Hard Drive Deals

[robie]

ZipZoomfly

Seagate 250GB Internal SATA $134.95 Shipped


OfficeMax

Western Digital 250GB Internal HD $119.99 AR

Western Digital 120GB External $89.99 AR

Circuit City

Segate 120GB Internal HD $49.99 AR

Western Digital 80GB External HD $49.99 AR

 

[Chunkee]

uhhh, fix your 120gb link

jC

 

[pxc]

office depot

Maxtor 200GB ATA/133 $89.99AR

Maxtor 200GB SATA $89.99AR

fry's (LA/OC, probably other areas) through Tuesday

Seagate 160GB ATA/100 $49.99AR

Seagate 160GB SATA $69.99AR

WD 250GB external USB 2.0 $129.99AR

WD 80GB PATA $17.99AR

WD 40GB 2.5" external $89.99AR

WD 300GB SATA $149.99AR

Emprex 4GB USB 2.0 1" hard drive $99.99

warm...

 

[ryanv12]

Newegg has the Seagate 250GB SATA with NCQ for 134.99. I didn't see anything on the ZZF link that had NCQ. Good finds though, I'm in the market for a couple of new hard drives

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822148065

 

[robie]

Thanks guys, I was just trying to get some people to post some better deals. I am trying to set up a RAID 6 setup and I need a few drives for it.

Can anyone find a better deal on the large Seagates?

 

[jammur21]

You just missed the 400GB seagate for $229 after MIR last week at CompUSA

 

[MojoKrunch]

Anyone know if Office Max will PM to Sams for the WD2500JBRTL?(they've got it for $118)
I suspect not. Just wondering.

 

[EKKC]

sorry but what's a RAID 6

 

[kindest]

since we are on hds.. anyone heard anything about the new maxtorIII line...
Native command queuing for 2X improved random read performance over previous generation MaXLine Warranty: Manufacturer Warranty 5 Years has the same specs as the diamondmax10 but the warrenty is longer... "These third-generation MaXLine drives offer up to 300GB storage capacity and are designed for mean time to failure (MTTF) of 1 million hours (based on a statistical sample) for low-I/O duty cycle midline and nearline applications" just wondering if i should get me one of those bad boys or a diamondplus 10...

 

[Samus]

Kindest...

If it is Maxtor, I'm sure they screwed something up. They're not the kind of company that makes a great product every-so-often, practically all of their crap since 2000 has been pretty shitty. Talk to anyone that has a Dell Dimension ordered for Home (opposed to office) and they'll tell you they've had their HD replaced. This is because Dell and Maxtor had an exclusive contract through 2003 and most of 2004, leaking almost 700,000 crappy Maxtor drives into home model Dimensions.

Over at SR, the failure rate on the 740dx (series 6) maxtor ATA drives is 30% after 1 year of service. Yes, almost 1/3 of these drives fail.

Are there people who get lucky with Maxtor? Probably. Will you be one of them? Don't bet on it.

 

[TestGuyCT]

Here's another 80 GB WD PATA drive from Outpost:

Western Digital 80GB WD800JBRTL UATA100 8MB Buffer - Retail Hard Drive Kit

$69.99 - $30 MIR - $20 MIR = $19.99AR + tax +shipping.

Both rebates go to El Paso, TX. Drive must be purchased 06-01-2005 thru 06-07-2005.

 

[robie]

EKKC this link will explain what a RIAD 6 is for ya. Similar to RIAD 5, in my opinion it is the best way to make sure you don't loose your info across mutiple drives. It takes 4 drives gives you the space of 3 and if one fails you don't loose your info.

Enjoy


RAID 6

 

[Space Chimp]

Note that the 250GB Seagate from ZZF is now down to $129.99 Shipped

 

[mrEvil]

Originally posted by: Samus
Kindest...

If it is Maxtor, I'm sure they screwed something up. They're not the kind of company that makes a great product every-so-often, practically all of their crap since 2000 has been pretty shitty. Talk to anyone that has a Dell Dimension ordered for Home (opposed to office) and they'll tell you they've had their HD replaced. This is because Dell and Maxtor had an exclusive contract through 2003 and most of 2004, leaking almost 700,000 crappy Maxtor drives into home model Dimensions.

Over at SR, the failure rate on the 740dx (series 6) maxtor ATA drives is 30% after 1 year of service. Yes, almost 1/3 of these drives fail.

Are there people who get lucky with Maxtor? Probably. Will you be one of them? Don't bet on it.

Wow, I can say the same crap about WD. USED to be good, now I will not take one if given away. I stopped doing an RMA on drives after I had to do (4) within 18 months on the same drive and now another one is acting up. I personally would rather roll my dice with Maxtor at this time. Heck, Seagate or even Samsung or Hitachi could not be work IMO.

 

[LoserSlayer]

Originally posted by: Samus
Kindest...

If it is Maxtor, I'm sure they screwed something up. They're not the kind of company that makes a great product every-so-often, practically all of their crap since 2000 has been pretty shitty. Talk to anyone that has a Dell Dimension ordered for Home (opposed to office) and they'll tell you they've had their HD replaced. This is because Dell and Maxtor had an exclusive contract through 2003 and most of 2004, leaking almost 700,000 crappy Maxtor drives into home model Dimensions.

Over at SR, the failure rate on the 740dx (series 6) maxtor ATA drives is 30% after 1 year of service. Yes, almost 1/3 of these drives fail.

Are there people who get lucky with Maxtor? Probably. Will you be one of them? Don't bet on it.

I've had a DiamondMax 9 for the past 7 months. No problems till a few days ago. But right now I'm not sure if it was the hard drive or my motherboard.