EDIT: "Quite Hot!" Seagate Barracuda 120gb 7200rpm 8mb for $60

[Axon]

Great deal, thanks.

 

[DamnDirtyApe]

Damn, this is hot! Now I have to see if CompUSA has reasonable arrangements for shipping to the Great White North, eh!

 

[cockeyed]

The Hot Deal that I've been waiting for. Ordered one to replace a 40gb Barracuda IV. The reviews on this HDD look pretty good; appears to be as quiet as the IV but faster. Thanks for posting the deal!

 

[SKORPI0]

Nice. Warranty for this drive is 3 years.

BTW, $30 is Instant Rebate, so $109.99 + tax - $50 MIR. Sale till wednesday only...

Regular Retail Price: $139.99
-$30.00 Instant Savings (Valid: 12/21/2003 - 12/24/2003)

You Pay: $109.99 Price after instant rebates, if any
-$50.00 Mfr. Mail-in Rebate (Valid: 12/21/2003 - 12/24/2003)

CompUSA Price: $59.99 Price after instant & mail-in rebates

 

[Eminem2k1]

Heh I might actually get this, Today I got back my $70 rebate from seagate from the same drive a couple months back Great Drive!

 

[wetcat007]

Wow this is the fouth time this deal has been done by compusa, damn cheap

 

[b0red]

bought one last time at compusa. got my rebate today...4weeks

 

[deeznuts]

Originally posted by: SimMike2
Make sure you have a dedicated fan cooling the drive. These Seagate's don't handle overheating very well.

I have the opposite opinion. Unless you mean this specific seagate in particular, and not all seagates in general. I have a 80GB cuda iv in an UltimateTV (basically a TIVO) been running a year and a half no problem. The case of the UltimatTV gets so hot it's scolding right above the drive. And the UTV is constantly running, because of pause, rewind, etc. So a year and a half in a Furnace constantly running, is pretty damn good so far.

 

[stuman19]

Originally posted by: WRXFanatic
Seagate Barracuda at Compusa $59.99 after rebates

not bad at all

Here

Is it recommended to RAID these drives with a WD drive? The WD is a 120 GB SE 7200RPM etc. what do you suggest?

Thanks...

 

[BG4533]

Originally posted by: stuman19

Originally posted by: WRXFanatic
Seagate Barracuda at Compusa $59.99 after rebates

not bad at all

Here

Is it recommended to RAID these drives with a WD drive? The WD is a 120 GB SE 7200RPM etc. what do you suggest?

Thanks...

You could, but generally it is a bad idea. Performance will not be as good as with 2 identical drives. Performance will be based more on the slower drive as the faster will always be waiting for the slower to finish what it is doing.

 

[sk3tch]

Both seem to have similar specs so the speed diff will be negligible.

 

[OneStepsAhead]

One thing you don't want to do is mount two of these drives in adjacent barckets so the drives almost touch, especially without a fan. They will get very hot, and this is not good. I am talking about "too hot to touch with the bare hand" hot!

On my system, I ended up rigging some brackets so that the lower drive hangs about 1" below the upper drive, and then I rigged a little fan I removed from a Pentium-1 heatsink so it would blow between the two drives. Things got a LOT cooler.

Or, use dedicated HD heat sinks, if you can find one that it quiet enough.

I just picked up a Seagate Cheetah 10,000 RPM drive. It should be interesting to see how hot it runs!

 

[weepul]

bump as another seagate fan!

//krunk (^_^x)

 

[Odarby]

Picked one up last night at Tacoma store. They had 2 or three left on shelf. Thanks OP for good deal!

 

[Replay]

My own experience is that you will take a huge performance hit if you RAID stripe dissimilar drives, to the point that it is not worth running them in a RAID configuration. Now I will only stripe identical makes and models. Dunno about mixed drives in a mirror array, for redundancy, but if you did that you wouldn't be looking for performance anyway.

Originally posted by: sk3tch
Both seem to have similar specs so the speed diff will be negligible.

 

[johnyaya]

This is/was way hot, too bad I missed it.

They seem to be all sold out (I've checked 3 different zips) - any idea
if they do Rainchecks on this sort of thing? Would someone else pricematch?

 

[Lanyap]

Originally posted by: SimMike2
Make sure you have a dedicated fan cooling the drive. These Seagate's don't handle overheating very well.

Is the dedicated fan a must? I have not heard of the overheating issue around here. I have a Seagate I have not used yet. Was planning to install it in a 400SC.

 

[Sheepathon]

Got my $70 rebate this week. Good show.

 

[MaxDepth]

shows over. rebates gone. now back to $139.99

 

[Naruto]

Sorry to bring this back from the grave, but has anyone received a rebate check yet? And do you remember where the rebate goes to? Thanks.