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Seagate has been running nearly continuous promos on the pATA-160s thru outpost since September. The promos have been varying from 2-4 weeks each and you can pick-up one drive per promo. I've bought 4 of the exact same model (Oct+Nov+Dec+Jan) for a cheap raid setup. Price + ship - rebate has...

I bought the black at $12 a few weeks ago and have been using it without a hitch. Observed caveats are all minor: + the screws that come to hold it together work but are a poor fit as they don't tighten down into their counter-sinks very well. + the enclosure is drum-tight: no venting...

Rosewill is Newegg's housebrand; 100% re-badged stuff, of course. Some is good, some is not. IMO, when it comes to PSs it all depends upon the value of the mobo+CPU to be powered: budget systems OK with anything but the known-worst brand PSUs, high-end systems should get only known-best PSs...

No difference whatsoever unless you go with a true-SATA, meaning a WD Raptor which remain expensive and of limited capacity. All the other SATAs are merely IDE drives with a SATA rather than IDE control card tacked onto the bottom so you can use those nice, thin SATA cables. The performance...

A knobbed rheostat? Ohhh .. how quaint! ;)

maker says it's 90mm X 56mm X 14mm which - for us poor UK colonies still suffering under cubits, stones, and feet - equals 3.54 x 2.20 x 0.55 inches. That's big, but did ya'll notice the little screw that *may* allow easy swapping of the FC inside? That would be a big bonus for me as the...

Yo funboy6942: Your chair mount looks good to me! F 'em if they can't take a joke. Enjoy the noise! I gotta get me a pair of these.

Someone earlier posted the recomendation to call the rebate processors (name+number on Amazon's rebate form) to get assurances that this rebate will work with the JustDeals purchase. JustDeals is not specifically excluded on the rebate form but note the non-matching part number: rebate...