Ends at 1PM PDT. Newegg has HITACHI HDS721050CLA362 (0F10381) 500GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive for $40 with free shipping.
Why?! There are tons of uses that don't require TB's of storage. 1 TB is nice to have... but the 1 TB version of this is at least $65. This is a fine solution for a budget build.
Seems good deal. Thanks Ben.
This is latest Hitachi HDD (7K1000.C, 500GB, 1 flatter).
Relatively fast speed, average seek time.
Not sure about reliability, but ex-IBM might be better than Samsung F3.
never buying anymore HDs that are <2.0tb. you'll end up throwing them away in the near future.
Why?! There are tons of uses that don't require TB's of storage. 1 TB is nice to have... but the 1 TB version of this is at least $65. This is a fine solution for a budget build.
You're right #3. That's why I use an external HDD.
I prefer smaller drives for the system partition, with larger drives for storage.
George Lucas-Futura's "Attack of the SSD's"
The external HDD enclosure is always available...
@1 Radduk... whats a flatter?