Ben's Bargains Serving Fresh Deals 24/7

i'd rather get the 500gb new one for $10 more. free shipping also.

I'd rather get the 2TB new one for $200 more. Er, wait. It's Seagate. Nevermind then.

Seagate are just fine.

Refurbished drives are too much of a gamble for $10 off on a 100GB smaller drive.

Not really #4.. If it works, it work. If not, RMA it. Here the catch, 90 day warrantee or less. read the fine print.. Good price and just good as new.. But..... I prefer buying this 500gb Hard Drive for 50 bucks. click here and put this in your cart for 60 bucks, then add a coupon code EMCLTNS33 and it will drop it to 50 bucks. Brand New and Factory Sealed with 3 years warrantee.. Coupon expire 7-1-09

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148395&nm_mc=AFC-Bensbargains&cm_mmc=AFC-Bensbargains-_-NA

<table width="90%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3" border="0" align="center"><tr> <td><span class="genmed"><b>ucansee wrote:</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="quote">Not really #4.. If it works, it work. If not, RMA it. Here the catch, 90 day warrantee or less. read the fine print.. Good price and just good as new.. But..... I prefer buying this 500gb Hard Drive for 50 bucks. click here and put this in your cart for 60 bucks, then add a coupon code EMCLTNS33 and it will drop it to 50 bucks. Brand New and Factory Sealed with 3 years warrantee.. Coupon expire 7-1-09

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148395&nm_mc=AFC-Bensbargains&cm_mmc=AFC-Bensbargains-_-NA</td> </tr></table><span class="postbody">

Not just as good as new. Let's see...

Lower platter density = lower performance

Lower cache size = lower performance (granted, going much higher in cache size show diminishing returns but for primary OS drive incl. Vista or Win7 use the continual I/O makes use of doubled cache size.

Slower burst speed from SATA150 interface

Lower platter density = twice as many platters = more bearing and arm wear, more heat, more power used

Refurb'd = stock returned after having had wear in a mechanical device where wear = finite lifespan, plus someone has already had a problem with it once.

RMA it = waste of time, or replaced with same refurb'd drive you still have all above detractions compared to new $50 drive.

A few months back, before drives went 500GB/platter, when 500GB cost more it may have been a reasonable deal and risk for non-critical data storage but even then 400GB is enough data that even usi... [Truncated]