Fervid? Seagate 80GB Barracuda IV $85.21 shipped @ Dell

[frankqfrank]

$105.79 - $10.00 coupon - $10.58 10% discount automatically applied. Free shipping.

This drive is quiet.

 

[Coraanu]

Great find, thanks!

 

[xXgambitXx]

 

[tortio]

I've got one of these drives, and it's great! It does get a little toasty, so I had to move it around inside my case to improve the airflow.

Thanks,
Jeff

 

[OulOat]

I have one of these. Man they are quiet, but I miss the sound of my HD working. At least they sound better than the constant humming of the fans.

 

[lundog22]

nice find

 

[bit]

thanks for the head up. here is a few more hd deals:


Dell/WD 120GB 8MB Buffer 7200rpm Hard Drive Special Edition $175 - 10% off - $10 coupon = $148 shipped. Search "340-3277".

Dell 80GB 7200RPM Ultra ATA/100 Hard Drive for $115 - 10% off - $10 coupon = $94 shipped. Search "340-2966".

IBM 120GB Deskstar 120GXP Ultra ATA/100 7200RPM Hard Drive $142 - 10% off - $10 coupon = $118 shipped. Search "IBM 120GB".

 

[frankqfrank]

Yay mine shipped.

 

[Chau]

does anyone know if the warranty for this drive is through dell or through seagate, and it's 3 years right?

 

[esquared]

I bought one of these from Dell in May. I checked Seagate's website with the serial #, and I have a three year warranty.

 

[zodder]

Originally posted by: esquared
I bought one of these from Dell in May. I checked Seagate's website with the serial #, and I have a three year warranty.

Same for me, too.

 

[dolph]

very good drive. thinking about picking up another one for a nice lil raid 0 setup...

 

[mchammer187]

Originally posted by: dolph
very good drive. thinking about picking up another one for a nice lil raid 0 setup...

these drives do not work well for raid i believe

 

[juiio]

Originally posted by: dolph
very good drive. thinking about picking up another one for a nice lil raid 0 setup...

RAID 0 isn't true RAID and will give you no redundancy at all. Are you sure that RAID 0 is what you want?

 

[frankqfrank]

sure it's true RAID, just not the kind you are familiar with calling "RAID."

RAID 0 for speeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeed!!

These drives actually aren't all that great for RAID 0, with RAID 0, random seek times are more important than raw transfer rates. (This drive's transfer rates are very good, especially with big files on a defragmented drive, however random seeks average above drives from Maxtor, WD, and IBM.)

 

[Rakkis]

it's a real RAID unless it provides better reliability.
a raid 0 actually decreases your realibitly and makes for a smaller mean time between failures

 

[dolph]

i know, i know, seagates do bad for raid
BUT
you can rma a barracuda for a "raid optimized" one. reports are that it doesn't improve write times so well, but 100%+ gain in read times. people at storagereview.com seem happy enough with their new drives.

 

[klmico]

I never ordered from dell before but I just jumped on this deal last night. Question: it says my order is In Production and is scheduled to ship on or before 10/7/2002. Now does that mean I can expect to wait 3 weeks before my order even ships or are they just leaving a lot of room for a margin?

 

[itswhats4dinner]

Thanks

 

[klmico]

can anyone answer my question?

 

[OulOat]

klmico, I my case, they said I should expect my HD in 3-4 weeks. But I got it a week later. So I dunno. It's a nice drive, runs silent as hell.

 

[esquared]

klmico:
I've ordered 10-12 times from Dell, and around half of them had a long to longer ship date than what I expected. Many times they give a worst case senario for their shipping timetable. That way you can't complain about Dell not shipping when they said they would. Most everything gets shipped way before their ship estimate, in my experience anyway. This way they cover their asses and you're real happy to get your stuff early.

 

[frankqfrank]

Dell has always shipped my orders well before the date they estimate.

 

[Rage3324]

did the $10 die cause it won't work for me anymore

 

[frankqfrank]

$10 worked fine for me just now. Code begins with a four nine.