Western Digital 400 GB SATA II 16 MB CACHE

[DemiAjax]

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Western Digital 400 GB SATA II 16 MB CACHE

99 bucks

 

[EKKC]

nice. free shipping too.
this 3 or 5 yr waranty?

 

[DemiAjax]

Not sure about the warranty.
I have a question: I'm building a new rig in late march early april. Should I jump on this for storage or should I wait for a deal on the Seagate perpendicular drives? Anyone know how they compare performance/noise wise?

 

[Cheezeit]

Performance should be about the same, as you won't be able to tell the difference in real life between SATA drives at 7200rpm.

However, the noise of the WD's should be better from what I've heard, so I'm getting a WD for my rig.

 

[EKKC]

yeah WD noise level is lower on the latest round of hdd
seagate perd rec. drives are not that much better. the failure rate of 7200.10 seems to be a bit higher than the older more reliable 7200.9
but either should be okay. i would say wait it out if you dont have to have it when you build your pc.

 

[hube235]

wow, the product page contains so little info. No warranty info whatsoever...

I only see:

* 7200RPM
* 16MB BUFFER

 

[ss284]

The WD is quite a bit faster than the 7200.10 line of drives.

 

[dajeepster]

Originally posted by: EKKC
nice. free shipping too.
this 3 or 5 yr waranty?

Looks like 3 year warranty
wd warranty info

 

[Midnight Rambler]

Yeah, as long as it's a bare drive it's 3 years.

Makes you wonder what they put in those retail boxes ? :Q

 

[f4phantom2500]

oh man, if only I had $200 to blow...having one would just leave me yearning for a second for a RAID 0 array.

 

[chizow]

Damn, nice price. Too bad I don't really need more storage or I'd have to pick one up.

 

[2Dead]

Originally posted by: hube235
wow, the product page contains so little info. No warranty info whatsoever...

I only see:

* 7200RPM
* 16MB BUFFER

True but you can always google WD4000AAKS 400GB SATA for product info. This is pretty tempting...

 

[ahmurat]

Originally posted by: ss284
The WD is quite a bit faster than the 7200.10 line of drives.

Could you elaborate on that a bit please. Is there link for a benchmark?

 

[Ricochet]

Good deal. Wish they have a deal on the 500GB, though.

 

[chefazn]

just bought myself one thanks

 

[Jerry944T]

Appreciate it. Picked one up just at the right time too.

 

[middlehead]

No spare SATA plugs on my motherboard, but I might have to look for an enclosure.

 

[beergeek]

OOS - that was pretty fast...

 

[CloE]

i still can checkout with it. so maybe OOS only at ur region.

I'm in NW

 

[beergeek]

I don't think region matters for Fry's/Outpost. Interestingly, it shows "Call for availability" on the page, but did let me put some in my cart and start checkout. I didn't go through with it, because I'm not quite ready yet, but I would have assumed that they would have kicked this at the add to cart stage if it's OOS...

 

[And0]

Showing as "Available for Preorder" for me.

 

[beergeek]

I see this now too. Wonder how it went from available and shipping (and apparently ordered by some) to not yet released by the manufacturer... No release date shown either.

Question for those that follow the trends: should we expect significant price changes (up or down) in moderate sized SATA drives (300-500GB) over the next couple of months, or are prices fairly stable now, modulo sales, etc.? I'm setting up a couple of new servers, but I don't expect to have all of the other components for a month or 2, so there's no massive rush for me to get drives if the prices aren't expected to go up, and some incentive to wait if they are expected to go down.

Thanx for any info!

 

[superHARD]

I get "Available for Preorder"

 

[imported_bubbalou32]

Looks like it's back in stock - FREE shipping too!

 

[Johnbear007]

wasnt there some issue with Outpost sending out empty boxes?