500gb hdds under $160 shipped on newegg.

[tylerdustin2008]

Samsung

Maxtor

Western Digital

Hitachi-$170

Seagate 7200.9-$170

 

[solo717]

they have WD and Seagate around that prices as well..

 

[EKKC]

the seagate SATA 7200.10 500GB can be had for the same price ($150) shipped if you have the coupon code

find the code at a certain tech bargain website

 

[tylerdustin2008]

Well i though i would try.

 

[Kaido]

Originally posted by: EKKC
the seagate SATA 7200.10 500GB can be had for the same price ($150) shipped if you have the coupon code

find the code at a certain tech bargain website

My Xbox is loving my 500gb Seagate

 

[wirednuts]

wow. you could get like 1.3 useable terabytes in a raid5 array for $600. incredible

 

[EKKC]

Originally posted by: wirednuts
wow. you could get like 1.3 useable terabytes in a raid5 array for $600. incredible

hey man, stop trying to get me into spending $600 for the gf's ring that i didn't even save up yet

 

[walkure]

Originally posted by: EKKC
the seagate SATA 7200.10 500GB can be had for the same price ($150) shipped if you have the coupon code

find the code at a certain tech bargain website

Thanks for the heads-up on the code!!

This is among the best prices for a 500GB SATA, isn't it? I know it was $140 not too long ago for the 7200.9. But oh well, there comes a point when I *need* a new HD, and this is still pretty hot

 

[arod]

woah been waiting for a good deal on hard drives.... anybody know if the samsung or seagate is the better drive? i dont have much experince with samsungs but have used seagate in the past and have been rock solid for me.

 

[EKKC]

there have been some noise and performance complaints with the perpendicular recording seagate 7200.10's. i personally have 2 of these in EIDE/PATA 400GB and have no complaints. i just ordered the SATA 7200.10 500GB for $150 since I need to pair it up with a 7200.9 for a RAID 0 1TB setup (yep... for pr0n!)

there are also reportedly a higher failure rate with the 7200.10, but with seagate's top notch 5 year warranty it's okay as long as you don't put crucial data in there, if you're going to do it, RAID 1/mirror 2 of these babies instead.

a few years ago maxtor and hitachis used to fail on me, then it was WD's, then seagates actually... i think the failure rate won't be that much different, sometimes its people's luck (or bad luck) have to do with their brand preferences

 

[Dutchmaster420]

i ordered the samsung spinpoint drive for my new build...got pretty rave reviews at newegg so should be good

 

[Monotaur]

Originally posted by: EKKC
there have been some noise and performance complaints with the perpendicular recording seagate 7200.10's. i personally have 2 of these in EIDE/PATA 400GB and have no complaints. i just ordered the SATA 7200.10 500GB for $150 since I need to pair it up with a 7200.9 for a RAID 0 1TB setup (yep... for pr0n!)

there are also reportedly a higher failure rate with the 7200.10, but with seagate's top notch 5 year warranty it's okay as long as you don't put crucial data in there, if you're going to do it, RAID 1/mirror 2 of these babies instead.

a few years ago maxtor and hitachis used to fail on me, then it was WD's, then seagates actually... i think the failure rate won't be that much different, sometimes its people's luck (or bad luck) have to do with their brand preferences

Really? Where have you seen reports of high failure rates of 7200.10 drives? So far, my 320GB 7200.10 drive is performing flawlessly. Completely quiet and fast. The only propblem with it is that it's about 80% full now though... might be time for a new HDD soon.

They are probably starting to drop the prices on the 500GB's since the 1TB drives will be out this quarter. Hitachi (I think?) plans to sell theirs for 399, not sure what Seagate will want.

 

[Solema]

Originally posted by: Monotaur

Originally posted by: EKKC
there have been some noise and performance complaints with the perpendicular recording seagate 7200.10's. i personally have 2 of these in EIDE/PATA 400GB and have no complaints. i just ordered the SATA 7200.10 500GB for $150 since I need to pair it up with a 7200.9 for a RAID 0 1TB setup (yep... for pr0n!)

there are also reportedly a higher failure rate with the 7200.10, but with seagate's top notch 5 year warranty it's okay as long as you don't put crucial data in there, if you're going to do it, RAID 1/mirror 2 of these babies instead.

a few years ago maxtor and hitachis used to fail on me, then it was WD's, then seagates actually... i think the failure rate won't be that much different, sometimes its people's luck (or bad luck) have to do with their brand preferences

Really? Where have you seen reports of high failure rates of 7200.10 drives? So far, my 320GB 7200.10 drive is performing flawlessly. Completely quiet and fast. The only propblem with it is that it's about 80% full now though... might be time for a new HDD soon.

They are probably starting to drop the prices on the 500GB's since the 1TB drives will be out this quarter. Hitachi (I think?) plans to sell theirs for 399, not sure what Seagate will want.

I can vouch for the noise complaints. My 400GB 7200.10 is the noisiest HDD I've ever used. And as for failure rates, I think mine just failed on my yesterday. Good thing it just housed backups.

 

[Xponential]

I'm trying to decide between the Seagate 7200.10 500GB and the WD Caviar RE2 WD5000YS 500GB. I've always gone w/ WD when it comes to hard drives, so that's where I'm leaning right now. Any thoughts??

 

[docinthebox]

I've been using the WD5000YS 500GB for two months now and have been very happy with its performance and cool quiet operation. I used the WDTLER utility to turn off TLER. Also, be sure to apply the firmware update released last week for this drive:

http://support.wdc.com/download/index.a...wnload/index.asp?cxml=n&pid=15&swid=57

 

[Solema]

Also, if you have a MicroCenter near you, I believe the WD drive is $149 OTD.

 

[tylerdustin2008]

Well it seems that this is a sorta warm deal.

 

[Bijorn]

FYI Seagate coupon expired yesterday 1/29. Tried it anyways at the egg today but no luck.

 

[yosuke188]

Samsung and WD are the two quietest drives. Seagate (anything above 7200.7) is very loud compared to those two.

 

[aimanzym]

i think it's oem, isn't it? thx