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Posted at 7:17 AM on Monday 07/20/09 by
Ben
Hotness UNHOT
Zip Zoom Fly has the Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000.B (0A38016) 1TB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive for $77 - $10 rebate [Exp 7/20] = $67 with free shipping. Features an average seek time of 8.2ms, and a three year parts/labor warranty. [Compare]
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    fischfry - Posted 7:52 am PDT 07/20/09 (126 Posts)  Report Spam

    shoot, at this price, its tempting to get a couple

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    tiburoncito2000 - Posted 7:53 am PDT 07/20/09 (1601 Posts)  Report Spam

    great deal specially with the 3 year warranty!

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    LiveSquid - Posted 8:05 am PDT 07/20/09 (2122 Posts)  Report Spam

    Man! These are gonna be $50 each before we know it.. I love how tech prices drop so rapidly.

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    hurl3.0 - Posted 8:49 am PDT 07/20/09 (2471 Posts)  Report Spam

    i could use this to replace both my hard drives and still have space left over!

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    bobcuesta - Posted 9:21 am PDT 07/20/09 (34 Posts)  Report Spam

    I'm having trouble with my Dell e510 (yeah, I know...go ahead...) recognizing this drive. My e530 sees it, no problemo. Even updated my BIOS.

    Anyone know if certain machines have limitations? I noticed one website selling drive upgrades for the e510 listed the smaller Hitachies, and 1 Tb other brands, but did not list this drive as an option.

    Thanks for any help.

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    The_Maniac - Posted 9:27 am PDT 07/20/09 (61 Posts)  Report Spam

    So far my experience with all Hitachi drives (especialy the DeskStar and TravelStar) have been BAD. And some that were out of warranty I opened up and found dust bunnies in them (I know that no hard drive is air tight, but I never saw dust in a drive by other manufacturers). I've also seen Hitachi use what appears to be glass platters. The ammount of failures across generations just does not make me a fan.

    Hope you buy these for a RAID setup to protect your data! A 3 year warranty protects the hard drive but not your family pics and videos.

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    syzygy - Posted 9:50 am PDT 07/20/09 (332 Posts)  Report Spam

    Deathstars!!

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    chewy - Posted 10:32 am PDT 07/20/09 (44 Posts)  Report Spam

    FYI. I'm still waiting for my $10 from 4/10/2009. Been approved since 5/3/2009. called customer service and said Zipzoomfly takes forever to pay up.

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    Sebenza - Posted 10:33 am PDT 07/20/09 (369 Posts)  Report Spam

    Deathstars name will always be related to hitachi's harddrives, is like once you kill a cat you will be known as a cat
    Knock Knock.
    Who's there?
    Bacon.
    Bacon who?
    .

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    danpi - Posted 10:55 am PDT 07/20/09 (1133 Posts)  Report Spam

    Bensie's fly zipping store. Disk is fine, Bensie's pals who should zip theirs up, not.

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    dd - Posted 11:06 am PDT 07/20/09 (778 Posts)  Report Spam

    The Travelstars are some of the most reliable notebook drives ever made. I've run dozens with zero problems.

    Bringing up the "Deathstar" issue so many years later and every time there is a Hitachi deal posted just shows how wildly out of touch some of the people who post here are.

    Get a frigging life, losers. You're probably still running 40 gig ATA drives in a 1.6 gig P4 with half a gig of memory.

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    czynut - Posted 11:29 am PDT 07/20/09 (70 Posts)  Report Spam

    My deathstar drive still runs 24/7. Decade of running non stop. Gem out of lemons?

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    c3688t - Posted 12:00 pm PDT 07/20/09 (155 Posts)  Report Spam

    I've also been very unhappy with zipzoomfly rebates. Will probably never buy another item w/zzf rebate unless the price BEFORE rebate is worth it.

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    krusty - Posted 12:40 pm PDT 07/20/09 (1109 Posts)  Report Spam

    Hitachi should have lost the Deskstar name when they took over from IBM where Deathstar originated.

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    nuisance - Posted 1:13 pm PDT 07/20/09 (10365 Posts)  Report Spam

    Removed by forum Administrator

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    GrumpyCat - Posted 2:21 pm PDT 07/20/09 (268 Posts)  Report Spam

    I have a(n) (aparrently) S IBM Deskstar 15G drive that has been running continuously since 1999.

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    GrumpyCat - Posted 2:24 pm PDT 07/20/09 (268 Posts)  Report Spam

    Hm, doesn't seem we can say P of S here.

    Obviously if my drive was up the the standards many expect here then only a software update would have increased its original capacity of 15G to 1T. Smile

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    carguydc - Posted 2:33 pm PDT 07/20/09 (979 Posts)  Report Spam

    Never had one, probably will never buy one.

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    kevinchen226 - Posted 2:34 pm PDT 07/20/09 (49 Posts)  Report Spam

    Anyone bought anything from this website? are they hard to deal?

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    deals_find - Posted 2:53 pm PDT 07/20/09 (179 Posts)  Report Spam

    bacon wrote:
    That in-bred, sister kissing bastard, Luke Skywalker, blew up my hard drive.


    We know you hate Luke because your Princess Leia doll prefers him over you. You are such a sad dork.

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