SEAGATE 400GB PATA ST3400632A-RK 7200 16Mb $99.99-NO REBATE

[chazzzer]

Originally posted by: Sensai

i think most know they have nothing to do with each other, its that i wasnt sure if they wanted the 10 series to start being only SATA.

Ah. According to Seagate's web site, all of the 7200.10 drives are perpendicular. They offer them in PATA and SATA in 160, 200, 250, 300, 320, 400, 500 and 750GB sizes.

I would be surprised if there weren't PATA drives in the .11 series and even beyond. One of the biggest markets for hard drives right now is in the consumer electronics industry (mainly TiVo and the like), and those markets tend to be very slow to change. It's easy with computers...you buy a new motherboard and it has a built-in SATA controller, or you buy a cheap SATA PCI card and you're ready to go. In a set-top box the ATA controller chip is part of the hardware design, and it's a lot of work to redesign your product just to use the newest interface. And the fact that SATA drives are currently marginally more expensive than PATA isn't exactly going to push them down that road. Eventually that will change, of course.

 

[gclg2000]

i got mine in today with the free ground shipping on the 2nd business day.....mine is 7200.10

 

[SoulAssassin]

crap....shows 119 now. Was gonna order this and stick it in an external enclosure for backups.

 

[imported_expert01]

Links are dead

 

[Zap]

Thread for SATA version with warranty issues (includes poll).

Anybody check their warranty online at Seagate.com? Use the actual numbers printed on your drive, NOT the numbers printed on the retail box, then come on over to the other thread with your results. I've purchased a few of each (EIDE and SATA) and none of mine are covered by Seagate's vaunted 5 year warranty.

 

[Elixer]

Originally posted by: Zap
Thread for SATA version with warranty issues (includes poll).

Anybody check their warranty online at Seagate.com? Use the actual numbers printed on your drive, NOT the numbers printed on the retail box, then come on over to the other thread with your results. I've purchased a few of each (EIDE and SATA) and none of mine are covered by Seagate's vaunted 5 year warranty.

What makes you think they are not covered by Segate's warranty?
Just e-mail them, and they will fix the problem. I had these issues in the past.

 

[aceO07]

awww. A couple of days late.. Dead

 

[Kwint Sommer]

Too late for the PATA 100 but just in time for the SATA 300 at the same price.

 

[SoulAssassin]

Originally posted by: Kwint Sommer
Too late for the PATA 100 but just in time for the SATA 300 at the same price.

No sata in my external enclosure. 🙁

 

[aceO07]

Any cheap SATA to PATA adapters?

 

[Zap]

Originally posted by: Elixer
What makes you think they are not covered by Segate's warranty?
Just e-mail them, and they will fix the problem. I had these issues in the past.

What makes me think that is Seagate's site says so after I punch in the numbers off the top of the drive. What if you don't notice this, and a few years down the line you have to get warranty service, but you no longer have the box to show the matching serial number? I emailed Seagate and got a canned (other people got exact wording) message saying to email them a digital image of receipt, retail box UPC with serial number, label on drive. Besides the extra work of doing all that plus taking drives out of computers, what if you don't have the box anymore or if you sent off for a rebate? One of my drives no longer has the UPC with serial number because of a rebate.

All this is an FYI. If you don't care, then ignore.