Seagate 500g. HDD for $149.99 Shipped

[solo717]

Seagate 500g 7200.10 for $149.99 with free shipping after coupon code "[deleted]"
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Coupon code was deleted unless the OP can show that it is made available to the general public

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[randomlinh]

anyone know if it works w/ the PATA version?

 

[cvstrat]

Looks nice, wonder if it is better than the Maxtor Maxline Pro 500 ?? It's close in price, any idea is there is any benefit to the seagate drive?

 

[AstroCreep]

Originally posted by: cvstrat
Looks nice, wonder if it is better than the Maxtor Maxline Pro 500 ?? It's close in price, any idea is there is any benefit to the seagate drive?

Preference? They both have 5-year warranty nowadays too.

Like me, I'd go for the Seagate over the Maxtor. Yes I know Seagate bought Maxtor, but aren't they still running off of the old Maxtor manufacturing processes ATM?

 

[Woofmeister]

I'm seeing $199.99.

 

[Old Hippie]

I'm seeing $199.99.

After the checkout code?

 

[tallman45]

Maxtor 500gb is $139.99 Free Ship Here


Maxtor 500gb SATA

 

[AstroCreep]

Originally posted by: Old Hippie

I'm seeing $199.99.

After the checkout code?

$150 & free shipping here after the code!

You do have to login and all to enter the code, but yeah, still works. Gonna grab one tonight!

Nice find, OP!

 

[Woofmeister]

Originally posted by: Old Hippie

I'm seeing $199.99.

After the checkout code?

Oops. My bad.

Edit This is pretty funny. It's linked at the New Egg homepage as a "hot deal." Of course, it's the Seagate Barracuda 7200.9 at the same price as the OP's post for the 7200.10. Thanks OP, I'm in.

 

[LavidDichterman]

I got one of these and it crashed after I had transferred my Music and Videos to it... it seems that these are a hit or miss. There are 3 factories where they make these: China (old Maxtor factory?), Singapore, and Thailand. Mine was from China. The Singapores seem to be the best bet.
See http://forums.storagereview.net/index.php?showtopic=22660&st=250 for more info.

I RMAd mine... hopefully I'll get lucky next time.

 

[Gunbuster]

Out of drive space, I'll jump in on this one. Now to find a Sata to molex power adapter

 

[trale]

Just ordered one of these, but LavidDichterman's post has got me worried. Is there a good procedure to stress test on the drive before putting real data onto it? I'm thinking of filling it up to 99% capacity and then run scandisk or something.

 

[Old Hippie]

How about SeaTools?

 

[dealseaker]

were these the ones that were 140 with free shipping about a month ago? I got one at 140, but not sure which model, I do know it is sata 500g seagate though!

 

[Elixer]

Originally posted by: trale
Just ordered one of these, but LavidDichterman's post has got me worried. Is there a good procedure to stress test on the drive before putting real data onto it? I'm thinking of filling it up to 99% capacity and then run scandisk or something.

*ALL* HDs fail. The best thing you can do is enable SMART in the BIOS, and have a SMART monitoring program for your system running. This should at least let you know the drive is degrading, and for you to backup.

Too bad that you would need another 500GB HD to back up the 500GB HD you got, or have a ton of free time to backup onto DVD-Rs

Oh, and forget about using these things with USB/1394, since those do NOT support SMART, so you have no idea when it will fail. If you want external, then use eSATA external cases.

 

[Woz]

7200.9 version is $139 with free shipping using code from Valentine's email.

Oh, and Seagate over Maxtor everyday IMHO.

 

[IEC]

Seagate bought Maxtor... if I'm not completely out of it.

Maxtor will be like a value line now.

 

[Woz]

current promos

Since these codes are on their public website, this should be allowed.

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I phoned Egghead's marketing department. Their official policy is that these codes are intended for use only by those who receive their promotional emails.

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[DestruyaUR]

I still think I'd like the 500GB WD RE2 for 19.99 more. Especially since I plan on putting the drive into an eSATA/USB2.0 controller.

 

[Woofmeister]

I've already received mine. Waiting for my next build to use it. And yes, it says made in China.

 

[LavidDichterman]

Yeah, I had a USB/eSATA external case. I hadn't purchased the eSATA expresscard yet. Thankfully I was able to use reiserfsck to rebuild the drives I transferred the data from. A good way to tell would be noise levels of the drive while seeking. Mine was VERY loud. :-/ I'm no expert on this stuff, I might have just gotten a bad egg from newegg (pun intended). Just a heads up. I'd go with an OEM WD if I could switch even though I almost always like seagate drives.

 

[jpeyton]

As cool as perpendicular recording technology is, the Western Digital SE16 is faster and quieter for the same price.

 

[LavidDichterman]

Oh, and my drive was firmware AAE and manufactured in Oct 06. I hope this helps someone.

 

[Woz]

Originally posted by: jpeyton
As cool as perpendicular recording technology is, the Western Digital SE16 is faster and quieter for the same price.

While it may be quieter, it is NOT faster. In fact, the WD is slower than both the 7200.9 and the 7200.10 Seagate drives. Check the specs. Both drives beat the WD across the board.

 

[Woz]

Plus the standard drive can be had for $10 less.