Seagate 300GB HDD = $99.99 after MIR @ Circuit City
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at the risk of sounding incredibly stupid, where are the rebates...? It's just listing as $199.99 :/
Originally posted by: tm37
PATA :| I need SATA
You could use an adapter.
There's $40 in CC MIR rebates... any way to get this online rather than in-store?
I think if you go to store than you can get it for $99 AR, because there are 2 rebates but online there is only one coming up.
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I've been buying, installing and servicing hard drives for over a dozen years years. IMH(but expert)O, a five year warranty is next to worthless.
If the drive is going to have a problem you are going to see it in a couple of months, and if you take five minutes of research you can actually run some very comprehensive tests over night and know within a couple of days with hardly any labor.
of thosaunds of drives I have dealt with I would say about 1 to 2% fail in the first five years. BUT almost al those failures occur in the first few months
Causes:
- bad installation or installation into bad equipment (overheated pc, cheap and way over driven psu's)
- damaged in shipping
- freak bad run
- bad design or qc
- other
youwill know this almost always next to immediately. In any case if a drive fails after three years you have to be CRAZY to crack the pc open, get an rMA, send it in, wait for the exchange, and replace it. If i fails in 20 months, statisticall it can be replaced with a drive three or four times as big for 1/2 the money. If it fails in three years even less.
Lastly, case in point about five year warranties being gimmick: you do realize your comment on this drive was an "awesome" based on nothing more than then the gimmick warranty, when this drive is a KNOWN DOG? Techs in our group are already calling this 7200.8 line "the Seagate Deathstar."
A few of those may or may not be the same person. If you google search for user reviews & visit sites like amazon.com, you'll find the exact same "my drive failed, seagate sucks!" reviews under different usernames.
Checking on newegg, there's one person who had a drive failure...others were fine, though 1 guy thought it was too loud.
(note this is for the 300GB drive...the 160 seems to be well-liked all over).
-Eric
WARNING I just read storagereview's 7200.8 stuff...check this out:
According to filtered and analyzed data collected from participating StorageReview.com readers, the Seagate Barracuda 7200.8 is more reliable than 7% of the other drives in the survey that meet a certain minimum floor of participation.
According to filtered and analyzed data collected from participating StorageReview.com readers, the Seagate Barracuda 7200.8 's predecessor [/b]( Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 ) is more reliable than 90% of the other drives in the survey [/b] that meet a certain minimum floor of participation
Huh? I see many different diction and compeltly differnet authors reveiws and frankly professional reviews showing serious problems with the Seagate 7200.8.
I am not for slamming a company, seagate makes great drives, but the concensus is there is some kind of serious problem with the 7200.8s (250/300/400 gb). Seagates large externals are also problem ridden (and of course have only a one year warranty).
Yeah I overstated...I think there were a few that had the same text message, but there's lots of variance.
I should also mention that it's known that newegg removes bad reviews...so maybe that's why everyone seems happy.
The storagereview.com statistics scare me. Even though it's a new drive & there are only 49 datapoints, the 9% business is disturbing, esp given your extensive experience with HDs.
I'm now debating btwn the 160GB Seagate 7200.7 or the 160GB Hitachi 7K250...both of which are on sale right now (thank you AT Hot Deals!)
I can't get the Seagate $40 MIR form to come up when I click "Click here for a printable version of this form," the picture on that page above the link is really blurry. Anyone got a good link to the .PDF form?
Originally posted by: gi0rgi0
Yeah they are. Thats why im still comtemplating getting
Good companies can still make bad products...check out my thread in General Hardware about the 7200.7 vs 7200.8 Seagate drives for more info.
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