DEAD Online: Seagate 400GB SATA for $109.99 FREE Shipping and Possible $26 Rebate = $83.99AR

[Univac]

I'n for one .

Thanks for posting that this came back !!

Has anyone heard back on their rebate status??

 

[shelaby]

i bit, thanks

 

[kindest]

dammit.. it dropped back to 109.99$
after i paid 119.

 

[Solema]

In for one as well.
This will work nicely in my new eSata enclosure!

 

[Devistater]

Originally posted by: mrgq912
This is a good time to buy hard drives. I think companies are trying to get rid of their soon to be lower capacity drives. So that they can start selling more higher capacity drives like the 750gb drives by seagate.

Your theory sounds nice except for the fact that about 95% of people who ordered this got the latest gen 7200.10 in the box. If seagate was trying to get rid of old low capacity drives, they wouldn't go shoving the latest drive in the box

As well, I imagine the capacities purchased are on a bell curve, most purchases are for medium capacity drives, not high capacity (or low). I think right now, 400 gigs is in the medium category


I think its just hdd companies finding better/cheaper manufacturing and the natural price pressure of the market. Pretty much all computer components always go down in price over time (even if you stick to the prices for each cutting edge line as they come out). The one exception is sometimes memory, it can actually go up. Also the high end graphics cards are often very expensive, but even those recently have dropped a bit (dropped as in when nvidia/ati introduce a new line, the list price is less than the previous gen when it was newly introduced).
For hdds specifically I imagine that most hdd platters are about the same cost to manufacture even as the size goes up, I doubt the platter costs go up the same rate as capacity. In other words, I doubt a 200 gig platter is twice as much to manufacture as a 100 gig platter, I'd guess more like 20%-40% more expensive.

 

[Zoomer]

Originally posted by: Devistater

Originally posted by: mrgq912
This is a good time to buy hard drives. I think companies are trying to get rid of their soon to be lower capacity drives. So that they can start selling more higher capacity drives like the 750gb drives by seagate.

Your theory sounds nice except for the fact that about 95% of people who ordered this got the latest gen 7200.10 in the box. If seagate was trying to get rid of old low capacity drives, they wouldn't go shoving the latest drive in the box

As well, I imagine the capacities purchased are on a bell curve, most purchases are for medium capacity drives, not high capacity (or low). I think right now, 400 gigs is in the medium category


I think its just hdd companies finding better/cheaper manufacturing and the natural price pressure of the market. Pretty much all computer components always go down in price over time (even if you stick to the prices for each cutting edge line as they come out). The one exception is sometimes memory, it can actually go up. Also the high end graphics cards are often very expensive, but even those recently have dropped a bit (dropped as in when nvidia/ati introduce a new line, the list price is less than the previous gen when it was newly introduced).
For hdds specifically I imagine that most hdd platters are about the same cost to manufacture even as the size goes up, I doubt the platter costs go up the same rate as capacity. In other words, I doubt a 200 gig platter is twice as much to manufacture as a 100 gig platter, I'd guess more like 20%-40% more expensive.

I beg to differ. I would say that smaller capacities have the most volume. Look at what the oems are pushing.
I would doubt that 20-40% more mark. I would guess that materials cost is the same. It's just R&D.

 

[blacklit]

Originally posted by: Devistater

Originally posted by: mrgq912

... I think right now, 400 gigs is in the medium category ...

80gb 120gb 160gb 200gb 250gb 300gb 320gb 400gb 500gb 750gb

look again smiley... what is medium capacity?

 

[Devistater]

blacklit: Well if you expand your medium out 2 in each direction from the ones you have, its in medium

Ok fine, its high end of medium, upper medium.

Zoomer: I think you probably have right idea. Maybe its more of a ramp than a bell curve.

Materials cost for larger hdds are larger simply because they have more platters and more read/write heads.

But I think there are quite often some cost differances even in a single platter comparison with differant densities (at least until they get going manufacturing in bulk and figuring out lower cost ways to manufacture) beyond just R&D. Higher density platters often take some sorta material advance, like when IBM went to glass platters. Or ways to figure out how to manufacture them so they will hold bits in higher densities. The latest advance with perpendicular recording surely involved some sorta advance. But I think since they are willing to throw mass amounts of perp drives into normal non-perp retail boxes, they must have found some quick ways to reduce manufacturing costs BELOW the previous gen of platters. Maybe not just platters, maybe there's less parts or less moving parts in the heads.

 

[Solema]

Originally posted by: Devistater
Your theory sounds nice except for the fact that about 95% of people who ordered this got the latest gen 7200.10 in the box.

So you're saying I have a chance at getting a 7200.10 in the box? Sweet!

 

[hytek369]

dead

 

[mrdeucie]

I received an e-mail that my HD has shipped and will be here on Monday.

 

[Devistater]

Originally posted by: Solema

Originally posted by: Devistater
Your theory sounds nice except for the fact that about 95% of people who ordered this got the latest gen 7200.10 in the box.

So you're saying I have a chance at getting a 7200.10 in the box? Sweet!

A quite good chance, the large majority of reports (including myself) received a 7200.10 in the box.

 

[kindest]

109 in store today for the pata.

 

[mjreddy]

aghhhhh!!! shoot.... i was gonna jump on this but now its BACK to 209.99.... dammit!

 

[xionn]

Is the instore SATA or PATA?

 

[kindest]

Originally posted by: xionn
Is the instore SATA or PATA?

pata sorry

 

[blacklit]

got the 2nd drive -- order placed a week later. was 7200.11 ~

j/k it was 7200.10 also

 

[mrgq912]

hey guys i ordered my hard drive on 9/20 paid 109 and did free ground shipping.

I just got my hard drive today. Seems Outpost shipped my drive by Airmail. Cool.

Also I got the 7200.10.

Should I be happy or upset. Happy that I got a 400gb 7200.10 for 110.
Or upset that I probably won't be able to get my rebate on this. Since its only available for the 7200.9 version not the 7200.10.

What do u guys think Happy or upset?

 

[kindest]

Originally posted by: mrgq912
hey guys i ordered my hard drive on 9/20 paid 109 and did free ground shipping.

I just got my hard drive today. Seems Outpost shipped my drive by Airmail. Cool.

Also I got the 7200.10.

Should I be happy or upset. Happy that I got a 400gb 7200.10 for 110.
Or upset that I probably won't be able to get my rebate on this. Since its only available for the 7200.9 version not the 7200.10.

What do u guys think Happy or upset?

i got my drive today from ordering this week and its a .10.
im still going to send the rebate in.. see what happens.

 

[keeleysam]

Originally posted by: mrgq912
hey guys i ordered my hard drive on 9/20 paid 109 and did free ground shipping.

I just got my hard drive today. Seems Outpost shipped my drive by Airmail. Cool.

Also I got the 7200.10.

Should I be happy or upset. Happy that I got a 400gb 7200.10 for 110.
Or upset that I probably won't be able to get my rebate on this. Since its only available for the 7200.9 version not the 7200.10.

What do u guys think Happy or upset?

The rebate is for any drive with the 7200.9 part number on the box, which all the 7200.10s do.

 

[HoosierDadE]

Delivered today. Also a 7200.10

Thanks OP

 

[Devistater]

As I said earlier in the thread for those who aren't bothering to read:

Originally posted by: Devistater

Originally posted by: aimanzym
ohhhh, good deal. how is that $26 rebate work? no idea. anyone knows?

You send in the form.

Its linked in the OP. If you haven't sent in this particular form before (its been running since I think June), then you'll get the amount of money thats listed on the list.

Note: Make sure to use the numbers from the BOX, not the drive itself. Being as the box matches up on the models on the list, whereas the drive is 7200.10 and doesn't match the list.

 

[McFlyinCA]

Originally posted by: kindest
its back at 109.99 for in store at Frys.. saw it in the ad today

The store ad is for the pata one.
400GB pata
400GB sata

 

[galperi1]

Just got back from Fry's in Downers Grove, IL

$119.00 + tax and I think I can use the rebate. Also it's a 7200.10

 

[d3n]

I am excited about this. Got my ship confirmation for all seven drives in the inbox on Saturday. Still has not posted to my CC. It will tonight I imagine.


Bleeding edge is always at a premium. But there is a value market and I think that this is where the value market comes in. It does not make sense to have two lines producing two generations of HDs it would seem. I am pretty sure the 7200.9 line was retooled for .10 and all drives from now on will be .10