Don't forget if you use PayPal to pay, you get 20% cash back in January '08. That drops the price of this hard drive to $176 making it only $0.176/GB!

3-year warranty on this drive (since it's OEM) makes it an acceptable deal as well. Good advice, krunk!

dead deal?

Use in a RAID array to minimize worry of failure (but buy 4 so you will have a replacement).

This deal is a steal. but the downside is if the drive fails. you lost 1 TB of data. Knock on wood.

This drive slows itself down to 5400RPM when idle. That should equate to a LONGER lifespan if anything.

this is actually a terriffic drive, It's pretty quite too!

Wow, nice deal. I had $20 I'd forgotten about sitting in my PayPal account from last year's promotion so I'm only paying $156 for the drive in the end

Well... assuming that I don't forget about the cash back again.

Fun is over, now it is $280 with $30 off

Price changed already; $329 + free shipping now.

Anyone else find the marketting to be pretty bad? Why would you remind people of the "joy when this hard drive fails...."

#11, that is Ben's marketing, not Newegg's.

BTW, WD's 750GB is available for $149.99 with free shipping. Minus the $29.99 Pay Pal rebate and it is only $120. Better deal than this on a $ per GB level.

http://www.storagereview.com/1000.sr?page=0%2C1

FYI, it's a 5400rpm-only drive. It does NOT change spindle speeds.

WD is not a reliable drive. Loosing 1TB of all your collections of drama series, movies, songs is not worth it. Get a Seagate or Maxtor