Samsung
Spinpoint F4 2TB 5400 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive HD204UI - OEM
These are the quiet, cool, green Samsung drives. They would make nice mass store devices (movie or music library) and backups. Available for instore pickup or shipped. I picked up another two for a full...
A brief look revealed that the 3 games I would have any interest in A) all had Securom and B) well, who cares, they had SecuRom. That's enough to kill any deal.
I should state that the 1 in 7 reviews out of 551 (a respectable number of reviews) roughly listed DOA/early death as a problem. We all know the egg seems to have a phobia about properly packaging their OEM drives, but that ratio of people posting negatives on this drive far exceeded other...
you know - $10, or a potential $20 wasn't worth the hassle of canceling the order and going through all the hoops. (They shipped it today already, btw) Now had I gone through Bing the first time....
As for the $55 Hitachis: actually needed more space, and after reading the Hitachi 1 TB...
Bought a couple of the Samsung 5400 RPM HDs for $190 after discount and coupon. (Forgot CB from Bing, darnit!:() That's a pretty darn good deal for backup drives or just mass store drives.
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