HOT! Seagate Barracuda 750 GB w/ 16 mb buffer 7200.11

[nboy22]

I believe this is hot but correct me if I'm wrong

I went to the Tempe, AZ Fry's electronics to purchase a microsd card but was sidetracked when I saw the 750 GB seagate barracudas with 16 mb buffer stacked up for 109.99 each!

I splurged and bought one.

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Edit: I just opened the box and it looks like this drive says 7200.11 on it.

 

[hans007]

nice that its a 7200.11, the 7200.10 is loud.

 

[jjmIII]

With tax (Ohio here) and shipping $123.23 for me....or Newegg 32mb cache.

OR.....get the drive @ CV for $113.99 free shipping with code CPMYTWTYD53.

 

[imported_Bee]

hmm I'm in Tempe, but Frys' website says "price good for online purchase only". So they'll charge for shipping. Newegg's offer is a 7200.11 w/ 32mb cache and it comes down to $120 shipped - no tax for me of course. Then again, it's OEM and Frys' is retail. bwaaaah confusing LOL

 

[jjmIII]

Originally posted by: Bee
hmm I'm in Tempe, but Frys' website says "price good for online purchase only". So they'll charge for shipping. Newegg's offer is a 7200.11 w/ 32mb cache and it comes down to $120 shipped - no tax for me of course. Then again, it's OEM and Frys' is retail. bwaaaah confusing LOL

No, look at my second link above......$113.99 at CV with code CPMYTWTYD53.

 

[nboy22]

Originally posted by: Bee
hmm I'm in Tempe, but Frys' website says "price good for online purchase only". So they'll charge for shipping. Newegg's offer is a 7200.11 w/ 32mb cache and it comes down to $120 shipped - no tax for me of course. Then again, it's OEM and Frys' is retail. bwaaaah confusing LOL

Yeah it does say online only however when I went to the store I saw a pretty decent sized pile of these drives sitting around under a 109.99 price tag. I even asked a few store reps there if it was a typo because the drive has 189.99 printed on the label, I thought there was no way in hell that fry's decreased the price that much.

 

[imported_IronPlasma]

Originally posted by: nboy22

Originally posted by: Bee
hmm I'm in Tempe, but Frys' website says "price good for online purchase only". So they'll charge for shipping. Newegg's offer is a 7200.11 w/ 32mb cache and it comes down to $120 shipped - no tax for me of course. Then again, it's OEM and Frys' is retail. bwaaaah confusing LOL

Yeah it does say online only however when I went to the store I saw a pretty decent sized pile of these drives sitting around under a 109.99 price tag. I even asked a few store reps there if it was a typo because the drive has 189.99 printed on the label, I thought there was no way in hell that fry's decreased the price that much.

Yep, it's true. Yesterday (memorial day) Fry's B&M also had Maxtor 750GB SATA retail boxed drives on sale for $99. For those who may not know, in those boxes you can find rebadged Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 drives with 32MB cache. The only real difference being the Maxtor branded drives carry a 3-yr warranty instead of a 5-yr warranty since Seagate is positioning the Maxtor name as their value brand. Those were an excellent deal. A week ago during Fry's anniversary sale they had the Samsung F1 750GB SATA drives with 32MB cache on sale for $99 as well. If you missed either of those deals then this is still a good deal on a nice 750GB SATA drive if you need one today. On the other hand if you can wait a few days you can find a bit better deals online after factoring in tax and shipping as jjmIII pointed out, or possibly a better deal from Fry's itself again sometime soon.