Seagate 300GB SATA HDD, $99.99

[mechwarrior]

Now they're showing the 16mg version $149 AR.

 

[LordSnailz]

Can anyone confirm if this is available at the b&m stores? Also, link to the rebate?

 

[Devistater]

Rebate is linked on the outpost pages that people have linked above.

I have one of each of the 8 meg and 16 meg, the 16 meg seems noticibly faster to me.

 

[tuffgong]

Do you have a link to the 16mb version?

 

[esquared]

Originally posted by: LordSnailz
Can anyone confirm if this is available at the b&m stores? Also, link to the rebate?

It's available at The Bayarea Fry's. Same price.
Rebate link

 

[Devistater]

Originally posted by: tuffgong
Do you have a link to the 16mb version?

goto outpost.com pick hdds & mem, hdds, internal retail kits, sata. You'll see all of them availible.

Or you can read through previous posts where someone linked it, I think it was on first page even.

 

[dshodson]

to bad for the 149 increase
i was going to pull the trigger on the 16

D

 

[Fant]

Ok mine just came in. I can confirm its a retail box kit with 16mb as it says right on the box. It also says 5 year warranty on the box however when I go to seagate's website and plug in the model#/serial#, it says warranty expires feb 2007 (1year warranty!). I emailed seagate to find out why this is. The model# is not listed on seagate's website which makes me think this is an older model.

 

[Devistater]

Originally posted by: dshodson
to bad for the 149 increase
i was going to pull the trigger on the 16

D

WTF. They raised the 16 mb price to $200 ($150 AR) now. And I was thinking of buying another one.

Originally posted by: Fant
Ok mine just came in. I can confirm its a retail box kit with 16mb as it says right on the box. It also says 5 year warranty on the box however when I go to seagate's website and plug in the model#/serial#, it says warranty expires feb 2007 (1year warranty!). I emailed seagate to find out why this is. The model# is not listed on seagate's website which makes me think this is an older model.

No, its probably the retail kits having differant model numbers. Its definately not an older model (at least not that old) 16 meg cache SATA drives aren't over a year or 2 old. Look at the top of drive and see when it says it was manufactured. Like July 2005 or some such. The warranty should be 5 years from that date.

BTW about the warranty check:

This system will be down for maintenance on January 16, 2006 between 4:30 p.m. GMT and 8:30 p.m. GMT.

 

[tubs]

Anyone know what the 16MB price is at Frys B&M now? Is it still $109AR?

 

[Fant]

I dont want to open the box to look at the manufacture date in case I decide to return it to outpost. My only thinking is either a) seagate's warranty system is out of date or b) outpost is not an approved distributor therefore drives sold thru it dont carry the full warranties...I'll let you guys know what seagate says.

 

[Devistater]

Originally posted by: Fant
I dont want to open the box to look at the manufacture date in case I decide to return it to outpost. My only thinking is either a) seagate's warranty system is out of date or b) outpost is not an approved distributor therefore drives sold thru it dont carry the full warranties...I'll let you guys know what seagate says.

b) is not possible since its retail drive package. Its only the case with limited versions of OEM drives, like OEM drives from dell. OEM drives from anyone else like newegg, etc, have the full warranty.
And there's the fact it says 5 year warranty on the package. Retail packages always have full warranty regardless of purchase place. They go by manufactured date and serial number.

 

[Devistater]

now that the online warranty database is up again...

Ok uhm wtf.
My 8 meg drive says 2010, but my 16 meg drive says 2007??!?

Something screwy is going on.

Ok I'm going to call them. (they are open today oddly enough)

And it cant be that outpost is not authorized (aside from the reasons regarding retail drives), because both the 8 meg and 16 meg ones I have are from outpost.

According to thier website, the only drives aren't covered are external ones. Here's some quotes from thier warranty FAQ
http://5yrwarranty.seagatestorage.com/?elqPURLPage=540

4. Does the five-year warranty apply to internal Retail Kit purchased after the new warranty date, even if the printed box indicates only a 3-year warranty?
Yes, if purchased after July 26, 2004 the internal products will have the five-year warranty. Packaging reflecting the new warranty will soon be on Retail shelves. If Retail customers have questions about the warranty on their internal Retail products, the can access their warranty information at www.seagate.com.

5. Does the five-year warranty apply to products purchased just last week?
The warranty is retroactive to all eligible drives that were purchased from Seagate after July 26, 2004.

I'm pretty sure that these are
Barracuda 7200.8 drives. The 7200.7 were released in middle of 2003, so that still doesn't fit for very old drives, 7200.8 surely was released later.
(looks like begining of 2005 was release of 7200.8)
example: http://www.tomshardware.com/2005/03/17/new/

Ok this is BS. After being on hold for 20 mins they send me to the warranty dept. They tell me that this drive started out with a 2 year warranty (bs, why did thier website say after 2004 all drives were 5 year?) which means that this drive was manufactured in mid 2005 (which is logical). Then they tell me to get the 5 years I have to send in a "high resolution scan"
Of 3 things. The outpost receipt, the top of the drive showing model and serial, and the 5 year warranty sticker on the box.
And I just checked the box, there is no "sticker" showing that. Its as part of the printed packaging on the back. They must have been telling me a sticker, thinking this was an old drive that just had a sticker slapped on it with old packaging. But its not.

WTF is this about. Something is incorrect here, why would they say on the website everything after mid 2004 had the new warranty and then these dont automatically?

I can tell you this, if I end up having to send in a "high resolution scan", its going to be a minimum of 100 megs per picture. Pulling out the drive thats already installed is going to take a bit of work.

 

[mm60]

Bought one of these on Saturday at 7:00 pm EST with 2 day shipping. Order status till this morning was "Processing". Checked this morning and status said "Backordered".

 

[Fant]

Instead of a scan use a digital camera....easier than sticking the drive on a flatbed scanner

 

[catass]

hm... so what's the deal with the warranty? I got the 16 mb version.

I found my drive sitting on my step this morning. Airborne delivered it yesterday without knocking or ringing the doorbell (cause I was home) and since it was a holiday I didn't even think to check for it.

 

[Fant]

See the other thread in this forum regarding warranty status on these drives.

 

[Devistater]

http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.aspx?catid=40&threadid=1781978

 

[Awolihacked]

For those who want more than just ONE of these 300GB drives, TigerDirect also has this same model drive for $99 after rebate. (8MB cache version, but OEM not retail)

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications...tails.asp?EdpNo=1197385&Tab=5&NoMapp=0

The best part is that this is a OEM drive, so you should be able to submit both rebates!(the $50 Outpost retail box rebate and the $35/$10 TigerDirect for OEM drive)

EDIT: Refers to buying two drives from two places, and mailing in two sets of rebates - not mailing in all the rebates for one drive

From Seagate rebate form: "One rebate will be issued per SKU per household." Outpost "SKU" is a UPC code (763649001943/763649001782), OEM is the drive model number (ST3300831AS)

Rebate is good on purchases until Jan 28th.


Awol

 

[Devistater]

Originally posted by: Awolihacked
For those who want more than just ONE of these 300GB drives, TigerDirect also has this same model drive for $99 after rebate. (8MB cache version, but OEM not retail)

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications...tails.asp?EdpNo=1197385&Tab=5&NoMapp=0

The best part is that this is a OEM drive, so you should be able to submit both rebates!(the $50 Outpost retail box rebate and the $35/$10 TigerDirect for OEM drive)

From Seagate rebate form: "One rebate will be issued per SKU per household." Outpost "SKU" is a UPC code (763649001943/763649001782), OEM is the drive model number (ST3300831AS)

Rebate is good on purchases until Jan 28th.


Awol

edit: My bad, I thought you were saying to combine the outpost rebate with the tiger order.

Won't work. The outpost rebate has in several places RETAIL DRIVE mentioned. Like for instance, where you write model number, it has -RK after it, that means retail kit. When it mensions the UPC's that qualify it says next to them RETAIL KIT MODEL, and also, where is the UPC on a OEM drive? You have to send in the original UPC. They can tell from the serial number if its a retail kit or a OEM, so you wont be able to fool them. (I tried putting in a retail kit serial/model the other day to check warranty and I left the -RK part off, it showed me the warranty date and said on that page that I had a -RK drive).

Similarly I dont think using the $10 seagate from tiger will work on the outpost one, the $10 doesn't mention a model of -RK.

Aside from that, outpost has been putting this drive on sale once or twice a month for the same price for the last few months in a row, I'd rather wait than deal with a $35 tiger rebate.
edit: heh did you notice that they have a "rebate garuntee" on the page? Says they garuntee all rebates, guess their rebate reputation finally got them to do something about it.

my 2 cents

 

[Schfifty Five]

Seagate rebates are the fastest rebates I hvae ever gotten. And this isn't just one time that seagate has given me a speedy rebate. I must have sent in at least 5 rebates over 2 years and they all came back to me within 2.5 weeks from the day I mailed it out.

 

[Devistater]

Originally posted by: Schfifty Five
Seagate rebates are the fastest rebates I hvae ever gotten. And this isn't just one time that seagate has gave me a speedy rebate. I must have sent in at least 5 rebates over 2 years and they all came back to me within 2.5 weeks from the day I mailed it out.

I second that, I just got one of the segate $50's in the mail today, and I sent it in not too long ago.

SEGATE REBATES RULE!!

 

[Awolihacked]

Originally posted by: Devistater
Won't work. The outpost rebate has in several places RETAIL DRIVE mentioned...

Maybe you misunderstood me. I didn't mean you could purchase two drives from one place.

I meant that you can buy two different (one retail, one OEM) same model drives - one from Outpost, one from Tiger Direct. Since they are different SKUs, you shouldn't have any troubles with the rebates.

This would be great for someone (like me) who wants to set up a big RAID-5 and use identical drives. Rounding up co-workers and family members to get around the "one rebate per SKU per household" rule can be hard. This cuts your searching in half.

And, $108 total each is pretty good in my book. (~$100 after rebates + ~$8 ground shipping)

Awol

 

[Devistater]

Originally posted by: Awolihacked

Originally posted by: Devistater
Won't work. The outpost rebate has in several places RETAIL DRIVE mentioned...

Maybe you misunderstood me. I didn't mean you could purchase two drives from one place.

I meant that you can buy two different (one retail, one OEM) same model drives - one from Outpost, one from Tiger Direct. Since they are different SKUs, you shouldn't have any troubles with the rebates.

This would be great for someone (like me) who wants to set up a big RAID-5 and use identical drives. Rounding up co-workers and family members to get around the "one rebate per SKU per household" rule can be hard. This cuts your searching in half.

And, $108 total each is pretty good in my book. (~$100 after rebates + ~$8 ground shipping)

I did, I thought you were saying you could use the outpost rebate on the tiger order. Sorry. Yeah, you can order 1 from outpost and 1 from tiger, no conflicts should arise since they are all totally differant rebates.

And yeah they are a pretty good price. I'm spoiled by that $110 for the 16 meg cache version at outpost though. The 16 meg cache ver is noticibly faster than the 8, I have one of each.

 

[nycdude]

nice deal