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Do You Need A 400 GB Hard Drive?

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CompUSA.com has the HUGE Seagate Barracuda 400GB 7200RPM ATA/100 Hard Drive with 8MB Cache for $279.99 + penny shipping = $280 out the door. No rebate hassles. 5 Year Warranty!

Seagate Barracuda 7200.8 drives provide high-performance, highly-reliable storage for PCs and advanced applications, backed up by an industry-leading five-year warranty. Their best-in-class combination of capacity, performance, and support ideally suit them for such applications as high-performance PCs, media PCs, ATA-based servers and RAIDs, and cost-effective network attached storage (NAS).

400 GB Seagate HD w/ 5 Years Warranty
 
Wow......... don't know what i'd do with all that space. Imagine defragging that thing if you had about 350 gb of data on it.
 
if only 50 gigs are free in a 400gig harddrive, that's only 12.5% free. Defrag in windows needs atleast 15% to be somewhat efficient, if I remember correctly
 
Mm, that's even hotter than the 250GB for $140 last year from Circuit City... 400GB is absolutely preposterous, though I'm sure I could find a way to fill it (I'm already ~50% through a 250GB and my 160/60GB are 80% filled each).
 
I have a large collection of DVD quality (~4.3gig each) movies and I have a 160, and a 200 gig hd all full...I think this will help me keep track of them 🙂
 
Still cheaper than anywhere else online after tax for me. Except I already have two Maxtor DiamondMax10 300GB drives 🙁
 
dual 400gb drives for my dual win pvr250's........ 🙂

i have one pvr250.. now to scrounge money for the 2 drives and the extra card 🙂
 
hmmm ... sweet
once the price comes down to $200 or less I bay just have to pick up a couple of them (and then sell off some of my old 120 and 160gb drives)
 
^ ditto

I have a 160 in a SFF shuttle xpc which takes one drive; one 400 would give me some headroom.

EDIT: Ehh, I could junk the floppy and get two......Think I'll start looking for the 3 1/2" faceplate in the junk tote.
 
Seriously, its been years since I gave up the quaint belief that any size hard drive could be enough for me. I remember wondering how I would ever be able to fill my new 4 gig drive. 400 sounds like a good stepping stone for me.
 
I just wish I could find an external enclosure that I'm sure will take that thing. Most of them explicitly say 300 or less 🙁
 
Originally posted by: yougotdeals
Wow......... don't know what i'd do with all that space. Imagine defragging that thing if you had about 350 gb of data on it.
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If you're using it just for storage then you won't have to worry about defragging it. True you could partition it as mentioned or you could install your sytem files to a different harddrive, say a faster Raptor 😉
 
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