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Hard Drive Deals for week of 08/14/05

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jeffs99

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As per requsts, I will now try to also include $/GB

The following are summary of this week's (08/15/05) Hard Drive ads. These are a summary of CA Bay Area sunday ads and also from other postings.

This are all at B&M and maybe online also.

All are PATA drives except where noted.

Only listed internal drives.

Expiration dates are mostly Sat 08/20/05 except Frys which are Tues 08/16/05.

Frys
Seagate 300 GB $99.99 AR (4280804) $0.33/GB
Seagate 300 GB SATA $119.99 AR (4303165) $0.40/GB
Maxtor 160 GB $69.99 (3575084) $0.44/GB
Hitachi 80 GB $19.99 AR(4322615) $0.25/GB


Office Depot
Maxtor 300 GB $149.99 (774-952) $0.50/GB

Office Max
Western Digital 80 GB $39.99 AR (2033-9475) $0.50/GB

Staples
Maxtor 300 GB $149.94 (583700) $0.50/GB


Circuit City
Seagate 160 GB $59.99 AR (ST316023ARK) $0.37/GB


Best Buy
Western Digital 160 GB $39.99 AR (5524343) $0.25/GB


CompUSA
Hitachi 160 GB $39.99 AR (314482) $0.25/GB
Seagate 300 GB $139.99 AR (316178) $0.47/GB

 
wooohooo
the 300gb seagate drives are available online @ outpost.com for those of us that doesnt have a Fry's nearby

mikey c
 
Maxtor drives are manaufactured with tiny little time bombs that cause the drives to fail a couple of months after their 12 month warranty expires. Although their tech support wouldn't confirm this, they also said they wouldn't deny it either. You choose: A Maxtor that will probably fail after their 12 month warranty or go with a Seagate and a 5 year warranty. Not a very difficult decision to make!
 
I have had bad experiences with Maxtor too. Very good experience with Seagate. If Seagate is still confident enough in its drives to offer a 5 year warranty, that is a pretty loud and clear indicationto me of where I would find the better quality. HD failure is too much of a pain to prompt me to buy on price alone.
 
yeah, its not worth the hassle of going cheap and buying a maxtor. when obviously they can't compare with seagate
 
haven't had problems with maxtors myself, in fact I have computers from 1995 still going off their maxtor hd! Lucky I guess.

western digital sucks for me thou.
 
I bought one of the Hitachi 80GB today. It is a 2MB cache drive, meaning it won't be too fast. I just hope it isnt too loud and it lasts a while, as its going in a machine with a PSU fan and nothing else making noise... (replacing a replacement for a WD 80GB SE drive)
 
The WD 160GB from Best Buy is hotter when you use the $20 off coupon available here. Then it becomes only $20 + tax AR. The coupon is on Best Buy's site so should be OK to post here.
 
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