Seagate 320gb Sata II 16mb Perpendicular 3gb/s 89.99 @ newegg Free Shipping

[Trey22]

$101.88 out the door for me (stupid CA tax).

 

[Trey22]

Originally posted by: wallsfd949

Originally posted by: duragezic
Never heard of the perpendicular thing before.

:music: Get Perpendicular :music: Let actuator man school you!

ROFL!

 

[BrokenVisage]

Originally posted by: anodyne
Sweet! I'm looking to do the same thing on my DFI LANParty UT board Broken. Please let me know how your rig runs with it. The idea of buying a second one for 10 bucks less than the first one is nice and I'm thinking very hard about a RAID 1 so that I have automatically mirrored data.

Sounds good, but I'll be going with RAID 0 for my rig mainly because I only use it for playing games and video editing and would only need to back-up saved game folders, customized .ini's and edited video content (which I save directly to my fileserver anyway). If anything ever happens to the array and my data gets corupt, I'll only need to re-install games, programs or utilities I had on it before and just restore all my saved games and any customized .ini's. But once it's up and running I'll post a performance graph from HD Tune or something.

 

[Zap]

Originally posted by: wallsfd949
:music: Get Perpendicular :music: Let actuator man school you!

LMAO, that's like Schoolhouse Rock!

 

[Monotaur]

Originally posted by: Ctrackstar126

Originally posted by: filibusterman

Originally posted by: wallsfd949

Originally posted by: duragezic
Never heard of the perpendicular thing before.

:music: Get Perpendicular :music:

I feel abused after watching that

Wow...... just wow

You gotta admit, that theme song is pretty catchy...

Seriously though, I thought perpendicular recording only allowed for a ~37% increase in recording density, not 10x?

 

[Monotaur]

OK, I'm in for one. Thanks OP!

The promo code didn't work, but it was $94.99... still a great deal.

 

[filibusterman]

also free shipping, so 95 shipped is pretty sweet w/ 5 year warranty

 

[rockytong]

Little off topic here for computer geeks. I have a Dell system with a few of these drives in there. Can I use the pc while computer is laying down(horizontal) instead of the regular standing position(vertical)? I wonder if it will do damange to my HDs in the long run since I don't know much about how HDs work. Thanks.

 

[araczynski]

Originally posted by: rockytong
Little off topic here for computer geeks. I have a Dell system with a few of these drives in there. Can I use the pc while computer is laying down(horizontal) instead of the regular standing position(vertical)? I wonder if it will do damange to my HDs in the long run since I don't know much about how HDs work. Thanks.

the drives won't care.

 

[systemjockey]

Good deal.... jumped on it once it dropped back under $100. Picked up two.

 

[rockytong]

Originally posted by: araczynski

Originally posted by: rockytong
Little off topic here for computer geeks. I have a Dell system with a few of these drives in there. Can I use the pc while computer is laying down(horizontal) instead of the regular standing position(vertical)? I wonder if it will do damange to my HDs in the long run since I don't know much about how HDs work. Thanks.

the drives won't care.

But don't the HD magnetic head easier to screw up/misalign when the HD is not laying horizontal?

 

[KF]

Originally posted by: rockytong

Originally posted by: araczynski

the drives won't care.

But don't the HD magnetic head easier to screw up/misalign when the HD is not laying horizontal?

For as many years as I can remember, HDs have been specfied to work as designed while in every horizontal/vertical position except upside-down. In appliance store computers I have seen with a compact case, HDs are mounted on their side. As for alignment, the heads "fly" on a film of air while the drives spin, and the tracks are navigated by servo-control, and can follow practically anything, so there is nothing to recommend any one drive position over another. I know it does seem odd. I'm not sure why HDs are not supposed to be operated upside-down.

 

[Monotaur]

Originally posted by: KF

Originally posted by: rockytong

Originally posted by: araczynski

the drives won't care.

But don't the HD magnetic head easier to screw up/misalign when the HD is not laying horizontal?

For as many years as I can remember, HDs have been specfied to work as designed while in every horizontal/vertical position except upside-down. In appliance store computers I have seen with a compact case, HDs are mounted on their side. As for alignment, the heads "fly" on a film of air while the drives spin, and the tracks are navigated by servo-control, and can follow practically anything, so there is nothing to recommend any one drive position over another. I know it does seem odd. I'm not sure why HDs are not supposed to be operated upside-down.

They can't operate upside-down because if they did, all of the magnetic bits would fall off.

And if the bits are anything like the bits in that flash movie posted earlier, I wouldn't want billions of them running around in the same room as me. :laugh:

 

[Nick5324]

Giving this a bump, $90 shipped right now with code. Good deal IMHO.

 

[z0mb13]

97 shipped in CA.. just got one

 

[Basilisk]

Originally posted by: Nick5324
Giving this a bump, $90 shipped right now with code. Good deal IMHO.

He's right! The code is working again! [As earlier noted, it definitely was -not- working a couple of days ago.]

Thank heavens NJ just raised its sales tax to minimize the temptation of such bargains.

 

[Monotaur]

Originally posted by: Basilisk

Originally posted by: Nick5324
Giving this a bump, $90 shipped right now with code. Good deal IMHO.

He's right! The code is working again! [As earlier noted, it definitely was -not- working a couple of days ago.]

Thank heavens NJ just raised its sales tax to minimize the temptation of such bargains.

Grrrr.... I just jumped on this yesterday afternoon. The code wasn't working then.

 

[edm]

Would I see any difference between my 8mb sata drive (160gb seagate) from this with 16mb?

 

[Spikesoldier]

Originally posted by: edm
Would I see any difference between my 8mb sata drive (160gb seagate) from this with 16mb?

i think we can safely conclude, yes.

 

[hansmuff]

Originally posted by: Spikesoldier

Originally posted by: edm
Would I see any difference between my 8mb sata drive (160gb seagate) from this with 16mb?

i think we can safely conclude, yes.

That's a safe conclusion. The implied question is, I think, how much of a difference is it really? There's an interesting thread on the topic of 8MB vs. 16MB cache here:
http://forums.storagereview.net/index.php?showtopic=23148&hl=8+vs+16+cache

Then, of course, the areal density of the 320GB may be higher, so you might see better transfer rates on the 320 (unless your 160 uses the same density.)

There's going to be some difference, but most likely not enough to swap drives for.

 

[KF]

Originally posted by: Monotaur

Originally posted by: KF

For as many years as I can remember, HDs have been specfied to work as designed while in every horizontal/vertical position except upside-down. ... I'm not sure why HDs are not supposed to be operated upside-down.

They can't operate upside-down because if they did, all of the magnetic bits would fall off.

And if the bits are anything like the bits in that flash movie posted earlier, I wouldn't want billions of them running around in the same room as me. :laugh:

Thankfully there is always some helpful anandtechie to set you straight

 

[dustmann]

FYI the buybarracuda code is over, ended on 7/31

 

[tallman45]

Originally posted by: dustmann
FYI the buybarracuda code is over, ended on 7/31

FYI, it works today

 

[AMD K9]

This sucks I tried the code a few days ago and it didn't work. Can you call NewEgg for the price difference as I even posted on here before I ordered that it didn't work even when I tried like 20 times over 2 days.

I want my $5.00....

 

[jimmybgood]

Where else?

But at Anandtech