Seagate Barracuda 160GB 7200RPM SATA150 Hard Drive $99.99 AR

[conehead433]

CompUSA has this deal again on Seagate's 160 GB SATA internal hard drive. It's $169.99 with a $20 IR and a $50 MIR.

Seagate SATA 160 GB

 

[StraightPipe]

they also have a 200gig for the same price ($99) see the thread here

no need to get a 160 unless you need 160 to complete a raid system

that 200 is 50c /GB

 

[GetSome681]

Originally posted by: StraightPipe
they also have a 200gig for the same price ($99) see the thread here

no need to get a 160 unless you need 160 to complete a raid system

that 200 is 50c /GB

This is SATA, not ATA like the 200gb you linked.

Thanks for the deal OP. I definitely prefer sata drives to ata ones. So much less clutter in my case, not to mention my ata channels are full.

 

[vailr]

Originally posted by: StraightPipe
they also have a 200gig for the same price ($99) see the thread here

no need to get a 160 unless you need 160 to complete a raid system

that 200 is 50c /GB

That one is IDE, not SATA.

 

[rasputinj]

Does anyone know if this drive is Native SATA? How is the performance. looks like a good deal to me..

 

[weepul]

Originally posted by: rasputinj
Does anyone know if this drive is Native SATA? How is the performance. looks like a good deal to me..

most likely not. if they were, they'd probably be charging WD Raptor price ranges.

//krunk (^_^x)

 

[GetSome681]

Originally posted by: rasputinj
Does anyone know if this drive is Native SATA? How is the performance. looks like a good deal to me..

If this is the 7200.7 series, then yes it should be sata native.

Also, the first raptor was not sata native...do some research and you'll find that there was a convertor onboard.

 

[kenja]

Poke around storagereview.com for a good review and forum discussion of the drive. If I had a modern motherboard I'd get one of these. . . if I had a job.

 

[Ziptar]

I like the seagates, I hear they are nice and quiet but, they are the only SATA drives out there with a 1 Year Warranty, everyone else is 3 year.

 

[idgaf13]

Originally posted by: rasputinj
Does anyone know if this drive is Native SATA? How is the performance. looks like a good deal to me..

"Native" ?
What am i missing ?
What is difference between "Native" and Non - Native ?
Or what is a Non - native SATA drive ?
I am at the jumping off point ,but that comment confused me.
I always thought the only diff was if they came with an adapter for ATA to SATA or not.

 

[randomlinh]

Originally posted by: weepul

Originally posted by: rasputinj
Does anyone know if this drive is Native SATA? How is the performance. looks like a good deal to me..

most likely not. if they were, they'd probably be charging WD Raptor price ranges.

//krunk (^_^x)

are the raptors even native? i thought WD was still using a bridge in there....

 

[thortyboy]

Originally posted by: idgaf13

Originally posted by: rasputinj
Does anyone know if this drive is Native SATA? How is the performance. looks like a good deal to me..

"Native" ?
What am i missing ?
What is difference between "Native" and Non - Native ?
Or what is a Non - native SATA drive ?
I am at the jumping off point ,but that comment confused me.
I always thought the only diff was if they came with an adapter for ATA to SATA or not.

native - when they refer to a native sata drive, it means that it isn't one of those IDE drives with a sata converter. For a while, (and i think they still are) companies were/are trying to sell off their IDE drives, so they're basically building a ata->sata adapter on to the drive. *i guess* people have been saying these non-ata drives do not come with the sata performance... which is understandable. I for one am not sure if sata really gives you much more of a performance boost, but I also understand that sata is they way things are going now...

Well, you ask, how do you know if a drive has native sata? A quick easy way is to look to see if the drive has the old power connector on it. If it does, then you know that it's not native sata. I don't even think these drives are hot swappable like sata drives are suppose to be... the again, i always feel weird unplugging a harddrive hot (even scsi).

 

[Chadder007]

Originally posted by: GetSome681

Originally posted by: rasputinj
Does anyone know if this drive is Native SATA? How is the performance. looks like a good deal to me..

If this is the 7200.7 series, then yes it should be sata native.

Also, the first raptor was not sata native...do some research and you'll find that there was a convertor onboard.

I didn't think that Seagate even made one that was Non Native. I thought they were all SATA without the bridge...in contrast to the other manufacturers.

Also It should be the 7200.7 according to the manufacturer #
http://www.seagate.com/cda/products/discsales/marketing/detail/0,1081,585,00.html

 

[sfhub]

Originally posted by: thortyboynative - when they refer to a native sata drive, it means that it isn't one of those IDE drives with a sata converter. For a while, (and i think they still are) companies were/are trying to sell off their IDE drives, so they're basically building a ata->sata adapter on to the drive. *i guess* people have been saying these non-ata drives do not come with the sata performance... which is understandable. I for one am not sure if sata really gives you much more of a performance boost, but I also understand that sata is they way things are going now...

You are mostly right. The most important thing is the drives rpm, cache, and firmware optimization.

The WD Raptors are 10000rpm and even though they use SATA->PATA bridge (internally)
they are almost twice as fast as the native SATA 7200.7.

Native SATA on the 7200.7 is like putting really expensive Z rated tires on a Yugo.

Even the WD SE PATAs are much faster than the 7200.7

 

[tedinde]

HD tach on this was 48mbs average for the seagate IDE against My WD 36 gig raptor scores 50.2 average.

I've got a 74 gig raptor 3 days ago, It started making noise last night and died??

I've been having very bad luck with WD,

Has anyone noticed how much lighter the SE/JB drives are compared to the SE/JB drives from a year ago. The casings are lighter, and they are noisier??

I've RMA'd probably 6 in the last 3 months, Not all my own, out of customers rigs i've built, all WD 80gig SE's.

 

[whiteboy81]

Anyone have a good site where I can read up on the difference between the SATA and ATA? Been out of the game for a while...need to catch up on my HD terms

 

[NedNeederlander]

storage review articles
tom's hardware articles
more

 

[whiteboy81]

Thanks Ned, I actually just read up on some stuff from AT too. I'll check the rest out.