Seagate Barracuda 160GB SATA HD $120 AR @ CompUSA

[rasputinj]

CompUSA has a great deal on the Seagate Barracuda ST3160023AS 160GB Serial ATA Drive for $180 - $60 rebate = $120 & shipping is only a penny, deal is good until 11/1

 

[tm37]

HMMM I have onboard SATA

What type of speed increase do you see with SATA drives?

 

[willboxer]

not sure how this is considered hot, maybe i'm missing something

 

[rasputinj]

It is not smoking hot but, it is pretty darn warm for a Serial ATA drive, this is not a IDE/ATA drive.. If you have a price that blows this away please share.

 

[AnimEva]

anyone know a website or another place that has this drive for a lower price without rebates so we can do a pricematch either with COMPUSA or AMEX BVG and so forth

 

[dshodson]

sounds pretty hot for sata

D

 

[Engineer]

Originally posted by: tm37
HMMM I have onboard SATA

What type of speed increase do you see with SATA drives?

Not much of an increase with this drive as it is, like most SATA drives at this point, more or less an IDE drive with a SATA interface. The new Seagate 200GB drive is a NATIVE SATA drive with native SATA command queing. (supposed to give noticable speed increase). I think I would wait until SATA matures or for SATA II (near future)...

 

[simplicio]

I thought this was supposed to be native SATA too? As opposed to the other 2 major manufacturers just bridging ATA onboard...

oh well, still hoping someone can produce a decent PM deal- I really want this drive but I'm waiting for a more reasonable price.

 

[rasputinj]

I believe this is the native drive, let me know if I am wrong,

Dell Small business deal on the Western Digital Raptor 10K rpm 36Gb SATA hard drive for 138.95 - 20% coupon code = $111 with free shipping + tax.

coupon code will expire on 10/30 @ 11:59PM CST

 

[s0ssos]

i simply don't see why people get sata or the raptor. what's the point? it costs so much ($111 for the raptor? that's like $3/gig) that you might as well go scsi

 

[orion7144]

Originally posted by: s0ssos
i simply don't see why people get sata or the raptor. what's the point? it costs so much ($111 for the raptor? that's like $3/gig) that you might as well go scsi

Because it is cheaper than SCSI and in a RAID 0 setup my WinXP Pron install times went from ~30 min to less than 10 min. Seek times and xfer rates are much better too. BTW I am using 2 Raptors and was comparing to 2 WD 120gig SE drives in RAID 0 as well.

 

[weepul]

linkified

most likely a regular ATA drive with an SATA convertor. speed performance wise wont have any substantial increase.

//krunk (^_^x)

 

[Engineer]

oops...you guys are right. They do have a native SATA interface...but do NOT have SATA command Queuing (200GB model first to have that).

 

[ScrapSilicon]

Originally posted by: orion7144

Originally posted by: s0ssos
i simply don't see why people get sata or the raptor. what's the point? it costs so much ($111 for the raptor? that's like $3/gig) that you might as well go scsi

Because it is cheaper than SCSI and in a RAID 0 setup my WinXP Pron install times went from ~30 min to less than 10 min. Seek times and xfer rates are much better too. BTW I am using 2 Raptors and was comparing to 2 WD 120gig SE drives in RAID 0 as well.

MS' new OS ..?

 

[MoFunk]

Originally posted by: Engineer
oops...you guys are right. They do have a native SATA interface...but do NOT have SATA command Queuing (200GB model first to have that).

So when shopping for an sata drive, how does one determin if the drive is true native sata interface AND sata command queing? Thanks.

 

[tigen]

This deal isn't hot. The seagate SATA drives are slower than the other drives out there, and are said to be rather noisy. Seagate doesn't let you change the AAM setting (I think some licensing thing maybe) so the SATA has the "higher performance, noisier" setting while the PATA has the slightly slower, but silent setting.

I think this on the other hand is a nice deal, 160 GB Samsung SATA, 8MB cache for $107.
http://store.yahoo.com/directron/samsp1614n.html

Has a 3 year warranty. If you look up reviews (e.g. digit-life), that drive has good performance and is also silent. It seems not to be distributed that well though.

 

[GoodToGo]

Originally posted by: ScrapSilicon

Originally posted by: orion7144

Originally posted by: s0ssos
i simply don't see why people get sata or the raptor. what's the point? it costs so much ($111 for the raptor? that's like $3/gig) that you might as well go scsi

Because it is cheaper than SCSI and in a RAID 0 setup my WinXP Pron install times went from ~30 min to less than 10 min. Seek times and xfer rates are much better too. BTW I am using 2 Raptors and was comparing to 2 WD 120gig SE drives in RAID 0 as well.

MS' new OS ..?

Starring Billy Gates.

 

[VitoVonAntwon]

Samsung, Every samsung drive I had died, but my maxtors are still going and like 8 years old.

VItoVonAntwon

 

[sygyzy]

Do serial ATA drives need a special power header? Will standard power supplies work?

 

[Ionizer86]

AAM is locked. Performance gain is minimal, so I'd say that for many of us who don't need the overhyped new interface, the 160GB for $80 tonight at Cusa is better.