{"id":755,"date":"2010-01-08T11:14:26","date_gmt":"2010-01-08T11:14:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/cheap-hard-drives-arent-always-cheap\/"},"modified":"2010-01-08T11:14:26","modified_gmt":"2010-01-08T11:14:26","slug":"cheap-hard-drives-arent-always-cheap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/cheap-hard-drives-arent-always-cheap\/","title":{"rendered":"Cheap hard drives aren&#8217;t always cheap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Snarl.<\/p>\n<p>Got a 500 gig external drive from Seagate (XTERM version) on their 12 days of Christmas sale, pretty cheap, EXCEPT, it failed two weeks later.&#0160; Isn&#39;t that always the way.<\/p>\n<p>So now it isn&#39;t that cheap, because I have to return it, which means getting a box, packing it and shipping and then waiting.&#0160; Or paying $20.00 (my solution, as it seems easier) and not that much more expensive.<\/p>\n<p>But now it ends up being about the regular price.&#0160; &lt;SNARL&gt;<\/p>\n<p>And more on this &#8212; Seagate&#39;s tech support was so irritating.&#0160; Didn&#39;t want to use the phone, so used their web service for the RMA.&#0160; I get an email telling me to call support, and as I am on hold, the hold recording tells me to use their web service.<\/p>\n<p>INFINITE LOOP FAIL!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Snarl. Got a 500 gig external drive from Seagate (XTERM version) on their 12 days of Christmas sale, pretty cheap, EXCEPT, it failed two weeks later.&#0160; Isn&#39;t that always the way. So now it isn&#39;t that cheap, because I have to return it, which means getting a box, packing it and shipping and then waiting.&#0160; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}