourth is failing. Two died totally last year (one in October, other one in November), one last week. Backblaze, who buys insane amounts of consumer level drives, has also had high failure rates with them. (That bar graph speaks volumes.) The 4TB Seagates have been doing better, and have much lower failure rates in reports since then, but the 1.5 - 3TB Seagates continue to have high failure rates for Backblaze.

I've been replacing them with HGST (aka, Hitachi) drives, since those had the best reliability by far in Backblaze's reports. I have another HGST drive to replace that failing drive, but haven't had a chance to swap it out yet. After that one, the remaining 2012 Seagate shows as 93% health in SpeedFan and is apparently going to be okay for a while. I still don't trust it and am going to replace it with an HGST drive as soon as I can afford it.

So I'd suggest you don't rely on Seagate drives as your sole backup source.

Thanks for all the valuable information. I didn't know that.
Only had smaller than 1.5TB HDD and they survive well (4-5 years). I did have WD which failed within a year, so I don't buy WD.
Too bad Backblaze doesn't have stats for the 1TB (it only has them for WD).

Next time I'll look for Hitachi. Had an IDE one way-back-when and it held very nicely (like 8 years?). Learn every day...

Anyhow, this model has some nice reviews (like on Cnet ) and I *think* it's a different model (STDRxxxxx vs. STxxxxxx) so here's hoping that it'll be good...

[tubemonkey]

Dell Doorbuster Now Live -- While Supplies Last

Inspiron Micro Desktop -- $200 --> $100 --> SOLD OUT
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[BearMountainBooks]

Kobo has a sale on the KoboGlo HD - 20 dollars off. You should see it first thing on the front page (free shipping too, but I think there is always free shipping.)

[pdurrant]

Originally Posted by pdurrant

Amazon UK have upped the Prime 'no-rush' shipping credit to £3

The £3 credits (judging from the one I just received) are valid until 31st January 2016.