Hitachi Deskstar 200GB, 7200RPM, Internal ATA/100 Hard Drive $69.99 after rebate

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Product Number: 314179

High capacity. High performance. Low cost-per-megabyte. 3.5-inch drives for the desktop and beyond.

Highlights

Award-winning, 7200 RPM performance for better throughput in a variety of applications, backed by industry-leading benchmark performance.
Low power design reduces system costs and drives high reliability in ATA-RAID and other multiple drive systems

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[SignalSoldier]

are those drives still loud as hell?

 

[allisolm]

Link

3yr warranty, $80 MIR

 

[Reel]

There is a 250G for the same price: 250G. I ordered that and the Belkin 500VA UPS: 500VA and got the penny shipping.

It is a ton of money I will have out in rebates. :thumbsdown: But I wanted both of these items and they are good deals. Also, there is 2% extra back from CompUSA if you go through the citi dividend merchants (with a citi dividend card).

 

[Reel]

Looks like the 250 only has 1 year warranty while 200 has 3. Not sure if there is a typo somewhere or what.

I have been looking around. I am thinking that it may actually be a 3 year warranty but I can't guarantee it. Everywhere I look says Hitachi has a 3 year warranty on all their 8MB cache drives.

 

[gft]

Originally posted by: SignalSoldier
are those drives still loud as hell?

Not at all. They use fluid bearings so you can't hear them spin, and the head movement is also very quiet... which I can't say about my friend's maxtor.

Also the Hitachi 7k250 is very fast.

Review at Storage Review.com

 

[seanws]

Originally posted by: ReelC00L
There is a 250G for the same price: 250G. I ordered that and the Belkin 500VA UPS: 500VA and got the penny shipping.

It is a ton of money I will have out in rebates. :thumbsdown: But I wanted both of these items and they are good deals. Also, there is 2% extra back from CompUSA if you go through the citi dividend merchants (with a citi dividend card).

the 250 is also in store only, where the 200 is available online for poor saps like me with no crapusa in town. rebate is through rebatesHQ, the same rebate house that handles the seagate rebates. hopefully they wount be a hassle AGAIN

 

[oink2u]

Originally posted by: ReelC00L
Looks like the 250 only has 1 year warranty while 200 has 3. Not sure if there is a typo somewhere or what.

I have been looking around. I am thinking that it may actually be a 3 year warranty but I can't guarantee it. Everywhere I look says Hitachi has a 3 year warranty on all their 8MB cache drives.

I can confirm that; just got the 250GB and the sticker on the box says 3yr warranty

thanks for this deal!!!

 

[Reel]

Originally posted by: seanws

Originally posted by: ReelC00L
There is a 250G for the same price: 250G. I ordered that and the Belkin 500VA UPS: 500VA and got the penny shipping.

It is a ton of money I will have out in rebates. :thumbsdown: But I wanted both of these items and they are good deals. Also, there is 2% extra back from CompUSA if you go through the citi dividend merchants (with a citi dividend card).

the 250 is also in store only, where the 200 is available online for poor saps like me with no crapusa in town. rebate is through rebatesHQ, the same rebate house that handles the seagate rebates. hopefully they wount be a hassle AGAIN

The 250 was online too earlier. It just went out really fast. I picked one up about 9am eastern. Shortly after I ordered, it became estimated delivery 2-3 weeks then in-store only. I haven't had any trouble with rebates HQ. I have $80 from some staples/belkin rebates approved according to their site.

Oink2u, thanks for the confirmation. I feel better. A 3 year warranty on these is a great thing.

 

[Mac]

Thanks for OP and special thanks to ReelCool re the tip on the larger drive. I just picked up a 250GB at the local CompUSA for $149.99. Only downside is the $80 rebate which is steep but, AR, lots of capacity cheap. In the box, there was a warranty declaration that says that current 8mb cache drives come with 3 years warranty. 2MB or less are only 1 year. The drive I purchased has the 8mb cache. Hard to believe disk space is so cheap now. This is dating myself but my first PC was the original IBM PC-XT with a whopping 10MB full height drive. I still have the drive in my garage somewhere. If I remember correctly, IBM charged approximately $1,000 extra for the XT over the standard PC that only had dual 5.25 floppy drives.

 

[Trikat]

Originally posted by: gft

Originally posted by: SignalSoldier
are those drives still loud as hell?

Not at all. They use fluid bearings so you can't hear them spin, and the head movement is also very quiet... which I can't say about my friend's maxtor.

Also the Hitachi 7k250 is very fast.

Review at Storage Review.com

That is a comparison of the Hitachi SATA.

 

[SimMike2]

I ran the serial for the 250GB through the Hitachi site and it gave me a date of 12/03/2007, which is a couple of months short of three years.

These run a little hotter than the Maxtor DM9 that it replaced. The Hitachi runs about 30c, whereas the Maxtor would maybe be 26c, wintertime temp. The Hitachi is quieter than the Maxtor, but that is probably because I didn't use the acoustic management option on the Maxtor. I ghosted this as my boot drive. Overall I can't tell any difference in speed from the Maxtor. It might be a tad faster.

Regardless if it is faster, I like to rotate new drives into the bootdrive position every year or so.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Originally posted by: SimMike2
I ran the serial for the 250GB through the Hitachi site and it gave me a date of 12/03/2007, which is a couple of months short of three years.

These run a little hotter than the Maxtor DM9 that it replaced. The Hitachi runs about 30c, whereas the Maxtor would maybe be 26c, wintertime temp.

How are you measuring that? The reason that I ask is because, according to something that I read last year on SR's forums, the IBM's SMART temp sensing is thermally-calibrated, whereas other drives' sensors are not. Does the IBM actually feel warmer to the touch than the Maxtor? It's possible that the Maxtor's sensor might just be off. Also, sensor placement can change how they respond to local temperature variances. The sensor on my Maxtor DM+9 250GB must be much closer to whatever part of the HD gets warmest, because under heavy load (formatting/surface-scanning), the temp spikes very quickly, whereas my WD 80GB JB drive's temps rise rather slowly, even under the same sorts of loads. (Another reason for believing that the Maxtor's temp sensors are not thermally-calibrated, and only really useful for relative measurements.)

Even though it was a "Deathstar", my 30GB 75GXP was hands-down the fastest, and also the quietest (due to ceramic rather than steel bearings) drive I had ever owned. In fact it was still faster than the newer 60GB Maxtor that I bought to replace it. (Which itself died in less than six months, but that's another story.)

I would expect nothing less, performance or silence-wise, from the newest crop of these Hitachi HDs, although I've heard that they've gone back to aluminum platters rather than glass. A three-year warranty is nice, too.

 

[trentdoan]

pricematched this at Fry's, however i'm not too sure if i can apply the rebate to it since the rebate form indicates a CompUSA purchase. Do you guys think they will make good on the rebate if i attempt to send it in? It's afterall a manufacturer's rebate. A quick search of Hitachi's site didn't coem up with any other rebate forms for this particular drive.

 

[dfinder]

Thanks!

 

[SimMike2]

I use a free utility called Speedfan to measure drive temperature. It gets the information directly from the drive. Most modern drives have a temperature monitor. Just google to find this handy program. Just keep in mind that 3 or 4c is not that big a difference.

 

[SimMike2]

Originally posted by: trentdoan
pricematched this at Fry's, however i'm not too sure if i can apply the rebate to it since the rebate form indicates a CompUSA purchase. Do you guys think they will make good on the rebate if i attempt to send it in? It's afterall a manufacturer's rebate. A quick search of Hitachi's site didn't coem up with any other rebate forms for this particular drive.

The rebate is specific to CompUSA. You would likely get shot down if you bought some place else. That being said, I would suspect other places might offer this same rebate, except specific to their store.

 

[KC5AV]

Are they still called DeathStars? I've had a ton of the older drives go bad in machines here at work. Dell always replaces them with Western Digital or Maxtor, but that may just be an issue of cost.

 

[vgranada]

anyone have the link to the rebate for this? I lost mine.

 

[mshan]

"I would expect nothing less, performance or silence-wise, from the newest crop of these Hitachi HDs, although I've heard that they've gone back to aluminum platters rather than glass."

What difference does this make in terms of data integrity and hard drive durability / reliability?

 

[kaborka]

Originally posted by: KC5AV
Are they still called DeathStars? I've had a ton of the older drives go bad in machines here at work. Dell always replaces them with Western Digital or Maxtor, but that may just be an issue of cost.

Everything I've read says that when Hitachi took production over from IBM, the new drives are just fine. THG gave the 250GB drive an excellent review.