Seagate 2TB 7200 RPM SATA 3.5" HD (ST2000DM001) available on November 10 2017 from Amazon for 59.99
Seagate St2000dm001 2tb Barracuda 7200 Rpm Sata 6gb/s Hard Drive available on April 15 2016 from PCMall for 74.99
Seagate Barracuda St2000dm001 2tb 7200 Rpm 64mb Cache Sata 6.0gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive Bare Drive available on November 11 2015 from Newegg for 110.0
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UPDATE January 2014:Thanks to information from many useful comments, a short update:1) The problem is still the same as it was. Both 2TB drives are still being sold with the same model number. Due to changes in serial nunbers, depth of the drive housing's indentation has now become the best way to distinquish the drives (see user images - bottom right of Amazon's product page)2) When I wrote this, I didn't feel up to offering an alternate drive recommendation, as my own opinio..
This is one of the select few 3TB drives approved by Synology for use in a variety of their NAS devices, so I put 4 of these in a DS411 in SHR with one disk redundancy (basically RAID 5). While anyone will tell you enterprise hard drives are better in RAID 5 or 6 configurations - and they are right, for the most part - it's hard to deny the big price difference in going enterprise: 3TB enterprise drives are well over $550 right now due to the recent Thailand flood and it may b..
