Hot! Seagate 7200 120Gb SATA $59

[FuzzyPalms]

Originally posted by: VaG

Originally posted by: FuzzyPalms
I love you people with nothing to do except be beligerent a-holes. Get a life why don't you? SATA does NOT offer any performance increase over PATA technology currently. Again you are talking about a hard drive 10K RPM HD that happens to come in a SATA interface. We are talking interface, NOT actual HD performance. Understand little man? Go ahead and continue on with your ignorant posting and useless bashing.
Have a Merry Christmas.

Until you decide to reword or back pedal out of your initial post, you are fair game for useless bashing. I am well aware that today's SATA products are really PATA products with an extra SATA-to-PATA bridge chip but since you said "There is no performance increase for going with SATA in current hard drive technology" in comparison it to a "standard IDE ATA" I will refute it until you show me a "standard IDE ATA" in any RPM that out performs the SATA Raptor. UNTIL YOU DO THAT I CONSIDER SATA A CURRENT PERFORMANCE INCREASE. Understand big man?

And then there are idiots that spend $300 on hard drives......

 

[spliffstar69]

Originally posted by: FuzzyPalms

Originally posted by: VaG

Originally posted by: FuzzyPalms
I love you people with nothing to do except be beligerent a-holes. Get a life why don't you? SATA does NOT offer any performance increase over PATA technology currently. Again you are talking about a hard drive 10K RPM HD that happens to come in a SATA interface. We are talking interface, NOT actual HD performance. Understand little man? Go ahead and continue on with your ignorant posting and useless bashing.
Have a Merry Christmas.

Until you decide to reword or back pedal out of your initial post, you are fair game for useless bashing. I am well aware that today's SATA products are really PATA products with an extra SATA-to-PATA bridge chip but since you said "There is no performance increase for going with SATA in current hard drive technology" in comparison it to a "standard IDE ATA" I will refute it until you show me a "standard IDE ATA" in any RPM that out performs the SATA Raptor. UNTIL YOU DO THAT I CONSIDER SATA A CURRENT PERFORMANCE INCREASE. Understand big man?

And then there are idiots that spend $300 on hard drives......

lol... I wonder why they didnt make a pATA raptor?

 

[vectorz]

I love you people with nothing to do except be beligerent a-holes. Get a life why don't you? SATA does NOT offer any performance increase over PATA technology currently. Again you are talking about a hard drive 10K RPM HD that happens to come in a SATA interface. We are talking interface, NOT actual HD performance. Understand little man? Go ahead and continue on with your ignorant posting and useless bashing.
Have a Merry Christmas.

Translated : "I'm an insecure loser that has nothing better to do besides discuss technicalities over a $59 hard drive." Get a life, nerd.

 

[Cardio]

My order for 3 drives has not been cancelled. They did raise the shipping price that showed on the confirmation from $6.34 to $27.19! FEDEX Ground. This was confirmed by phone and I have a tracking #. The tracking # doesn't yet show up on FedEx but that is often the case for about 24 hours.Total price $204.19 for 3 drives. The $27 ground to Houston is pretty steep. The account rep on the phone didn't say anything about a price error or only 1 drive and I didn't ask. It's not THAT great a bargain but at least no rebates. So I assume I will be getting them. Probably takes a week to Houston.

 

[Aiyana]

Just got my call back. Said it was a "B" stock item of a single drive only. Offered me a new one for $120. I didn't fight it, I just said no and cancelled the order.

 

[GRIFFIN1]

I got two phone calls.

First call was to verify my shipping info.

Second call about 2 minutes later to tell me they didn't have any stock.

 

[FuzzyPalms]

Originally posted by: spliffstar69

Originally posted by: FuzzyPalms

Originally posted by: VaG

Originally posted by: FuzzyPalms
I love you people with nothing to do except be beligerent a-holes. Get a life why don't you? SATA does NOT offer any performance increase over PATA technology currently. Again you are talking about a hard drive 10K RPM HD that happens to come in a SATA interface. We are talking interface, NOT actual HD performance. Understand little man? Go ahead and continue on with your ignorant posting and useless bashing.
Have a Merry Christmas.

Until you decide to reword or back pedal out of your initial post, you are fair game for useless bashing. I am well aware that today's SATA products are really PATA products with an extra SATA-to-PATA bridge chip but since you said "There is no performance increase for going with SATA in current hard drive technology" in comparison it to a "standard IDE ATA" I will refute it until you show me a "standard IDE ATA" in any RPM that out performs the SATA Raptor. UNTIL YOU DO THAT I CONSIDER SATA A CURRENT PERFORMANCE INCREASE. Understand big man?

And then there are idiots that spend $300 on hard drives......

lol... I wonder why they didnt make a pATA raptor?

Ever hear of RAID and why this is a HD targetted at Enterprises? That's why.

 

[yz426]

canceled also hehe. win some lose some its all good.
later and merry xmas to all

 

[FuzzyPalms]

Originally posted by: vectorz

I love you people with nothing to do except be beligerent a-holes. Get a life why don't you? SATA does NOT offer any performance increase over PATA technology currently. Again you are talking about a hard drive 10K RPM HD that happens to come in a SATA interface. We are talking interface, NOT actual HD performance. Understand little man? Go ahead and continue on with your ignorant posting and useless bashing.
Have a Merry Christmas.

Translated : "I'm an insecure loser that has nothing better to do besides discuss technicalities over a $59 hard drive." Get a life, nerd.

Funny. Like I said, I was telling the person who asked the question if this SATA drive (again the title of this post) was quicker than the PATA version. Which I said "No." AGAIN, who are the insecure people doing the bashing? All I did was answer someone's question. Which is what the purpose of the forums is to do, help people, CORRECT? Go back and re-read the whole thread if you like. But hey, thanks for your opinion. I'm glad we have people like you that support those who flame and bash for no reason, there sure aren't enough around here.

 

[gunblade]

So every order is cancelled?

Danm, I was hoping for a backorder or something.

 

[frangus]

Well I got my cancellation telephone call from a CSR just now. So no go for me.

 

[teklord]

I got a call around noon stating that the item was "no longer in prodcution." Bullshit.. this lady didn't know anything. I asked if I can get an equivalent model for the same price and she said... not even close. Oh well, I tried.
I just checked my order status and it hasn't been cancelled yet... odd.

 

[dexvx]

Originally posted by: FuzzyPalms

Funny that a 7,200 RPM PATA drive vs. the same 7,200 RPM SATA drive has no performance increase. Of course the future is SATA, but I'm sorry nothing even really goes beyond the IDE/66 technology today and we already have IDE 133.

I have no intention to sit back and argue with you, I was mearly pointing out to the poster that asked if there was any performance increase in buying the HD advertised in this thread over the PATA version, that the answer to his question was "No." Sorry for trying to be helpful. Stupid me.

The initial reviews were Seagate Barracuda IV's SATA and PATA. Those drives hardly constitute as high performance, like the Raptor.

The difference is much more extreme as you get higher performance. Try RAID-0 or RAID-5 these drives and compare it to their RAID-0/RAID-5 PATA counterparts. No contest SATA wins.

 

[randomlinh]

heh, yeah, cancelled. they left the msg on my machine. oh well, worth a shot.

 

[porkbun]

Chill out guys! Let's forget this Seagate thread and do some serious shopping for our loved ones.

I used to argue with my rich roommate about whether SATA or PATA is faster. I realized I was never going to convince him 150 MB/s was the speed of the interface, not his hard drive, so I decided to stop arguing and let him believe what he believes. After all, it does not even matter which one is faster--he's gonna have to wait for my game to finish loading anyway if mine is indeed slower.

Wish you all a merry Christmas and a happy New Year.

 

[Neyd3400]

Tom over at www.Tomshardware.com has done plenty of test to verify that currently thier is not a sigifigant advangtage. I myself jumped on this deal only, because it is difficult to find a boards nowadays with onboard ide raid, seems most have swithed to sata raid. Gigabyte is the only one that comes to mind. As much as I like raid, I really like having the extra ide conections. I have tried ata raid cards, but I have had trouble getting them to boot up properly.

 

[PTCvette]

Got an order confirmation last night, and went to look this morning.... Drive was backordered. Now it's showing cancelled, but no e-mail or call from them stating that it is cancelled. Oh well, would have been nice, but I'll survive without it (I think)

Jeff

 

[superfob99]

Mine got cancelled too. Received a phone msg when i got back from work. CDW always does this.

 

[wetcat007]

Originally posted by: FFactory0x
will these work in a non SATA system. more specifiacally a 8rda+

You'll need a sata pci card for it to hook up.

 

[wetcat007]

lol i cant believe how many people are argueing over SATA being pointless, it's not just speed, but the cables are nice and small, and it's more future proof, but it's up to the person whos buys it to figure out if they want it or need it or whatever

 

[Krutoy]

Mine got cancelled and I dont really mind. It was worth a shot.

 

[Cullinaire]

Bah who cares about SATA speed?! I dream of the day when there will no longer be any more ribbon cables and jumpers and damn molex connectors of death in my system. Only pretty slender brightly coloured SATA cables snaking about each other like dragons rising to heaven!

Sadly my $90 PWS does not have a single SATA lead, and I'd probably be an old man before they release SATA optical drives.

 

[Redviffer]

By going from the IDE to SATA you take information off the PCI bus, which is limited to 133MB/sec, the performance increase isn't really the drive, but in how you are accessing/transferring the information.

Doesn't really make much of a differance with only 1 drive, but if you raid then you will see the benefit.

 

[Dug]

No performance difference between SATA and PATA?
Why don't you guys do some research.

Head to head comparison

 

[GtPrOjEcTX]

yup, mine cancelled as well. no biggie.