Seagate Barracuda 7200.8 300GB

[Neptune3000]

Greetings:

I ordered the Seagate Barracuda 7200.8 300GB hard drive at outpost during their thanksgiving sale. After rebates I am getting it for 69bucks.

I was wondering how it stacked up against similar HDs as far as reliability. I recall hearing these drives fail left and right, but i cant find any tangible sources.

The drives comes in tomorrow and I'm not sure if I should have it returned or not. At the time I bought it, it seemed like a good deal. But now I need the money for "other things(xmas" and I'm not sure if this drive is reliable enough to worth the risk.

Any comments?

 

[Wentelteefje]

Are you nuts? A 300GB hard disk for 69 bucks... I wouldn't give it back even if they were threatening me with a gun... Hard disk failures happen to every manufacturer, Seagate is actually pretty good, and pretty silent!

 

[Neptune3000]

I know, but i heard the 300gig versions in particular have high fail
ure rates. And i think i lost hte rebates :/

 

[walkure]

If you lost the rebates, find them again on outpost.com

As for failures -- I've heard some people claim that there were some poor quality 7200.8's, but I suppose everyone gets burned from time to time. I wouldn't worry too much

 

[RaiderJ]

I had one for awhile that worked fine, although it ran a bit warm. A 300GB for $69 w/ 5 year rebate isn't bad. If it does die, just RMA it for a better one!

 

[fire400]

Originally posted by: RaiderJ
I had one for awhile that worked fine, although it ran a bit warm. A 300GB for $69 w/ 5 year rebate isn't bad. If it does die, just RMA it for a better one!

usally if the company that sold you the drive doesn't take care of this issue, if you show Seagate athentication, they may be able to take care of the drive for you.

 

[Lasthitlarry]

Originally posted by: fire400

Originally posted by: RaiderJ
I had one for awhile that worked fine, although it ran a bit warm. A 300GB for $69 w/ 5 year rebate isn't bad. If it does die, just RMA it for a better one!

usally if the company that sold you the drive doesn't take care of this issue, if you show Seagate athentication, they may be able to take care of the drive for you.

 

[dainthomas]

I fail to see how you could go wrong with Seagate. Keep it unless you absolutely need the money for something else (rent, food, bail etc).

 

[tomt4535]

Theres nothing wrong with mine. Just get it running, and if for whatever reason it fails, send it back to seagate and they will give you a new one.

 

[Neptune3000]

I just realized there are external SATA encolsures available. My original intent was to use this drive in an external enclosure.

The speed of using a SATA enclsure rather than an IDE might be considerable. Since average tranfer rates for USB 2.0=25mb or so and the average transfer rate for SATA is 1.5gbps.

Decisions, decisions. I might hold off and get the SATA version.

 

[walkure]

Originally posted by: Neptune3000
I just realized there are external SATA encolsures available. My original intent was to use this drive in an external enclosure.

The speed of using a SATA enclsure rather than an IDE might be considerable. Since average tranfer rates for USB 2.0=25mb or so and the average transfer rate for SATA is 1.5gbps.

Decisions, decisions. I might hold off and get the SATA version.

The Seagate 300GB SATA is currently $149.99 - $50 MIR (free shipping) at outpost:

http://shop1.outpost.com/product/4303165?site=sr:SEARCH:MAIN_RSLT_PG

Rebate is only good until 12/15, so hurry. Or else, I'm sure another deal will pop up soon.

 

[imported_Phil]

Originally posted by: tomt4535
Theres nothing wrong with mine. Just get it running, and if for whatever reason it fails, send it back to seagate and they will give you a refurbished one.

Fixed.

 

[Arkai]

sell it on ebay, bet you can fetch more than the $69 you paid for it.

 

[alimoalem]

keep it. it's worth it and if it does fail, RMA it. worse comes to worse, when it nears the end of the warranty, sell it.