Hitachi 2TB 5k3000 SATA3 HDD - $59.99 AC/AR/FS

[SunnyD]

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$79.99 - $10 Promo Code EMCKEHF22 - $10 MIR + Free Shipping = $59.99

 

[Vikroda]

Is it worth it to pay $10 more for the Samsung 2TB that has no rebate? (e.g. quieter)

 

[qliveur]

I'm pretty sure that the Sammy uses advanced format, whereas this drive is standard. I got one of these a while back and got my rebate check. It's also very quiet. I use it in an external dock and I can barely hear it wind up.

If they were the same price, I don't know, but for $10 cheaper I'd definitely get this one.

 

[bankster55]

There is no need to use AFT on any drive less than 2.19TB
Their spec sheet for this drive says 512B sectors - "variable"
So I called up Hitachi and spent about half hour on phone being shuffled around, and no one at US HQ could answer my question of "how does variable sectors function in actual use"?
"does a 2TB drive have 512B/sector and a 3TB drive have 4096B/sector emulated to 512B, or does each drive change the sector allocation on-the-fly as some implementation of Long LBA"?

And since Hitachi Storage is gone, this question has no relevance anymore.

 

[Vikroda]

I'm pretty sure that the Sammy uses advanced format, whereas this drive is standard. I got one of these a while back and got my rebate check. It's also very quiet. I use it in an external dock and I can barely hear it wind up.

If they were the same price, I don't know, but for $10 cheaper I'd definitely get this one.

Thanks, just pulled the trigger for this.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Wow, and I paid $110 ea, for 8 drives at Microcenter (retail boxed) for the 7K2000 series 2TB drives, and when I opened them up, the drives inside were 7K3000 series.

Could have waited, and saved some bucks. Ah, well.

 

[SunnyD]

Wow, and I paid $110 ea, for 8 drives at Microcenter (retail boxed) for the 7K2000 series 2TB drives, and when I opened them up, the drives inside were 7K3000 series.

Could have waited, and saved some bucks. Ah, well.

These are 5k3000's, not 7k3000's.

 

[Vincent]

I bought two of these drives on the 14th and did a live chat with Newegg and they agreed to give me a $15 credit.

 

[mazeroth]

I can't get this deal to work or the 8GB PNY DDR3 deal. I cleaned out my cart, logged out, then logged back in. Added two of these drives and put in the code EMCKEHF22. It says "Stacking is not permitted. If multiple codes are entered for the same item, only the first promo code will apply."

It's showing, in green, -$20 discount, but that only takes it down to the $79.99 price. Any ideas?

EDIT: Stopped trying with Firefox and now using IE. Working fine. Figures!

 

[Wag]

In the rebate it says to submit:

2. The original serial # of the drive.

How the hell are you supposed to do that? The serial number is on the big white sticker and there's no way to remove it (even if I wanted to). There's no space to write down the serial # either.

Any ideas?

 

[qliveur]

I used the one on the bag.

 

[Wag]

I used the one on the bag.

Very good. I totally forgot about that. They should really clarify exactly where to find the serial #- obviously no one is going to remove the label from the drive.

 

[zephyrprime]

There is no need to use AFT on any drive less than 2.19TB
Their spec sheet for this drive says 512B sectors - "variable"
So I called up Hitachi and spent about half hour on phone being shuffled around, and no one at US HQ could answer my question of "how does variable sectors function in actual use"?
"does a 2TB drive have 512B/sector and a 3TB drive have 4096B/sector emulated to 512B, or does each drive change the sector allocation on-the-fly as some implementation of Long LBA"?

And since Hitachi Storage is gone, this question has no relevance anymore.

I can't believe you spent half an hour of your life doing that. It totally doesn't matter.