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08-15-2006, 06:36 PM
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Good Deal on SEAGATE 400GB PATA HD
Drive is $109.99. Shipping is free.
SEAGATE 400GB PATA I am WAY sad because I just bought a bunch of 300GB drives. 
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08-15-2006, 09:47 PM
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it's still a Seagate though.
 Not that I know what to buy that's reliable these days. Used to be a die-hard WD guy, but now.... 
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08-16-2006, 10:22 AM
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I have had a lot of drives in my day and have had too many Maxtor's and WD's go on me. I have 8 Seagates in my PC now. I was under the impression after a while that all hard drives die within a few years. This is why I went with Seagate and their ((""5 YEAR"")) warranty. But in the 3-4 years that I started using them I have never had one die on me except for a DOA drive that they replaced ASAP.
My 2cents...
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08-16-2006, 02:08 PM
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08-16-2006, 05:31 PM
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Thanks for the comments ppl. I figure it carries weight that the ones who hammer drives the hardest tend to recommend the same drive brand.
1 more thing then I'll shut up  how is the heat factor on Seagate?
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08-16-2006, 05:53 PM
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I have 4 Maxtor's in my htpc and one or the other is always dying taking recording with. I just thought it was the nature of the beast and I just had to live with it. I returned one 160 gig HD 3 times for warrenty replacement. Think I will give Seagate a try for now on.
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08-16-2006, 08:20 PM
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I had a problem with a PC eating Maxtor drives every few months... turned out to be a heat issue in an old case that didn't have enough air flow. Strangely enough, the WD drives in the same case survived.
In the new case, I haven't lost a drive yet. (I hope I don't regret saying that!) - Andy
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08-16-2006, 08:24 PM
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I put extra fans in mine just for that, but they 'aint' the quietest thing. Could be the thermaltake on my cpu though. Wanted to make sure the AMD was cooled during heavy Divx encoding.
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08-19-2006, 10:38 AM
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08-19-2006, 11:28 AM
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But I think it is time to start looking at setting up a NAS instead of adding drives to machines.
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08-19-2006, 07:22 PM
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09-22-2006, 02:25 PM
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They have this deal again! If you missed out the first time, here's your chance.
http://shop4.outpost.com/template/harddrives Thanks to spike5884 for posting the original deal. I never really had looked at outpost before when buying things. I wish I needed another hard drive.
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09-22-2006, 02:49 PM
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heh, here's a Seagate 750GB (or is that 750000000000 = 698GB?) drive for $330: http://www.pricegrabber.com/search_t...terid=19252884
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09-22-2006, 03:16 PM
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09-22-2006, 04:55 PM
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That is 40 cents per GB instead of 28 cents per GB on the 400GB PATA drives, but at $20 more than the 750GB PATA version, well worth it IMHO.
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09-22-2006, 06:34 PM
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Well, that would cost 3 times as much for only 1.875 times the disk space, and it's OEM, not retail boxed, and doesn't include free shipping. That's why this is such a good deal. For $330, you could have 1200GB instead of 750GB.
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09-23-2006, 04:47 AM
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I have a couple of these http://www.ebuyer.com/UK/product/61067 on my maxtor 300GB drives, the fans are too noisy so I disconnected them, but no overheating yet, that said I have had a lot of maxtors go in the past, and hitachi IBM deathstars, they used to be awful. At work we've had loads of samsungs and maxtors go. I've stuck with the maxtors as the new ones seem to stay quiet where as some others whine like hell after a few months.
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09-25-2006, 08:48 PM
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