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Posted at 10:30 AM on Thursday 03/27/08 by
Ben
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ClubIT.com has the Seagate ST3500630AS 500GB 7200RPM 16MB Buffer SATA Hard Drive (7200.10 perpendicular recording) for $92 - $6 rebate [Exp 3/31] + $7 shipping = $93 shipped. Covered by Seagate's signature 5-year warranty. [BizRate]
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    venky - Posted 10:39 am PDT 03/27/08 (95 Posts)  Report Spam

    http://www.clubit.com/product_detail.cfm?itemno=CA3476921
    I got this, which has 32mb cache, very quiet and super fast.
    Although there were mixed reviews on this drive at other sites about their DOA I took a gamble, it rocks!!
    Worth every bacon double bacon burger.
    It is an OEM version but, my case does not need screws, all I needed was a cable from MONOPRICE for $1.50

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    m0f0 - Posted 10:45 am PDT 03/27/08 (7605 Posts)  Report Spam

    Question : Why would anyone be dumb enough to buy a 500MB hard drive when there are 1TB drives out there? How retarded is that? Thanks in advance!

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    durkzilla - Posted 10:48 am PDT 03/27/08 (773 Posts)  Report Spam

    Woot Off today had refurbs of these going for $77.77

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    boxingfan - Posted 10:58 am PDT 03/27/08 (458 Posts)  Report Spam

    I would not suggest anyone purchase a refurbished hard drive.

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    Ph7 - Posted 11:07 am PDT 03/27/08 (297 Posts)  Report Spam

    #4, you should exclude masochists from your suggestion.

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    Vic_Romano - Posted 12:20 pm PDT 03/27/08 (789 Posts)  Report Spam

    ooh $6 rebate...hold me back.

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    Shiyonin - Posted 12:22 pm PDT 03/27/08 (156 Posts)  Report Spam

    purchase one if you dont have enough ducks in a row to spare the extra coinage. But I too would wait, prices are slowly coming down. I am waiting on getting another 750 sata--- maybe seagate.

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    Casecutter - Posted 12:54 pm PDT 03/27/08 (5011 Posts)  Report Spam

    #2-- Could it be they might buy two and raid 0 them... and pocket $40-80?
    I don't know... maybe raid could improve performance, or maybe just maybe they don't want to spend 2.5x more for more for 1Tb of space as they've yet to fill their 80Gb that sounds like it's huck'n up a hairball!
    Hmm the possibilities'... it's a slow day

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    foomench - Posted 1:30 pm PDT 03/27/08 (1392 Posts)  Report Spam

    Why would someone buy a terabyte drive when they only need 500GB of space or less? My workstation still only has 160GB, and that's plenty. Now my HTPC and server are a different story.

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    dave_c - Posted 1:38 pm PDT 03/27/08 (16754 Posts)  Report Spam

    Ridiculously small rebate, and 500GB should've already dropped below $85 w/o rebates. Buy it if your time is valuable and you just don't want to spend another moment waiting on buying at a fairly common online price, we've seen 500GB at about $100 for way too long now. Pity the 7200.11 seems to have bugs still, so it may be awhile till there's something really desirable from Seagate again.

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    fuckbilltang - Posted 1:38 pm PDT 03/27/08 (1995 Posts)  Report Spam

    #9, why would someone buy a 160GB drive when a 500GB drive is just a little bit more?

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    silversound - Posted 1:55 pm PDT 03/27/08 (346 Posts)  Report Spam

    Not a deal!!! Frys has 500GB PATA for only 79.99!

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    foomench - Posted 2:50 pm PDT 03/27/08 (1392 Posts)  Report Spam

    #11, I bought a couple of those 160s about two years ago, for $40 each. The 500s were a lot more then, and still a fair amount more now.

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    bobvance - Posted 2:26 pm PDT 03/28/08 (25 Posts)  Report Spam

    I have two 320GB 7200.10's, a 500GB 7200.11 and a 750GB 7200.11. I haven't had any problems with any of them.

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