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Posted at 11:59 AM on Thursday 05/15/08 by
Ben
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NewEgg.com has the Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 ST3250410AS 250GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive for $60 with free shipping. Rated for 8.5ms average seek time, 10ms average write time.
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    c00b - Posted 1:17 pm PDT 05/15/08 (679 Posts)  Report Spam

    LOL Who in their right mind would buy a 16MB hard drive?

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    jim5k - Posted 1:31 pm PDT 05/15/08 (178 Posts)  Report Spam

    The best deals seem to be on the 500's right now. Ben has listed a couple in the $70's (plus shipping), and Fry's currently has the Maxtor L01F500 500GB Serial ATA/300 16MB for $80 (plus shipping).

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    wokwithpda - Posted 1:31 pm PDT 05/15/08 (566 Posts)  Report Spam

    #1 Did you mean, "who in their right mind" would buy a 250 GB for $60?

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    John2111 - Posted 2:15 pm PDT 05/15/08 (492 Posts)  Report Spam

    Just retired my oldest computer. It had 2 4GB hard drives. Trsansferred everything to a single thumb drive but USB on computer is version 0

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    TheBS - Posted 2:36 pm PDT 05/15/08 (1285 Posts)  Report Spam

    I remember paying $750 for the first 1" 1GB 5400rpm drive (ST31200N -- 1.25GB, 1.05GiB formatted) in 1993. And that was a deal! I mean, it was $1/MB back then.

    As far as this, this is the single platter 250GB of the prior 7200.10 series. There are 320GB of the new 7200.11 drives out (although I think the lower capacity 7200.11 drives only have 16MB, not 32MB), although firmware issues are not so uncommon (at least with the 32MB versions).

    Other single platter 320GB options exists as well. But in reality, double platter 640GB options are a better deal, and the older, double platter 500GB drives have come down in price as well.

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    zidane - Posted 2:45 pm PDT 05/15/08 (455 Posts)  Report Spam

    i sure hope c00b knew that the 16MB referred to the cache, and not the size of the hard drive ...

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    Towncivilian - Posted 5:29 pm PDT 05/15/08 (1236 Posts)  Report Spam

    #1 I would buy a 16MB drive in my left mind

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    mitda - Posted 6:22 pm PDT 05/15/08 (880 Posts)  Report Spam

    300/320 GB drives are normally $50 - $60.

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