Fry's - Hard drives - 10GB $9.99/14.99, 20GB $27.99/39.99

[Trey22]

Fry's Bay Area ad 7-31-06:

$14.99 - 10GB

$27.99 - 20GB

At Outpost :

$9.99 - 10GB

$39.99 - 20GB

Honestly, I have no idea what someone would use these for, but hey, they're cheap.

 

[MX2]

I am showing $9.99 and $39.99

 

[VooDooAddict]

Nice ... I wonder if these are overstock from the original XBOXs.

I can imagine a few uses. Mainly an HTPC that streams most of it's content from the network. 5400 RPM should be cooler, less noise, and lower power. 10 Gig should be more then enough for that.

$17.03 shipped for me.

 

[bobdelt]

They'd be perfect for a simple internet\office pc. I can't imagine my parents using much more than 10gbs. The 20gb outpost one aint worth it tho.

 

[ir0nw0lf]

Perfect for a small Linux box on older hardware that can't run larger hard drives. Funny how some people here can't see uses like that for small drives...

 

[Trey22]

Originally posted by: ir0nw0lf
Perfect for a small Linux box on older hardware that can't run larger hard drives. Funny how some people here can't see uses like that for small drives...

I stand corrected .

 

[jvisaria]

anyone know how quiet thiese drives might be? My old WD 13gb had a really loud whine all the time.

This would be a good drive for the OS on my MCE rig... right now it skips sometimes if windows decides to swap file it up.

 

[Greg04]

Originally posted by: Trey22
Fry's Bay Area ad 7-31-06:

$14.99 - 10GB

$27.99 - 20GB

At Outpost :

$9.99 - 10GB

$39.99 - 20GB

Honestly, I have no idea what someone would use these for, but hey, they're cheap.

These would be great drives for a Vista system. One for the OS, and one for content :-0

 

[manly]

What time capsule did Fry's pull these out of?

 

[marvdmartian]

Gee, I wonder if these will have the 5 year warranty on them??

I'm in for 3. These are great for older system builds, and project/modded computer systems. I'll be using them mostly for P3 systems, and they're perfect for that. Even with ground shipping and tax, it still came out to less than $14 per 10gb hard drive, and you can't even get them, used, anywhere for that kind of price.

Thanks for the post, Trey22!

 

[jvisaria]

looks like the same bearing design as the barracude IV, so should be pretty much noiseless. Picked up two for Windows drives..

 

[Modular]

Can't you RAID IDE drives through a controller? That would make a decent JBOD or even RAID 0 array. 20GB total for whatever games you were playing at the time.

 

[xinco]

If I could find a cheap RAID 5 controller, I'd be all over these. I want to make a music server for my SqueezeBox, and that would be perfect.

 

[ebaycj]

Originally posted by: ir0nw0lf
Perfect for a small Linux box on older hardware that can't run larger hard drives. Funny how some people here can't see uses like that for small drives...

Well they are horribly power inefficient (especially if left running 24/7). For my 10W of power, I'd rather store 500+ GB than 10GB.

 

[Praxis]

Not every box has to host your entire pr0n and mp3 collection, ebaycj. Nobody is buying these to act as file servers.

Even a 3 GB drive is enough for a basic Linux installation. I've got a Slackware box on my back porch for with KDE, Firefox, Nvu, Mozilla, OpenOffice, Abiword, Gnumeric, etc., plus a 500 MB swap partition, and I've still got 600 MB free. Works fine for listening to music (the files are on another machine), browsing the net, email, etc. And if someone decides they want it more than I do, I don't feel too bad, since its just a Celeron 400 with 128 MB that I got for free.

 

[Trey22]

Glad to see you guys can put these to use!

Rethinking it, I might pick up one of each, one for my Qpack to maybe throw Ubuntu on (10GB), the other (20GB) as a backup drive for the wife's PC.

 

[Zap]

Originally posted by: MX2times
I am showing $9.99 and $39.99

Different pricing at Outpost versus Fry's.

 

[hans007]

the 10gb ones are pretty cheap. i mean thats enough for just a basic install... or like a folding box or whtaever.

 

[TallBill]

I'm buying one, and gonna put in this box with a Ubuntu install on it. For various reasons, but mostly just to mess around with Linux again.

 

[Arkitech]

not to be critical or anything but it seems like you can get drives that size all day for 5 bucks at a local PC shop.

 

[marvdmartian]

Originally posted by: marvdmartian
Gee, I wonder if these will have the 5 year warranty on them??

UPDATE: Got my 3 drives today, and just checked Seagates warranty checker with the serial numbers.......and they're all good until 20 June 2011!!!

Gawd, but I love that 5 year warranty!! :heart: