Seagate 300 GB External Drive for $129.99 AR

[imported_Dhaval00]

Received an email advertisement from Fry's. I don't need this, but am sure there are hundreds of you who may want to jump on this deal . Price is after $70 MIR.

Link

Seagate 300GB USB2.0/FireWire External Hard Drive ST3000801CB-RK
$70.00 Rebate
Outpost #: 4283904
Capacity: 300GB
Seek Time: 8.5ms
7200RPM
8MB Buffer
Pushbutton Backup
1 Year Warranty

 

[T3C]

 

[intogamer]

not bad
seagate 300gb 100AR(lower if PM)
+ bytecc box 30


:shocked: 1 year warrenty?

 

[imported_Dhaval00]

Originally posted by: intogamer
not bad
seagate 300gb 100AR(lower if PM)
+ bytecc box 30


:shocked: 1 year warrenty?

I've had a Seagate 160 GB external HD for 2 years (same make & model, only diff. size) & a WD 200 GB Firewire external HD for 3 years. No problems whatsoever.

 

[dethman]

1 year? eep. better off to buy the internal 300gbs with 5 years.

 

[intogamer]

Originally posted by: Dhaval00

Originally posted by: intogamer
not bad
seagate 300gb 100AR(lower if PM)
+ bytecc box 30


:shocked: 1 year warrenty?

I've had a Seagate 160 GB external HD for 2 years (same make & model, only diff. size) & a WD 200 GB Firewire external HD for 3 years. No problems whatsoever.

you but your talking about reliablity

 

[EvilRage]

Not hot. The Seagate 300 gig external drives are known to have all kinds of problems, and if I had to guess I'd say that the reason they're so cheap is that Seagate is aware of the defect and is trying to push them onto people at all costs, rather than do a recall. I'll pull up the complaints on them if/when I have time and I'll try to link them here, although those curious should just google it, I'm sure they'd find something.

EDIT: a better buy IMO is the 250 gig Western Digital external drive that's $150 after $90 MIR @ Best Buy. Have one myself and it works great, haven't heard of any problems nor had any myself.

 

[pyro451]

Not bad OP. Too bad I just bought the $99 (OTD) Maxtor 200GB USB external. I really wanted to get firewire.

Thanks anyway.

 

[pat8]

Anyone able to get the rebate links to work ?

 

[imported_MKULTRA]

Fixed Rebate Links

They have the month wrong in the link:

Fixed links...
http://image.ak.outpost.com/art/rebates_pdf/4283904-090205-1.pdf
http://image.ak.outpost.com/art/rebates_pdf/4283904-090205-2.pdf