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steelcity_ballin · Sat Oct 14, 2006 2:24 pm

http://shop4.outpost.com/product/4799749

Found it on slickdeals.net, thought I'd share.

edit: title change.

LudLud · Sat Oct 14, 2006 6:19 pm

wow that's one hell of a deal !

i would so get that, but im gettin a new pc around thanksgiving so i dunno

btw is that a one day deal or ?

My Johnson · Sat Oct 14, 2006 6:27 pm

That's a sweet deal.

LudLud · Sat Oct 14, 2006 6:29 pm

yea i just found out, its for today only, i think im gonna order it...

Forge · Sat Oct 14, 2006 6:37 pm

Newegg has had the 7200.10 320GB for ~90$ no rebates every day for weeks. This one is +80GB but -1 generation. Perpendicular FTW.

tsoulier · Sat Oct 14, 2006 6:40 pm

Sweet Deal

LudLud · Sat Oct 14, 2006 6:43 pm

Forge wrote:
Newegg has had the 7200.10 320GB for ~90$ no rebates every day for weeks. This one is +80GB but -1 generation. Perpendicular FTW.

its 95 , $5 less, and the one posted here is also perpendicular, so yea for $5 more you get 80 more gbs

FunkeeC · Sat Oct 14, 2006 6:47 pm

LudLud wrote:
Forge wrote:
Newegg has had the 7200.10 320GB for ~90$ no rebates every day for weeks. This one is +80GB but -1 generation. Perpendicular FTW.

its 95 , $5 less, and the one posted here is also perpendicular, so yea for $5 more you get 80 more gbs

No, the 7200.9's werent perpendicular.

LudLud · Sat Oct 14, 2006 6:57 pm

it says perpendicular on the page... dunno
either way its still a good deal, perpendicular recording is not much of an advantage anyway, it mainly boosts the size of HDD's, and some minor speed boosts i think

Sat Oct 14, 2006 7:07 pm

LudLud wrote:
it says perpendicular on the page... dunno

According to Seagate's site, the .9s were not perpendicular. Must be a typo on the page -- either the drive is a .10, or it doesn't have perpendicular recording. Given the low price, I'm inclined to believe it is one of the older .9 (non-perpendicular) drives.

either way its still a good deal

Agreed. But it would be an even more incredible deal if it was one of the newer drives.

Nitrodist · Sat Oct 14, 2006 7:10 pm

It's not perpendicular, no matter what the page says. The model number isn't it.

LudLud · Sat Oct 14, 2006 7:30 pm

it doesn't matter really, all perpendicular recording does is allow hard drives to have bigger capacity, there's barely any increase of speed involved

so yea its a good deal, i might get one im still deciding =D

UberGerbil · Sat Oct 14, 2006 8:09 pm

LudLud wrote:
it doesn't matter really, all perpendicular recording does is allow hard drives to have bigger capacity, there's barely any increase of speed involved

All things being equal, any increase in areal density will improve performance -- though perhaps not significantly.

And yeah, last gen or not, this is a good deal. I remember wondering when we'd drop below a penny per MB... Oh, heck, I can remember when a 5MB drive (yes MB) seemed like a deal because it was under a thousand dollars.

Forge · Sat Oct 14, 2006 9:17 pm

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductLi ... rchInDesc=

That should bring up the two 320GB 7200.10s on Newegg, one ATA/100 and one SATA/300.

Might be helpful to any folks still SATA-impaired.

Ragnar Dan · Sat Oct 14, 2006 10:24 pm

Very tempting deal. I've seen people posting somewhere (probably on TR) about 7200.10 drives claiming problems with them. As with all such anecdotes, one can't know until enough data accumulates. And for me, that means let others do the "early" adoption. :wink:

The Outpost.com/Fry's drive does show up on Seagate as having a 16 MB cache, but says nothing even in the "data sheet" PDF about perpendicular recording, which probably means it's a 7200.9 model w/o such technology. I was unaware of their previous series having that cache size, and maybe that's the hope of the seller, too.

I bought a 60 GB Seagate drive in October 2001 to replace a 45 GB IBM Deskstar I got at the end of 2000, which began making the infamous loud click weeks earlier (front page coverage of which is what brought me to register at TR). The Seagate kept being moved to various new systems over the years and it worked well, but it appears to have begun to die 6-8 months ago, so I removed it for recovery/study at a date in the future (meaning probably never) after copying its data to another drive. It's the only Seagate I've ever had that has appeared to have a problem.

The main problem for my disk drives is that now and then temperatures may get high in the machine they're in, and that may cause data corruption. That was one of the 60 GB Seagate drive's outstanding attributes: it had the highest temperature rating I could find. Soon enough I'll be all SATA and all Seagate but my one Raptor, at least in my main machine. I can still remember when at least some Seagate drives had a bad reputation, back when drives were, as the other ancients here point out, sold by the MB (except it's not the real MB, it's a million bytes

).

Sun Oct 15, 2006 7:30 am

Nostalgic hardware discussion split off to here.

Lets try and keep to the posted topic now.

UberGerbil · Sun Oct 15, 2006 12:55 pm

The hot deal is back up to $189, and thus no longer hot.

Sun Oct 15, 2006 1:03 pm

UberGerbil wrote:
The hot deal is back up to $189, and thus no longer hot.

47¼¢ / GB is lousy.

Ragnar Dan · Sun Oct 15, 2006 7:05 pm

Now that the fun conversation in this thread has been moderated away...

I try to pay less than 3 GB / $, recently. The only drive I've bought in quite a while that cost more than that was a 74 GB Raptor, and I got it at a retail Best Buy for ~$160-$170 + tax because I wanted to get the system it was going in working quickly. Now that drive's replacement has come down in price probably because of the new 150 GB 16 MB cache model, with the newer 74 GB version with 16 MB of cache (double the 8 MB in mine) almost $20 cheaper than what mine cost, though I have no memory of what Newegg wanted for it back then (March or April).

Best Buy is selling what I believe to be the largest drive I've seen, Seagate's 750 GB model, for $330 now, which works out to 44¢ per GB. Considering it's a leader in size, that's rather impressively inexpensive.

Sun Oct 15, 2006 7:12 pm

Ragnar Dan wrote:
The only drive I've bought in quite a while that cost more than that was a 74 GB Raptor... I have no memory of what Newegg wanted for it back then (March or April).

http://labs.anandtech.com/alllinks.php?pfilter=462
http://labs.anandtech.com/alllinks.php?pfilter=4810

Ragnar Dan · Sun Oct 15, 2006 7:27 pm

Ha, you're the man, JAE. Thanks.

BerserkBen · Thu Oct 19, 2006 2:13 pm

This deal is on again

http://shop1.outpost.com/product/4799749

LudLud · Thu Oct 19, 2006 2:24 pm

cool

Thu Oct 19, 2006 2:38 pm

oh. my. god.

I've been needing a new hard drive for a while, this might be perfect. Perhaps I will need to do another 4 hours of moving boxes.

edit: no money

Nitrodist · Fri Oct 20, 2006 4:52 am

Basically you're getting another 80 gigs compared to the 320 gig price that was at $100 near the end of August.

UberGerbil · Fri Oct 20, 2006 12:39 pm

Or a hundred more GB for ten more $ compared to this.

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