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Seagate 1TB Internal SATA HD $189.99 @ BestBuy

A note - for some reason they are not offering store pickup (order online, pick up in store) for these. Without that you can't check if they even have them in stock, so you have to go to the store to see if they have any. The site also says that they are backordered. 🙁
 
Not to say that all stores will be stocked as well, but the store in Holbrook, NY had at least a dozen. Picked it up yesterday. On a side note they also have a 500 GB Seagate 16MB Cache for $99.99
 
The Western Digital 500gig Green drive is also $99.99.

I have one of these green drives performance is good.
I suspect it is probably 5400rpm but utilizes platter density for good performance.

Silent and cold to the touch.
 
The Best Buy in Independence, MO had around 5 of these drives. I picked one up and used a 12% birthday coupon they sent me. Got this drive and a $10 puzzle game (Luxor) my son adores for ~$191 out the door. The drive itself was $167.19 + taxes. I doubt these will be under $200 within a year, so I'm glad I hopped on this deal.

The drive is humming along quietly in an Antec MX-1 enclosure connected with eSATA.
 
There are many of these available at the Best Buy stores in DFW. (There were total of 12 at the first three stores I called.)

Fry's also has the same drive on sale for $189.99 through Tuesday, April 8. It was originally advertised at $199.99, but it was marked down even more; perhaps they're matching Best Buy's price.
 
Originally posted by: jiffer
There are many of these available at the Best Buy stores in DFW. (There were total of 12 at the first three stores I called.)

Fry's also has the same drive on sale for $189.99 through Tuesday, April 8. It was originally advertised at $199.99, but it was marked down even more; perhaps they're matching Best Buy's price.
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frys actually had it first (this past friday) while bb had theirs starting yesterday (sunday)
 
Originally posted by: Pabster
I picked up 8 of them Sunday. Awesome drives, too.

Sorry, none to spare. My RAID array was calling. :laugh:
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You should've picked them up from different retailers.

Picking them all up at the same place at the same time is risky in itself. If 1 is faulty, the others are likely to fail.

Spread the risk.
 
Originally posted by: tigersty1e
Originally posted by: Pabster
I picked up 8 of them Sunday. Awesome drives, too.

Sorry, none to spare. My RAID array was calling. :laugh:
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You should've picked them up from different retailers.

Picking them all up at the same place at the same time is risky in itself. If 1 is faulty, the others are likely to fail.

Spread the risk.
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lol...interesting concept...
 
Originally posted by: tigersty1e
You should've picked them up from different retailers.

Picking them all up at the same place at the same time is risky in itself. If 1 is faulty, the others are likely to fail.

Spread the risk.
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Interesting theory, but I'm not concerned. They're all running fine. 😛
 
Drives that are next to each other on the store shelf can be from different batches and have different firmware revisions. To me, buying them off the same shelf is no different from buying them from more than one store. But more to the point, there's no reason to think that if one fails, they all will.
 
I picked one of these up at BB yesterday for $180 OTD after they took the 10% discount. Should I keep this or get the samsung f1 750 gig for ~$125? I'm going to partition part of it for OS and the other will be storage.
 
As yet more anecdotal "same batch is BS" story. When I was tasked with setting up a ton of dirt-cheap storage I purchased 2 arrays and 20 WD 200GB IDE drives. Coming from CDW the drives had sequential serials. There was only 1 unexpected failure. 1.5yrs later, the rest that did fail did so rather predictably after the AC failed and the room went to ~110F for the entire weekend. The center 2 drives in each array died. The rest survived for a couple more years at which point the company shut down and I got some computer hardware cheap.

The paint on these drives ended up with a crinkle finish after that day. Just in case anyone's in the market for used drives. Avoid the crinkle paint 🙂
 
they had a similar deal running at fry's....

remember to take off the stock jumpers so you can run at 3gb/s...and not 1.5gb/s....
 
Originally posted by: hans007
tempting... especialy since my $50 hd-dvd gift card already came...
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I used gift cards I had sitting around + reward zone coupons and walked out the door with one for $53.00 out of pocket.
 
How reliable are these drives? I was thinking about using some gift cards that I gotten for my bday to buy one drive in store and find another online.

Using both drives I would put them in here as a 1TB RAID external enclosure.

Good/Bad/Ugly?
 
How reliable are these drives?
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Classic Seagate: My aunt's Seagate in her IBM XT clone lasted until around 2000 (another component in the XT broke and I still have the hard drive on the shelf somewhere (rather big in physical size, not in capacity), might even still work.
Modern Seagate: Unknown, my 7200.9 (?) works fine. Some people I know complain about Seagate sending them refurbs when they request an RMA. The last hard drive that died on me was a Maxtor, but the PSU took it out, so I suppose it did not die of natural causes. In some marketing papers from Seagate they state that the 7200.11 (the 1TB drive) has 2nd gen perpendicular recording technology which is supposed to make it more reliable, how much so, I do not know. These drives have not been around for years, so we do not know the longterm failure rate.

That Seagate drive has a 5 year warranty by the way.
 
Got mine today for $206 OTD. I had a 10% off coupon but they wouldnt honor it because it was for "external drives". Going to buy another off buy.com in a few for $180 shipped and then put it in my RAID enclosure. 😉
 
Originally posted by: alkohoLiK
Got mine today for $206 OTD. I had a 10% off coupon but they wouldnt honor it because it was for "external drives". Going to buy another off buy.com in a few for $180 shipped and then put it in my RAID enclosure. 😉
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I don't see it for 180 on buy.com, got a link?
 
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