You should try out hdd inspector, and see the health of your hdds are at. I have 6 hdd running at my current machine, 2 seagate and 4 WD. WD drives are all at 100%, the two seagate are at 50-70%... I do too love the long warranty, but their health worries me. The oldest hdd I have is a 80gig Maxtor, it has shown bad sector errors back in 2000, but it never went died, so I still have it on my htpc machine.

For those who don't know, the 32mb actually does make a difference. If you run HD Tach with write-back cache enabled/disabled, you'll see the droops in the read/write speed are much less.

It's a decent deal, Fry's had it at that price all the time.

I check SMART status regularly on all of my drives. >0 bad sectors = RMA. The drives are sufficiently cooled and I make regular backups. The mentioned 300GB 7200.10 drive is in my computer, and the only things I store on it are games and a page file, nothing important. Both of the HDs in my computer are recertified, actually. I had a WD WD2500KS die overnight, and when I got it back from RMA, WD docked my warranty to I think three months from three years. Asswipes. Seagate kept the original warranty even after the fourth time. Still warrantied til' Apr, 2011.

I also own a Samsung HD753LJ. Absolutely silent (even while seeking), awesome performance, very cool (28C, only around 4-5 degrees above ambient).

I've got a 15GB Maxtor that still functions fine with no bad sectors. I would use it if only to get it to die but it is loud as hell.

what is the read/write rate?

$110 for a 750GB is now standard. Do NOT pay any more.

And #22, yes 32MB does make a difference if all you ever use your drive for is running benchmark applications.

this is oem, mean no box, and no form to really protect it when they ship it to you, they only put the peanut form on the top of it, not really wrap it around, how much protection have it.

It really depend on the retail package box. have you see the ups or fedex guy drop unload and load their truck?

you never get a deal with seagate... unless of course you consider 110$ paper weights a good deal... =)

i need an eide drive. want a 250g for $20. ok ok i will buy a new comp...next yr

I have had 3 out of 2 of these fail. first one in 1 month, replacement in 1 week, the other one in 1.5 months... dang, and I love seagate.

HD prices are dropping mad crazy fast O.O;;