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Outpost has Seagate 120GB for $55 AR with shipping

Shipping was $7.23 or somethinglike that for me.
You can't assume it will be a flat $5 S/H for everyone.
 
Is this a real quiet drive? I've seen a lot of posts in the past about the Seagate Barracuda being one of the quietest drives by a wide margin. Is this a Barracuda? Is it real quiet? I wanna build an HTPC and need a hush system. Thanks.

Edit: This looks to be a Barracuda.

One reviewer at Newegg said the drive is "actually a 111 gig HD." Is that true?

Edit 2: There's a limit of one per customer/household/address.

Edit 3: Just ordered mine. Thanks for the tip. These drives are supposed to be very quiet and fast. This is a good price. For me, in CA, it comes out at $66.60, after tax and shipping (which is $8.74).
 
Originally posted by: Muse
Is this a real quiet drive? I've seen a lot of posts in the past about the Seagate Barracuda being one of the quietest drives by a wide margin. Is this a Barracuda? Is it real quiet? I wanna build an HTPC and need a hush system. Thanks.

Edit: This looks to be a Barracuda.

One reviewer at Newegg said the drive is "actually a 111 gig HD." Is that true?

Edit 2: There's a limit of one per customer/household/address.

Edit 3: Just ordered mine. Thanks for the tip. These drives are supposed to be very quiet and fast. This is a good price. For me, in CA, it comes out at $66.60, after tax and shipping (which is $8.74).
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In reply to the size, yes all 120gb hdd = approx 111gb usable storage (after formatting). The space taken through formatting is not actually lost but used to hold the drive information, format type, cluster size and partition info etc.
 
At Newegg it says that this is a SATA drive. Can you use this in an ordinary IDE way?

Oh, I guess this isn't the SATA version, sorry. This looks like standard ATA100
 
Thanks animeba. I just ordered one for $97.58 shipped to Florida. With rebate that should be $57.58. It's a pretty good deal.. I just wish I had some B&M Fry's around here so I could get even better deals 🙂
 
Originally posted by: Muse
Is this a real quiet drive? Is it real quiet? I wanna build an HTPC and need a hush system. Thanks.
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Yes. Get this and some panaflos and you won't be able to hear it over your ac or tv.
 
Originally posted by: CrazyGamer
Originally posted by: Muse
Is this a real quiet drive? I've seen a lot of posts in the past about the Seagate Barracuda being one of the quietest drives by a wide margin. Is this a Barracuda? Is it real quiet? I wanna build an HTPC and need a hush system. Thanks.

Edit: This looks to be a Barracuda.

One reviewer at Newegg said the drive is "actually a 111 gig HD." Is that true?
Click to expand...

In reply to the size, yes all 120gb hdd = approx 111gb usable storage (after formatting). The space taken through formatting is not actually lost but used to hold the drive information, format type, cluster size and partition info etc.
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This statement is only partially true!
Taken from the latest issue of PC Magazine:
In Windows Explorer and other software applications, terms like megabyte and gigabyte refer to powers of 2, while in the hardware industry they tend to refer to powers of 10.
One kilobyte in software(Windows) is 2 to the 10th power, or 1024 bytes. In hardware(your Hard Drive) it's 10 to the 3rd power, or 1000 bytes. This discrepancy mounts as sizes go up.
In gigabytes, the difference is 6.87%. If you have a 20gig hard drive, it would show up in your software as only an 18.6gig drive.
In terabytes, the difference is a whopping 9.05%. So a 1Terabyte drive would show up as only 910 Gigabytes in Windows (or other software OS's).
 
Originally posted by: mdetz
Originally posted by: Muse
Is this a real quiet drive? Is it real quiet? I wanna build an HTPC and need a hush system. Thanks.
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Yes. Get this and some panaflos and you won't be able to hear it over your ac or tv.
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I got the panaflos already, and spares. Saw a post from a guy who has a quiet system that beats the pants off of mine. He was reviewing the 120 GB Barracuda at Newegg. I'm sure he wouldn't mind my quoting him:

I put this in my silent P4 system
zalman power supply
120 GB seagate HD
128 Radeon 9600 fanless
and not a single case fan !
I can now concentrate on my work 🙂
this drive only buzzes occasionally while idling
 
Originally posted by: gururu
is udma100 much slower than 133?
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Thats the available througput on the channel (100 or 133). Since these drives cant transmit at anywhere near those speeds, those numbers are moot.
 
Originally posted by: gururu
is udma100 much slower than 133?
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NO, the speed is limited by the harddrive. ATA133 gives the hd more headroom but even the fastest ATA hd cannot even peak 66mb/sec. It's like you have 1.5mbit connection but the other guy can only upload at 128kbps, so whether you download speed is 3mbit,5mbit etc does not help to speed up his upload.
Nuff said :thumbsdown:
 
I ordered Saturday, 7/31 at about 3 PM, PDT. They said they'd send me an email when it shipped. Today I got an email saying it's OOS:

Dear stiffed customer:

Thank you for your order! We apologize but the item(s) you
ordered is currently out of stock and we are unable to provide a
definite ship date at this time. However, we continually receive
new merchandise in our warehouse and we hope to fulfill your
order within the next thirty days or sooner if possible.

At this time, your order is still pending and will ship as soon
as the item(s) is in stock. Your order number is blah, blah, blah.

If you would prefer to cancel, change, or check the status of
your order, please call customer service at 1-877-OUTPOST
(International customers may call +1-860-927-2050) or e-mail us
at backorders@outpost.com.

We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

Thank you for shopping at Outpost.com.


Sincerely,

Outpost.com
Customer Service
 
Originally posted by: siegler
That new 5 year warranty rocks! Hard to imagine that WD and Maxtor won't follow suit eventually (at least to 3 years!).
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Remember, the new 5-year warranty only applies to drives shipped AFTER 6/1/04. If it was a pre-6/1/04 drive, it will not have the 5-year warranty... Check the serial #'s on the Seagate website if you can see the serial #.
 
For purposes of a receipt, what do you use? The rebate requires the orginal UPC and a copy of the dated receipt (today's the last day). Can you copy the email order confirmation? The packing slip?

I'm concerned because Outpost says they are now OOS, but I ordered Saturday, 7/31. If I can't get the $40 rebate, I want to cancel. Anybody else in this boat?
 
Originally posted by: ir0nw0lf
Originally posted by: siegler
That new 5 year warranty rocks! Hard to imagine that WD and Maxtor won't follow suit eventually (at least to 3 years!).
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Remember, the new 5-year warranty only applies to drives shipped AFTER 6/1/04. If it was a pre-6/1/04 drive, it will not have the 5-year warranty... Check the serial #'s on the Seagate website if you can see the serial #.
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seagate did say that it applies to drives sitting on vendor shelves. a receipt dated after seagate's announcement for a drive manufactured before june 1 should also have a 5 year warranty.
 
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