Today only. Newegg has the Seagate Barracuda ST500DM002 500GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive (Bare Drive) for $40 - $5 off with coupon code EMCKBHE35 [Exp 8/31] = $35 with free shipping.
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This is a waste of a drive bay and a SATA III connector when you can get a 2 TB 64 meg cache for $85 tax and delivered at Amazon.
Some motherboards can't handle a 2TB drive. This is great for them!
I'd much rather have 500gb than 2TB if I'm going to format a drive. Unless you are building a file server most people only need about 100GB at most to install their software and games. 2TB is just overkill.
I have to format all my drives. How do you get by without that? Yeah, you need 100GB for the OS and a ton of programs. However, I have over 100 programs. In any event, a multi-Tb drive is used for storage, not for OS. One BRD MKV movie (okay, Planet Earth) – 60GB. I have multiple Tb seeding. My SATA III 2Tb 64 Mb cache 5100 RPM "green" drive specs out on HD tune is faster than my 7200 RPM OS/applications drive. On the rare occasion you need to move a 5Gb+ file, the extra transfer speed cuts the time in half.
Up to 500GB of data GONE!
A newegg customer claims there is no warranty on this drive by either Newegg or the manufacture. These are "old" drives. Beware my friend.
Right. Seagate starts their warranty the day it was manufactured. So if they built these drives back in 2010, their warranty expires around 2012.