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Just want I want to do, put my importain data on a refurb drive!

400gb is kind of an odd size. Could this have been larger capacity at one time?

100gb lost while refurbishing.

I bought a 400 GB Seagate SATA drive new... came to somewhere around ~$80 in the second half of 2006. I forget if mine was a .8 or a .9, but regardless, it's an actual size, and mine is still going strong as far as I can tell.

Not entirely sure if I'd trust my music/movies/etc to a refurb drive, but you can't get much cheaper than $37 if you're building a computer for a kid or to use as a DVR.

On a separate note, will there ever be discounts on ATA drives? I have some old computers sitting around that might be of use to charity or as donations, but I don't particularly care to spend more than $30-40 for a decent capacity drive.

#2: 400GB used to be a standard size.

This really isn't a deal. You can get a new 1TB hard drive for $65 AR w/ free shipping right now. Paying $37 for a refurb 400GB just doesn't make sense.

#5, True, if you have an extra $30-40 lying around, going for a bigger, brand new drive is a no brainer.

But if you're trying to build a dirt cheap machine to give to grandma (who probably doesn't have half a terabyte of porn), then I might as well use that $30 for a few beers...

Ya I don't understand that mentality... sure buying in bulk will almost always work out better (except 2TB drives... those bastard earlier adopter fees) but for the vast majority of normal computer users, a very small drive would be more than sufficient.

My GF's family computer was shared across 4-5 family members for a period of time with only a 200GB hard drive. Less than 80GB's of space was used!

Spending money on a larger drive would only be wasted funds that could be used for more purposeful things: diapers, food, toilet paper... It's like the guy who pays Dell to build him a $5,000 computer with all the latest tech when all he is doing is word processing, listening to music, browsing the internet, and keeping track of his finances (irony?).

Not all good deals work out to be good deals. Storage could easily be one of them.

Funny how there is such discussion YANFB. Bensie is posting POS from trash bins. As said above, this was worth around $60-80 when it was new a couple of years ago... I, like the other poster, have one too.

Almost nothing posted here is a "deal". For example the motherboards just posted were FREE with with a $100 quad purchase at Fry's around the end of the year.

This site is going to seed, apart from the comments--- actually the comments are the best feature of this site. Lots of good info, and input--- though not exactly all (but then the humor can be entertaining too). regards

#6, #7: I'm more worried about the refurb than the capacity.

Of course, if you're running regular backups, that's not really an issue, but not everyone does that.

I might trust all my financial data, tax records, key contacts to a refurbished drive but never my p0rn files.

If it were PATA it might be worth the bother, but now you can get a MUCH faster 500GB Seagate 7200.12 for $50. Even if a system is several years old you would easily notice the performance difference between this and that.

Yea!.. 13 more bucks for a new 500gb Seagate 7200, Why not?.. 37 bucks sound good, but just a little more for a bigger brand new drive, funny thou I buy so many new hard drive. just only a few quit, Once return to manufactured they ship Refurbished ones. works just fine..