Hot: Seagate 80GB Barracuda IV 7200RPM Drive $104 with 50 Cent Fed Ex 2nd Day Shipping

[HiTek21]

Now this is a great hard drive, I got one of these from Frys back when they had the Mail in rebate. I haven't seen a price that cheap since but this is cheapest I've seen for awhile.

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[weepul]

dell had this drive for $88 shipped several weeks ago. oem tho. drive is super quiet. ^_^x

 

[frankqfrank]

yeah, OEM has been under $90 at Dell several times, this is a decent price for a good drive. $105.79 at Dell now.

 

[4fingerwu]

how do you think this drive compares to the WD with 8mb cache?
Peace
4Finger

 

[HiTek21]

I'd rather have the Western Digital With the 8mb buffer...

 

[solarsx]

i'd rather have the Barracuda with 2MB buffer... i have 7 and prefer them over WD ...

 

[matsuhisa]

not as hot as you claim... this was going for $90 like a month earlier and i would rather get the 8mb wd for a little more.

 

[Nikepete]

Originally posted by: solarsx
i'd rather have the Barracuda with 2MB buffer... i have 7 and prefer them over WD ...

Any particular reason ? I have a Seagate too but I thought the 8MB WD is faster

 

[Fernholz2]

I have a 120 mb SE western digital and 2 barracuda IV 80 gig drives I have the 2 80s raided and they perform better then the 120 ,but the 120 is still a great drive!

 

[yodayoda]

Originally posted by: Nikepete

Originally posted by: solarsx
i'd rather have the Barracuda with 2MB buffer... i have 7 and prefer them over WD ...

Any particular reason ? I have a Seagate too but I thought the 8MB WD is faster

1) Seagates have some of the lowest fail rates in the bix, Western Digital the highest
2) WD has the worst return time of hard drives (maxtor=3 days, seagate=NA (never had to return), IBM=2 weeks, WD=4 weeks)
3) WD are the loudest hard drives, seagates are the quietest

speed isn't everything dude.

 

[Csium]

The point of the 'cuda is NOT speed, its noise (or lack of). The 'cuda is s even slower than the 2MB version of the WD. All the comparisons with the 8MB WD is pointless, choose what's more important to you, and buy that.

http://www.storagereview.com/articles/200201/20020124WD1200JB_1.html

 

[woodie1]

Got in on this when (with sales tax) it was $92. I can't even tell when it is running. My IBM and WD drives seem so loud now. It's plenty fast for me.

 

[BigJ]

Can be had from Dell.com for 95$ shipped overnight (no sales tax for NY) OEM Version

 

[Crazee]

Originally posted by: yodayoda
1) Seagates have some of the lowest fail rates in the bix, Western Digital the highest
2) WD has the worst return time of hard drives (maxtor=3 days, seagate=NA (never had to return), IBM=2 weeks, WD=4 weeks)
3) WD are the loudest hard drives, seagates are the quietest

speed isn't everything dude.

I'd love to know where you base these numbers from. I work with a system manufacturer that produces on the average well over 5,000 systems a month. From our actual drive failure rates and RMA return times your numbers are WAY off from what we have experienced. We have experienced an extremely low failure rate with Western Digital. IBM has been the highest with Maxtor and Seagate in the middle. As for return time be thankful you have never had to return one to Seagate. We quit using Seagate primarily for their absurd RMA return times. We have experienced some drives taking as long as 60 days with Seagate and then when it arrived it was bad.

I will not argue with you about sound and what people have said is correct if quiet is important to you then by all means grab the Seagate.

 

[solarsx]

I'm happy with the performance, reliability, noise with the cudas and based on reviews, specifications,
failure stories i've decided not to use WD. I use the cudas in RAID setup so noise is important to me
since i have alot of them and so far WD have not produced as quiet as the cudas drives. As far as the
higher buffer drives go they may be a bit faster compared one to one drive but in RAID they can behave
differently especially with the heavy random, non-localized reads/writes. Taken from storagereview.com
about WD1200JB "It also aims for the entry-level server market though we're skeptical whether an increased
buffer size can really impact the heavy random, non-localized patterns that arise".

... wish i had the means to run such benches and post some comparisons...

 

[Nikepete]

1) Seagates have some of the lowest fail rates in the bix, Western Digital the highest
2) WD has the worst return time of hard drives (maxtor=3 days, seagate=NA (never had to return), IBM=2 weeks, WD=4 weeks)
3) WD are the loudest hard drives, seagates are the quietest

speed isn't everything dude.

It's baloney, the sounds of the case fan and CPU's fan mask the HD's sound anyway. I have an IBM and an Seagate in my system, all 7200 rpm, can't hear any HD noise, just fan noise.

 

[esquared]

I bought a WD once from a guy on eBay that had 2 1/2 years left on the warranty (I could tell by the mfg date). It croaked and I RMA'd it to WD and they told me that the drive was a refurb and they would only replace it with a 30 day warranty. I complained that even if it was a refurb (which I am pretty sure it wasn't), how can the give a 30 day warranty when they had only been mfg that capacity drive itself for 6 months. It's supposed to have a three year total warranty. I argued with these clowns, but they wouldn't budge. The replacement drive, by the way took 5-6 weeks to get to me. I dumped it on eBay and I swore I would never, ever buy a POS WD again and I haven't. Worst customer service I have ever experienced. Sorry for the rant, but Yodayoda brought out a bad memory when he mentioned WD. I've owned 15 Maxtors over the last 6 years and haven't lost a single one to failure. I just bought this same Seagate 80 GB drive myself. Just haven't had time to load it with my new XP from Hot Deals.

By the way, good post!

 

[solarsx]

Originally posted by: Nikepete

1) Seagates have some of the lowest fail rates in the bix, Western Digital the highest
2) WD has the worst return time of hard drives (maxtor=3 days, seagate=NA (never had to return), IBM=2 weeks, WD=4 weeks)
3) WD are the loudest hard drives, seagates are the quietest

speed isn't everything dude.

It's baloney, the sounds of the case fan and CPU's fan mask the HD's sound anyway. I have an IBM and an Seagate in my system, all 7200 rpm, can't hear any HD noise, just fan noise.

unless you have a bunch of fans with fairly high decibels you should hear the non-fluid bearing drives pretty easily...

 

[kimj9]

good product. good webstore. good deal.

btw in my experience maxtors rma service is very fast.
ibm is about 2 weeks, and western digital is a little over 2 weeks.

i've rmaed 2 wds, 1 ibm, 1 maxtor in the past year. my seagate is still chugging along.

my two cents.

 

[hans007]

when i worked at the HP oem... last summer

maxtor was the highest failure rate (diamond max 80s at the time), followed by IBM. they didnt really use too much WD, but most WD hard drives we had werent failing (we had to reimage each machine so each drive was physically taken out, so you could eyeball rough percentages of what drives we were using).


seagate rarely failed.


seagate is quieter (i have a cude iv 40 mb, and its great, cant even hear it). maxtors are loud, so are ibms which are really loud. WD isnt as loud, but seagates have standardized liquid ball bearings on all models, so its always quiet (the 5400 rpm version of the cuda IV the u6 is really really quiet).

 

[Walliser]

Dell.com also has this drive for about $105, use the 10% off coupon and get free shipping, for an added bonus, use your ebates account and get another 2% off. I just ordered one, thinking about ordering a second one and going raid.

Sure, there may be better deals out there, but I rather go with something that I can actually get, unlike the BS Office Depot is pulling with OOS and then pulling one of the two rebates, shady, is all I am saying.

 

[OneStepsAhead]

Some years ago, a company called Control Data Corporation made commercial-quality hard drives for the minicomputer market... top quality, last forever, low noise. Seagate bought CDC, and began making the Barracuda line as THEIR top-quality drive. A world apart from their consumer-quality drive.

I have two of the Barracuda 80's and I love them. You literally can't tell whether the drive is turning or not. Whan they start up, you hear a little tiny bit of head clatter, but the spindle motor is silent.

They still last forever. They may not be quite as fast as the new 8MB buffer models, but the tradeoff is still in favor of the Barracuda.