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2-Pack Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 1.5TB 32MB Drive $200 at Dell Home

I just saw the following referenced in an internal discussion list and given it’s public info, had to share this deal listed on Ben’s Bargains:

Deal: 2-Pack Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 1.5TB 32MB Drive $200 at Dell Home Coupons

Dell Home has the 2-Pack Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 ST31500341AS 1.5TB SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive for $270 - $70 off coupon code P0HD43$HB$DLDR [Exp 5/26, 1500] = $200 with free shipping. Features a rotational speed of 7200RPM and 32MB Cache. Here's Seagate's site pimping this drive. [Compare]

My poor little Home Server at home *only* has 5.91 TB of disk space... a pair of these will surely give me a little more room to grow :)

This for a drive that currently runs $129.99 on NewEgg.

Published Friday, May 22, 2009 10:23 AM by Brendan Grant

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# re: 2-Pack Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 1.5TB 32MB Drive $200 at Dell Home @ Wednesday, May 27, 2009 9:11 AM

Hey DSU grad! Thanks for the Ben's Bargains link!

Also, I was wondering if you or you know of anyone that has Windows Home Server running on Hyper V?

I've heard from one person that has tried it, that it hangs both the guest and host OS when using virtual SCSI at times.

Chris

# re: 2-Pack Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 1.5TB 32MB Drive $200 at Dell Home @ Wednesday, May 27, 2009 1:37 PM

Howdy Chris!

When it comes to Windows Home Server running under Hyper-V... I must open by saying that it is an unsupported and untested configuration (meaning that if issues are found between the two it may not be fixed right away given Windows Home Server is not intended for virtualized environments)... that being said I run several VMs at the office containing Windows Home Server for testing and development purposes and have spoken to a number of internal people who run their main Home Server's virtualized in some strange ways and have not yet heard of any issues along the lines of what you describe between Hyper-V and Windows Home Server.

Any chance the this person is using their Hyper-V box interactively with the active VM in the background? I've run into cases where there might be some contention between the host and guest depending on workloads and underlying hardware capabilities.

Brendan Grant

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