Seagate 500gb Barracuda - $39.99 After $15 Rebate

[cardiac]

http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/Produc...Deals_10010067

Price is after a $15 instant rebate and a $15 mail in rebate.

Bob

 

[cubeless]

these are good drives, i have a couple... no failures, quiet, but they're kind of slow xfer wise... was going to try in raid but never got around to it...

 

[jjmIII]

7200.12 is a single 500gb platter, correct?

 

[cubeless]

i thought it was supposed to be, but i can't find the article any more... that's why i was surprised that the performance was worse than the wd 640...

edit: found test... http://techreport.com/articles.x/16472 they tested the 1tb... it's 2 platters, seek is very slow for some reason...

 

[Replay]

Best no-rebate price 47.50 and up after MS Bing Live cashback store search (I looked at this yesterday). Should be the very fast single platter .12 series (hope they are more reliable than .11 drives). Newegg reviews are skewed by folks that had the older models fail.

Tempted, but no experience with ZZF rebates, and still have loose WD 640G Black from a black friday deal.

 

[cubeless]

zzf rebates are fine... these drives just don't feel 'seat of the pants' fast... especially slow feeling if you have to page to them... just my personal experience... great for media/backup drives...

and... grab the enermax mini keyboard while u r over there... $15 ar, and it's a very nice little kb...

 

[TestGuyCT]

I'm seeing a $10 Instant Rebate, not $15 as mentioned originally, making it $44.99 AR.

 

[cubeless]

they heard us talking about it and bumped the price... bastiches... i've got one sitting in my cart for $54.99...

 

[Motorheader]

Not a big deal - but just realized that the rebate is a Visa card.

 

[cubeless]

just about everything is now... they are a pain, but my local grocery store has learned to deal with them very efficiently now...

 

[cardiac]

I'm seeing a $10 Instant Rebate, not $15 as mentioned originally, making it $44.99 AR.

I'm still showing a $15 rebate and $39.99 final price....

 

[PottedMeat]

I'm still showing a $15 rebate and $39.99 final price....

i guess they're screwing with the price. last week it was $39.99 AR, this morning it was $44.99 AR, now it's back to $39.99.

 

[Sahakiel]

i thought it was supposed to be, but i can't find the article any more... that's why i was surprised that the performance was worse than the wd 640...

edit: found test... http://techreport.com/articles.x/16472 they tested the 1tb... it's 2 platters, seek is very slow for some reason...

I seem to remember that the 7200.12's had a power save feature which killed seek times. Perhaps that was the issue.

 

[Marm]

I am in for one, it is too bad that the rebate limit is one or I would have gotten a couple more for my NAS.