Seagate 750g + 250g for $500.....

[solo717]

Seagate 750g + 250g for $500.....

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[LouPoir]

That's hillarious - buy a 750gb Seagate, get a 250gb Maxtor free. I figured they'd give you a free 250 Seagate to go with the 750 - Go figure.


Lou

 

[BurnItDwn]

Originally posted by: LouPoir
That's hillarious - buy a 750gb Seagate, get a 250gb Maxtor free. I figured they'd give you a free 250 Seagate to go with the 750 - Go figure.


Lou

Umm, you do know that Seagate bought Maxtor earlier this year right?

 

[hytek369]

Originally posted by: BurnItDwn

Originally posted by: LouPoir
That's hillarious - buy a 750gb Seagate, get a 250gb Maxtor free. I figured they'd give you a free 250 Seagate to go with the 750 - Go figure.


Lou

Umm, you do know that Seagate bought Maxtor earlier this year right?

news to me

 

[SignalSoldier]

sweet! File server type stuff here

 

[Souka]

For $315-375 get four 250gb drives and put them in a RAID-0 config.

Cheaper and much better performance.


*of course I'm turning a blind eye to all the negatives......but just tossing it out there.

 

[rsxR]

Originally posted by: Souka
For $315-375 get four 250gb drives and put them in a RAID-0 config.

Cheaper and much better performance.


*of course I'm turning a blind eye to all the negatives......but just tossing it out there.

on 4 250g. you dont get the benefit of having 1 big 750g. (not dat we need it)

 

[cyberkost]

Hm-m. I did not know Segate bought Maxtor ... This should have been
a big news if it really happened. The deal is not even warm, b/c its $0.50/GB.
I'm waiting till all manufacturers implement perpedicular recording (this is
how Segate makes 160GB laptop HDDs and, I guess, that's what they did to
get 750GB) in their desktop HDDs ...

 

[dew042]

There's this thing called Google, it searches stuff:

http://www.seagatemaxtor.com/

dew.

 

[cyberkost]

Originally posted by: dew042
There's this thing called Google, it searches stuff:

http://www.seagatemaxtor.com/

dew.

Yeah, that's the thing I used. It tells me that Segate is buying Maxtor for $1.9B.
and the transaction is to be completed during the second half of 2006. There is also
some chance of the deal falling apart (though not likely, b/c merging is the right thing
to do in view of all those 4-8GB flash media manufacturers [remember when your
HDD was 8GB "big" and you were very proud of it?])

 

[elph]

8gb... dude, I remember when I got an 800mb MFM/RLL and it was the bomb... unfortunately it was also slower than me getting the files myself.

 

[Keyone]

Originally posted by: elph
8gb... dude, I remember when I got an 800mb MFM/RLL and it was the bomb... unfortunately it was also slower than me getting the files myself.

I remember when I upgraded to 4gb from 800mb. I was the hottest nerd in school.

 

[BIGFOOTPI]

my 40mb hard card in my Tandy1000 was THE SHIZ!

 

[brownzilla786]

Its hot for people looking to buy the 750gb hd...thats pretty cool they would bundle that

 

[AStar617]

Originally posted by: hytek369

Originally posted by: BurnItDwn

Originally posted by: LouPoir
That's hillarious - buy a 750gb Seagate, get a 250gb Maxtor free. I figured they'd give you a free 250 Seagate to go with the 750 - Go figure.


Lou

Umm, you do know that Seagate bought Maxtor earlier this year right?

news to me

Don't feel bad, technically the shareholders only approved this today.

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[cyberkost]

brownzilla786, I tend to disagree. Buying this huge (and OVERPRICED) 750GB
HDD makes sense only to people who need to have as much disk space as possible
with the limited number of SATA connectors (I imagine that my experiment that
generates several TB of data a day might want to use these). These people would
have NO use for the 250GB sidekick (unless the company lets them take it home).
Vast majority of the people who'd need this capacity (somebody got a 750GB file to
store? -- I'm not sure which filesystem supports that) would be much better off
(moneywise) buying 4 250GB disks ...

Let's wait for those "Thanks, OP! I jumped on this deal" posts ...

 

[trevor0323]

I have no idea what the hell I would do with one of these. It sounds cool and all to go with my beefy rig. People always think im stange because I got a new high end machine built for gaming and I am still using my 40gb hard drive and 20gb back up

 

[Zap]

I think for people actually in the market for diskzilla, this deal is hot because previous deals posted here were for $500 for just the 750GB.

 

[probzy]

Got one.

 

[downbound]

Only problem I see with this one is it's still more expensive than buying 1 TB of 250GB's. Yea, I know it's SATA 3g/s but. That's about $300 over 4x 250gb SATA 250 drives. I don't know. I guess if you only have two more sata slots and need that kind of space, go for it.

 

[snowdogg187]

I cannot wait for the deals to start flying when the other manufacturers come out with some big drives!!

 

[GrammatonJP]

Originally posted by: AStar617
Umm, you do know that Seagate bought Maxtor earlier this year right?

news to me[/quote]

Don't feel bad, technically the shareholders only approved this today.

Text[/quote]

Oh good.. I was telling people but i haven't heard anything since they announced it a while back..

 

[GrammatonJP]

Originally posted by: downbound
Only problem I see with this one is it's still more expensive than buying 1 TB of 250GB's. Yea, I know it's SATA 3g/s but. That's about $300 over 4x 250gb SATA 250 drives. I don't know. I guess if you only have two more sata slots and need that kind of space, go for it.

Thats exactly my problem.. I have a 1u 200 gb server now in Raid 1..
1 U has 2 bays.. I can only put a pair in.. I can't do 4x250.. which I already have.. hopefully other company will have higher capacity to drive the prices down..

 

[soflawill]

lordie-I have 80's and 160's just sitting around-got great deals on them, just waiting to find a need (course my main rig has a 250 and a 200, and those are tough to fill)