80GB Samsung 7200RPM $93.00 Free S&H HOT!

[knightc2]

Back in 1993, Maxtor made the worst hard drives Are any of you guys old enough to remember
those days?

I remember those days for sure. Quantum Fireball was the best back then. I bought my first Quantum off a friend for $125, 4.3GB and that was a deal. Samsung was bottom of the barrel, but I have never experienced a bad one. Remember the Conners? I just fixed a machine with a 400MB Conner.
Toms Hardware Guide was the only site out there worth viewing back then.

Anyway, to keep on target... Samsung seems to be a reputable company. I will give them the benefit of the doubt on the drive, but if you can get a similar deal with a known "better" brand, than go that route instead. To those that are buying this drive, keep us posted on the reliabilty.

 

[worms]

I had a 4.3 samsung that died on me about 6 times in a year

Wow! Samsung must be very metaphysical. I'm definately getting in on this deal - normal drives only die once. I can't wait to watch the drive come back to life. Does it have that bluish glow like in the movies? Thanks Orangey!

 

[unclebud]

haha
thought i would mention i just bought (today) my boss's spare 466mhz for $150
has samsung 2.1 in it he got @ a yard sale year ago. he had forgotten until i pointed it out
i just wanted to get @ the microstar 6366 and the genica case, but i slapped my samsung 16x in along with it and the boot up looks nice now
samsung rma seems to be okay, send them the drive, they send it back (no cross-ship o well)

 

[Salvador]

I've had one drive fail on me in my life and it was a Samsung. It had a 3 yr warrantee and I got it replaced no problem, but I still lost all of my data. This was before there was a good, cheap way to backup your stuff.

Could be coincidence, but I will never buy another Samsung drive because of what happened to me.

Sal

 

[justdad]

A great price on an average drive. I buy samsung for average systems or less. top systems stick with w/d or maxtor. I have also used Ibm and have never had a problem with any yet. Good find. just noticed that samsung died six times in a year good lord I wish we could come back to life that much.

 

[jeepers94]

Newegg is trying the old trick! They raised prices on their drives by about $7,then give you "FREE" shipping.Guess what shipping usually is! That's right,$7!!!! I had just about made up my mind to order the IBM 40gig notebook drive,for $142 and $7 shipping.NOW,they have it on "SPECIAL",only $149 shipped free! They just lost the sale,with their creative sales practices!