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Microcenter has the 500gb hitachi with same specs for $49 after $10 rebate.
Any experience, recommendations?
#3, I haven't checked the specs on the Hitachi drive, but this is the new Seagate 7200.12 500GB drive with a single 500GB platter inside. Older 500GB drives use two 250GB platters.
With that said, I won't be buying this drive. Seagate never worked out all the problems with the 7200.10 and 7200.11 lines and I have no reason to think that this drive is any better. Plus, Seagate has dropped their warranty from five years to three years.
BS. Seagates work fine. Who the deuce cares whether 1 or two platters inside- actually 2 may be better since a miniscule lower probability of losing all data should a head crash. As for the price, 500G are heading below 4$40-50 with no rebate, so to wear the cliche, YANBFB (yet another non-bargain from ben).
#6, 1 platter would be faster, quieter and cooler than 2 platters, all else equal. Enough with the YANBFB stuff already - go start your own bargain site. Post good deals and we'll all defect over to you.
A few things...
#1 Yes this is a single platter and it is superior to the 2 platter designs in every way as mentioned
#2 Seagate hasn't dropped the 5 year warranty... it just only comes with retail drives now unless it's an enterprise drive which have 5 year warranties regardless
#3 This is the 7200.12 drives... to compare them to the 7200.11's would be like comparing Windows XP to Windows ME... don't be foolish and judgmental until the reviews are fully in including the test of time.
#4 The firmware crisis was basically under control after that new firmware release (excluding the 500GB 7200.11 drives which I don't know what the hell is going on there... so keep away from them lol)
yeah... i concur. basically you get improved performance with a single platter drive. better density = faster read times. seek times are relatively the same but sequential read writes are impressive.
Buy the 1TB Hatachi at the Egg for another $20. $65 for a 500GB drive no matter how many platters it has is not a deal imho.