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Seagate 500gb Barracuda - $39.99 After $15 Rebate

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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...
 
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...
 
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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.
 
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...
 
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they heard us talking about it and bumped the price... bastiches... i've got one sitting in my cart for $54.99...
 
just about everything is now... they are a pain, but my local grocery store has learned to deal with them very efficiently now...
 
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.
 
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