Seagate 400GB SATA II $129.99 Fry's Outpost and Free Shipping ($26 MIR too)

[BadSweetums]

Fry's Outpost.com is offering Seagate ST3400633AS-RK 400GB SATA II hard drives with free ground shipping for $129.99.

You can sweeten the deal with Seagate's Active Storage Tour Rebate (good until 9/30/06) by tracking down seagatetour2.pdf. (I found my copies through FW and SlickDeals.net) BTW there is a $26 rebate available for this model drive.

Seagate Active Storage Tour Rebate lists the models and the rebates available. It is dated March 12, 2006; so, I guess prices have dropped before the promotion has ended.

My search results tell me this is a good deal without the MIR. Putting the two together makes it HOT. Can anyone else do the math and get 26 cents per gigabyte?

OK ... OK! Adding printing and mailing costs may increase your costs to almost 27 cents a gigabyte.

Too bad I have to sit this one out. I wanna PCI-e video card worth remembering the name.

And Yeah. This message kind of repeats a previous Outpost deal on a PATA drive. But, (put on your reading glasses) this is the 400 GB SATA II 3.0 GB (?) /second drive.

 

[tbogstad]

it was $110.00 shipped just last week, with no rebates, so this is a warm deal at best.

 

[shira]

Originally posted by: tbogstad
it was $110.00 shipped just last week, with no rebates, so this is a warm deal at best.

No, that was the PATA model, ST3400632A-RK.

However, the Seagate Active Storage Tour Rebate is valid for all qualifying drives purchased between 6/1 and 9/30. So anyone who purchased the ST3400632A-RK drive last week qualifies for the rebate (only $25 on that drive): 110 - $25 = $85 Now that's a SUPER-hot deal.

 

[MegaVovaN]

check this out: http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview...?catid=27&threadid=1917846&STARTPAGE=1

 

[BadSweetums]

Wouldn't checking this out tell people a lot more?

Tech Report comparision review

I skimmed and hit the conclusion. The writer puffed the merchandise so hot that I had to go back and see what he was writing about.

My closer second read found that the 10 series is better; BUT, most of the time you would have to read the paper label in order to tell which drive you had.

Four seconds slower booting Windows XP, two seconds FASTER loading Doom III, six seconds slower loading FarCry. I think you can see that the two different series are different. But (IMO) the differences are not that big.

If I were a cyber professional athlete and I needed every advantage that I could buy; then I might look at the results differently.

Too bad that I'm saving up for a better than average PCI-e video card. I wish that I had gotten one of the MSI 7900GS cards on Woot the other morning.:brokenheart:

 

[jimmybgood]

Where can you find the rebate forms. The only info I could find claimed the rebate ran from April to June

 

[BadSweetums]

Simplified instructions for the search engine impaired.

Go to your favorite search engine. I prefer google.

Google

get the letters and the period "seagatetour2.pdf" (omit the quotation marks) into the search form entry blank.

Press enter; or, "Google Search" ; or, "I'm Feeling Lucky".

Go to the page found. Read down the page. Click the link.

I am not associated with SlickDeals. I have not asked their permission to link to any form hosted on their servers and I have not linked to their servers.

I hope these instructions are not too complex, or too difficult.:roll:

 

[jimmybgood]

Originally posted by: BadSweetums
Simplified instructions for the search engine impaired.

Go to your favorite search engine. I prefer google.

Google

get the letters and the period "seagatetour2.pdf" (omit the quotation marks) into the search form entry blank.

Press enter; or, "Google Search" ; or, "I'm Feeling Lucky".

Go to the page found. Read down the page. Click the link.

I am not associated with SlickDeals. I have not asked their permission to link to any form hosted on their servers and I have not linked to their servers.

I hope these instructions are not too complex, or too difficult.:roll:

That's not a valid form from Seagate. That's somebody posting a scan of a document they obtained from Seagate. Seagate has no obligation to process that scan or refund anybody any money if they submit it. It's a Slick Deals scam and shouldn't be on this forum.

Thanks for wasting my time.