250GB Seagate PATA drive for 69.99 shipped at Outpost and Bayarea Fry's

[esquared]

Searched but didn't find.
Outpost has the 250 GB PATA drive for 69.99 shipped.
Seagate 250GB PATA
Same deal is going on at Bayarea Fry's. SKU # is 4596257
Possibly good at other area Fry's as well. Please post if you know.

edit:
My newspaper ad from the SJMN shoes it's a 16MB cache.
Outpost's site indicates it's a 16MB cache version but the part number indicates it's an 8MB cache.
Seagate ST3250623A-RK

edit:
I went to Fry's yesterday and indeed the box says 16MB cache. On another note, I saw the "new" Maxtor hard drives boxes (post Seagate aquisition), and they now have print on them stating they are ATA100 drives, just like Seagate drives.

 

[jimmybgood]

No, the 6 in ST3250623A-RK indicates a 16 MB cache. For example, the similar ST3250820NS has an 8 MB cache. It's unclear whether this model features perpendicular recording.

BTW, Newegg has the OEM SATA for $5 more.

 

[luv2liv]

any way to use this in a serial slot?
i ran out of IDE.

 

[Zirconium]

Originally posted by: luv2liv
any way to use this in a serial slot?
i ran out of IDE.

http://www.computervideogear.com/sata/serial-ata-ide-converter.htm

You'd be better off just paying a little more buying a SATA drive.

 

[Zap]

Originally posted by: esquared
On another note, I saw the "new" Maxtor hard drives boxes (post Seagate aquisition), and they now have print on them stating they are ATA100 drives, just like Seagate drives.

LOL

I wonder what line of drives will be inside these retail boxes, 7200.8/9/10?