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Seagate 320g SATA II 16MB for $84.99 shipped

Tempting.

The only thing I read is that this drive isn't that fast. I'm not too familar with the perpendicular recording technology, but I understand it is more for allowing more drive space rather than speed, so that this drive is actually slower than the 7200.9? I have a 7200.8 PATA. I would certainly hope a modern SATA with 16mb cache would be a fair bit faster (say at minimal the performance difference between my 7200.8 250GB and my old WD 800JB 80GB) than that 7200.8, but I'm not really sure.
 
Originally posted by: duragezic
Tempting.

The only thing I read is that this drive isn't that fast. I'm not too familar with the perpendicular recording technology, but I understand it is more for allowing more drive space rather than speed, so that this drive is actually slower than the 7200.9? I have a 7200.8 PATA. I would certainly hope a modern SATA with 16mb cache would be a fair bit faster (say at minimal the performance difference between my 7200.8 250GB and my old WD 800JB 80GB) than that 7200.8, but I'm not really sure.
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some benchmarks here and here... overall, the speed is decent, esp. given the high capacity and low cost...
 
Do these 7200.10s "Perpendicular Recording" drives have any premature failure issues to know about? Newegg seems to want to move these pretty bad, they are comboing lots of things with these 7200.10 drives.

I'm not sure this drive has the standard Seagate 5-year warranty. The product page seems to not mention the type of warranty.
 
Originally posted by: duragezic
Tempting.

The only thing I read is that this drive isn't that fast. I'm not too familar with the perpendicular recording technology, but I understand it is more for allowing more drive space rather than speed, so that this drive is actually slower than the 7200.9? I have a 7200.8 PATA. I would certainly hope a modern SATA with 16mb cache would be a fair bit faster (say at minimal the performance difference between my 7200.8 250GB and my old WD 800JB 80GB) than that 7200.8, but I'm not really sure.
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The 320 Perp 7200.10 is one of the hottest drives out there.
Considerably faster than my WD 10K 36GB sata Raptor.
 
You're kidding... a 7200rpm drive faster than a 10k?
Seems physically impossible, even if the 10k drive is SATA1 instead of SATA2
I don't think 7200prm can spin fast enough to outperform a 10k regardless of interface.
 
Originally posted by: rcllbrg
You're kidding... a 7200rpm drive faster than a 10k?
Seems physically impossible, even if the 10k drive is SATA1 instead of SATA2
I don't think 7200prm can spin fast enough to outperform a 10k regardless of interface.
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Yes, 7200rpm can't spin faster than a 10k drive. But spinning faster gives 10k the largest advantage in *seek times*. The raptor crushes the 7200.10 drives in terms of seek times. The 7200.10 remains extremely competitive in terms of prolonged transfer b/c of the new technology. (I'm sure a 10k with perpendicular recording would smack the raptor around.)
 
FRICK! I just ordered one last night without the code! But I did take the combo and got a 3400+ OEM processor with it for $150 total, guess it could have been $140 🙁
 
Bleh I got 2 of these 2 weeks ago at $89.99w/ teh $5 coupon.... DANGIT...

Person who watns 0.25 per GB is an idiot. You can get that from Fry's electronics anyday. You just won'tget 7200.10 quality at those prices. 7200.10s will not be that cheap ever, so just stick to your crap Maxtor deals please.
 
Must've missed out or too many pple clicked the "order" button and newegg decided to flip the price switch. It's 94.99 shipped now.
 
Originally posted by: RideFree
Originally posted by: brikis98
oh man, $.26/gb is very tempting...
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Originally posted by: Kwint Sommer
It's a quality hard drive and for a decent price but I'll wait until I can get one for $.25 per Gb.
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LMAO
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<sarcasm>thats a huge difference. 0.01 x 320GB = $3.2!! :Q:Q:Q</sarcasm>
 
Originally posted by: MyStupidMouth
showing 94.99 shipped for me
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Originally posted by: vtohthree
Must've missed out or too many pple clicked the "order" button and newegg decided to flip the price switch. It's 94.99 shipped now.
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How about both of you reading the whole OP? There's a coupon code you need to apply to get the discounted price.

 
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