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Posted at 9:28 AM on Wednesday 11/11/09 by
Ben
Hotness UNHOT
Newegg has the Western Digital Caviar WD6401AALS 640GB 7200 RPM 32MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive for $75 - $10 coupon code EMCMMLS46 [Exp 11/11] + $0 shipping = $65 shipped. It uses a new 2x320GB platter design.

  • Western Digital Caviar Blue 320GB Hard Drive = $43 w/ code EMCMMLS45
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      vstacoma - Posted 11:35 am PST 11/11/09 (22 Posts)  Report Spam

      Got this drive last week. Works like a charm.

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      dave_c - Posted 2:02 pm PST 11/11/09 (16755 Posts)  Report Spam

      Why? Regular sale price for 1TB is now about $70-75, hardly worth saving 5 bucks to lose ~ 1/3rd capacity. Plus, (if true), 320GB platters are going to be slower than 500GB, unless it uses the same higher density platters but short-strokes them which I doubt or they'd advertise it as a specialty drive, raid-class or something to that effect.

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      RayKCMO - Posted 3:58 pm PST 11/11/09 (431 Posts)  Report Spam

      #2, Regular price for Caviar GREEN is 75 bucks. This is a Caviar BLACK. Different beasts.

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      leon12150 - Posted 8:06 pm PST 11/11/09 (17 Posts)  Report Spam

      Black drives work better for raid applications than the green drives.

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      Draxanoth - Posted 7:20 am PST 11/12/09 (106 Posts)  Report Spam

      #2 These seem to produce less heat than the terabyte drives too. Probably platter related somehow, but I appreciate drives that don't churn out heat like a 200 watt video card.

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      DeathBat - Posted 5:03 am PST 11/14/09 (600 Posts)  Report Spam

      It's quieter Dave and faster than the seventy five dollar TB drives going around.

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