Seagate Barracuda 7200 RPM 400GB Ultra-ATA Hard Drive for just $109.99

[SirFshAlot]

check it out

thanks Apex

 

[Tweak155]

Thanks dude, just ordered.

 

[bigeasy]

Thanks for the posting. I am looking for 2 new hard drives. I am taking too may digital pictures and movies.

One is for my Dell 700m laptop that has a 40GB 4200 RPM drive. NewEgg has the 7K100 100 MB drive for about $140.00 shipped. Seems like the way to go.

However, the other drive will be mostly to store my large file stuff, like 8 MP camera images (2-4 MB each), DJ mixset MP3s (~50 MB each), and my new digital movies (at 100 MB/minute). I think I already have almost 200 GB of this stuff. Existing 160 GB drives (2-formatted only for Mac) can be used for back up. At home I use a Mac G4/500 (137GB max for an internal drive - no limit via external case and FW) from 2000, Mac Powerbook 1.67 GHz (again would have to use drive via external case), Dell 700m that I travel with (via ext case), Dell 8300 at work (don't know if it supports SATA, but shipped with 40 GB PATA drive), another Dell 8400 at home (came with 160 GB SATA drive - but I have been trying to give this to my parents since before Katrina). My external cases (2) are PATA.

Before seeing your post here, I was about to buy a WD or Seagate 320GB PATA drive, either ships for about $100. To be honest, after reading a bunch of reviews, I wasn't sure anything but the lowest price would matter. I think they can be formatted via Mac OS 10.3 or 10.4 for use with both Macs and PCs (I hope). The 400 GB Seagate you mention here started shipping in 2003 and got middling performance reviews (mind you, that should be ok for my purposes).

So for another $10 should I get 80 GB more of the older .7 technology or pay a bit more per GB for the .10 or brand new technology?

Any thought appreciated, sorry for the long post (we southerners talk a lot, but Please, Please, Please come visit my home - New Orleans. We love tourists here )

 

[Smartazz]

Really hot, I would have ordered it if I didn't order my hard drive a few weeks ago.

 

[uhohs]

it should be a 7200.9 drive in the box. that's what people have been getting during the last few deals for this model.

 

[ankit]

Thanks, ordered one. Any recommendations on an external USB enclosure for this?

 

[Iron Chef]

Originally posted by: ankit
Thanks, ordered one. Any recommendations on an external USB enclosure for this?

Apricorn EZ-BUS-DT-KIT

 

[Ragnoros]

WooT finally got registered! Guess they don't like @yahoo.coms...

Anyway my question. I see this HDD is ATA not SATA. Will I notice a difference between the two? I was planing to get basicly the same drive (A seagate barracuda 120-or-250GB) but SATA. Like this one.
It's going to be in a good Conroe system so shouldn't be bottlenecked.

 

[crashish]

dead

 

[superHARD]

Originally posted by: crashish
dead

 

[Googer]

Originally posted by: Ragnoros
WooT finally got registered! Guess they don't like @yahoo.coms...

Anyway my question. I see this HDD is ATA not SATA. Will I notice a difference between the two? I was planing to get basicly the same drive (A seagate barracuda 120-or-250GB) but SATA. Like this one.
It's going to be in a good Conroe system so shouldn't be bottlenecked.

In some instances PATA is just a hair faster than SATA. Both SATA and PATA run off the ATA protocol. But a parallel interface has slightly lower latency when compaired to a serial interface. I suspect latency must be the reason for the small (i mean small) performance edge.