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Posted at 2:07 PM on Tuesday 12/9/08 by
Ben
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TechSunny.com has the Western Digital Scorpio WD1200BEVS 120GB 5400 RPM 8MB Cache SATA Notebook Hard Drive on sale for $39 + $0 shipping = $39 shipped. Covered by a 1-year warranty. [BizRate]
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    byy - Posted 2:14 pm PST 12/9/08 (4 Posts)  Report Spam

    a good deal? or will there be better? i'm looking for a low priced SATA note book hard drive. thanks

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    UnL337 - Posted 2:40 pm PST 12/9/08 (54 Posts)  Report Spam

    Not sure on techsunny.com but Newegg has a Hitachi 120gb for $49.99 and you have to pay shipping so $39 shipped doesn't sound so bad but the 1 year warranty bothers me not to mention the seller.

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    mdheinzer - Posted 2:45 pm PST 12/9/08 (630 Posts)  Report Spam

    crap, 1 year warranty 5400 rpm... save time and money and buy a seagate 7200rpm with a 5 year warranty

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    mgchan - Posted 3:21 pm PST 12/9/08 (161 Posts)  Report Spam

    7200 rpm is not for everyone. 5 year warranty probably is good although realistically in 5 years, will you want your 120gb drive repaired? By then it will probably be standard to have multiple terabyte drives, maybe even terabyte iPhones.

    This is pretty good if you just need a replacement hard drive for your notebook and are on a serious budget. The sweet spot these days seems to be around 80-100 for the best value for hard drives. 120gb just doesn't get you as far as it used to.

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    booondocksaint - Posted 4:36 pm PST 12/9/08 (136 Posts)  Report Spam

    I'm pretty sure this is the one you can use for you xbox 360. It takes some work to get it going but if you have the patience and the skills, you could have a 120gb drive for a fraction of what microsoft wants for their drive.

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    pcspecialist - Posted 4:39 pm PST 12/9/08 (269 Posts)  Report Spam

    How many times must it be said before it sinks in.... Stop being so dense!

    Performance is not determined solely on the speed the platter(s) spin at. A 5400RPM drive with a platter density 1.33 percent greater than a 7200RPM drive will perform identically if all other characteristics are the same. The same except that the 5400RPM drive will consume less energy.

    In this case though, the WD1200BEVS is outperformed by most 7200RPM drives because the WD1200BEVS doesn't have a very dense platter BUT many of the latest 5400RPM drives do have considerably denser platters than 7200RPM drives.

    If you are going to complain about the rotation speed, show some intelligence and qualify the complaint with the platter density. RPM by itself is MEANINGLESS! There are plenty of (year old design) 7200RPM drives that are outperformed by (new design) 5400RPM drives. There are plenty of brand new 5400RPM drives that perform on par with brand new 7200RPM drives.

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    kangman - Posted 4:53 pm PST 12/9/08 (172 Posts)  Report Spam

    I purchased this from them before. ahaha and i think they're running some kind of mom and pop from the basement outfit cause the box they delivered my hd in was for another product. When i received it the box was a plain white but when i opened it lo and behold there's graphics inside the box for a nice pci tv tuner card and my harddrive. Delivery was prompt and my drive hasn't failed yet.

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    RKLE - Posted 6:36 pm PST 12/9/08 (8910 Posts)  Report Spam

    lowest price I have seen on a 2.5 for this size.

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    TerryV - Posted 7:13 pm PST 12/9/08 (128 Posts)  Report Spam

    Many companies recylce packing material and boxes, that's a good thing and means nothing about how they do business.

    PC spebacont is correct about performance. I use some 5400rpm drives with better performance on my file servers raid 5. They out performed the 7200's I could have bought.

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    emuc64 - Posted 8:23 pm PST 12/9/08 (94 Posts)  Report Spam

    #5, I had no idea you could change the 360 hard drive. $39 and a little work is better than paying $135 for the same thing.

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    randomocity - Posted 9:11 pm PST 12/9/08 (4 Posts)  Report Spam

    I've never seen a 120Gb HDD this low, I shall be picking this up for my PS3. 7200RPM is nice, but for 40 bucks, I wont be complaining.

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    flanders1021 - Posted 9:46 pm PST 12/9/08 (72 Posts)  Report Spam

    I looked and looked at how many ways MS could stick it to me for storage after my 20 gig died in my 360. I couldn't play any games without a storage device that was MS made. I bought this. It is work to get this in a 360, but it works. Better than the alternative cheap solution.

    http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000O62OS6

    Plus with the new dash, I can save the dvd drive from chewing on more game discs by installing more games on the bigger drive.

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    pcspecialist - Posted 10:37 pm PST 12/9/08 (269 Posts)  Report Spam

    Just noticed the following that strikes me as very odd for a condition new hard drive:

    RMA Details for this product

    1. This item cannot be returned to the manufacturer, warranty for this item must be handled by Techsunny.com
    There is no warranty for this item through the manufacturer, replacements and repairs will be handled by Techsunny.com

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    whatatay - Posted 2:51 am PST 12/10/08 (1901 Posts)  Report Spam

    Didn't hard drives go out in the 1600's?

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    twitch42 - Posted 6:33 am PST 12/10/08 (86 Posts)  Report Spam

    Put one in your PS3, benchmarks show that in the PS3 the rotation speed doesn't matter.

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